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Geography A-Z #5

Can you identify these geographical answers, starting with each letter A to Z?
The previous quiz in this series can be found here (Quiz #4)
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Hint
Answer
A
Plato's home
Athens
B
Fundy or Kotor, e.g.
Bay
C
A point of land jutting
out into the water
Cape
D
Large arid area
Desert
E
Central American nation
El Salvador
F
Arden or Sherwood, e.g.
Forest
G
Scotland's largest city
Glasgow
H
Largest city in Texas
Houston
I
Rio de Janeiro beach
Ipanema
J
Montego Bay's country
Jamaica
K
Small, round hill
Knoll
L
French river valley known
for its châteaux
Loire
M
Deepest Pacific trench
Mariana
 
Hint
Answer
N
Naples, to an Italian
Napoli
O
6-letter U.S. State
Oregon
P
Malay or Baja California, e.g.
Peninsula
Q
Large pit for stone extraction
Quarry
R
Landlocked African country
Rwanda
S
Japanese faith
Shinto
T
London square where
Nelson's Column is located
Trafalgar
U
Black Sea country
Ukraine
V
1916 WWI battlefield
Verdun
W
Capital of Manitoba
Winnipeg
X
Bantu "click" language
Xhosa
Y
Red Sea country
Yemen
Z
European capital
Zagreb
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46 Comments
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Level 75
Aug 17, 2016
Nice. I think I've seen Somme several times in the quizzes, but can't remember seeing this V one before.
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Level 87
Aug 17, 2016
Liked this quiz very much. Thank you for your work.
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Level 73
Nov 7, 2016
I had really hard time coming up with a word for Japanese *fate*... Damn you, omophones!
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Level 50
Nov 27, 2016
Seppuku?
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Level 55
Nov 27, 2016
"Where earth and sky meet" sounds so poetic yet the answer was so literal I wasn't able to get it.
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Level 74
May 27, 2021
Did that one get replaced by "Houston"? Shame...
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Level 68
Nov 27, 2016
There was a battle at Vimy Ridge in WWI also.
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Level 63
Nov 27, 2016
That was a little later, in April 1917
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Level 71
Apr 17, 2019
And Vimy Ridge was part of the larger Battle of Arras. Another example of Canadian contributions to WWI and II.
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Level 68
Nov 27, 2016
Fun quiz. Good mix of hard and easy answers. Didn't know Rio beach or WWI battlefield.
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Level 57
Feb 9, 2017
Never heard the song "Girl from Ipanema"?
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Level 51
Nov 27, 2016
nice quiz!
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Level 48
Nov 27, 2016
V could also be Villers Bretonneux
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Level 63
Nov 27, 2016
The two battles of Villers-Bretonneux were not until 1918.
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Level 33
Nov 27, 2016
Welp, I learned that it is "Glasgow," not "Glascow" -_-
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Level 31
Dec 15, 2017
you dont even pronouce it "Glas-cow". Its "Glaz-go" (I live there)
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Level 36
May 20, 2020
Oh, I always thought it was Glass-gow
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Level 74
May 27, 2021
Actually it's pronounced "Glaz-gee"
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Level 46
Nov 28, 2016
Yay, one of the 25% to get Xhosa, knew it cause I am South African, finally something helpful on Jetpunk because of it.
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Level 66
Nov 28, 2016
All I could think of was kopjie (a south african term) Great quiz
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Level 57
Nov 29, 2016
Is not Zurich a European capital city?
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Level 43
Nov 30, 2016
Sorry, Bern is the capital of Switzerland.
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Level 36
May 20, 2020
I can get where it's confusing. Zürich is the largest city in Switzerland. Bern is the capital, yet it's only #5
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Level 87
Aug 19, 2017
Great series of quizzes, kiwirage.
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Level 36
Oct 4, 2017
This is the third time that I spelled Travalgar correctly and you wouldn't accept it.

Wassup with dat?!

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Level 47
Oct 6, 2018
wassup is dat u got it wrong cuz..it is T-R-A-F-A-L-G-A-R
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Level 36
Oct 28, 2018
^ Wow, you're absolutely correct. I've been spelling it wrong my entire life. I'm going to sue my grade and high school teachers

(though, in their defense, English wasn't their first language either).

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Level 82
Mar 6, 2021
Your teachers were wrong (it's also spelt Trafalgar in Finnish).
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Level 59
Jul 8, 2020
In what language did they taught you? Even in spanish it's spelled with an F.
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Level 70
Nov 16, 2017
How about "knob" as an alternative to "knoll"? Otherwise, good quiz!
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Level 79
Nov 22, 2019
Came here to say the same thing
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Level 69
Nov 21, 2017
Can't spell Trafalger! #neverforget
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Level 82
May 30, 2019
In England we spell it Trephalga.
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Level 76
Nov 15, 2019
Drawalgha
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Level 77
Nov 15, 2019
Pls accept marianna for mariana
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Level 58
Nov 22, 2019
Why?
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Level 68
May 1, 2021
Marianna is a sauce with an extra n
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Level 51
Jul 19, 2022
No, that's marinara.
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Level 36
May 20, 2020
My least guessed answer I got was "Cape." I am surprised people don't know that. The most guessed answer I missed was "Athens." I kept thinking "Greece," but not cities in Greece. Also, ayyyy, Oregon.
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Level 74
May 27, 2021
No Canadian province answer, but I suppose mentioning one in a question is close enough :)
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Level 67
Jan 8, 2023
Surprised to see Winnipeg over Ipanema! What's Manitoba famous for?
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Level 77
Feb 8, 2023
Darn! I knew L and I, just couldn't spell them! I ended up with 22/26. Thanks for the quiz!
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Level 56
May 16, 2023
i don't know who kotor is, but i know fundy is a mineraft youtuber
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Level 86
Aug 20, 2023
I like to think there's at least one thing about Oregon more interesting than how many letters it has
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Level 73
Sep 3, 2025
Please accept Attica
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Level 61
Dec 17, 2025
Great quiz, not too easy or hard