Geography Quiz #358
Geography Quiz for 22 November 2015
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Q1.
What is the greatest distance between a capital and one of its territories?
A
Moscow to Kunashir Island
B
London to Pitcairn Islands
C
Washington, DC to Attu Island
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Q2.
The Tasman Sea flows between which two countries?
A
Australia and New Zealand
D
The Netherlands and the UK
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Q3.
Which place, used by Russians in 1814 to bombard Paris, became a popular entertainment area in the 19th and 20th centuries, outside the city limits, free of Paris taxes (and where the local nuns made wine)?
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Q4.
The island of Réunion, Mauritius, is closest to which other country to its west?
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Q5.
What did Lubumbashi, the second largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, used to be known as?
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Q6.
Up until 1869 where was the city known as Edo?
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Q7.
The Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, straits which separate Europe from the mainland of Asia, run through which country?
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