Geography
Geography quiz questions and answers
Thirty-six geography questions over six rounds: capitals, rivers and mountains, the UK, countries and borders, seas and islands, and a hard round. This is the free version; the full geography quiz has 80 new questions and a flags picture round.
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36 questions to play on your own, online. Type your answers and get your score at the end. No PDFs and no group play.
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- 80 questions, none of them on this page
- Question and answer PDFs, with answer sheets and picture round
- Host it live: a private game room, everyone answers on their phones
- Questions
- 36
- Rounds
- 6
- Difficulty
- Easy to hard
Round 01 / Capitals
Capital cities
- Difficulty: hard
What is the capital of Mongolia?
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Ulaanbaatar
Also accept: Ulan Bator, Ulaan Baatar
- Difficulty: hard
Which Egyptian city stands at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal?
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Port Said
- Difficulty: hard
What is the capital of Myanmar?
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Naypyidaw
Also accept: Naypyitaw, Nay Pyi Taw
- Difficulty: medium
What is the capital of Norway?
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Oslo
- Difficulty: medium
Which city is the seat of Switzerland's government?
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Bern
Also accept: Berne
Not Zurich or Geneva.
- Difficulty: hard
What is the capital of Morocco?
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Rabat
Not Casablanca or Marrakesh.
Round 02 / Geography
Rivers and mountains
- Difficulty: medium
The Victoria Falls lie on which river?
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The Zambezi
Also accept: Zambezi, Zambezi River
- Difficulty: medium
Which river flows through Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade?
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The Danube
Also accept: Danube
- Difficulty: medium
What is the second-highest mountain in the world?
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K2
- Difficulty: medium
What is the highest mountain in Africa?
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Mount Kilimanjaro
Also accept: Kilimanjaro
- Difficulty: medium
Which river forms much of the border between the USA and Mexico?
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The Rio Grande
Also accept: Rio Grande
- Difficulty: medium
What is the highest mountain in England?
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Scafell Pike
Round 03 / Geography
Around the UK
- Difficulty: medium
Which is the most northerly city in the UK?
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Inverness
- Difficulty: medium
What is the most southerly point of mainland Britain?
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Lizard Point
Also accept: The Lizard
- Difficulty: easy
Which sea lies between the east coast of England and the Netherlands?
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The North Sea
Also accept: North Sea
- Difficulty: easy
In which county is the city of Norwich?
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Norfolk
- Difficulty: medium
Which river flows through Bristol and into the Severn Estuary?
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The Avon
Also accept: Avon, River Avon
- Difficulty: medium
Which national park covers the highest mountains in Wales?
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Eryri
Also accept: Snowdonia, Eryri National Park
Round 04 / Geography
Countries and borders
- Difficulty: medium
Which are the only two landlocked countries in South America?
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Bolivia and Paraguay
Also accept: Paraguay and Bolivia
- Difficulty: medium
Which two countries share the world's longest international border?
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Canada and the USA
Also accept: USA and Canada, Canada and the United States
- Difficulty: medium
Which small country is completely surrounded by Italy, apart from the Vatican?
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San Marino
- Difficulty: medium
Which small country sits in the Pyrenees between France and Spain?
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Andorra
- Difficulty: medium
Which South American country's name means 'little Venice'?
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Venezuela
- Difficulty: hard
Which African country was called Rhodesia until 1980?
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Zimbabwe
Zambia was Northern Rhodesia until 1964.
Round 05 / Seas and islands
Seas, islands and oceans
- Difficulty: medium
Which is the smallest of the world's five oceans?
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The Arctic Ocean
Also accept: Arctic, Arctic Ocean
- Difficulty: medium
Which is the largest island in the Mediterranean?
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Sicily
- Difficulty: medium
Which sea lies between Greece and Turkey?
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The Aegean Sea
Also accept: Aegean, The Aegean
- Difficulty: medium
Which strait separates Spain from Morocco?
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The Strait of Gibraltar
Also accept: Strait of Gibraltar, Gibraltar
- Difficulty: medium
Which sea lies between Italy and the Balkans?
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The Adriatic Sea
Also accept: Adriatic, Adriatic Sea
- Difficulty: medium
Which large island country lies off the south-east coast of Africa?
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Madagascar
Round 06 / Hard
The hard round
- Difficulty: hard
What is the capital of Kazakhstan?
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Astana
Also accept: Nur-Sultan
It was called Nur-Sultan from 2019 to 2022.
- Difficulty: hard
Which is the deepest lake in the world?
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Lake Baikal
Also accept: Baikal
- Difficulty: medium
Which African country has three capital cities?
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South Africa
Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein.
- Difficulty: hard
Which is the driest non-polar desert in the world?
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The Atacama Desert
Also accept: Atacama
- Difficulty: hard
What is the deepest known point in the world's oceans called?
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The Challenger Deep
Also accept: Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench
- Difficulty: medium
Which is the largest US state by area?
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Alaska
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A shortened quiz, solo only
36 questions to play on your own, online
- 36 questions, marked for you
- Your score, answers and explanations at the end
- No PDFs: nothing to print or hand round
- No group hosting or live game room
- No team answer sheets, picture round or tie-breakers
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- Two tie-breakers
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- Have a world map ready for the arguments afterwards.
- Decide before you start whether spelling counts. For capitals like Bogotá, it shouldn't.
- The capitals round is a good warm-up: everyone thinks they know them.