Geography Quiz Answers
1. Pierre, South Dakota
2. Portland (Oregon and Maine)
3. Kentucky (KY)
4. Monaco (highest 43,830 people per square mile) and
Mongolia (4 people per square mile) - 2009
5. Atlanta and Augusta, Baton Rouge and Boise, Pierre and Providence
6. All are deserts - specifically, the four major deserts of North America
7. Guatemala, Kuwait, Mexico, and Panama.
Another possible answer is Luxembourg, although Luxembourg City is often just
called Luxembourg.
8. Indiana (all the names are cities in that state)
9.
A. IN (Indiana) appears 11 times, in Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Minnesota, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming.
B. Kansas and Texas
C. California contains CA, AL, OR, and IA.
Florida contains FL, OR, RI, and IA.
South Carolina contains UT, CA, AR, and IN.
10. Connect / i / cut
11. Florida and Georgia and
Illinois and Indiana
12. Miami and Toronto
13. Cleveland
14. If "one s" is removed from Indonesia, the remaining letters spell India.
15. SAVANNAH
ANA, VANNA, ANN, ANNA from left to right
HANNA, ANN, ANNA, AVA from right to left
16. South Carolina (OHIO and UTAH)
17. Florida (345'), Delaware (448'), Louisiana (535'), Mississippi (806'), and
Rhode Island (812')
18. Colorado (3350'), Wyoming (3099'), New Mexico (2842'), Utah (2000'), and
Montana (1800').
19. Rhode Island (Not an island)
20. Austin and Boston
21. KentucKY and ConneCTicut
22. Augusta, Juneau
23. The vowel is A, the consonant is N, and the three states are Mississippi,
Missouri, and Ohio.
24. Jacksonville, Florida is the largest with 827 square miles, an area twice the size of
Los Angeles' 458.2 square miles.
25. Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming
26. Hawaii
27. Arkansas and Afghanistan
Margo Huffman from Corvallis, Oregon sent in a correction: Azerbaijan is also a country beginning with A and not ending in a.
28. Rome, Manila, Athens, Seoul, Lima, Teheran
29. Canada, Panama, Havana
30. I had just hiked from Nepal into India.
The border between India and Nepal is the only place on earth where
two adjacent countries have time zones that are 15 minutes apart without being separated by water (and thus hikeable).
31. I am in far western Virginia.
The far west portion of Virginia, such as Wheeler, is closer to the capitals of West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio than to Richmond.