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Geography Quiz

Week of December 15, 1997

This weekly five-question geography trivia quiz offers no prizes, only a chance to test your geographical knowledge.

1. Where is the Magnetic North Pole?

A. The Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean
B. Baffin Island in Canada
C. The Queen Elizabeth Islands in Canada
D. Northern Greenland
2. Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency show flood zones for which probabilities?

A. 25 and 50 year floods
B. 50 and 100 year floods
C. 100 and 250 year floods
D. 100 and 500 year floods
3. What is special about stereoscopic images?

A. Blue represents healthy vegetation
B. They allow viewing of an image in 3-D
C. They show electronic manufacturing plants
D. They have UTM grid lines printed on the image
4. Moosehead Lake is the largest in which state?

A. Maine
B. Montana
C. Minnesota
D. Missouri
5. What is the capital of Slovakia?

A. Presov
B. Bratislavia
C. Nitra
D. Kosice

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