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
