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Geography Trivia Questions for Kids
- What is the tallest mountain in the world? Answer: Mount Everest
- What is the longest river in the world? Answer: The Nile
- Which country is home to the Eiffel Tower? Answer: France
- Which is the biggest country in the world? Answer: Russia
- What are the names of the five oceans? Answer: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern
- Which planet is closest to the Earth? Answer: Venus
- The United States consists of how many states? Answer: 50
- Where is the coldest place on Earth? Answer: Antarctica
- What’s the capital city of Canada? Answer: Ottawa
- What do you call a chain of mountains? Answer: A range
- What is the capital of England? Answer: London
- Where would you find the Statue of Liberty? Answer: New York
- What is the official language of Australia? Answer: English language
- What is the capital city of the American state of Arizona? Answer: Phoenix
- Name the latitude that runs through the centre of the Earth. Answer: Equator
- What’s the largest island in the world? Answer: Greenland
- What heats the water in a natural hot spring? Answer: Magma
- Where is the Leaning Tower of Pisa? Answer: Italy
Geography Trivia Questions for Teenagers
- What is the capital of Denmark? Answer: Copenhagen
- What is the name of the biggest desert in the world? Answer: Sahara Desert
- Which river flows through the rainforest in Brazil? Answer: The Amazon
- What is the name of the supercontinent that existed 200 million years ago? Answer: Pangea
- Which country has the largest population in the world? Answer: China
- Which city is the Golden Gate Bridge located in? Answer: San Francisco
- Name the second tallest mountain in the world? Answer: K2
- What’s the name of the longest river in the US? Answer: Missouri River
- Which two states don’t share a border with any other US state? Answer: Hawaii and Alaska
- Which direction do latitude lines run on a globe? Answer: Left to right
- Mount Fuji is the highest point located in which country? Answer: Japan
- Which country has the most volcanoes? Answer: Indonesia
- Name the largest waterfall in the world. Answer: Victoria Falls
- Which large river flows through London? Answer: The Thames
- Off of which coast do you find the Great Barrier Reef? Answer: Queensland
- Which river forms part of the boundary between Mexico and the United States? Answer: Rio Grande
- What do you call smaller rivers that flow into another river? Answer: Tributaries
- Which US state has the fewest counties? Answer: Delaware
Questions for Adults
- Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata are major cities in which country?
Answer: India - How many time zones does Russia have? Answer: 11
- Which are the seven continents in the world from largest in area to smallest? Answer: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia
- Name the three deserts on the continent of Africa. Answer: The Sahara, the Namib and the Kalahari
- What do you call land with water on three sides? Answer: Peninsula
- Ljubljana is the capital of which country? Answer: Slovenia
- Which country has the abbreviation “CH”? Answer: Switzerland
- Name the U.S. state that’s home to no documented poisonous snakes. Answer: Alaska
- Which country are the Great Pyramids of Giza located in? Answer: Egypt
- Name the smallest country in the world. Answer: The Vatican City
- What’s the name of the tallest mountain in Canada? Answer: Mount Logan
- Where is the world’s largest airport located? Answer: Saudi Arabia (King Fahd International Airport in Dammam)
- In what ocean is the Bermuda Triangle located? Answer: Atlantic Ocean
- What is the name of the deepest point in Earth’s oceans? Answer: Mariana’s Trench
- Name the river that flows through the Grand Canyon. Answer: Colorado River
- The ‘Roof’ of the world is referred to which place? Answer: Pamir Knot
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