Physical Geography
The world’s tallest uninterrupted waterfall pours off a tepui in this country.
What is Venezuela?
Unlike licensed software such as ArcGIS, QGIS is free to download and is this type of software, meaning anyone can see, change, and share its code.
What is "Open Source?"
Canada
What is Ottawa?
This is the highest point on the Oregon Coast Range and is visible from campus.
What is Mary's Peak?
Filming location for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy?
New Zealand
This country has the world's largest cave by volume. The cave is big enough to host a 40 story skyscraper, has its own weather, and was discovered in the early 1990s
What is Vietnam?
Points, lines, and polygons are this type of data (as opposed to satellite imagery and elevation grids made of pixels)
What is Vector Data?
Czechia
This building is the oldest continually occupied structure on campus.
What is Community Hall?
On 08/08/08 the Summer Olympics began in this city.
What is Beijing, China?
The "K" in K2, the world's second highest peak, stands for this.
What is "Karakoram"
OSM forbids copying or tracing from this popular commercial map service, because its data is copyrighted.
What is Google Maps?
North Korea
What is Pyeongchang?
Oregon's 4th congressional district includes Corvallis and is served by this U.S. representative.
Who is Val Hoyle?
In 2020, a film from this country became the first non-English-language movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture
What is South Korea?
Mostly in the Indian state of Rajasthan, this desert, also called the Great Indian Desert, continues across the border into Pakistan.
What is the Thar Desert?
The "Q" in QGIS stands for this word.
What is Quantum?
Madagascar
What is Antananarivo?
In Latin, "Corvallis" means this
What is "Heart of the Valley?"
This logging town is the birthplace of Kurt Cobain.
What is Aberdeen, Washington?
This is one of only two countries in the world that are doubly landlocked (surrounded entirely by other landlocked nations).
What is Lichtenstein or Uzbekistan?
OSM stores every node’s latitude and longitude in this global datum, also used by GPS.
What is WGS 84?
Suriname
What is Paramaribo?
This is Oregon's largest county by land area.
What is Harney County?
The Shakespeare play Othello begins in Venice, then then moves to this island under threat from the Turkish fleet.
What is Cyprus?