Name Origins
The Canary Islands of Spain are named after what type of animal?
What are Dogs (Insula Canaria)
This peninsula, the worlds largest is home to 6 different nations contained wholly on the peninsula.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
This second smallest independent nation, famous for its annual F1 race, has been ruled by the House of Grimaldi since 1297.
What is Monaco
Curling stones are made of granite from the Ailsa Craig island, off the coast of this country.
What is Scotland?
This country, home to the reigning Olympic gold medalists in curling has the most lakes of any nation.
What is Canada?
This Italian explorer lends his name to two continents in the Western Hemisphere
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This island, known for its oranges, and home to the fictional Corleone family is the largest in the Mediterranean sea.
What is Sicily?
This doubly landlocked country was accidentally invaded by Switzerland in 2007 when 170 Swiss soldiers crossed an unmarked border.
What is Liechtenstein?
This Caribbean island is home to both Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
What is Hispaniola?
While usually referred to as a sea, this body of water is actually the worlds largest lake.
What is the Caspian Sea?
Argentina's traces its name to the Latin name for which metal?
What is Silver (Argentum)?
This island nation is the smallest country in Asia.
What are the Maldives?
This small African nation is the only nation whose entire country sits over 1,000 meters above sea level.
What is Lesotho?
Peaking at #11 on the Billboard charts in 2001 the song "Island in the Sun" was a hit for this alternative rock band.
What is Wheezer?
The emperor Nero dispatched an expedition to find the headwaters of this river, only to be thwarted by the Sudd Swamp, located in what is currently the worlds newest nation.
What is the Nile?
This Country is the only country named after a type of Tree.
What is Brazil?
Nearly entirely landlocked from the sea by its neighbor Croatia, this nation has only 20 miles of coastline, the smallest coastline of any nation except for Monaco.
What is Bosnia and Herzegovina?
This micro nation has the worlds oldest constitution, written in the year 1600.
What is San Marino?
This island off the coast of Africa, a British overseas Territory is the location of former French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's death.
What is St. Helena?
This lake is the deepest in the world and contains the most fresh water of any lake.
What is Lake Baikal?
This island nation is the only country named after a woman.
What is Sant Lucia?
France shares its longest border with this nation.
What is Brazil
This mountainous country, smaller than Douglas county is the worlds only co-principality. Its heads of state are the President of France and the Spanish Bishop of Urgell.
What is Andorra?
The largest lake on an Island, Nettilling Lake, as well as the largest vertical drop, Mt. Thor, are both located on this northern island, the 5th largest in the world.
What is Baffin Island?
Lake Vostok, the worlds largest subglacial lake is covered by roughly 2.5 miles of ice. Until scientists first drilled into it in 2015 it had been covered for 15 million years. It is located on this continent.
What is Antarctica?