Geography Quiz #127
Geography Quiz for 19 June 2011
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Q1.
Which mountain range extends over Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela?
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Q2.
Which city, the second largest in Chile, was moved 3 metres to the west by an earthquake in February 2010?
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Q3.
Where is the "Day of the Dead" celebrated on 2 November?
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Q4.
Which river runs through the cities of Basel, Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Mainz, Koblenz, Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Arnhem, Utrecht and Rotterdam?
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Q5.
In the 1990s, which country briefly became a tax haven and illegal money laundering centre and from 2001 to 2008, accepted aid from the Australian government in exchange for housing an illegal migrant detention centre that held and processed asylum seekers trying to enter Australia?
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Q6.
Which city has "areas" called Burdiehouse, Clermiston, Corstorphine, Dumbiedykes, The Grange, Haymarket, Hermiston, Holyrood, Inverleith, Jock's Lodge, Leith, Meadowbank, Murrayfield, Oxgangs, Pilrig, Portobello, Riccarton, Shandon and Tynecastle?
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Q7.
What was the name of the country in west Africa which, in 1975, was re-named "The People's Republic of Benin"?
Note: This question was updated in October 2017
A
The Republic of Upper Volta
B
The Republic of Dahomey
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