Geography Quiz
Week of April 13, 1998This weekly five-question geography trivia quiz offers no prizes, only a chance to test your geographical knowledge.
1. Which state is directly south of Iowa?
A. Illinois2. Which city is farthest south?
B. Nebraska
C. Kansas
D. Missouri
A. Monrovia, Liberia3. Which Chinese river will be damned soon in a major engineering project called the Three Gorges Dam?
B. Singapore
C. Bogota, Colombia
D. Mogadishu, Somalia
A. Yellow (Huang)4. Which borough of Greater London is the home of Buckingham Palace?
B. Xijiang
C. Yangtze
D. Ob
A. Westminster5. What is creep?
B. Greenwich
C. Croydon
D. Camden
A. The roots of plants breaking sidewalks and streets
B. A geographer who detests maps
C. Water easing into joints between rocks and subsequently freezing and cracking the rocks
D. A mass wasting process where soil flows slowly downhill
