The geography trivia is divided into five sections, with 15–25 questions in each. Together, they cover a broad range of topics, from general geography and capitals to physical geography, flags, landmarks and harder questions.
| Section | Questions |
|---|---|
| General geography | 20 |
| Countries and capitals | 25 |
| Physical geography | 20 |
| Flags and landmarks | 20 |
| Hard geography | 15 |
| Total | 100 |
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General geography questions
1. Which river flows through the Grand Canyon?
A. Columbia River
B. Colorado River
C. Missouri River
D. Rio Grande
Answer: B. Colorado River. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 278 miles (447 km) of the Colorado River.
2. What is the smallest independent state in the world?
A. Monaco
B. San Marino
C. Vatican City
D. Liechtenstein
Answer: C. Vatican City.
3. Which is the largest continent by land area?
A. Africa
B. Asia
C. North America
D. South America
Answer: B. Asia. Asia covers approximately 44.6 million square kilometers (17,226,200 square miles).
4. Which country completely surrounds Lesotho?
A. Eswatini
B. Botswana
C. Mozambique
D. South Africa
Answer: D. South Africa.
5. In which country would you find the ancient city of Petra?
A. Jordan
B. Egypt
C. Lebanon
D. Turkey
Answer: A. Jordan.
6. The Great Barrier Reef lies off the coast of which country?
A. Indonesia
B. Australia
C. Fiji
D. Papua New Guinea
Answer: B. Australia. It lies off Australia’s north-east coast.
7. Which is the longest river in Africa?
A. Congo River
B. Niger River
C. Nile River
D. Zambezi River
Answer: C. Nile River. The Nile flows for about 6,650 kilometers (4,132 miles) through northeastern Africa before reaching the Mediterranean Sea.
8. Which is the world’s largest ocean basin?
A. Atlantic Ocean
B. Indian Ocean
C. Southern Ocean
D. Pacific Ocean
Answer: D. Pacific Ocean. It is also the deepest ocean basin.
9. What is the largest country in South America by area?
A. Argentina
B. Brazil
C. Peru
D. Colombia
Answer: B. Brazil.
10. Where was the highest officially recorded air temperature measured?
A. Sahara Desert
B. Death Valley
C. Arabian Desert
D. Atacama Desert
Answer: B. Death Valley. The WMO record is 56.7°C or 134°F at Furnace Creek in 1913.
11. What is the world’s largest landlocked country?
A. Kazakhstan
B. Chad
C. Mongolia
D. Bolivia
Answer: A. Kazakhstan.
12. What is the world’s largest island, excluding continents?
A. Borneo
B. Madagascar
C. New Guinea
D. Greenland
Answer: D. Greenland.
13. Which country has the world’s only non-quadrilateral national flag?
A. Bhutan
B. Nepal
C. Switzerland
D. Vatican City
Answer: B. Nepal. Its flag consists of two joined triangular pennants rather than a four-sided shape.
14. Which is the smallest of the five oceans?
A. Indian Ocean
B. Southern Ocean
C. Arctic Ocean
D. Atlantic Ocean
Answer: C. Arctic Ocean.
15. Which country is the largest in the world by area?
A. Canada
B. China
C. Russia
D. United States
Answer: C. Russia.
16. Which country shares the United Kingdom’s only international land border?
A. France
B. Ireland
C. Belgium
D. The Netherlands
Answer: B. Ireland.
17. What is the highest mountain in Africa?
A. Mount Kenya
B. Mount Stanley
C. Mount Kilimanjaro
D. Mount Everest
Answer: C. Mount Kilimanjaro.
18. In which country would you find the Pyramids of Giza?
A. Egypt
B. Jordan
C. Mexico
D. Sudan
Answer: A. Egypt. The Giza pyramid complex forms part of the UNESCO-listed pyramid fields from Giza to Dahshur.
19. What is the highest mountain in the world above sea level?
A. Denali
B. K2
C. Mount Everest
D. Mount Kilimanjaro
Answer: C. Mount Everest.
20. In which country would you find Machu Picchu?
A. Peru
B. Ecuador
C. Bolivia
D. Chile
Answer: A. Peru. Machu Picchu is an Inca site located where the Peruvian Andes meet the Amazon Basin.
