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Geography 150303 is a selection of 10 questions. Geography 150303 is the filename to differentiate it from other Geography quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 In which English county is the port town of Penzance?
A Cornwall
2 Which large island has the name Terranova in Italian and
A Newfoundland (Canadian island off the east coast of the North American mainland)
3 Which county are you in if Yorkshire is to the north, Derbyshire
A Nottinghamshire
4 What is the name for the vast fertile South American lowlands?
A Pampas (you could fit three UKs in the area they cover)
5 What is the second largest lake in Cumbria’s Lake District?
A Ullswater
6 In which EU country is the Pindus Mountain range?
A Greece (northern Greece and southern Albania)
7 What is the capital city of the Syrian Arab Republic (Syria)?
A Damascus, it has a population of 25 million.
8 With an annual precipitation of only 200 mm along its coast, which desert is probably the coldest, driest, and windiest there is?
A Antarctica (for those reasons, it is considered a desert)
9 What is the name for a geographic region where low temperatures and short growing seasons hinder tree growth?
A Tundra (there are three types of tundra: arctic tundra, alpine tundra, and Antarctic tundra)
10 The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, was officially renamed what in 1929?
A Yugoslavia – The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a country in Central and Southeast Europe that existed until 1941. In 1946, Yugoslavia became the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), a federation of six republics. These republics were Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia.