June 2026 Geography Bee Quiz

Learn more about the Earth with the help of a GeoFact of the Day Geography Bee Quiz (↗) like this one! Think of this resource as free food for your mind. Whether you are preparing for a geography bee, wanting to impress folks at a trivia contest, or just yearning to learn, I hope you enjoy these morsels about the world. The answers to this quiz are listed below — enjoy and good luck!

1)      MONACO had an adult literacy rate of 99% in the year 2023. The relatively tiny but wealthy principality is east of Nice — a city in which country?
A — GERMANY
B — FRANCE
C — SPAIN

2)      Lake Mattamuskeet is only five miles away from the Atlantic Ocean. It is completely contained within Hyde County in which state in the UNITED STATES?
A — North Carolina
B — Pennsylvania
C — Vermont
D — Arkansas

3)      Jaco is a tiny, circular island east of Timor Island and Cape Cutcha. It is the easternmost point of TIMOR-LESTE (East Timor) and is about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) in length. Overnight stays are not allowed on the uninhabited island. What is the official reason why visitors are banned from staying overnight on Jaco?
A — vicious nocturnal crocodiles
B — the island is sacred
C — to let birds sleep peacefully
D — sneaky leopards like to prowl at night and scare visitors

4)      True or false: there are no time zones in the Arctic Circle.





















ANSWERS

Question 1:
B . . . . . France

Question 2:
A . . . . . North Carolina

Question 3:
B . . . . . the island is sacred

Question 4:
True

2020 Presidential Election Results — Alabama to California

Former Vice President Joseph Biden has been elected the next President of the United States starting on January 20th, 2021. According to the Associated Press (↗), Joe Biden received 81,281,888 votes (51.38%), while current President Donald Trump received 74,223,251 votes (46.91%). While the election occurred on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020, Joe Biden was officially announced the winner on November 7th. Delayed several hours by the notorious "mob" invasion on the U.S. Capitol building, every state's electoral votes were officially recited and announced through the evening and nighttime hours.

In the wee morning hours of January 7th, Joe Biden was officially announced the winner despite some Republican objections. Way too many Republican U.S. representatives — 139 to be exact — voted in favor of one or both objections to Biden's win in the states of Arizona and Pennsylvania. Due to the mob attack, some Republicans were planning to object earlier on January 6th but changed their mind and finally supported Biden's win. Returning back to the subject of this post, here are the 2020 Presidential Results from the states of Alabama to California in alphabetical order (more posts will follow in upcoming days):

Emerson and Waldo, Arkansas

You may know about Ralph Waldo Emerson, the famed poet and philosopher who began inspiring people in the 1800s with his words and wisdom. There are two towns in Columbia County in southern Arkansas that, together, seem to pay tribute to Emerson. Combining the names of these towns with the town of Ralph in Marion County, Arkansas results in the full name of the talented man!

However, the town and depot of Emerson is actually named in dedication to Reuben Logan Emerson, an early Columbia County pioneer who encouraged the incorporation of the town on Friday, March 10th, 1905. Some locals colloquially called the town Reuben instead of Emerson. Reuben Emerson pursued a variety of employment opportunities in his lifetime; he was a politician at the state level, banker, merchant, Columbia Banner newspaper owner, and teacher. Nowadays, some of the 368 people living in Emerson are employed with jobs in various sectors including agriculture, bromine, local banking and business, natural gas, petroleum, timber, etc. Since 1990, the people of Emerson and surrounding areas organize the Purple Hull Pea Festival. The annual June celebration honors the local cultivation of the purple hull pea crop and includes a cook-off competition for cornbread and peas, pea-shelling competition, Purple Hull Pea Farmer of the Year award, Walk for World “Peas” (Peace), and World Championship Rotary Tiller Race.

Home to 1,372 people in the year 2010, Waldo is like Emerson because it, too, was not named after Ralph Waldo Emerson (nor the Where’s Waldo guy). According to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas (↗), Waldo was named “after a railway officer in 1884” and was soon incorporated on August 13th, 1888. The town thrived with a railroad, timber industry, and various businesses before a catastrophic tornado — and later the Great Depression — pummeled the community in the 1930s. Beginning in 1938, the extraction of natural gas and petroleum from the Magnolia Oil Field helped the town recover. Since the beginning of Waldo’s existence, the local banking and timber industries still employ residents. In fact, one of the town’s National Register of Historic Places is the Bank of Waldo, established in 1899 — the other is a circa-1935 water tower.

While the Arkansan towns of Emerson and Waldo are not named after the revered Ralph Waldo Emerson, American society is commemorating his legacy in other ways: museum exhibits, reading his books and poems, statues, artwork, and even personal poems that are inspired by Mr. Emerson.

Arkansas 2020 Democrat Primary Results

Below are the results of the Arkansas, UNITED STATES Democrat Presidential Primary that took place on Super Tuesday: March 3rd, 2020. More Super Tuesday election boxes will be created in the next few days!

Arkansas Towns Named After Capitals and Countries

More than a couple dozen villages and towns in Arkansas (UNITED STATES) share the same names with countries and capital cities around the world. While not known as countries in the fully sovereign sense, England and Scotland are commonly known as countries nestled within the greater United Kingdom. Also, non-sovereign Palestine is recognized by 137 countries to be an official state as of December 2018. The table below lists every Arkansas town named after a country or capital city, followed by the county it is situated in. If a place is an incorporated community, the population count of that place is written in the third column. Logan, Mississippi, and Union counties each have two towns named after capital cities. Conway, Faulkner, Jefferson, and Van Buren counties each have one town named after a country and another town named after a capital city.

Capital Cities

Athens Berlin Damascus Dublin Havana Jerusalem Lisbon London (New) London Manila Moscow Paris Victoria*

Howard County Ashley County Faulkner and Van Buren counties Logan County Yell County Conway County Union County Pope County Union County Mississippi County Jefferson County Logan County Mississippi County

382 375 1,039 3,342 3,532 37

Close spelling: Tokio (Hempstead County)
* Victoria is the capital of the Seychelles islands, east of continental Africa.

Countries

Congo Denmark Egypt England Holland (Little) Italy Jordan Macedonia Palestine Saint Vincent* Scotland Slovak^ Sweden

Saline County Jackson and White counties Craighead County Lonoke County Faulkner County Perry and Pulaski counties Baxter County Columbia County Saint Francis County Conway County Van Buren County Prairie County Jefferson County

112 2,825 557 681

Close spelling: Soudan (Lee County)
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines — ^ Slovak Republic (Slovakia)

Did I leave one out? Your suggestion as a comment below would be greatly appreciated!