50 Geography Quiz Questions and Answers
1. What is the capital of Georgia, the country?
2. Maho Beach, where jets land so low over sunbathers that they can almost touch them, is on which Caribbean island?
3. Name the four presidents carved on Mount Rushmore.
4. North America's highest mountain is in Alaska. What has it been officially called since 2015 under the state's Native name?
5. Which town, named after the wife of a colonial administrator, was besieged by the Boers during the South African war?
6. Who is the only South African racing driver to be Formula 1 World Champion?
7. Which County K has the Nore and the Barrow?
8. Lough Kee is in which county?
9. What do the letters ACT stand for?
10. Which Australian government science agency developed key technology behind Wi-Fi?
11. What is the name of the industrial city on Honshu island associated with the manufacture of motorbikes?
12. What is the name of the Japanese wine which is made from fermented rice?
13. The Heriot-Watt University is in which British City?
14. Which capital city stands on the river Moskva?
15. On which English river is the port of Immingham?
16. Which county was formed in 1974 when Cumberland was merged with Westmoreland and part of Lancashire?
17. What was the popular name of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Brazil in 1992?
18. Which sultry Hollywood actress said of Latin American men 'In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves'?
19. The Hogwarts Express crosses which curved railway viaduct in the Harry Potter films?
20. The Church of Scotland is often called "the Kirk". Which reformer led the Scottish Reformation?
21. What is the Sorbonne?
22. What river in Northern France was the setting for one of the bloodiest battles of WW I?
23. Which Chinese river is also known as the Hwang Ho?
24. Which US city contains the residential area of Bel Aire
25. Recently released as a film, what is currently playing at the New London Theatre?
26. Name the famous Jazz club located at 47 Frith Street, Soho?
27. Which country used to be called South West Africa?
28. Which African desert is home of the bushmen?
29. Which toy is named after that president?
30. Which president had been a peanut farmer in Georgia?
31. The European Community was created in 1957 by which treaty?
32. Which Hungarian city was formed from 2 towns on opposite sides of the Danube?
33. In which river are the 1000 islands?
34. What name is given to a flat stretch of land within a river valley, which is the remnant of an earlier flood plain, when the river was at a higher level?
35. On which Scottish Island is Fingal's Cave?
36. The Old Bailey stands on the site of which former prison?
37. Diego Garcia, the main island of the British Indian Ocean Territory, is home to a military base run by which country?
38. Adamstown, the only settlement on the Pitcairn Islands, is named after John Adams, one of the mutineers from which ship?
39. In the 2016 EU referendum, which British overseas territory recorded the highest Remain vote, about 96%?
40. Which Holocaust survivor became the first President of the directly elected European Parliament?
41. What is the largest animal to be found in Yorkshire
42. Who wrote the books based on the experiences of a Yorkshire vet
43. Which was the first British pop group to tour China?
44. How many days did the famous Long March of the Chinese Communists (1934-1935) last?
45. Which Welsh market town is known as ?the town of books??
46. A statue of Lewis Carroll's white rabbit stands on the promontory of which north Wales resort?
47. Which lake is the British Isles' largest?
48. Which battle of 1690 in Ireland, was the decisive battle of the War of English Succession?
49. Which German food was once part of a sailors diet in the Royal Navy ?
50. In which music video would you see an unkindness of German Kuntz's ?
ANSWERS
1. Tbilisi
2. Saint Martin (on the Dutch side, Sint Maarten)
3. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln
4. Denali
5. Ladysmith
6. Jody Sheckter (1979)
7. Kilkenny
8. Roscommon
9. Australian Capital Territory
10. CSIRO
11. Kawasaki
12. Saki
13. Edinburgh
14. Moscow
15. Humber
16. Cumbria
17. Earth Summit
18. Marlene Dietrich
19. The Glenfinnan Viaduct
20. John Knox
21. University (of Paris)
22. Somme
23. Yellow River
24. Los Angeles
25. War Horse
26. Ronnie Scott's
27. Namibia
28. The Kalahari
29. The teddy bear
30. Jimmy Carter
31. Treaty of Rome
32. Budapest
33. St Lawrence
34. River Terrace
35. Staffa
36. Newgate
37. The United States
38. The Bounty (HMS Bounty)
39. Gibraltar
40. Simone Veil
41. Red Deer
42. James Herritt
43. Wham.
44. 368 days.
45. Hay-On-Wye
46. Llandudno
47. Lough Neagh
48. Battle of the Boyne
49. Sauerkraut
50. "Football's Coming Home" - Baddiel and Skinner, post EURO '96 version