Question 1

What is the only country that borders the United Kingdom?

Accepted Answer

Ireland

Question 2

What would you call someone from Sudan?

Accepted Answer

Sudanese

Question 3

After Alaska, which U.S. state has the longest coastline?

Accepted Answer

Florida

Question 4

How many states does the Mississippi River run through?

Accepted Answer

31

Question 5

What is the highest man-made structure ever built?

Accepted Answer

Burj Khalifa in Dubai

Question 6

Where is the world’s largest desert located?

Accepted Answer

Antartica

Question 7

What is the world's shortest river?

Accepted Answer

The Roe River

Question 8

Which country is known as the Land of Fire and Ice due to its volcanoes and glaciers?

Accepted Answer

Iceland

Question 9

Which country is made up of 7,000 islands?

Accepted Answer

Philipines

Question 10

Lódz, Wroclaw, and Poznan are the third, fourth, and fifth most populous cities in what European nation?

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 11

Mostly found shifting around under its water, what ocean is the namesake of Earth's largest tectonic plate?

Accepted Answer

The Pacific Ocean

Question 12

How many countries are in the world?

Accepted Answer

195

Question 13

Derived from Greek meaning “whole earth”, what is the name by which the supercontinent which incorporated almost all of the land masses on earth is known?

Accepted Answer

Pangea

Question 14

Where was boxing made an official sport at the Summer Olympics?

Accepted Answer

St. Louis

Question 15

Baffin, Victoria, and Ellesmere, three of the ten largest islands in the world, can all be found in what country?

Accepted Answer

Canada

Question 16

Which continent is the only one that doesn’t have a major mountain range?

Accepted Answer

Australia

Question 17

What is the name of the area being foght over by Hamas and Israel

Accepted Answer

Gaza

Question 18

What Canadian province's southern border lies adjacent to both Idaho and Montana?

Accepted Answer

British Columbia

Question 19

The Kingdom of Bahrain, an island country in Western Asia, is an archipelago located on what gulf?

Accepted Answer

Persian Gulf

Question 20

According to an urban legend, what type of animal caused the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 by knocking over a lantern?

Accepted Answer

a cow

Question 21

In what European capital city would you find the landmark known as the Spanish Steps?

Accepted Answer

Rome

Question 22

What current African country was formerly known as the Gold Coast when it was a British colony?

Accepted Answer

Ghana

Question 23

What South Pacific island country is also a beverage brand founded in 1996?

Accepted Answer

Fiji

Question 24

The sixth longest river in Asia.

Accepted Answer

Mekong River

Question 25

While it probably makes you think of sky-high activities like space launches and theme park rides, which southern state is actually the flattest?

Accepted Answer

Florida

Question 26

Argentina's Valley of the Moon, Canada's Dinosaur Provincial Park, and New Zealand's Putangirua Pinnacles are some examples of what geographical feature marked by the erosion of soft, clay-rich soils?

Accepted Answer

Badlands

Question 27

How many islands make up Japan?

Accepted Answer

14,125

Question 28

How many active volcanoes are in the world?

Accepted Answer

1,350

Question 29

How old is  the United states of America?

Accepted Answer

246 years old

Question 30

How old is the world?

Accepted Answer

as old as the earth is

Question 31

Resembling an inverted triangle or a flower with a stem on maps, the Nile River Delta is located just north of which African capital city?

Accepted Answer

Cairo

Question 32

What West Virginia river and namesake of a new U.S. national park is one of the oldest in the world?

Accepted Answer

New River

Question 33

Rome's Cloaca Maxima was an early example of what infrastructure project that makes cities a whole lot more livable?

Accepted Answer

Sewer system

Question 34

What Asian country – whose national flag features a blue 24-spoke Ashoka Chakra wheel in its center – is the world’s largest producer of milk?

Accepted Answer

India

Question 35

The African country with the most total miles of coastline is what nation with the capital city Antananarivo?

Accepted Answer

Madagascar

Question 36

Devils Tower is a geographic landmark of what state?

Accepted Answer

Wyoming

Question 37

In 1497, John Cabot discovered territory in what modern country, claiming it on behalf of the British Empire? He mistakenly believed it to be in Asia.

Accepted Answer

Canada

Question 38

What is the smallest continent by area

Accepted Answer

Australia

Question 39

Are you good at trivia?

Accepted Answer

No, yes

Question 40

What United states city is known as "The city of angels"

Accepted Answer

Los Angeles

Question 41

What United states city is known as "The City of Fountains"

Accepted Answer

Kansans city

Question 42

Nigeria is Africa's most populated country

Accepted Answer

True

Question 43

What is the largest island in the Mediteranean?

Accepted Answer

Sicily

Geography trivia (43 questions and answers)

2) What would you call someone from Sudan?

3) After Alaska, which U.S. state has the longest coastline?

4) How many states does the Mississippi River run through?

5) What is the highest man-made structure ever built?

6) Where is the world’s largest desert located?

7) What is the world's shortest river?

8) Which country is known as the Land of Fire and Ice due to its volcanoes and glaciers?

9) Which country is made up of 7,000 islands?

10) Lódz, Wroclaw, and Poznan are the third, fourth, and fifth most populous cities in what European nation?

11) Mostly found shifting around under its water, what ocean is the namesake of Earth's largest tectonic plate?

12) How many countries are in the world?

13) Derived from Greek meaning “whole earth”, what is the name by which the supercontinent which incorporated almost all of the land masses on earth is known?

14) Where was boxing made an official sport at the Summer Olympics?

15) Baffin, Victoria, and Ellesmere, three of the ten largest islands in the world, can all be found in what country?

16) Which continent is the only one that doesn’t have a major mountain range?

17) What is the name of the area being foght over by Hamas and Israel

18) What Canadian province's southern border lies adjacent to both Idaho and Montana?

19) The Kingdom of Bahrain, an island country in Western Asia, is an archipelago located on what gulf?

20) According to an urban legend, what type of animal caused the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 by knocking over a lantern?

21) In what European capital city would you find the landmark known as the Spanish Steps?

22) What current African country was formerly known as the Gold Coast when it was a British colony?

23) What South Pacific island country is also a beverage brand founded in 1996?

24) The sixth longest river in Asia.

25) While it probably makes you think of sky-high activities like space launches and theme park rides, which southern state is actually the flattest?

26) Argentina's Valley of the Moon, Canada's Dinosaur Provincial Park, and New Zealand's Putangirua Pinnacles are some examples of what geographical feature marked by the erosion of soft, clay-rich soils?

27) How many islands make up Japan?

28) How many active volcanoes are in the world?

29) How old is the United states of America?

30) How old is the world?

31) Resembling an inverted triangle or a flower with a stem on maps, the Nile River Delta is located just north of which African capital city?

32) What West Virginia river and namesake of a new U.S. national park is one of the oldest in the world?

33) Rome's Cloaca Maxima was an early example of what infrastructure project that makes cities a whole lot more livable?

34) What Asian country – whose national flag features a blue 24-spoke Ashoka Chakra wheel in its center – is the world’s largest producer of milk?

35) The African country with the most total miles of coastline is what nation with the capital city Antananarivo?

36) Devils Tower is a geographic landmark of what state?

37) In 1497, John Cabot discovered territory in what modern country, claiming it on behalf of the British Empire? He mistakenly believed it to be in Asia.

38) What is the smallest continent by area

39) Are you good at trivia?

40) What United states city is known as "The city of angels"

41) What United states city is known as "The City of Fountains"

42) Nigeria is Africa's most populated country

43) What is the largest island in the Mediteranean?