Countries and capitals
21. What is the capital of Canada?
A. Toronto
B. Vancouver
C. Montreal
D. Ottawa
Answer: D. Ottawa.
22. What is the capital of Brazil?
A. Rio de Janeiro
B. Brasília
C. São Paulo
D. Salvador
Answer: B. Brasília.
23. In which country would you find the city of Kraków?
A. Poland
B. Hungary
C. Slovakia
D. Czechia
Answer: A. Poland.
24. Which African country was formerly known as Swaziland?
A. Ethiopia
B. Eswatini
C. Sudan
D. Eritrea
Answer: B. Eswatini.
25. In which country would you find Angkor Wat?
A. Thailand
B. Laos
C. Vietnam
D. Cambodia
Answer: D. Cambodia.
26. In which country would you find the city of Medellín?
A. Colombia
B. Venezuela
C. Ecuador
D. Peru
Answer: A. Colombia.
27. Dubrovnik is a coastal city in which country?
A. Greece
B. Croatia
C. Montenegro
D. Albania
Answer: B. Croatia.
28. In which country is the Burj Khalifa located?
A. Qatar
B. Saudi Arabia
C. Bahrain
D. United Arab Emirates
Answer: D. United Arab Emirates.
29. What is the capital of Myanmar?
A. Yangon
B. Mandalay
C. Naypyidaw
D. Bago
Answer: C. Naypyidaw.
30. What is the capital of Kenya?
A. Nairobi
B. Mombasa
C. Kampala
D. Kigali
Answer: A. Nairobi.
31. What is the capital of Thailand?
A. Phuket
B. Chiang Mai
C. Bangkok
D. Pattaya
Answer: C. Bangkok.
32. What is the capital of Iceland?
A. Reykjavík
B. Oslo
C. Helsinki
D. Nuuk
Answer: A. Reykjavík.
33. What is the capital of Argentina?
A. Buenos Aires
B. Montevideo
C. Córdoba
D. Rosario
Answer: A. Buenos Aires.
34. What is the capital of Slovenia?
A. Bratislava
B. Ljubljana
C. Zagreb
D. Sarajevo
Answer: B. Ljubljana.
35. What is the capital of Egypt?
A. Alexandria
B. Luxor
C. Cairo
D. Giza
Answer: C. Cairo.
36. What is the capital of South Korea?
A. Busan
B. Seoul
C. Incheon
D. Daegu
Answer: B. Seoul.
37. What is the capital of New Zealand?
A. Auckland
B. Christchurch
C. Wellington
D. Hamilton
Answer: C. Wellington.
38. What is the capital of Morocco?
A. Casablanca
B. Marrakesh
C. Fez
D. Rabat
Answer: D. Rabat.
39. What is the capital of Turkey?
A. Istanbul
B. Ankara
C. Izmir
D. Antalya
Answer: B. Ankara.
40. What is the capital of Nigeria?
A. Lagos
B. Kano
C. Ibadan
D. Abuja
Answer: D. Abuja.
41. What is the capital of Pakistan?
A. Karachi
B. Lahore
C. Islamabad
D. Peshawar
Answer: C. Islamabad.
42. What is the capital of Mongolia?
A. Astana
B. Ulaanbaatar
C. Bishkek
D. Tashkent
Answer: B. Ulaanbaatar.
43. What is the capital of Peru?
A. Cusco
B. Lima
C. Quito
D. Arequipa
Answer: B. Lima.
44. Yamoussoukro is the official capital of which country?
A. Côte d’Ivoire
B. Senegal
C. Cameroon
D. Ghana
Answer: A. Côte d’Ivoire.
45. Serengeti National Park is located in which country?
A. Kenya
B. Uganda
C. Tanzania
D. Zambia
Answer: C. Tanzania.
Physical geography
46. What is the largest desert on Earth?
A. Sahara Desert
B. Arabian Desert
C. Antarctic Desert
D. Gobi Desert
Answer: C. Antarctic Desert.
47. What is the world’s largest hot desert?
A. Sahara Desert
B. Arabian Desert
C. Kalahari Desert
D. Gobi Desert
Answer: A. Sahara Desert.
