Question: From the Greek for 'going downhill' and most commonly found in Antarctica and Greenland, what is the name of the wind that carries high density air from a higher elevation down a slope under the force of gravity?
Answer: Katabatic wind

Question: What is the exclave of Russia that is surrounded by Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic Sea?
Answer: Kaliningrad Oblast

Question: What is the longest river in the world that flows entirely in one country?
Answer: Yangtze

Question: Which is the country closest to the US without bordering it?
Answer: Russia

Question: Located in Israel, what is the second-lowest lake in the world (after the Dead Sea) on whose shores much of the ministry of Jesus occurred?
Answer: Sea of Galilee

Question: Meaning 'place of sunset' or 'western' in Arabic, which word is generally applied to the geographic area of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia together?
Answer: Maghreb

Question: Which renowned 20th century physicist was so fascinated by the current day Russian republic of Tuva (because of its obscurity) that he even wrote a book called Tuva or Bust! which chronicles his attempts to travel there?
Answer: Richard Feynman

Question: Deluded by a legend, Francisco Orellana and Gonzalo Pizarro departed from Ecuador in 1541 in a disastrous expedition towards the Amazon Basin; they did not find any gold or lost cities but Orellana became the first person to navigate the entire Amazon River. What were they seeking?
Answer: El Dorado

Question: What is the largest country located entirely in Europe?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: The name of which vast and arid area north of the Great Australian Bight is derived from the Latin for 'no trees' and the crossing of which is a seminal experience of the Australian Outback?
Answer: Nullarbor Plain

Question: With 34.8 percent salinity, Lake Assal is considered the most saline body of water outside Antarctica. In which tiny nation in the Horn of Africa is it located?
Answer: Djibouti

Question: What is the largest desert in the North and South Americas?
Answer: Patagonian desert

Question: Easter Island in the South Pacific is well-known for its numerous moai, the stone statues located along its coastline. Which country does the island belong to?
Answer: Chile

Question: As of April 2010, apart from Western Sahara, Tokelau is the only other non-self governing territory in the world that is not administered by the UK, US or France. Which country administers it?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: A trans-boundary river is a river that crosses at least one political border (either a border within a nation or an international boundary). Which country has the greatest number of such rivers, including 58 that enter from India or Burma?
Answer: Bangladesh

Question: Which borough of New York City is the only one of the city's five boroughs to be situated primarily on the US mainland rather than on an island?
Answer: Bronx

Question: A-L-M-M-SM-VC are the initials of the European micro-states, the six very small sovereign states on the European continent. Name all of them.
Answer: Andorra, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City

Question: Which two countries share the longest border in the world?
Answer: USA and Canada

Question: As of 2010, the ten highest active volcanoes are located in which continent?
Answer: South America

Question: Which famous bay in Sydney, Australia was the site of a landing by Captain James Cook and sparked Britian's interest in Australia?
Answer: Botany Bay

Question: A system of government called 'confessionalism' which distributes power proportionally among religious communities is currently prevelant in which tiny Middle-Eastern nation?
Answer: Lebanon

Question: What is the collective name given to the 16 volcanoes identified by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) as being worthy of particular study in light of their history of destructive eruptions and proximity to populated areas?
Answer: Decade Volcanoes

Question: In physical geography, what is an endorheic or terminal or closed basin?
Answer: Watershed from which there is no outflow

Question: If the Panama Canal has two sets of locks, how many does the Suez Canal have?
Answer: Zero!

Question: Which feature that is 6380 kms long has traditionally been considered a dividing line between North and South China?
Answer: Yangtze river

Question: Two monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into a cliff and infamously destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 were located in which part of central Afghanistan?
Answer: Bamyan valley

Question: What are the only two South American countries that do not border Brazil?
Answer: Ecuador and Chile

Question: It is common knowledge that 70% of earth's surface is covered with water. Of this, what percentage does the Pacific Ocean cover?
Answer: About 46% (about 32% of earth's total surface area)

Question: Located in Botswana, which is the world's largest inland delta?
Answer: Okavango

Question: The erstwhile Yugoslavia has broken up into seven countries. Can you name them?
Answer: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, and Kosovo

Question: On the geologic time scale, which term denotes the largest subdivision of time?
Answer: Eon (eon > era > period > epoch)

Question: Which 'miraculous' French town has the second highest number of hotels per sq. kilometer in that country after Paris?
Answer: Lourdes

Question: Among US states with the highest number of national parks, California and Alaska come in first with 8 each. Which state comes next with 5 of them?
Answer: Utah

Question: Established in 1974 in a self-governing territory, which is the largest national park in the world with an area of 972,000 sq kms (375,000 square miles)?
Answer: Northeast Greenland National Park

Question: What is the beautiful onion-domed church situated in Red Square, Moscow that is often confused with the Kremlin?
Answer: Saint Basil's Cathedral

Question: What is the only nation state of the Commonwealth of Nations on the mainland of South America?
Answer: Guyana

Question: Flemish Cap, an area of shallow waters in the north Atlantic east of Newfoundland and Labrador is featured in which 2000 film as the final fishing grounds for Billy Tyne (George Clooney) and his crew?
Answer: The Perfect Storm

Question: The city of DeKalb, Illinois is credited as the first manufacturing site of what 'restraining' invention that revolutionized ranching in the US?
Answer: Barbed wire

Question: Which tiny landlocked European country, also the smallest German-speaking country in the world, has bordering countries that are also landlocked?
Answer: Liechtenstein

Question: They may not have stood on top of Everest but as of 2012, what distinction do the oceanographers Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh and the Hollywood mogul James Cameron hold in the field of exploration?
Answer: Only people to have reached the Challenger Deep, the deepest surveyed point in the oceans.

Question: After Russia, what is the second largest country in area amongst the former Soviet republics?
Answer: Kazakhstan

Question: The melting Furtwängler Glacier, sometimes used as an example of global warming is near which African geographic feature?
Answer: Mount Kilimanjaro

Question: What is the geographic and historical term for the Western Asian peninsula which comprises about two-thirds of Turkey?
Answer: Anatolia, also known as Asia Minor

Question: Which group of islands in the Caribbean Sea are divided as? Greater ___: Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico Lesser ___: Leeward Islands, Windward Islands and Leeward ___
Answer: Antilles

Question: Which national capital is the only city entirely built in the 20th century to be considered a World Heritage Site by UNESCO?
Answer: Brasilia

Question: After the five oceans, what is the largest sea body in the world?
Answer: South China Sea