Continents/Poles/Equator
What is the biggest continent in the world?
Asia (44,391,162 square kilometres)
What is the biggest country in the world (land mass)?
Russia (17,098,242 square kilometres)
What is longest river in the world?
a) the Amazon b) the Nile c) the Mississippi
a) OR b)! The Amazon, in South America, is about 7,000 km long and the Nile, in Africa, is about 6,900 km long, but it depends on where you start measuring them.
Which ocean hits the East coast?
Atlantic ocean
What is the smallest continent in the world?
b) Australia (9,008,500 square kilometres)
What is smallest country in the world ?
a) the Vatican
b) Monaco
c) Colombia
d) Madagascar
a) The Vatican (0.44 square kilometres)
Mt Everest is higest mountain in the world. In which two countries is it located?
China and Nepal. (The border between the two countries goes across the highest part of the mountain.)
How many departments are there in the country?
19
Where are penguins commonly found?
In Antarctica.
Which country is bigger? Australia or the USA?
The USA (9.8 million square kilometres) (Australia's area is about 7.7 million square kilometres.)
Where is biggest desert in the world? **Bonus Points if you know the name of the desert!**
a) Africa
b) Asia
c) Australia
a) Africa (the Sahara Desert)
Which river divides the country in two?
Black river
Which continent has the largest population?
Asia (about 4.4 billion people)
What is the wealthiest country in the world?
a) Macau (in East Asia)
b) Qatar (in the Middle East)
c) the USA
b) Qatar (Macau=3rd, USA= 13th. International Money Fund, 2017)
Which waterfall is the tallest?
a) Niagara Falls in Canada
b) Angel Falls in Venezuela?
a) Angel Falls (979 metres tall). (Horseshoe Falls, which is the tallest part of the Niagara Falls, is only 57m tall.)
What is the highest point in Montevideo?
Cerro
Which of these cities are closest to the equator?
a) Sydney (Australia)
b) Tokyo (Japan)
c) London (UK)
d) New York City (USA)
a) Sydney. Its latitude is 33.8688° S.
What is happiest country in the world?
a) Australia
b) Norway
c) Costa Rica
b) Norway. (Australia= 9th, Costa Rica=12th. United Nations "World Happiness Report" 2017)
Australia is one of driest continents. How much of it is desert?
a) 10% b) 35% c) 55%
b) 35%
What is the second most spoken language in Uruguay?
Portuguese