48. What is the deepest known point in Earth’s oceans?
A. Java Trench
B. Puerto Rico Trench
C. Tonga Trench
D. Challenger Deep
Answer: D. Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
49. What is the deepest lake in the world?
A. Lake Tanganyika
B. Lake Baikal
C. Lake Superior
D. Lake Victoria
Answer: B. Lake Baikal.
50. What is the longest river in Europe?
A. Danube River
B. Rhine River
C. Volga River
D. Dnieper River
Answer: C. Volga River.
51. What is the longest river in Asia?
A. Mekong River
B. Yellow River
C. Ganges River
D. Yangtze River
Answer: D. Yangtze River.
52. What is the second-highest mountain in the world?
A. K2
B. Everest
C. Lhotse
D. Makalu
Answer: A. K2.
53. What is the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world?
A. Victoria Falls
B. Niagara Falls
C. Angel Falls
D. Iguazú Falls
Answer: C. Angel Falls.
54. Which mountain range is commonly used as part of the boundary between Europe and Asia?
A. Alps
B. Ural Mountains
C. Pyrenees
D. Carpathian Mountains
Answer: B. Ural Mountains.
55. What is the largest lake in the world by surface area?
A. Caspian Sea
B. Lake Superior
C. Lake Victoria
D. Lake Baikal
Answer: A. Caspian Sea.
56. Which mountain range runs along the western side of South America?
A. Alps
B. Rockies
C. Andes
D. Himalayas
Answer: C. Andes.
57. Which river flows through Paris?
A. Seine
B. Loire
C. Rhône
D. Thames
Answer: A. Seine.
58. Which sea separates southern Europe from northern Africa?
A. Red Sea
B. Black Sea
C. Arabian Sea
D. Mediterranean Sea
Answer: D. Mediterranean Sea.
59. Which strait separates Spain from Morocco?
A. Strait of Hormuz
B. Strait of Gibraltar
C. Bosporus Strait
D. Strait of Malacca
Answer: B. Strait of Gibraltar.
60. What is a smaller river or stream that flows into a larger river called?
A. Tributary
B. Estuary
C. Delta
D. Lagoon
Answer: A. Tributary.
61. What is a group or chain of islands called?
A. Peninsula
B. Isthmus
C. Archipelago
D. Atoll
Answer: C. Archipelago.
62. What is the meeting point of two rivers called?
A. Watershed
B. Confluence
C. Tributary
D. Estuary
Answer: B. Confluence.
63. Which imaginary line divides Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres?
A. Prime Meridian
B. Tropic of Cancer
C. International Date Line
D. Equator
Answer: D. Equator.
64. What are the imaginary lines running east to west around Earth called?
A. Lines of latitude
B. Lines of longitude
C. Meridians
D. Time zones
Answer: A. Lines of latitude.
65. What is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides called?
A. Island
B. Peninsula
C. Archipelago
D. Isthmus
Answer: B. Peninsula.
Flags and landmarks
66. Which country has a cedar tree on its national flag?
A. Cyprus
B. Lebanon
C. Canada
D. Bhutan
Answer: B. Lebanon.
67. Which British territory features a shipwreck on its flag?
A. Gibraltar
B. Cayman Islands
C. Bermuda
D. Falkland Islands
Answer: C. Bermuda.
68. Which country’s flag features a red maple leaf?
A. Canada
B. Austria
C. Denmark
D. Peru
Answer: A. Canada.
69. How many stars appear on the national flag of China?
A. Three
B. Four
C. Five
D. Six
Answer: C. Five.
70. How many colors appear on the national flag of South Africa?
A. Four
B. Five
C. Six
D. Seven
Answer: C. Six.
71. Which country’s national flag is commonly known as the Union Jack?
A. Australia
B. New Zealand
C. Canada
D. United Kingdom
Answer: D. United Kingdom.
72. Which country has the world’s oldest continuously used national flag?
A. Sweden
B. Denmark
C. Switzerland
D. Norway
Answer: B. Denmark. According to Guinness World Records, Denmark has the oldest continuously used national flag.
73. Which country has a square national flag with a white cross on a red background?
A. Switzerland
B. Finland
C. Denmark
D. Georgia
Answer: A. Switzerland.
