The Mediterranean
Name 5 countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
Greece 🇬🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, Spain 🇪🇸, Egypt 🇪🇬, Turkey 🇹🇷
How many stars and how many stripes are on the United States Flag?
50 Stars
13 Stripes
Name the 3 regions of the Caribbean
Lucayan (Bahamian), Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles
Name the State Slogan OR the Nickname for Illinois
State Slogan: Land of Lincoln
Nickname: “The Prairie State”
The Missouri River is the longest river in North America. What is the 2nd longest river in North America?
The Mississippi River
What important Sea does the Bosporus Strait connect to the Mediterranean Sea?
The Mediterranean to the Black Sea
Names 3 European Countries that have just HORIZONTAL stripes in their flags.
Germany 🇩🇪
Russia 🇷🇺
Bulgaria 🇧🇬
Lithuania 🇱🇹
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Austria 🇦🇹
Armenia 🇦🇲
Estonia 🇪🇪
What is the Capital City of Jamaica?
Kingston
This license plate features a Rainbow 🌈 and is nicknamed “The Aloha State”
And its Capital….
Hawaii
Honolulu
Name the 6 Countries that the Amazon River flows through.
South America: Peru (source), Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil (mouth).
The narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates the Iberian Peninsula in Europe from Morocco in Africa.
Strait of Gibraltar
What 2 ASIAN countries have a flag with a RED background and a yellow star (s)?
Vietnam 🇻🇳
China 🇨🇳
Located in the Lucayan Archipelago, also known as the Bahamian, what is the Capital of the Bahamas? 🇧🇸.
Nassau
On its license plate is its State Slogan “The Lone Star State”
and its Capital…
Texas
Austin
What is the longest river in Europe?
Bonus: what country does it originate and what Sea does it flow into?
Volga River
Russia and flows into the Caspian Sea
Name the African countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
Egypt 🇪🇬, Morocco 🇲🇦, Algeria 🇩🇿, Libya 🇱🇾, Tunisia 🇹🇳
Red and white….name 6 countries flags that are just RED and WHITE
Canada 🇨🇦
Poland 🇵🇱
Austria 🇦🇹
Denmark 🇩🇰
Turkey 🇹🇷
Switzerland 🇨🇭
Only 2% of the Caribbean is actually inhabited. How many islands, reefs, and islets are located within the Caribbean?
Situated largely on the Caribbean Plate, the region has more than 700 islands, islets, and reefs.
Known as “The Empire State”- the states license plate is blue and yellow.
New York
What is the longest river in the world and where does it flow into?
The Nile-
Starts in mid Africa and flows into the Mediterranean
Name 4 (smaller) Seas within the Mediterranean?
The Ligurian Sea (between Corsica and Italy)
The Tyrrhenian Sea (enclosed by Sardinia, Corsica, Italian peninsula and Sicily.)
The Ionian Sea (between Italy, Albania and Greece.)
The Adriatic Sea (between Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania.)
The Aegean Sea
What COLOR is not on ANY National Flag? (And why?…..just a bonus question!)
PURPLE!
Until the mid-1800's purple dye was extremely expensive and hard to produce. By the time it got more accessible, most countries already had national flags and felt no need to change them.
The Caribbean, once known as “The West Indies”, has 2 countries known As the region of “Hispaniola”. What are those 2 Countries?
Haiti and Dominican Republic
New York and Massachusetts were the first states to require license plates- in 1901 and 1903.
In 1957 the United States standardized the size of license plates.
What 2 groups got together to make this happen?
1957
Automobile manufacturers got together with the government to make rules regarding the sizing standards of license plates (6 inches x 12 inches).
Name the longest rivers in each of the following Continents:
Asia
Africa
South America
North America
Europe
North America: Missouri River
South America: Amazon River
Europe: Volga River
Asia: Yangtze River
Africa: Nile River