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Geography/Places

Places Quiz 6 Hard

  • 20 questions
  • about 25 minutes to run
  • published 11 Nov 2023
  • updated

1. The Åland Islands are an autonomous, demilitarised and Swedish-speaking region of which country?

2. The name of the Faroe Islands is usually explained as meaning islands of which animal?

3. Which ancient city in Jordan, carved into rose-red sandstone cliffs by the Nabataeans, is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World?

4. In which country is Gori, the birthplace of Joseph Stalin?

5. Macau was a colony of which European country until it was handed back to China in 1999?

6. In 1977, Jean-Bédel Bokassa crowned himself emperor of which country, in a ceremony that cost about a third of its annual budget?

7. Which country takes its name from a lake that has shrunk by around 90% since the 1960s?

8. Which "living fossil" fish, once thought extinct for millions of years, lives in the deep waters around the Comoros?

9. Which is the only country in Africa with Spanish as an official language?

10. In 2018, which country's king announced that it would no longer be called Swaziland?

11. Which endangered great apes draw tourists to Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park?

12. Which deposed emperor died in exile on Saint Helena in 1821?

13. The name Sierra Leone comes from the Portuguese "Serra Leoa". What does it mean?

14. São Tomé and Príncipe lies in the Gulf of Guinea, very close to which line of latitude?

15. Which British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean earns a large part of its government revenue from its internet domain, ".ai"?

16. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao are known by what collective nickname?

17. Saint Barthélemy was a colony of which Scandinavian country from 1784 to 1878?

18. Which Founding Father of the United States, now the subject of a hit musical, was born on Nevis?

19. What are the two famous volcanic peaks on Saint Lucia, which appear on its flag?

20. What is the capital of the French part of the island of Saint Martin?

ANSWERS

1. Finland

The League of Nations settled a dispute between Sweden and Finland in 1921, giving the islands to Finland but guaranteeing their Swedish language and autonomy.

2. Sheep (from Old Norse "Færeyjar", "Sheep Islands")

Some scholars have suggested other origins, but "Sheep Islands" is the traditional explanation, and sheep still outnumber people there.

3. Petra

4. Georgia

5. Portugal

6. The Central African Republic (the Central African Empire)

7. Chad (Lake Chad)

8. The coelacanth

The first living coelacanth was found off South Africa in 1938. The Comoros was later found to be home to the main population.

9. Equatorial Guinea

10. Eswatini

11. Mountain gorillas

12. Napoleon Bonaparte

13. Lion Mountains

14. The equator

15. Anguilla

16. The ABC islands

17. Sweden

18. Alexander Hamilton

19. The Pitons (Gros Piton and Petit Piton)

20. Marigot

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