Geography Quiz

Geography Quiz

Question 1 of 10

What country gets its name from the Greek word for the inhabitants' "sunburned faces"?

Question 2 of 10

A Madrileno will typically go out for dinner around 10 pm. Where does he live?

Question 3 of 10

They may look all Gothic and old, but what country's Houses of Parliament were only built after the old building was destroyed in an 1834 fire?

Question 4 of 10

What US city is nicknamed "The City of Brotherly Love," as that is the literal meaning of the city's name in Greek?

Question 5 of 10

What country occupies almost 50 percent of the land area of South America?

Question 6 of 10

Famous for its statue of Eros, what London intersection is ablaze with nightly neon at the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue and Glasshouse Street?

Question 7 of 10

Swansea is the second most populous city In what country?

Question 8 of 10

In what U.S. city can you visit the National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden?

Question 9 of 10

In which state would you find Mount Rainier, which people in Tacoma wanted to call Mount Tacoma?

Question 10 of 10

What desert occupies a large part of Botswana?