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Geography General Knowledge A-Z

A-Z general knowledge, world geography and history
Each letter has 2 answers
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GeoDude220
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Last updated: February 25, 2025
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First submittedFebruary 25, 2025
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A) Its capital is Baku
Azerbaijan
A) The highest mountain in
the Americas
Aconcagua
B) Famous gate monument in Berlin
Brandenburg
B) Strait connecting Istanbul to the
Black Sea
Bosphorus
C) Roman rival during the Punic Wars
Carthage
C) Area of central Turkey with domed rock
formations and hot air balloons
Cappadocia
D) German for Germany
Deutschland
D) Deadly Allied beach attack on German
occupied Normandy on June 6, 1944
D Day
E) Vast, remote swampland across much of
southern Florida
Everglades
E) Small island near Italy where Napoleon
was exiled to in 1814
Elba
F) The financial capital of Germany
Frankfurt
F) This man wrote the Star Spangled Banner
during the bombing of Baltimore in 1814
Francis Scott Key
G) Considered the deadliest Civil War battle
but a turning point for Union forces
Gettysburg
G) Western Ireland port city on the river Corrib
Galway
H) Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps
during the 2nd Punic War
Hannibal
H) Greek name for Greece
Hellas
I) "Capital" of the Scottish Highlands
Inverness
I) Name for the peninsula of Spain and Portugal
Iberia
J) Bob Marley and Usain Bolt hail from this
Caribbean island
Jamaica
J) English king who signed the Magna Carta in 1215
to appease rebellious barons
John
K) Language derived from the Empire of the same name
in ancient Cambodia and SE Asia
Khmer
K) Oblast of Russia sandwiched between Poland and
Lithuania
Kaliningrad
L) Famous Parisian museum housing some of the worlds
most prized art
Louvre
L) British ship sunk by a German u-boat on its way to
Liverpool in 1915
Lusitania
M) Italian Renaissance painter of the Sistine Chapel
and Creation of Adam
Michelangelo
M) Ancient civilization in modern day Yucatan, Mexico and
parts of Central America
Mayans
Question
Answer
N) French emperor who was defeated at Waterloo in 1815
and exiled
Napoleon
N) Famous 19th century castle on a hilltop in southern Germany
Neuschwanstein
O) Florida city home to Disney World
Orlando
O) Capital of Aruba
Oranjestad
P) These two connected buildings mark the highest point in
Kuala Lumpur
Petronas Towers
P) Aka the "Steel city" of the US
Pittsburgh
Q) Ancient Iranian city, site of the Fatima Masumeh shrine
Qom
Q) The patron God of Aztec priesthood
Quetzalcoatl
R) Religious movement that originated in Jamaica in the 1930s,
once followed by Bob Marley
Rastafarianism
R) This monument in South Dakota is a carving of 4 presidential
faces on the side of a mountain
Rushmore
S) River that runs through Paris
Seine
S) Brigham Young led his Mormon followers to establish this
capital city in Utah
Salt Lake City
T) The Aztecs had their capital here, now present day Mexico City
Tenochtitlan
T) The biggest city in Canada
Toronto
U) Massive sandstone rock in remote central Australia
Uluru
U) Current native name of Barrow, Alaska
Utqiagvik
V) Micro-nation inside Rome, home to the Pope
Vatican City
V) Massive waterfall complex on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border
Victoria Falls
W) Capital of the USA
Washington DC
W) Anglican church in London, famous for Royal coronations of
over 40 British monarchs
Westminster Abbey
X) Chinese city where thousands of Terracotta warriors of Emperor
Shi Huangdi were unearthed
Xian
X) Mongol Kublai Khan had his empire at this capital
Xanadu
Y) Crimean city of the 1945 Allied conference of WW2
Yalta
Y) Longest river in China
Yangtze
Z) Tropical archipelago off the coast of Tanzania
Zanzibar
Z) Remote province of the southern Netherlands near the
border with Belgium
Zeeland
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1 Comments
DrewFan
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Level 74
Feb 25, 2025
Overall good quiz!

Two nitpicks:

1. Mayan usually refers to languages; in most contexts it is more appropriate to use the term Maya

2. Rasta is a fairy common abbreviation for Rastafarianism so I think you should also make Rasta a possible type-in for that question

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