Test your geography knowledge

Here are 10 questions from the National Geographic Bee:

1. A glacier-capped peak near the Equator in East Africa shares its name with the country that is known for its game parks and coffee production. Name this mountain.

a. Mount Elgon

b. Mount Kenya

c. Cherangany Hills

2. Chennai, the city in eastern India formerly known as Madras, is a port on which large bay?

a. Sonmiani Bay

b. Bay of Bengal

c. Gwatar Bay

3. Which Colombian city lies on a plateau just west of the Llanos plains, a grassland region that stretches through eastern Colombia and western Venezuela?

a. Bogota

b. Cali

c. Barranquilla

4. The Bohemian Woods, a region that borders Germany, is a popular tourist destination in which European country?

a. Austria

b. Slovakia

c. Czech Republic

5. Arabs from Africa named a large rock Gibraltar as they landed on what large European peninsula?

a. Italy

b. Iberian Peninsula

c. Denmark

6. Cashews are an important export crop for Tanzania and which neighboring country to the north?

a. Ethiopia

b. Somalia

c. Kenya

7. Name the body of water that separates the Korean Peninsula from mainland China.

a. Korea Strait

b. Sea of Japan

c. Yellow Sea

8. Brazil’s second most populous city is divided by mountains into two zones. Name this city.

a. Rio de Janeiro

b. Salvador

c. Brasilia

9. Which landlocked European country includes the Polotsk Lowland in the north and the Dnieper Lowland in the south?

a. Austria

b. Belarus

c. Switzerland

10. Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa and San Miguel are islands within an archipelago that is also a U.S. national park. Name this national park.

a. Queen Charlotte Islands

b. Belcher Islands

c. Channel Islands

Answers to the geography questions :

1, b; 2, b; 3, a; 4, c; 5, b; 6, c; 7, c; 8, a; 9, b; 10, c