Continents & Countries
1. Which country has the most neighboring nations (14 total)?
Answer: China (or Brazil, depending on counting disputed borders)
2. What is the only country that is also a continent?
Answer: Australia
3. Which European nation is landlocked by a single country?
Answer: San Marino (landlocked by Italy)
4. What is the smallest independent country in the world by land area?
Answer: Vatican City (about 0.44 km)
Mountains & Elevation
5. What is the highest peak outside of Asia?
Answer: Aconcagua, Argentina (6,961m)
6. Which mountain range runs the length of the western coast of South America?
Answer: The Andes
7. The Roof of Africa is a plateau on which mountain?
Answer: Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
8. Which U.S. state contains the lowest point in North America?
Answer: California Badwater Basin, Death Valley (86m)
Rivers & Lakes
9. What river is known as the longest in the world?
Answer: The Nile (6,650km) though some sources argue for the Amazon.
10. Which lake holds the title of the worlds largest freshwater lake by surface area?
Answer: Lake Superior (82,100km)
11. The Sea of Galilee is actually a lake located in which country?
Answer: Israel
12. Which river forms a natural border between the United States and Mexico for more than 3,000km?
Answer: The Rio Grande
Islands & Archipelagos
13. Which island nation is the worlds smallest by population?
Answer: Nauru (10,000 people)
14. The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea is
Answer: Sicily (Italy)
15. What is the only country that spans both the European and Asian continents?
Answer: Turkey
16. Which archipelago is known as the Pearl of the Indian Ocean?
Answer: The Maldives
Capitals & Cities
17. What is the highest capital city in the world (by elevation)?
Answer: La Paz, Bolivia (3,650m above sea level)
18. Which capital city is located on two continents?
Answer: Istanbul (Turkey) Europe and Asia (though not a capital, many think of it this way). The correct capital split is Ankara (Europe/Asia border). For a true capital on two continents: none; Istanbul is a major city.
19. The city of Timbuktu is in which African country?
Answer: Mali
20. Which world city is built on 100+ islands and called Venice of the North?
Answer: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fun & Unexpected Facts
21. Which country has a flag that is not rectangular?
Answer: Nepal
22. In which country can you find the Door to Hell, a natural gas crater that has been burning since 1971?
Answer: Turkmenistan (Darvaza crater)
23. The worlds largest desert is not the Sahara. What is it?
Answer: Antarctica (a cold desert)
24. Which countrys official name translates to Peoples Republic of China but is actually a small island nation?
Answer: The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) trick question; the country referred to is Taiwan, officially the Republic of China.
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