Capitals & Countries
This European capital is home to the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum, and the Arc de Triomphe.
What is Paris?
This mountain range, home to Mount Everest, separates the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
What are the Himalayas?
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger landmasses, like the one connecting North and South America.
What is an isthmus?
This is the only continent that lies in all four hemispheres (Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western).
What is Africa?
With over 1.4 billion people, this country recently surpassed China as the world's most populous.
What is India?
Though Toronto is its largest city, this is the capital of Canada.
What is Ottawa?
This river, the longest in South America, flows through a massive rainforest and contains the largest volume of water of any river in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
A chain or group of islands, such as Japan or the Philippines.
What is an archipelago?
This imaginary line at 0° longitude passes through Greenwich, England, and divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This is the world's largest island (Australia is classified as a continent).
What is Greenland?
This capital of Ethiopia is one of the world's highest, and its name means "New Flower."
What is Addis Ababa?
This narrow body of water separates Spain (and Europe) from Morocco (and Africa), connecting the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
A region on the leeward (downwind) side of a mountain that receives little precipitation because the mountains block the moisture.
What is a rain shadow?
This "landlocked" sea is bordered by five countries: Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Azerbaijan.
What is the Caspian Sea?
This is the world's largest landlocked country by area.
What is Kazakhstan?
This South American capital, the capital of Peru, was founded by conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1535.
What is Lima?
This massive freshwater lake in Siberia is the world's oldest and deepest, containing about 20% of the world's unfrozen fresh water.
What is Lake Baikal?
This type of map projection, created in 1569, is excellent for navigation but heavily distorts the size of landmasses near the poles (making Greenland look huge).
What is the Mercator projection?
This U.S. state is the only one to border both the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes.
What is New York?
This desert in Chile is often cited as the driest non-polar place on Earth.
What is the Atacama Desert?
This nation is the only one in the world to be a "double-landlocked" country, meaning it is landlocked and all countries bordering it are also landlocked.
What is Liechtenstein? (Note: Uzbekistan is the other, but Liechtenstein is usually the intended answer for this trivia.)
This is the largest hot desert in the world, spanning most of Northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This term, named for a Massachusetts governor, describes the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries to create an unfair advantage for one party.
What is gerrymandering?
This imaginary line, running mostly along the 180° longitude, separates one calendar day from the next.
What is the International Date Line?
This African city, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the largest French-speaking city in the world by population.
What is Kinshasa?