Here are some questions from this week’s quiz, in celebration of Geography Awareness Week. I’m not sure I’d have got any of these right myself…
1. What percentage of the earth’s population live in the northern hemisphere?
A) 90%
B) 70%
C) 50%
Sam Butera & The Witnesses - Equator
2. What is the world’s largest desert?
A) Sahara
B) Kalahari
C) Antarctica
Johnny Barfield - Desert Lullaby
3. Which superhero is also the name of a city in Turkey?
A) Batman
B) Ironman
C) Antman
4. How many islands are there in the Philippines?
A) 76
B) 764
C) 7641
5. The city with the longest name is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit. But we call it...?
A) Bangkok
B) Shanghai
C) Beijing
Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok
6. By contrast, there is a village in France called…
A) X
B) Y
C) Z
7. How many countries are there in the world today?
A) 195
B) 295
C) 395
Morrissey - The World Is Full of Crashing Bores
There was also a question about what the following three cities have in common… New York, Mumbai, Istanbul. But I’ll give you the answer to that one… as I might have done to one of the questions above, being unable to resist an obvious tune.
3 and 5 are both A. 7 is also A according to the UN but there are other definitions for which the answer would be "D. None of the above". Not sure about the others,
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