Geography Quiz #270
Geography Quiz for 16 March 2014
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Q1.
The wettest and greenest part of Africa lies roughly between the Tropic of Capricorn and which latitude?
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Q2.
Which of these is at one end of the Suez Canal?
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Q3.
The Mekong River rises in the Tibetan plateau and runs through or between six countries - China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and which other?
Note: This question was updated in October 2016
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Q4.
Which country had been, at various times between 1918 when it was pulled together and 2003 when it was finally reconfigured, a Kingdom, a Democratic Federal, a Federal People's Republic, a Socialist Federal Republic and a Federal Republic?
Note: This question was updated in December 2022
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Q5.
If you flew due west from Libreville, capital of the Gabon, where would you first make landfall?
B
The mouth of the Amazon River
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Q6.
Where are St. Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel?
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Q7.
Acapulco sits in the foothills of which mountain range?
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Sierra Madre Occidental
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