The Ultimate Geography Test......How smart are you???

1. What country is bordered by China, Laos, and Cambodia?
2. What future Soviet republic produced one-half of the world's oil in 1901?
3. What city do 95 percent of the World Bank's employees punch their clocks in?
4. What nation has 1,000 permanent inhabitants and produces no export goods?
5. What Texas town almost changed its name when a 1955 Vladimir Nabokov novel shocked folks?
6. What city boasts the most U.S. Historical Places?
7. What yuletide plant do Mexicans call "the flower of the blessed light" because it resembles the Star of Bethlehem?
8. What city dimmed its lights for 10 minutes after Dean Martin died?
9. What Southeast Asian city did the U.S. open an embassy in, in 1995?
10. What tiny nation's citizens are called Monegasques?
11. What large, smoggy city is built on the site of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan?
12. What Great Plains state are you stuck in if you're out of gas in Gas?
13. What city gave the world Alice in Chains, Nirvana and Pearl Jam?
14. What people of New Zealand employ "mooning" as the traditional form of insult?
15. What do Americans call the Huang Ho, China's second-longest river?
16. How many residents populated Valley Park, Oklahoma, in 1990, when it was the smallest incorporated place in the U.S.?
17. What Beverly Hills street is often likened to New York City's Fifth Avenue?
18. What's the main mode of transport for the nomads who make up half of Somalia's population?
19. What's the only state whose official state song was composed for a Broadway musical?
20. What Scandinavian country is Europe's top oil producer?
21. What U.S. state is said to have as many cows as people?
22. What country went metric to join the European Community, but kept the pint for use in pubs and for milk?
23. What's the only U.S. state to share a border with one of Canada's Maritime Provinces?
24. What two U.S. states went to court in 1996 over ownership of the historic Ellis Island?
25. What's the most populous city in Europe?
26. What's the southernmost nation on the Balkan Peninsula?
27. What airline manufacturer pays salaries for the largest number of Seattle's citizens?
28. What U.S. state's citizens are least likely to be cremated?
29. What country boasts the largest number of Catholics?
30. What date is expressed in Europe as 2/6/96?
31. What Great Lake state has more shoreline than the entire U.S. Atlantic seaboard?
32. What geographical wonder do Venezuelans call Salto Angel?
33. What's the only remaining European territory on the South American continent?
34. What country has been sparring for years with Ecuador about their Amazon Valley border?
35. What Mississippi town name provides the answer to the Arizona town of Why?
*36. What part of a whale do you get if you point to muktuk* on an Eskimo menu?**
37. What republic is sandwiched between Lithuania and Estonia?
38. What state boasts all or part of the ten largest American Indian reservations?
39. What was the only country still building steam locomotives in 1990?
40. What mountain's slopes was the Delphic Oracle found on?
41. What entertainment company secretly purchased 27,500 acres of central Florida farmland by the late 1960s?
42. What was the world's highest man-made structure for 4,000 yars before being passed by the central tower of the Lincoln Cathedral?
43. How many months per year do residents of Trosmo, Norway go without seeing a sunset?
44. What nation boasts the towns Southend-on-Sea, Stoke-on-Trent and Barrow-in-Furness?
*45. What paper products in the Ivory Coast are named after TV shows Santa Barbara* and Dallas?**
46. What Central American country has its capital in Tegucigalpa?
47. What mountains do the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Indus rivers begin in?
48. What ocean does the Amazon River empty into?
49. What three U.S. states have the most electoral votes in presidential elections?
50. What spot once registered 134 degrees, the highest temperature ever in the U.S.?
51. What Arizona city was so named because it rose from the ruins of a Native American town?
52. What energy source provides three-quarters of France's electric power?
53. What's the only South American country that has both a Pacific and a Caribbean coast?
54. What sea is bordered by 21 countries with a total population of 360 million?
55. What academy is sometimes dubbed "Canoe U."?
56. What continent has shores on the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans?
*57. What name comes from the Polynesian Owhyhii, meaning "place of the gods"?*
58. What Asian country leads the world in average life expectancy?
*59. What city do Saudis call Makkah?*
*60. What Asian country's women's magazine Non Non* is its bestseller?**
61. What country has the lowest percentage of land devoted to farming--Canada, Ireland or Japan?
62. What Nebraska city outlawed burping in churches?
63. What's Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services better known as?
64. What direction would your ship travel in the Panama Canal, going from the Atlantic to the Pacific--west, southwest or southeast?
65. What city is home to the busiest stock exchange?
66. What church contains the graves of Newton, Chaucer and Handel?
67. What eastern European country's name is a Slavonic word meaning "plain dwellers"?
68. What Southwestern state are you standing in if you ring a doorbell in Ding Dong?
69. What U.S. state has the highest percentage of residents born in other countries?
70. What's the world's largest desert, as determind by the least precipitation?
71. What European country's most common last name is De Vries?
72. What U.S. state are you stuck in if you've been tied up in Lariat or Ropesville?
73. What Texas city along Route 66 got its name from the Spanish word for yellow?
74. What U.S. state's public golf courses have the highest average green fees?
75. What's the 16th windiest city in the U.S.?
76. What interstate highway connects Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, to San Francisco?
77. What northern Egyptian city was named for the Macedonian who founded it?
78. What Manhattan theater did architecture critic Paul Goldberger dub "Art Deco's true shrine"?
79. What's the Greek name for hell?
80. What country is bordered by the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf?
81. What new country considered German, French and Greek as official languages, before settling on English?
82. What four-letter word for "chief" and "head" do Italians use to describer a Mafia leader?
83. What continent are you on if you're lost in the eastern tip of Egypt?
84. What Central American country's name translates as "the savior"?
85. What U.S. state has an official commonwealth folk song written by resident Arlo Guthrie?
86. What percentage of New Jersey's population lives in metropolitan areas?
*87. What do residents of Bunyol, Spain throw at each other during the La Tomatina* festival?**
88. What word for "peace" do Muslim Arabs and Jews share?
89. What Frenchman designed the national flag of Italy?
90. What Mississippi River city gave the world Chuck Berry and T.S. Elliot?
*91. What country calls its expressways autostrada?*
92. What's the windiest continent?
93. What's the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina?
94. What government depository in Kentucky has doors weighing 20 tons each?
95. What tourist state leads the U.S. in booze consumption per capita?
96. What term comes from the Sicilian dialect word for "boldness" and "swagger"?
97. What qualifies as the westernmost and easternmost U.S. state?
98. What's the easternmost Canadian province?
99. What U.S. state was once called West New Jersey?
100. What was the first country in the world to introduce an income tax, in 1789?

The Geography Test