Geography Quiz Questions and Answers

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Twenty questions on landforms, oceans and terminology. Where Aconcagua stands, which country Viti Levu belongs to, and what demography actually studies.

There is a true-or-false comparing Australia with Antarctica that catches most teams first time.

Questions

  1. In which country is the highest mountain of the Andes range, Aconcague, located?
  2. Which country do the islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu belong to?
  3. What word beginning with letter M describes a seasonal wind that often brings heavy rain?
  4. Which major ocean surrounds the Marshall Islands?
  5. Australia is larger than Antarctica?
  6. What waterway connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea?
  7. Demography is the statistical study of what?
  8. In which country is the city of Kathmandu located?
  9. What is measured by the Beaufort Scale?
  10. Which two countries border Lake Geneva?
  11. What word beginning with letter F described a long, narrow inlet of sea between steep cliff?
  12. What mountain range is located on the border of France and Spain?
  13. What is the antipode of any spot on Earth?
  14. In which country would you find Ceuta and Melilla, autonomous cities of Spain?
  15. What are fluvial processes associated with?
  16. To be classified as a hurricane, a tropical cyclone must have maximum sustained winds of what speed?
  17. In which country is the Yangtzee River located?
  18. What is the fourth longest river in the world?
  19. What is a seismograph used for?
  20. What is the only country in the world that begins with the letter O?

Answers

  1. Argentina
  2. Fiji
  3. Monsoon
  4. The Pacific Ocean
  5. False
  6. Suez Canal
  7. Populations
  8. Nepal
  9. Wind speed
  10. France and Switzerland
  11. Fjord
  12. Pyrenees
  13. The point on the Earth's surface diametrically opposite to it
  14. Morocco
  15. Rivers and streams
  16. 118 km/h (74 mph)
  17. China
  18. Mississippi
  19. To measure and record details of earthquakes
  20. Oman