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Geography Quiz #331

Geography Quiz for 17 May 2015

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Q1. What major event is expected for the island of St Helena in 2015/2016?

A
Providing the location for the next Bond film
B
The opening of the St Helena Distillery
C
The opening of its first airport
D
Sending a team of athletes to Brazil to train for and participate in the 2016 Olympics
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Q2. What is the capital of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada?

A
Sydney
B
Halifax
C
Glace Bay
D
St John's
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Q3. What town in South Australia has served as a weapons-testing range since the 1950s, was the site of a detention facility for asylum seekers and refugees from 1999 to 2003, and was home to the Nurrungar satellite ground station until 1999?

A
Woomera
B
Nurrungar
C
Geelong
D
Gympie
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Q4. What is or are the machair?

A
A commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France
B
An indigenous tribe in south-west Ecuador
C
Calcareous, fertile, dune grasslands unique to northern Scotland and Ireland
D
A type of pear
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Q5. The range running the length of the island of Borneo, from Mt Kinibalu in the north east to the south west Muller Mountains, is the line of divide between the administrative government of Indonesia and what?

A
The Malaysian Federation
B
Australia
C
USA
D
France
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Q6. If you were from the Cayman Islands, which is part of the British West Indies, what sort of passport would you have?

A
British Virgin Islands
B
Cayman Islands
C
British West Indies
D
British
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Q7. What is the smallest country in land area on the South American continent?

Note: This question was updated in February 2020
A
Paraguay
B
Guyana
C
Uruguay
D
French Guiana
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