74. Which country’s flag features a red disc centered on a white background?
A. Bangladesh
B. Palau
C. South Korea
D. Japan
Answer: D. Japan.
75. Which country’s flag features a white dragon holding jewels?
A. Nepal
B. Bhutan
C. Mongolia
D. Sri Lanka
Answer: B. Bhutan.
76. In which city would you find the Eiffel Tower?
A. Brussels
B. Rome
C. Paris
D. Vienna
Answer: C. Paris.
77. In which city would you find the Colosseum?
A. Athens
B. Rome
C. Naples
D. Florence
Answer: B. Rome.
78. In which country would you find the Taj Mahal?
A. Pakistan
B. Nepal
C. Bangladesh
D. India
Answer: D. India.
79. In which country would you find the Great Wall?
A. Japan
B. Mongolia
C. China
D. South Korea
Answer: C. China.
80. In which part of the United Kingdom would you find Stonehenge?
A. England
B. Scotland
C. Wales
D. Northern Ireland
Answer: A. England.
81. In which city would you find the Statue of Liberty?
A. Boston
B. Washington, D.C.
C. New York City
D. Philadelphia
Answer: C. New York City.
82. In which city would you find the Little Mermaid statue?
A. Stockholm
B. Copenhagen
C. Oslo
D. Helsinki
Answer: B. Copenhagen.
83. In which city would you find the Forbidden City?
A. Shanghai
B. Beijing
C. Xi’an
D. Hong Kong
Answer: B. Beijing.
84. In which country would you find the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
A. Spain
B. Greece
C. France
D. Italy
Answer: D. Italy.
85. In which US state would you find Mount Rushmore?
A. North Dakota
B. Wyoming
C. South Dakota
D. Montana
Answer: C. South Dakota.
Hard geography questions
86. Which is the only sea in the world without a land boundary?
A. Weddell Sea
B. Sargasso Sea
C. Coral Sea
D. Arabian Sea
Answer: B. Sargasso Sea.
87. How many standard time zones does Russia span?
A. Nine
B. Ten
C. Eleven
D. Twelve
Answer: C. Eleven.
88. How many national capital cities does the Danube flow through?
A. Four
B. Three
C. Two
D. Five
Answer: A. Four — Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade.
89. Which two independent countries are entirely surrounded by Italy?
A. Monaco and San Marino
B. San Marino and Vatican City
C. Vatican City and Liechtenstein
D. Malta and San Marino
Answer: B. San Marino and Vatican City.
90. What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
A. Sardinia
B. Cyprus
C. Corsica
D. Sicily
Answer: D. Sicily.
91. What is the only country in all four hemispheres?
A. Kiribati
B. Federated States of Micronesia
C. Iraq
D. Mozambique
Answer: A. Kiribati.
92. What is the northernmost capital city of a sovereign country?
A. Oslo
B. Helsinki
C. Reykjavík
D. Stockholm
Answer: C. Reykjavík.
93. Which two countries are the world’s only doubly landlocked countries?
A. Nepal and Bhutan
B. Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan
C. Moldova and Mongolia
D. Paraguay and Bolivia
Answer: B. Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan.
94. Nakhchivan is an exclave of which country?
A. Azerbaijan
B. Georgia
C. Armenia
D. Turkey
Answer: A. Azerbaijan.
95. Which country is divided into two separate parts by Malaysian territory?
A. Singapore
B. Brunei
C. Indonesia
D. Timor-Leste
Answer: B. Brunei.
96. In which country would you find Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat?
A. Chile
B. Peru
C. Argentina
D. Bolivia
Answer: D. Bolivia.
97. What is the largest country in the world without any permanent rivers?
A. Libya
B. Saudi Arabia
C. Mongolia
D. Kazakhstan
Answer: B. Saudi Arabia.
98. Which country contains more surviving ancient pyramids than Egypt?
A. Ethiopia
B. Libya
C. Sudan
D. Algeria
Answer: C. Sudan.
99. Which capital city stands near the meeting point of the Blue Nile and White Nile?
A. Cairo
B. Juba
C. Addis Ababa
D. Khartoum
Answer: D. Khartoum.
100. Cabinda is an exclave belonging to which African country?
A. Angola
B. Gabon
C. Cameroon
D. the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Answer: A. Angola.
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