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Daily Geography Quiz |
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| Help your students—or family members, colleagues, even yourself—understand the link between geography and migration (the 2005-06 theme of Geography Action!) with this daily quiz.
Check here each day (Monday-Friday) this week and try your hand at five new questions, drawn from the 2005 National Geographic Bee, which has already taken place. (Learn more about the Bee.)
Good luck and get started!
Questions for Monday, November 14
1. Which state is known as the Badger State because its early lead miners who lived in caves were called “badgers”—New York or Wisconsin?
2. The most densely populated region of Russia is centered around a city that has been the seat of the Russian Orthodox Church for 700 years. Name this city.
3. North Carolina’s most populous city is an important financial center. Name this city.
4. Between the 1850s and the 1930s, millions of European immigrants settled in the Pampas grassland region in which country?
5. In January 2005, hundreds of villagers were displaced by tribal clashes over land and water access near Naivasha, in an African country northeast of Tanzania. Name this country.
See answers to today's questions.
Questions for Tuesday, November 15
1. Which state is known as the Sooner State because some people arrived before, or sooner than, the land was officially opened for settlement—Oklahoma or Tennessee?
2. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the present-day United States and Canada were settled by immigrants primarily from which continent?
3. The Erie Canal was constructed in the early 1800s to connect the Great Lakes with what river?
4. Pilgrims on their way to the two holiest Islamic cities are important to the tourism economy in the region of Hejaz in which country?
5. During the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge forced almost the entire population out of Phnom Penh in which present-day country?
See answers to today's questions.
Questions for Wednesday, November 16
1. To visit Harlem, a part of Manhattan that developed as a cultural center for African American music and literature in the early 1900s, you would travel to which state—California or New York?
2. According to the 2000 census, nearly 30 percent of foreign-born residents of the United States are from which country?
3. On which continent do most people speak either Portuguese or Spanish?
4. Italy’s occupation of the capital of Eritrea in the early 20th century influenced the architecture of many of its buildings. Name this capital city.
5. Conflict between the Bhote and the Nepalese ethnic groups has caused large refugee movements away from the smallest country in the Himalaya. Name this country.
See answers to today's questions.
Questions for Thursday, November 17
1. The Appalachian Trail extends more than 2,000 miles from Maine to which state—Georgia or Colorado?
2. Thousands of rural migrants arrive in Morocco’s largest city each year to look for work. Name this city.
3. Enslaved persons from Africa influenced the religion, food, and music of the region around Salvador in which South American country?
4. What present-day state capital city also served as the capital of Deseret, a territory organized by Mormon settlers in 1849?
5. What country lost about half its population between 1865 and 1870 in a disastrous war with Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay?
See answers to today's questions.
Questions for Friday, November 18
1. To visit Virginia City, which became a boomtown after silver was discovered at the Comstock Lode in the mid-1800s, you would travel to which state—Vermont or Nevada?
2. Which country, bordered by France, Belgium, and Germany, depends on foreign workers for at least 30 percent of its work force?
3. The only present-day state capital on the Hudson River was settled in the early 1600s. Name this city.
4. Which Brazilian city has a metropolitan population of more than 18 million people?
5. What city on the Pearl River Delta was the first Chinese port regularly visited by European traders?
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