Middle East
What is the English name of the largest contiguous sand desert located on the Arabian Peninsula
Empty Quarter
Which river in the Congo is 2,900 miles long?
Congo River
Who was the first black president of South Africa?
Nelson Mandela
On what peninsula are Spain and Portugal?
Iberian Peninsula
Where do the Sami people live?
Northern Norway, Sweden and Finland
Russia
U.S.S. Nautilus
What group established a repressive regime in Afganistan in 1996?
Taliban
What is the major holiday in China for which millions travel to their family homes?
Chinese New Year
The Maori
Most of ancient Mesopotamia is located in what modern country?
Iraq
Cote d'Ivoire is the world leader in the export of what two products?
Cocoa and Cashews
What is the largest ethnic group in South Africa?
Where was Alexander the Great born?
Macedonia
What is the name of the peninsua that has Sweden, Norway and Finland?
What is the deepest lake in the world which is found in Russia?
Lake Baikal
What is the line above which the sun does not set for at least one day per year, and above which the sun does ot rise for at least one day per year?
The Arctic Circle
This is a product of Hindu religion and is a system of rankings of groups in Indian society.
Caste System
What ethnic group makes up over 90% of the Chinese population?
Han
What is the nickname for the people of New Zealand?
Kiwis
Saudi Arabia is the location of what two cities that the Muslims consider holy?
Mecca and Medina
What has been the largest factor in the Nigerian economy?
Development of petroleum reserves
Apartheid
What is the world's oldest republic still functioning today?
San Marino, Italy
What city in Finland has been the site of several important international meetings and summit conferences?
HELSINKI
What is the longest river in the world?
Volga
Antarctica is one of the driest __________ in the world?
Mt. Everest is on the border between what two countries?
Nepal & Tibet
One child policy
What is the term for the vast heartland of Australia?
The Outback
What percentage of the earth's surface is covered in water.
71%
What two continents meet in Turkey?
Europe and Asia
What is the name of the ethinic group of the largest tribe which is the Mbuti?
Pygmies
What geographic feature is at the edge of the interior plateau of South Africa?
Great Escarpment
What country is the headquarters for today's flower industry?
Netherlands
What sea lies west of Estonia?
Baltic Sea
What is the swampy, grassy land that covers most of northern Siberia?
Tundra
What was the name of Sir Ernest Shackletons ship that left England in 1914 to cross Antarctica overland by way of the South Pole?
The Endurance
This person and sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mt. Everest.
What Muslim group are the Chinese persecuting and putting into re-education centers?
What is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands?
Great Barrier Reef
What was the last country in the world that allowed women to drive?
Saudi Arabia
Lake Volta, the largest artificial resevior in the world contained by the Akosombo Dam provides a substantial amount of electricity to which country?
Ghana
Great Rift Valley
Outside what town did German soldiers and American prisoners observe Christmas Eve together?
Bastogne
Severa friends from Estonia developed the software for what internet calling platform in 2003?
Skype
How long does it take to travel the entire length of the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
About six days
What is the name of the ocean that is covered with ice?
The Arctic
Nepal lies between what two powerful countries?
India and China
What British colony was returned to the Chinese after 99 years?
Hong Kong
Britain used Australia for what between 1788 and 1850?
Penal Colony