Geography Quiz #510
Geography Quiz for 21 October 2018
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Q1.
What are Taklimakan, Badain Jaran, Gurbantunggut, Shapotou (or Shatuotou) and Tengger?
B
Nomadic tribes in the Sahel
C
Lakes in northern Russia
D
Official languages in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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2
Q2.
Which country in the Central America isthmus borders a country in continental South America?
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3
Q3.
The borders of which European country that were set under the reign of Afonso III (1248 to 1279) are the same today?
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4
Q4.
Which of these cities was specially built in the 1980s to be capital of its country?
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5
Q5.
A spaceport known as CSG and used by the European Space Agency (ESA), the French space agency CNES (National Centre for Space Studies) and commercial companies, is built on an area previously famous as a harsh prison system, where?
A
Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile
C
Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, USA
D
Kourou, French Guiana, France
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6
Q6.
Where is the rugged mass of mountains sometimes called "The Roof of Africa"?
B
Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia
D
Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Q7.
Of the various territories or colonies called Guiana which were established by Spain, the Netherlands, France, Portugal and Britain on the northern and northeastern coast of South America which is still attached politically to the country which founded it?
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