• 1. 
    Which of these cities was known as Philadelphia in ancient times?

  • Athens, Greece
  • Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Amman, Jordan
  • Damascus, Syria
  • 2. 
    Which country was formerly known as Gold Coast?

  • Ghana
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • The Gambia
  • Congo
  • 3. 
    Svithiod is the ancient name of which country?

  • Sweden
  • Suriname
  • Somalia
  • Switzerland
  • 4. 
    What country has the most wild bears?

  • Canada
  • Croatia
  • Russia
  • the United States
  • 5. 
    Where was the greatest difference between annual high and low temperatures recorded?

  • Antarctica
  • Iceland
  • Alaska
  • Russia
  • 6. 
    What was the name of the supercontinent of 200 million years ago?

  • Pantarctica
  • Pangaea
  • Pangloss
  • Panama
  • 7. 
    In which country were bananas first grown?

  • India
  • Paraguay
  • Japan
  • Norway
  • 8. 
    Where is the world’s highest annual average rainfall?

  • India
  • Costa Rica
  • Hawaii
  • Greenland
  • 9. 
    Where, as of 2009, did the world’s heaviest annual rainfall on record fall?

  • Peru
  • Cameroon
  • India
  • Hawaii
  • 10. 
    On which continent did our upright-walking ancestors originate?

  • Australia
  • Africa
  • Europe
  • North America
  • 11. 
    What lies between the Pillars of Hercules?

  • Strait of Malacca
  • Strait of Gibraltar
  • Strait of Dover
  • Bering Strait
  • 12. 
    Which country’s name is derived from a phrase in Arabic meaning “land of the blacks”?

  • Sudan
  • Ethiopia
  • Djibouti
  • Congo
  • 13. 
    Where was the first zoo in the United States opened?

  • Atlanta
  • New York City
  • Los Angeles
  • Philadelphia
  • 14. 
    Which modern Russian city was formerly known as Petrograd and Leningrad?

  • Moscow
  • Volgograd
  • Stalingrad
  • St. Petersburg
  • 15. 
    Yalta, the 1945 meeting place of the three chief Allied leaders (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin), is located in what country?

  • Ukraine
  • Russia
  • Iran
  • Morocco
  • 16. 
    Where would one most likely find people living in yurts?

  • Greenland
  • Australia
  • Iceland
  • Mongolia
  • 17. 
    Where are the Chiltern Hills?

  • in southern England
  • in northern Bengal, India
  • in the New England region of the United States
  • on the Altiplano of South America
  • 18. 
    Which city dominates Italy’s automotive industry?

  • Florence
  • Venice
  • Turin
  • Milan
  • 19. 
    In what city is Rock Creek Park located?

  • London
  • Tokyo
  • Paris
  • Washington, D.C.
  • 20. 
    Which is the southernmost city in the world?

  • Hobart, Tasmania
  • Auckland, New Zealand
  • Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  • Ushuaia, Argentina
  • 21. 
    Which city was named for Zionist leader Theodor Herzl’s novel Altneuland, which was translated as the "Hill of Spring"?

  • Prague
  • Berlin
  • Geneva
  • Tel Aviv
  • 22. 
    Which is Russia’s largest seaport?

  • Kaliningrad
  • St. Petersburg
  • Vladivostok
  • Minsk
  • 23. 
    Which of these cities is known as the “Lion City”?

  • Hong Kong
  • Singapore
  • Bangkok
  • Kolkata
  • 24. 
    Where are the cities of Novosibirsk, Omsk, and Krasnoyarsk located?

  • Crimean Peninsula
  • Poland
  • Siberia
  • Transcaucasia
  • 25. 
    What is the only place in the world where Angostura Bitters are produced?

  • Nicosia, Cyprus
  • Havana
  • Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Lisbon
  • 26. 
    Which city’s name comes from the Spanish word for “many fish”?

  • Havana, Cuba
  • San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Madrid, Spain
  • Panama City, Panama
  • 27. 
    The Tate galleries house art in which country?

  • Germany
  • Canada
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • 28. 
    Which city is located in the Ṣirāt Mountains?

  • Damascus, Syria
  • Mecca, Saudi Arabia
  • Cairo
  • Athens
  • 29. 
    Where are the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee?

  • New York City
  • Monte-Carlo
  • Athens
  • Lausanne
  • 30. 
    Which city’s name is said to mean “little fort”?

  • Muscat, Oman
  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Kuwait city, Kuwait
  • Baghdad, Iraq
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