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1. What is the Aconcagua?
a) A mountain in the Andes
b) A river in Spain
c) A volcano in Japan
d) A snake of the rainforest
2. What name is given to the group of islands that includes Majorca and Ibiza?
a) Canary Islands
b) Balearic Islands
c) Peloponnese Islands
d) Cyclades Islands
3. Which strait lies between Chile and the island of Tierra del Fuego?
a) Strait of Magellan
b) Strait of Vasco da Gama
c) Chile Strait
d) Cape Strait
4. Gozo and Comino are small islands making up part of which island country?
a) Iceland
b) Malta
c) New Zealand
d) Barbados
5. What is the capital of Australia?
a) Canberra
b) Adelaide
c) Alice Springs
d) Brisbane
6. What is the ancient name for the Greek island of Corfu?
a) Phoenicia
b) Corcyra
c) Minoa
d) Etrusca
7. What is the capital of Namibia?
a) Rundu
b) Rehoboth
c) Windhoek
d) Swakopmund
8. Which is the third largest of the Channel Islands after Jersey and Guernsey?
a) Sark
b) Herm
c) Alderney
d) Jethou
9. Which river flows through Arizona's Grand Canyon?
a) Colorado River
b) Missouri
c) Rio Brava
d) Rio Grande
10. What is the ancient name for Ankara, the capital of Turkey?
a) Ephesus
b) Ancyra
c) Constantinople
d) Avanos
11. Which one of the eight Welsh counties has none of the five vowels in its name?
a) Dyfed
b) Powys
c) Clywd
d) Gwynedd
12. The Brenner Pass in the Alps connects which two countries?
a) Italy and Spain
b) Italy and France
c) Italy and Austria
d) Italy and Switzerland
13. In which European city are the headquarters of the Red Cross?
a) Brussels
b) Geneva
c) Lausanne
d) Luxembourg
14. What is the name of the most famous Highland Games, held in a village near Balmoral Castle?
a) Aranth Games
b) Callorghan Gathering
c) Doonmuir Games
d) Braemar Gathering
15. Of which country is Chittagong the major port?
a) Bangladesh
b) Laos
c) Myanmar
d) Cambodia
16. Which river in Kazakhstan is 612 km/380 mi long and drains into the northern part of the Caspian Sea?
a) Emba
b) Volga
c) Ural
d) Terek
17. What is the other name of the Friendly Islands?
a) Salote Islands
b) Tonga
c) Leeward Islands
d) Solomon Islands
18. Of which country is Katmandu the capital?
a) Nepal
b) Laos
c) Bhutan
d) Bangladesh
19. What is the capital of Paraguay?
a) Concepción
b) Asunción
c) Ciudad del Este
d) Pedro Juan Caballero
20. In which US state are the towns of Fairbanks and Anchorage?
a) Florida
b) Rhode Island
c) Kentucky
d) Alaska
21. Which is the longest river that flows into the English Channel?
a) River Thames
b) River Severn
c) River Rhine
d) River Seine
22. What is the name of the pleasure resort and racecourse in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France?
a) Tuileries
b) Longchamp
c) Beaubourg
d) Montmartre
23. In which country are the Drakensberg mountains to be found?
a) Germany
b) South Africa
c) USA
d) Switzerland
24. Which English county do you associate with the Broads?
a) Sussex
b) Lincolnshire
c) Kent
d) Norfolk
25. In which Cypriot resort will you find the `Tombs of the Kings`?
a) Paphos
b) Ephesus
c) Kyrenia
d) Luxor
26. What is the currency of Denmark?
a) Kronemark
b) Danish krone
c) Marrka
d) Danemark
27. Which German river is spanned by the Zoo Bridge?
a) Oder
b) Havel
c) Rhine
d) Elbe
28. Which central region of Namibia is the home of the nomadic Bantu-speaking Herero?
a) Damaraland
b) Ovamboland
c) Ngamiland
d) Namaland
29. What is the capital of Tajikistan?
a) Kulyab
b) Khodzhent
c) Kurgan-Tyube
d) Dushanbe
30. Which of the following is a ruined city beside the Nile, 19 km/12 mi South of Cairo, Egypt?
a) Al Burj
b) Memphis
c) Nabq
d) Idmu
31. Which city, the provincial capital of Ontario, is the largest in Canada?
a) Toronto
b) Vancouver
c) Quebec
d) Niagara Falls
32. Which large lake on the borders of Jordan and Israel lies 394 m/1,293 ft below sea level?
a) Lake of Galilee
b) Lake Titicata
c) Dead Sea
d) Lake Tiberias
33. Which peninsula at the northern end of the Red Sea links Africa with Southwest Asia?
a) Suez Peninsula
b) Malay Peninsula
c) Sinai Peninsula
d) Leizhow Peninsula
34. Of which Canadian province is Edmonton the capital?
a) Alberta
b) Ontario
c) British Colombia
d) Manitoba
35. Which resort town on the Mediterranean coast of Tunisia is 18 km/11 mi South of Sousse?
a) Arzew
b) Beni-Saf
c) Gouraya
d) Monastir
36. Which of the following is a group of uninhabited islands in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of western Australia?
a) Madura
b) Monte Bello
c) Grenada
d) Timor
37. What is the continent surrounding the South Pole?
a) Antarctica
b) Arctic
c) Greenland
d) Australia
38. What is the Italian name for Turin?
a) Tokyo
b) Toronto
c) Tripoli
d) Torino
39. Muckle Flugga, the northernmost island of the British Isles, belongs to which group of islands?
a) The Faroes
b) Outer Hebrides
c) The Shetlands
d) The Azores
40. In which country is the Aswan Dam?
a) Ethiopia
b) Egypt
c) Tanzania
d) Morocco
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