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Geography & History Quiz

A 30-question multiple choice quiz about geography & history.
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Last updated: June 19, 2021
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1. Which of the following is the 5th largest country in the world?
China ✓
Brazil ✓
India ✓
Canada ✓
Brazil has an area of 3.288 million squared miles.
2. Which of the following is the smallest country in the world?
Vatican City ✓
San Marino ✓
Singapore ✓
Comoros ✓
Vatican City has an area of 0.17 squared miles.
3. Which of the following countries is "doubly landlocked"?
South Sudan ✓
Switzerland ✓
Mongolia ✓
Uzbekistan ✓
The Caspian Sea is a lake, meaning it's neighbors, Turkmenistan & Kazakhstan, are landlocked.
4. Which of the following countries was never colonized by Europe?
Vietnam ✓
Suriname ✓
South Africa ✓
Thailand ✓
Thailand acted as a buffer zone between British & French colonies.
5. What is the 4th largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
Crete ✓
Cyprus ✓
Sardinia ✓
Corsica ✓
Corsica has an area of 3,368 squared miles.
6. Which country has the most volcanoes?
Japan ✓
United States ✓
Indonesia ✓
Chile ✓
The United States has 173 volcanoes.
7. What is Japan's largest island?
Kyushu ✓
Shikoku ✓
Honshu ✓
Hokkaido ✓
Honshu has an area of 88,016 squared miles.
8. What is the 3rd largest European country?
Russia ✓
France ✓
Ukraine ✓
Sweden ✓
France has an area of 248,573 squared miles.
9. What is the 4th most populous country?
Indonesia ✓
United States ✓
Nigeria ✓
Bangladesh ✓
As of 2021, Indonesia has a rough population of 276 million.
10. What continent is the Gobi Desert in?
South America ✓
Asia ✓
Australia ✓
Africa ✓
The Gobi Desert lies in Mongolia & China
11. Which of these countries does the Yellow Sea border?
Taiwan ✓
Argentina ✓
South Korea ✓
Eritrea ✓
The Yellow Sea borders China, North Korea, & South Korea.
12. What peninsula does Italy lie on?
Iberia ✓
Yucatan ✓
Balkan ✓
Apennine ✓
The Italian peninsula is also called the Apennine peninsula.
13. Which of the following countries do the Andes Mountains go through?
Brazil ✓
Venezuela ✓
Guyana ✓
Paraguay ✓
The Andes Mountains stretch all the way through the majority of Western South America.
14. I was trying to make a question about the most populous city. I was going back & forth from Shanghai, New Delhi, & Tokyo, but all the sources I was looking at had conflicting data. One was from 2011. I gave up when I found out Tokyo actually only had around 13 million residents, rather than 37 million, I had to change the answer for the 5th time, which I was getting tired of doing. Instead of answering that, which country did the United States buy the territory of Alaska from?
Russia ✓
United Kingdom ✓
Canada ✓
France ✓
For a low price of just $7.2 million, the U.S. bought Alaska from Russia in 1867.
15. Which of the following countries do the Zagros Mountains pass through?
Nepal ✓
Ecuador ✓
Iran ✓
Tajikistan ✓
The majority of the Zagros Mountains lie in Western Iran
16. Which country is Mount Kilimanjaro located in?
Tanzania ✓
South Africa ✓
Ethiopia ✓
Bhutan ✓
Mount Kilimanjaro has a height of 3.663 miles, being the highest point in Africa.
17. Which Chinese dynasty fought in the Opium Wars?
Yuan ✓
Ming ✓
Song ✓
Qing ✓
The Qing dynasty reigned from 1644 to 1912. The Opium Wars occurred throughout the 19th century.
18. Who founded the Ottoman Empire?
Selim III ✓
Mehmed II ✓
Osman I ✓
Bayezid II ✓
Osman I founded the Ottoman Empire in roughly 1299 AD.
19. In what year did the Cuban Missile Crisis take place?
1967 ✓
1950 ✓
1962 ✓
1955 ✓
Tensions in the Cold War reached a peak during this period.
20. What geographical region is the country of Lebanon in?
Anatolia ✓
Balkan Peninsula ✓
Zagros Mountains ✓
The Levant ✓
Lebanon lies around the center of the Levant, by the Eastern Mediterranean coast.
21. What is the 2nd most populous island in the world?
Honshu ✓
Java ✓
Madagascar ✓
Great Britain ✓
As of 2021, the island of Honshu has a population of roughly 104 million people.
22. What country does the region Brittany belong to?
France ✓
United Kingdom ✓
Ireland ✓
Canada ✓
Brittany is France's largest peninsula.
23. What is the capital of Egypt?
Cairo ✓
Alexandria ✓
Luxor ✓
Aswan ✓
Cairo is Egypt's largest city.
24. What country's capital city is Tunis?
Tunisia ✓
Saudi Arabia ✓
Brazil ✓
Morocco ✓
Tunis is Tunisia's largest city.
25. Who was the monarch of Great Britain & Ireland during the American Revolution?
Henry VIII ✓
George III ✓
Victoria ✓
Elizabeth I ✓
26. Which country won the Winter War?
The Soviet Union ✓
Finland ✓
Despite suffering more losses, the Soviets won the war.
27. What city was besieged, conquered, & sacked during the 4th Crusade?
Jerusalem ✓
Constantinople ✓
Cairo ✓
Damascus ✓
The crusaders initially went to Constantinople to restore Isaac II Angelos to the imperial throne.
28. What island is the city of Jakarta located on?
Borneo ✓
Java ✓
Sumatra ✓
Luzon ✓
Java is the most populous island in the world - with 145 million people as of 2015.
29. What country did Nazi Germany annex the Sudetenland from with the Munich Agreement?
Poland ✓
Czechoslovakia ✓
Denmark ✓
Belgium ✓
Great Britain, France, Italy, & Germany signed the Munich Agreement, but Czechoslovakia did not.
30. Which of the following countries is widely considered to be the oldest?
San Marino ✓
France ✓
Thailand ✓
Ethiopia ✓
San Marino has persisted as a country since 301 BC
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