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