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Geography Quiz

October 10, 2004

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1. The island of Hawaii is the largest in the state. What is the second largest island?
Oahu
Maui
Kauai
Molokai

2. What ancient Greek philosopher used weather conditions to divide the world into three areas (torrid, frigid, and temperate) and believed people's personal traits, such as intelligence, were determined by which climatic area they lived in?

Parmenides
Anaximander
Xenophanes
Prodicus

3. What island, sometimes called the "Gibraltar of the East," divides the entrance to Manila Bay (in the Philippines) into North Channel and South Channel?

Camiguin
Jolo
Luzon
Corregidor

4. By what name do Finns call Finland?

Lappi
Flores
Suomi
Pello

5. Iran shares its border with how many other countries?

5
6
7
8

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