Geography Quiz

[Enzo]

From an article in the local paper concerning student ignorance...

1. What is the most populous country in Africa?

2. What is the main language of Guyana? (That is one of those little countries down by Venzuela and Brazil.)

3. What is the capital of Iran?

4. How many islands make up Greece? 3, 50, 700, 2000? pick one.

5. "Borat" was from Kazakhstan. What is their literacy rate? 32, 55, 87, 98%? pick one.

6. What is the major religion in the Philippines?

7. What percentage of Israel's population practices Judaism? 38, 53, 76, 95% pick one.

8. What is the largest country in the Caribbean?

9. WHat country was called Siam until 1939?

10. What US state is about the same size as Sri Lanka? Tex, W Va, Rhode Island, Calif? Pick one.

11. The two official languages of Djibouti are Arabic and what?

12. What country is bordered by Nicaragua and Panama?

13. Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan share which shrinking body of salt water?

14. The Ob river flows into which ocean?

15. Which East Asian capital city was formerly known as Edo?


I missed 2,4,10,11.



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1. Nigeria

2. English

3. Tehran

4. 2000

5. 98%

6. Roman Catholic

7. 76%

8. Cuba

9. Thailand

10. West Virginia

11. French

12. Costa Rica

13. Aral Sea

14. Arctic Ocean

15. Tokyo

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[Heid the Ba]

Didn't get 2, 7 and 12.

[Enzo]

Rucksack for you, then.

[Мастер]

I missed 4, 5, and 7.

[The Beer Slayer]

1. Nigeria

2. I'll guess English

3. Duh, Tehran! Anyone who doesn't know that in this day and age should be bitch-slapped.

4. I'm guessing 2000

5. The USSR had a good educational system, so I'll guess 98%

6. Christian/Catholic

7. I've heard Israelis are pretty secular, so I'll say 38%

8. By land mass? Cuba

9. Duh, Thailand

10. I'll guess California, since Sri Lanka's pretty big

11. I'll guess English

12. Costa Rica

13. The Aral sea, I read a National Geographic special on it a long time ago

14. I think that river's in in Russia, so I'll say the Arctic

15. I have no idea