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Geography General Knowledge #9

Can you answer these random geography questions?
Includes questions from both physical geography and human geography
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Last updated: August 24, 2020
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First submittedMarch 24, 2013
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What language does the word tsunami come from?
Japanese
What strait divides Morocco and Spain?
Strait of Gibraltar
On what street would you find the official residence of the British Prime Minister?
Downing
On what peninsula do Spain and Portugal lie?
Iberian Peninsula
What former country's flag featured a hammer and a sickle?
Soviet Union
What U.S. state has the largest Mormon population?
Utah
What city was supposedly founded by Romulus and Remus?
Rome
By surface area, what is the largest of Africa's great lakes?
Victoria
What Egyptian peninsula was controlled by Israel from 1967–1982?
Sinai Peninsula
What ocean current brings warm water from the Gulf of Mexico to Europe?
Gulf Stream
In what country is Khmer the primary language?
Cambodia
What ethnic group has its homeland in northeast Spain and southwest France?
Basques
What canal stretches (roughly) from Albany to Buffalo?
Erie Canal
What was the currency of Italy prior to the Euro?
Italian Lira
On what Turkish mountain is Noah's ark often said to have landed?
Mount Ararat
What country has as many as 227 inhabited islands, including Lesbos, Chíos, and Corfu?
Greece
What is Paris's busiest airport?
Charles de Gaulle
What was the capital of West Germany?
Bonn
What's the Spanish name for the United States?
Estados Unidos
What island is divided between Greek and Turkish factions?
Cyprus
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Level 75
Aug 26, 2013
Got 17 right but it helped that there are quite a lot of Europe related questions.
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Level 62
Mar 6, 2014
I wish that typing in "Gulf Current" would have worked ... and that be acceptable in the future?
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Level 55
Apr 18, 2014
Tried 10 downing street several times, AAARGGGGHH!!!
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Level 53
Oct 24, 2019
Although it does say 'street'.
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Level 32
Jun 5, 2021
Same.
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Level 78
May 30, 2014
Took General Knowledge #93 just before this quiz. It had exactly the same question about the flag... :D Not very original.
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Level 48
Mar 14, 2016
try making a quiz out of questions that haven't been asked on other quizzes
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Level 32
Jun 5, 2021
There is probably over 4,000 questions in that series.
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Level 48
Jun 3, 2014
Quizmaster likes the lira.
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Level 66
Dec 15, 2018
Exactly what I was thinking seen it like 8 times and on the site fewer than.eight days. And have only.seen one other question, about the norway currency, but well that was a quiz about norway..
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Level 69
Oct 7, 2014
How about EUA for "What is the Spanish name for the United States?"
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Level 81
Nov 30, 2016
or EEUU?
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Level ∞
Aug 24, 2020
EEUU will work now
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Level 62
Jun 30, 2015
Just FYI:: Greek sovereign land includes 6,000 islands and islets scattered in the Aegean and Ionian Seas, of which only 227 islands are inhabited. This is a truly unique phenomenon for the European continent.
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Level ∞
Mar 14, 2016
I wonder. My guess would be that Greece has the greatest number of inhabited islands in Europe, but other countries may have more total islands. Norway seems like an obvious candidate.
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Level 86
Mar 14, 2016
Finland probably has the most islands in Europe. Sweden and Norway also have tens, if not hundreds of thousands of islands. All depends on what you call an island though, which is really not straightforward, but by any measure those three countries have many more than Greece.
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Level 73
Dec 15, 2018
The Åland Islands archipelago alone - an autonomous region of Finland, in the Baltic Sea - has around 6500 islands and islets, of which only 65 are inhabited. Finland has a crapload of islands.
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Level 73
Dec 2, 2020
I just looked up the area in Google Maps - incredible. at a zoomed-out level it looks like a few islands, zoom in a bit and more appear, zoom in closer and there are islands *everywhere*!
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Level 62
Mar 14, 2016
I thought it was asking for the state with the largest Muslim population. It's way too early for this today.
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Level 88
Mar 14, 2016
According to Wikipedia, it's Michigan.
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Level 66
May 17, 2021
Yes, I started to write Michigan until, mid-typing of word, I re-read Mormon and had to back up and re-type the correct answer.
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Level 40
Mar 14, 2016
Maybe it should be accepted URSS! Good quiz though
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Level 60
May 15, 2021
Quiz is in English, why should it accept different languages lol
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Level 56
Mar 15, 2016
Finland has 609 inhabited islands, I just had to check.
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Level 49
Jan 25, 2017
SSSR is the same as Soviet union... and SSSR isnt taken as correct. Please do so.
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Level 48
Nov 20, 2017
Impressive that you would answer with that over USSR, the far more common name.
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Level 67
Jun 15, 2017
Got 18, should have gotten Gulf Stream
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Level 31
Mar 25, 2018
Ok

Angola has a hammer and sickle on its flag too.

