The Earth from Space
To what country was Columbus heading?
Bonus 100 points: What's the only state in the lower 48 states that doesn't observe daylight saving time?
What is India?
Bonus: What is Arizona?
The first person to survey the height of Mount Everest added an extra ___________ feet because 29,000 exactly seemed suspicious.
What is 2 feet?
Maps are older than written language. TRUE or FALSE
What is True?
The world's largest living structure is twelve hundred miles long off the coast of Australia, and is even visible from space. What's it called?
What is The Great Barrier Reef?
Monaco is smaller than what NYC landmark?
What is Central Park?
What city was the first to ever have a population top seven digits?
What is Rome?
What's the only state with a one-syllable name?
What is Maine?
Until recently, what country's flag was just a solid green rectangle?
Where is Libya?
"Geography" come from ____________ meaning a "description of the Earth."
What is Greek?
If you scale all Seven Summits and reach the North and South Poles, you have completed the ____________ __________ Slam.
What is the Explorers Grand Slam?
One of Adolf Hitler's globes has a ___________ hole through Germany, made by a ticked-off Russian soldier at the end of World War II.
What is bullet?
What is the world's biggest lake?
What is the Caspian Sea?
What two letters are not present in world countries?
What are W & X?
Damascus, the capital of Syria, has probably been continuously inhabited for more than _________________ years!
Must be within 1,000 years.
What is 9,000 years?
How many stripes does the U.S. flag have?
What is 13?
What is the oldest surviving globe called?
What is the earth apple?
"Longitude" lines travel from the North to the South Poles - a really "__________" way.
"Latitude" lines travel from side to side, like the rungs of a "___________."
What is "long" and "ladder?"
Mount Chimborazo is located in what South American country?
Where is Ecuador?
Superman's city of Metropolis is based on a map of ______________.
Where is New York City?
What is the name of the deadly snake that inhabits Ilha De Queimada Grande, Brazil?
What is the Golden Lancehead Viper?
What is the Japanese name for their country?
What is Nippon?
The population of Tokyo, Japan is about the same population as what U.S. state?
What is California?
What state is home to the easternmost and the westernmost point in the United States?
What is Alaska?
What is the name of the longitudinal imaginary line that passes through Greenwich, England?
What is the prime meridian?
What is the size of the Earth in miles?
Must be within 2,000 miles.
Bonus 200 points if you know the exact size.
What is 24,902 miles?
About how deep is the Mariana Trench?
Must be within 2,000 feet.
What is 36,000 feet?
Maps were instrumental in helping the Allied troops win at Normandy on D-Day in this war.
What is World War II?
What was Panthalassa?
What is the only country whose flag looks different on the back?
Where is Paraguay?
What is the world's largest office building?
What is the Pentagon?
Halfway, Oregon changed its name to ___________, Oregon at the height of the Internet boom in 1999.
What is Half.com?
Lebanon, Kansas, is geographically special, why?
What is it is the center of the connecting United States?
What is the name of the unscientific organization that does not believe that the Earth is round?
What is the Flat Earth Society?
What Disney princess jumps from a waterfall despite the fact that no waterfalls are present on Virginia's coastal plain?
Who is Pocahontas?
What U.S. state did Europeans believe was an island until 1770?
What is California?
The first image of a live giant squid wasn't taken by scientists until what year?
Must be within 2 years. Hint: it is within the last 20 years.
What is 2004?
What country is the world's only capital city, without a single traffic light, Thimphu, located in?
Where is Bhutan?
What Norse explorer named Greenland?
His full title must be given.
Who was Erik the Red?
What is New Jersey?
The world's sixty tallest volcanoes are all in what mountain range?
What are the Andes?
John Harrison, solver of the longitude problem faced by sailors, was a ________________.
What is clock maker?
The hottest temperature ever recorded was in Death Valley, California. It was _____________ degrees fahrenheit.
What is 134 degrees?
What African country is Greenland smaller than?
Where is Algeria?
What is the world's smallest island nation?
