Geography
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100

This country borders three oceans.

What is the United States of America?

100

This constitutional monarchy made it illegal to die in the parliament building. (allegedly)

What is the United Kingdom?

100

This defines spatial relationships between adjacent and neighboring features.

What is topology?

100

This agency, under Part 107, has regulations governing small UAS operations.

What is the FAA?

100

This is the fastest marine animal.

What is the sailfish?

200

This phenomenon refers to the movement of the Earth's surface, often causing earthquakes and volcanic activity.

What is plate tectonics?

200

This country invented karaoke and emoji.

What is Japan?

200

This technique reduces the dimensionality of geospatial datasets for faster processing.

What is generalization?

200

This document must be carried or accessible to show proof of certification while operating a drone.

What is a Remote Pilot Certificate?

200

This is the only planet to spin clockwise.

What is Venus?

300

This is the largest desert on Earth.

What is the Antarctic Polar Desert?

300

This country has more sheep than people.

(about 5:1)

What is New Zealand?

300

This vector overlay operation creates new polygons from two input polygon layers.

What is an intersection?

300

This is the maximum legal elevation for most drone operations in uncontrolled airspace without special authorization.

What is 400' above ground level (AGL)?

300

This organizational tool, commonly used in an office, was created while trying to make a strong adhesive.

What are Post-It Notes?

400

This mountain range, whose name means "white mountains" in Arabic, runs across northern Algeria.

What are the Atlas Mountains?

400

This country developed the first operational GIS.

What is Canada?

400

This technology is commonly used to map interior locations, such as a room.

What is LiDAR?

400

These are required for night operations and visible from three statute miles.

What are anti-collision lights?

400

The octopus has three of this organ in its body.

What are hearts?

500

This country is entirely surrounded by Italy and claims to have been founded in the year 301.

What is the Republic of San Marino?

500

This country requires taxi drivers to carry snake repellent in case of occasional cobra encounters.

What is India?

500

This process predicts values at unsampled locations based on known values of surrounding sample points.

What is spatial interpolation (Kriging)?

500

This technology allows multiple drones to fly in coordinated formations.

What is swarm technology?

500

Hippopotomonstrosesqippedaliophobia.

What is the fear of long words?