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Level 82
Jun 27, 2018
That's a machete and a gear.
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Level 88
Oct 10, 2018
I don't know why but for some reason, I cannot ever spell the Egyptian peninsula correctly on the first try. When I see a question about it I know I am about to waste 30 seconds trying to guess the correct arrangement of letters or turn on spell check for the answer box.
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Level 37
Dec 15, 2018
In Spanish, the article is correctly used, so it's Los Estados Unidos.
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Level 49
Dec 15, 2018
Cyprus is not divided in Greek and Turkish 'factions' - that is an oversimplification that just enables propaganda.
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Level 76
Dec 15, 2018
How would you reword the clue in under ten words? 70% of quiz takers got it correct. There is a comments section to state opinions, clarifications or grievances, or yes, promote propaganda, in which case I hope you check back and call them out on it. For the most part I have no problem with oversimplification. (Many of my own comments could use a good dose of it, including this one.)
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Level 67
Oct 13, 2020
Alternatively, you could say "which Greek island is partially occupied by a Turkish faction".
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Level 77
May 15, 2021
Cyprus isn't a Greek island, though. Calling a Greek island implies that it is under control of the Greek government when it is not. You could say Eastern Mediterranean island or culturally Greek island.
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Level 67
May 17, 2021
Does saying that moussaka is a Greek dish imply that it's under the control of the Greek government?
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Level 71
Jun 9, 2021
Governments do not generally control food dishes, though they do, on occasion, control areas of land. Calling a Cyprus a "Greek island" does not necessarily mean it is part of the nation of Greece, but it is by no means unreasonable for the phrase to be interpreted in that way. At best, it would create an unnecessary ambiguity in the clue. Most likely, it would be positively misleading. Personally, given that clue, I would run through the admittedly short list of islands in Greece that I know, and when none of them worked, conclude that the answer is one of the many others I don't know.

If "Greek islands" includes Cyprus, how do you refer to just the islands that the are part of the nation of Greece? "The islands that are a part of the nation of Greece" seems rather a mouthful.

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Level 85
Dec 15, 2018
You should accept Roissy for Charles de Gaulle.
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Level 72
Dec 15, 2018
and Lutetia for Paris?
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Level 85
Dec 15, 2018
What? Sigh... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle_Airport "also known as "Roissy Airport". Check before making fun of people please...
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Level 72
Dec 15, 2018
If you know "Roissy", you should know to just type "cdg" and be done with it.
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Level 85
Dec 16, 2018
I don't agree. Roissy is not obscure by any means. I'm sure that many french-speakers will think of Roissy before Charles de Gaulle, just as I did.
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Level 67
May 15, 2021
Half of the streets, bridges, and airports of France are named "Charles de Gaulle", so people often tend to call things by their former name. "Place Charles de Gaulle" in Paris remains more commonly referred to as "place de l'Etoile", even by people who wouldn't be born for decades when the name change was made.
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Level 67
Oct 13, 2020
Absolutely agree. The airport is widely known in France as "Roissy", and it's full name is Roissy-Charles de Gaulle.
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Level 71
Oct 9, 2021
I know people are petty on here (or rather just make finicky little points to show how bloody clever they are) but that was a two year argument! And I would bet that everyone involved got the answer right. Is there a Wikipedia article for “Outrageous Bore?”
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Level 72
Dec 15, 2018
Irrelevant, but Austria's state flag still has hammer and sickle.
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Level 77
Dec 15, 2018
Austria never had the hammer and sickle on ist flag. Are you sure you meant Austria?
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Level 72
Dec 15, 2018
Ok, it's not the traditional hammer & sickle, but there are still both of those objects present in the state flag. Click here
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Level 73
Dec 16, 2018
Wow, that's really interesting.
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Level 36
Jan 26, 2019
It's the coat of arms, not the flag.
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Level 36
Jan 26, 2019
There were many countries having hammer and sickle in their flags:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Flags_with_hammer_and_sickle

For example Albania 1994-1996.

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Level 62
May 15, 2021
Maybe so, but the question wants a former country; it’s not asking about former flags!
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Level 77
Oct 24, 2019
Would the British Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia not count as British factions on the island of Cyprus?
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Level 77
Oct 24, 2019
Even though I wouldn't use the word 'factions' for these areas
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Level 72
Dec 2, 2020
Nah, rather imperialism leftovers.
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Level 67
May 15, 2021
They shouldn't really count as anything - least of all "sovereign". The main (and only) road to the west of the island, including Paphos, goes right through it, and if you didn't check on your GPS for fun, you'd never know it. Hilariously, the bases also use the Euro as their official currency - just wait until the Brexiters find out about that!
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Level 70
Sep 30, 2020
The question "What ethnic group has its homeland in northeast Spain and southwest France?" is ambiguous, Catalans fit the descriptions as well as Basques.
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Level 55
May 15, 2021
I thought the Basques were in France and Catalans in Spain. I don't think you can lump them together.
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Level 77
May 15, 2021
Basques and Catalans are totally different. Catalan is a Romance language related to Spanish, Galician, and French (among many others) while Basque is related to nothing. The Catalan community is on the Mediterranean coast around Barcelona and Andorra while the Basque community is on the Bay of Biscay. Culturally, linguistically, and ethnically the two groups are very different.
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Level 57
Oct 21, 2020
Thanks for this quizz

Please accept "Roissy" alone or "Roissy " before current answer of Paris's busiest airport. :)

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Level 64
May 15, 2021
Palestinian resistance will never be broken.
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Level 55
May 15, 2021
Too easy this one
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Level 57
May 19, 2021
Waiting for the day when we refer to Mount Ararat as an armenian mountain
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Level 65
Aug 18, 2021
There currently exists an unrecognised country called Transnistria that has a hammer and sickle on its official flag.
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Level 64
Jan 3, 2022
Interesting
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Level 74
May 25, 2022
Weird to randomly have a Spanish translation as a question. What's next, the Chinese name for Liberia?
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Level 65
Sep 13, 2022
Argh so close, I do not speak Spanish at all but I do speak French so I tried "Estatos Unidos".

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