World Places Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
What Nation's treasures include the Sistine Chapel?
A: Vatican City's.
Which extends further North- Japan,
North Korea or turkey?
A: Japan.
What country can an Afghani escape to on the Khyber Pass?
A: Pakistan.
What two countries sandwich the dead sea?
A: Israel and Jordan.
What U.S. state is said to have as many
cows as people?
A: Wisconsin.
What continent boasts the most telephone lines?
A: Europe.
What future Soviet republic produced one-half of the world's oil
in 1901?
A: Azerbaijan.
What African country is bordered by Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe
and Mozambique?
A: South Africa.
What's the only Central American country without a coastline on
the Caribbean?
A: El Salvador.
What North American mountain range is an apt anagram for "o,
man--ski country"?
A: Rocky Mountains.
What city is headquarters for Zero Population Growth and the
Impotence Institution of America?
A: Washington, DC.
What city boasts a Board of Trade that buy and sells half the
world's wheat and corn?
A: Chicago.
What island boasts Mount Fuji?
A: Honshu.
What European country's most common last name is De Vries?
A: The Netherlands'.
What desert do Botswana, Namibia and South Africa have in common?
A: The Kalahari.
What U.S. state has the highest percentage of residents born in
other countries?
A: California.
How many U.S. states are named after a
president?
A: One.
What's the world's highest island mountain?
A: Mauna Kea.
What was the only country still building steam locomotives in
1990?
A: China.
Which two European countries lead the world in
wine consumption per
capita?
A: France and
Italy.
What was the world's highest man-made structure for 4,000 years
before being passed by the central tower of Lincoln Cathedral?
A: The Great Pyramid of Cheops.
What western state is less than thrilled to be known as the
"Vermin State"?
A: New Mexico.
What's the only South American country that has both a Pacific
and a Caribbean coast?
A: Colombia.
What interstate highway connects Boston and Seattle?
A: I-90.
What state boasts all or part of the ten largest American Indian
reservations?
A: Arizona.
What Canadian city's name means "muddy water"?
A: Winnipeg's.
What desert did David Livingstone have to cross to reach Lake
Ngami?
A: The Kalahari.
What country sent out 15,000 census workers to count its homeless
population, in 1990?
A: The U.S.
What do Americans call the Huang Ho, China's second-longest
river?
A: The Yellow River.
What Russian republic has its capital in Grozny?
A: Chechnya.
What state made the U.S. the fourth largest country in land mass
in 1959?
A: Alaska.
What state does the
Yellowstone River rise in?
A: Wyoming.
What island has endured Mount Etna's wrath over 140 times?
A: Sicily.
How many months per year do residents of Tromso, Norway go
without seeing a sunset?
A: Three.