What is Nauru?
What nation's national anthem was originally written in blood?
What is Algeria?
What city in Thailand is the world's longest-named in the country's native language?
What is Bangkok?
Missouri is known as The _____________ State.
What is The Show-Me State?
What has disastrously happened to the Aral Sea in the last fifty years?
What is it has shrunk?
What is the first nation on Earth to celebrate the New Year every year?
What is Kiribati?
How long did it take a team to scale Mount Thor in Canada in 1985?
Must be within 5 days.
What is 33 days?
What is the fear of maps called?
What is cartophobia?
The Southern Ocean was not "created" until what year?
Must be within 2 years. Hint: it is within the last 30 years.
What is 2000?
Belize used to be know as ________ _________.
What is British Honduras?
Provide ONE of the two reasons that The Great Wall of China cannot be viewed from space.
Bonus 400 points: Provide both reasons.
What is it's too narrow & it's the same color as the ground around it?
Pennsylvania is known as The ______________ State.
Bonus 400 points: Can you tell me why?
What is the Keystone State?
Bonus: Because it was central to the originally 13 colonies, acting as the center wedge-shaped stone at the top of an arch that locks all the other stones in place and lets the structure hold weight.
Shinjuku, in Tokyo, is by far the world's busiest what?
What is train station?
An inch to the left (or West) of the ___________ __________ __________ (in the Pacific) it is 6 AM Tuesday, an inch to the right (or East) it is 7 AM Monday.
What is International Date Line?
The world's wettest spot, Mawsynram, India, records this amount of rain per year?
Must be within 5 feet.
What is 80 feet?
The first map to use the name America was in what year?
Must be within 20 years.
What is 1507?
China's Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is the world's longest at __________ miles long.
Must be within 3 miles.
What is 25.8 miles long?
What is the world's oldest surviving republic?
Bonus 450 points: Give the full name.
What is the Most Serene Republic of San Marino?
What shade of white paint is used for the White House?
What is Whisper White?
How many people lived per square mile in the U.S. in 1790?
Must be within 1 person.
What is 4.5 people?
The deepest part of the ocean floor is called what?
What is Challenger Deep?
China goes by one time zone despite being larger than the U.S. What is it called?
What is Beijing Time?
What super volcano is technically bigger than Mount Everest, and located in Hawaii?
Where is Mauna Kea?
A lost mountain jungle was discovered in this African country by "armchair archaeologists."
Where is Mozambique?
How many square miles does the Pacific Ocean cover?
Must be within 5 million miles. Hint: it is under 100 million miles.
What is 70 million square miles?
Name ONE of the two countries that is "doubly landlocked."
Bonus 500 points: Name the other.
What is Liechtenstein & Uzbekistan?
The Washington Monument became the tallest building in what year?
Must be within 10 years.
What is 1884?
What is the name of the accidental island created of Kentucky, that is surrounded on all sides by Missouri and Tennessee?
What is Bubbleland?
The seafloor spreads apart at the _____________ ridge.
What is Mid-Ocean Ridge?
The death of what British admiral and his fleet led to a prize to solve the problem of longitude?
Who is Sir Cloudesley Shovell?
If the amount of precipitation is less than ___________ inches a year, scientists define the place as a desert. Antarctica being the largest desert in the world.
What is 10 inches?
What is the name of a nonexistent town in the Catskill Mountains that was added as a copyright trap by mapmakers?
Where isn't Agloe?
If a 2007 finding holds, the Amazon River is actually __________ miles longer than the Nile.
Must be within 10 miles.
Bonus 500 points if you can give the exact distance.
What is 93 miles longer?
Of the 17 countries that only have ONE border with a neighbor, which starts with the letter T?
Where is Timor-Leste?
What do you call someone from Buenos Aires, Argentina?
What is a Porteño?
The population of the U.S. was equivalent to the population of the U.K. today, in what year?
Must be within 10 years.
What is 1890?
Brazil's capital city, Brasilia, was designed to look like what on a map?
What is an airplane?