Question 1

What is the principal mountain range in the eastern United States?

Accepted Answer

Appalachian Mountains

Question 2

What is the world's deepest lake?

Accepted Answer

Lake Baikal, Russia

Answer

Lake Vostok, Antarctica

Answer

Lake Tanganyika, Africa

Answer

Lake Malawi, Africa

Question 3

Into what sea does the Volga River flow?

Accepted Answer

Caspian Sea

Answer

Mediterranean Sea

Answer

Red Sea

Answer

South China Sea

Question 4

What desert plant is native to the Western Hemisphere?

Accepted Answer

cactus

Question 5

The George Washington Bridge crosses what river to New York City?

Accepted Answer

Hudson River

Question 6

What is the term used for the beginning points of a river system?

Accepted Answer

headwaters

Question 7

What range of mountains in northern Africa runs from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic?

Accepted Answer

Atlas Mountains

Question 8

The Aswan Dam spans what great river?

Accepted Answer

Nile

Question 9

What powerful hydroelectric plant is located on the Parana River between Brazil and Paraguay?

Accepted Answer

Itaipu Dam

Answer

Bhakra dam

Answer

Hoover Dam

Answer

Tehri Dam

Question 10

In which direction does the Nile River flow?

Accepted Answer

north

Answer

south

Answer

west

Answer

east

Question 11

What is the principal river that runs through Arizona?

Accepted Answer

Colorado River

Answer

Gila River

Answer

Blue River

Answer

San Francisco River

Question 12

What mountains divide Spain and France?

Accepted Answer

Pyrenees

Answer

Dolomites

Answer

Alps

Answer

Jura Mountains

Question 13

What river runs through the middle of Paris?

Accepted Answer

Seine

Answer

Rhône

Answer

Loire

Answer

Rhine

Question 14

Which mountains separate Italy from France, Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia?

Accepted Answer

Alps

Question 15

What is the only active volcano on the European mainland?

Accepted Answer

Mt. Vesuvius

Answer

Mount Etna

Answer

Eyjafjallajökull

Answer

Hekla

Question 16

Which mountain range divides Europe from Asia?

Accepted Answer

Urals

Question 17

What is the largest high-altitude lake in North America?

Accepted Answer

Yellowstone Lake

Question 18

In what country is the Chihuahuan Desert located?

Accepted Answer

Mexico

Answer

Africa

Answer

Brazil

Answer

United States of America

Question 19

Which mountain range is the longest in the world?

Accepted Answer

Andes Mountain Range

Answer

Rocky Mountains

Answer

Appalachian Mountains

Answer

Blue Ridge Mountains

Question 20

What river forms part of the border between France and Germany?

Accepted Answer

Rhine River

Question 21

What desert in eastern Asia is one of the coldest deserts?

Accepted Answer

Gobi Desert

Question 22

Which mountains are the world's highest mountains?

Accepted Answer

Himalayas

Answer

Alps

Answer

Makalu

Answer

Rocky Mountains

Question 23

Which desert covers most of northern Africa?

Accepted Answer

Sahara Desert

Question 24

Which is the most mountainous continent?

Accepted Answer

Asia

Answer

North America

Answer

South America

Answer

Europe

Question 25

What is the world's lowest lake?

Accepted Answer

Dead Sea

Answer

Lake Superior

Answer

Lake Erie

Answer

Lake Huron

Question 26

What is the world's highest mountain?

Accepted Answer

Mt. Everest

Answer

Mt. Washington

Answer

Mt. Rainer

Answer

Mt. Vesuvius

Question 27

What South American desert is one of the driest places in the world?

Accepted Answer

Atacama Desert

Question 28

Which European country is separated from its neighboring countries by mountain ranges?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Answer

Ireland

Answer

Germany

Answer

France

Question 29

What kind of fish could you see swimming upstream to lay its eggs in the Columbia River in Oregon?

Accepted Answer

salmon

Question 30

Which continent has the most lakes?

Accepted Answer

North America

Answer

Asia

Answer

South America

Answer

Europe

Question 31

What river was the center of ancient Egyptian civilization?

Accepted Answer

Nile

Question 32

One what ocean did the famous "Mutiny on the Bounty" take place?

Accepted Answer

Pacific Ocean

Answer

Atlantic Ocean

Answer

Arctic Ocean

Answer

Indian Ocean

Question 33

What is the name of the wild sheep of North America that live in the Rocky Mountains?

Accepted Answer

bighorns

Question 34

What rodent plants most of the coniferous trees that root in the Rocky Mountains?

Accepted Answer

Red Squirrel

Question 35

What is North America's only aquatic songbird?

Accepted Answer

American Dipper

Question 36

Ships ferried over a million men across what body of water on D-Day, June 6, 1944?

Accepted Answer

English Channel

Question 37

At what time of day do most desert animals come out?

Accepted Answer

night

Answer

noon

Answer

evening

Answer

morning

Question 38

Which mountain range has the most extensive deciduous forests in the world?

Accepted Answer

Appalachian Mountains

Answer

Rocky Mountains

Answer

Andes Mountains

Answer

Alps

Question 39

What formed many of the lakes located high in the Rocky Mountains?

Accepted Answer

glaciers

Question 40

What has the Missouri River been nicknamed because of silt deposits?

Accepted Answer

Big Muddy

Question 41

Which mountains are called "the backbone of North America"?

Accepted Answer

Rocky Mountains

Question 42

What European country has the most lakes?

Accepted Answer

Finland

Answer

Ireland

Answer

France

Answer

England

Question 43

In which lake is there an island that is said to be the cradle of Inca civilization?

Accepted Answer

Lake Titicaca

Answer

Lake Poopó

Answer

Lake Maracaibo

Answer

General Carrera Lake

Question 44

In what sea is the Isle of Elba, where Napoleon was confined

Accepted Answer

Mediterranean

Question 45

Robert Fulton ad Robert Livingstone organized the first steamboat company on what American river?

Accepted Answer

Mississippi

Answer

Colorado

Answer

Hudson

Answer

Rio Grande

Question 46

What is the largest lake in South America?

Accepted Answer

Lake Maracaibo

Answer

Cami Lake

Answer

Lake Titicaca

Answer

Viedma Lake

Question 47

What is the largest river system in the world?

Accepted Answer

Amazon River

Answer

Yellow River

Answer

Nile River

Answer

Yangtze River

Question 48

What river forms part of the border between Mexico and the United States?

Accepted Answer

Rio Grande

Question 49

All rivers on the east of the Great Divide eventually flow into what ocean?

Accepted Answer

Atlantic Ocean

Answer

Arctic Ocean

Answer

Pacific Ocean

Answer

Indian Ocean

Question 50

What trees in the Great Basin Desert have lived longer than any other trees in the world?

Accepted Answer

Bristlecone Pines

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