National Geographic Bee Quiz — February 20th, 2018

GeoFact of the Day's GeoBee Quiz posts are essentially archived and therefore always available (↗), even if National Geographic removed questions from the website. Some questions may be fairly easy, especially for adults — but you never know when you'll encounter a toughie! Try this latest geography quiz; correctly answering at least seven out of ten questions means you surely are a geography whiz! Many more quiz questions are found on the National Geographic Geo Bee Quiz (↗) website.

1)      Which body of water is partially surrounded by the state of Maryland in the UNITED STATES?
A — Chesapeake Bay
B — Pamlico Sound
C — Atlantic Ocean

2)      The Mayflower and Titanic are two famous ships that began their transatlantic journeys at what British port city?
A — Southampton
B — Portsmouth
C — Plymouth

3)      Which of these provincial capitals in CANADA sit in a major oil- and natural gas-producing region?
A — Victoria
B — Halifax
C — Edmonton

4)      Freeborn boys wore togas with a purple border in which ancient Mediterranean civilization?
A — Roman
B — Ottoman
C — Egyptian
D — Mycenaean

5)      What city — once the capital of imperial RUSSIA — is the easternmost port on the Gulf of Finland?
A — Helsinki
B — Tallinn
C — Riga
D — Saint Petersburg

6)      Analogy: Mandarin is to Chinese as Castilian is to _____________.
A — French
B — Spanish
C — English

7)      Name the Highlands in northern South America vastly extending across land between the Orinoco and Amazon river basins.
A — Patagonian Highlands
B — Guiana Highlands
C — Brazilian Highlands

8)      The circumference of (distance around) Earth is commonly measured at which parallel of latitude?
A — Tropic of Cancer or 23½ degrees N latitude
B — Prime Meridian or 0 degrees longitude
C — Equator or 0 degrees latitude

9)      Berbers and what other Muslim group of people make up most of the population in ALGERIA, LIBYA, and MOROCCO?
A — Tuareg
B — Arabs
C — Fulani

10)      Large reserves of phosphates are found in which North African country bordering both the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea?
A — TUNISIA
B — ERITREA
C — MOROCCO

















ANSWERS

Question 1:
A . . . . . Chesapeake Bay

Question 2:
A . . . . . Southampton

Question 3:
C . . . . . Edmonton

Question 4:
A . . . . . Roman

Question 5:
D . . . . . Saint Petersburg

Question 6:
B . . . . . Spanish

Question 7:
B . . . . . Guiana Highlands

Question 8:
C . . . . . Equator or 0 degrees latitude

Question 9:
B . . . . . Arabs

Question 10:
C . . . . . Morocco