55 geography trivia questions

What Egyptian city was once home to the world's greatest library?

Alexandria

By land area, what is the largest country in Africa?

Algeria

What is the world's biggest river, by volume of water discharged?

Amazon

What is the highest mountain range in South America?

Andes

What is the tallest waterfall in the world?

Angel Falls

What word is used to describe a chain of islands?

Archipelago

What is the capital of Greece and what goddess is it named after?

Athens; Athena

What strait separates Alaska and Russia

Bering strait

Sochi is a Russian city on what sea?

Black Sea

What island is situated between Ireland and Great Britain?

British Isles

Barcelona is located within what autonomous region of Spain?

Catalonia

What is the world's most populous country?

China

What is the nickname of Paris?

City of light

What major river flows through the Grand Canyon?

Colorado river

What is the biggest island in the Caribbean?

Cuba

What alphabet is used in Russia?

Cyrillic

What salty lake is located at 1,388 ft below sea level?

Dead Sea

What is the three- letter word for a professor from that university?

Don

What is the name of the Dutch- speaking region of Belgium?

Flanders

What is Hinduism's most sacred River?

Ganges

What European country has 227 inhabited islands?

Greece

Not counting continents, what is the world's largest island?

Greenland

What current brings warm water from the Gulf of Mexico to Europe?

Gulf Stream

What roman wall lies near the boundary of Scotland and England?

Hadrian's wall

What is the most common religion in India?

Hinduism

In what city would you find the Kowloon Peninsula?

Hong Kong

Komodo dragons are native to what country?

Indonesia

What country has the largest Muslim population?

Indonesia

What country is also known as Persia?

Iran

What is the capital of Pakistan?

Islamabad

What island is the southernmost point of the Florida keys?

Key west

What we'll- known mountain pass connects Pakistan and Afghanistan?

Khyber pass

What is the official residence of the Russian President?

Kremlin

What is the the world's biggest freshwater lake by surface are?

Lake Superior

What country is completely surrounded by South Africa?

Lesotho

What name is given to the northeast part of China?

Manchuria

In what US state does the Mississippi River begin?

Minnesota

What was the biggest land empire of all time?

Mongol Empire

Noah's ark is often said to have landed on what Turkish mountain?

Mount Ararat

What is the highest mountain in Japan?

Mount Fuji

What is the tallest mountain in Africa?

Mount Kilimanjaro

What is the tallest mountain in the United States?

Mount McKinley

According to legend, what mountain was the home of the Greek gods?

Mount Olympus

What Washington state volcano erupted in 1980 killing 57 people?

Mount st Helen

The kiwi is the national symbol of what country?

New Zealand

What is the oldest university in England?

Oxford

Which one of the original 13 colonies doesn't border the Atlantic Ocean?

Pennsylvania

What country is the world's top oil exporter?

Russia

What is the largest desert in Africa?

Sahara

What became the world's newest independent country in 2011?

South Sudan

In what country would you find Mount Kilimanjaro?

Tanzania

What is the nickname of Rome?

The city of the seven hills

What is the smallest country?

Vatican City

What building is famously located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave?

White House

What is the world's first national park?

Yellowstone national park