World Geography
This landlocked Asian country has the highest capital city in the world by elevation.
Mongolia
This ancient empire built the Royal Road, which stretched over 2,500 km.
What is the Persian Empire?
This Shakespeare play contains the line, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
What is Hamlet?
This Costa Rican province is home to Liberia International Airport.
What is Guanacaste?
This Central American country uses the U.S. dollar as its official currency.
What is El Salvador?
This African nation is the only one bordered by both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Morocco?
The Magna Carta was signed under the rule of this English king.
Who was King John?
This Russian author wrote Crime and Punishment.
Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?
This river forms part of the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
What is the San Juan River?
What two countries touch Nicaragua
What is Costa Rica & Honduras
The Danube River flows through more countries than any other river in the world except this one.
What is the Nile?
This naval battle of 1805 crushed Napoleon’s hopes of invading Britain.
What is the Battle of Trafalgar?
This language is the most widely spoken native language in the world.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
This bird, known for its large colorful beak, lives in Costa Rican rainforests.
What is a toucan?
This country has the smallest population in Central America.
What is Belize?
This South American mountain range is the longest continental mountain range on Earth.
What are the Andes?
This civilization created the world’s first known written legal code.
What is Babylon? (or What is the Code of Hammurabi?)
This American novelist wrote The Sound and the Fury.
Who is William Faulkner?
This beach town in Guanacaste is famous for great surf and sunsets.
What is Tamarindo?
This Central American country is home to more than 30 volcanoes, including Pacaya and Fuego.
What is Guatemala?
This European microstate is the only country in the world with a land border entirely inside a single city.
What is Vatican City?
This empire’s capital, Tenochtitlan, was built on an island in Lake Texcoco.
What is the Aztec Empire?
This literary term describes the use of a word that imitates a natural sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
Costa Rica has no this—making it one of the few countries in the world without one.
What is an army?
These are the two oceans that Central America touches.
What are the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea?