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Geography Quiz #314

Geography Quiz for 18 January 2015

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Q1. In which country is the city of Kandahar?

A
Iran
B
Turkey
C
Afghanistan
D
India
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Q2. In June 2009 it was announced that the rats on Rat Island had finally been eradicated, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck caused an infestation. Where is Rat Island?

A
Alaska
B
Philippines
C
Torres Strait
D
United Kingdom
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Q3. Which of these has the smallest land area?

A
England
B
Wales
C
Scotland
D
Northern Ireland
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Q4. Which continent has the world's highest waterfall, largest river by volume, longest mountain range, driest non-polar place, largest rainforest, highest capital city, and highest commercially navigable lake?

Note: This question was updated in March 2017
A
Asia
B
North America
C
South America
D
Europe
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Q5. What is the Chilean desert between the coast and the Andes?

A
Kalahari
B
Gobi
C
Atacama
D
Sahara
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Q6. Part of a great lake many millions of years ago, re-formed by seismic activity, and functioning as a cradle of human activity for at least 1.9 m years, Oldupai, or Olduvai, Gorge in the Tanzanian part of the Great Rift is named after what?

A
A deity who was the centre of local worship
B
The archaeological term for the earliest stone tool industry in prehistory
C
The local Masai tribe
D
A sisal plant which grows in the gorge
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Q7. What is the greatest distance between the capitals of two sovereign countries that share a border?

A
Beijing, People's Republic of China and Hanoi, Vietnam
B
Paris, France, and Madrid, Spain
C
Pyongyang, North Korea and Moscow, Russia
D
Buenos Aires, Argentina and Brasília, Brazil
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