Geography Bee

This first trading port of African enslaved persons in the Americas was formerly known as Mauritsstad and is the site of Kahal Zur Israel, the first synagogue in the Americas. This capital of Pernambuco administers Fernando de Noronha and is known for its Frevo style of dance. The easternmost city to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup was, for the point, what Brazilian city whose name translates to 'reef'?

• Recife
• Santa Barbara

• Fresno

• Geronimo

The easternmost portion of this mountain range is known as the Aures, which is the home of a Berber ethnic group called the Chaoui, and the northernmost point of this range is known as the Rif. The rain shadow of this mountain range helped form the Sahara Desert. Mount Toubkal is the highest peak of, for the point, what mountain range in Africa that stretches from Tunisia to Morocco, named for a mythical Titan who held the sky on his back?

• Atlas Mountains
• Rocky Mountains

• Alps

• Appalachians

This state's Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Station produces five percent of its country's energy. This state, which is home to the archaeological sites Tres Zapotes, has its capital at Xalapa ([hah-LAH-pah]), and this state controls the east side of Pico de Orizaba. Upon landing in what is now Mexico, Hernán Cortés founded, for the point, what Mexican state whose namesake city has the prefix 'Heroica'?

• Veracruz
• Constantinople

• Washington, DC

• Thermopolis

On Perdido Key, southwest of this city, an annual festival has contestants throw a dead mullet between state lines. This city contains an obelisk dedicated to William Dudley Chipley, a man who orchestrated the construction of a railroad that stretched 160 miles west to the Apalachicola River at the town of Chattahoochee. The county seat of Escambia County is, for the point, what westernmost city in the panhandle of Florida?

• Pensacola
• Orlanda

• Tampa

• Florida Keys

This sea's islet of Sveti Stefan was converted into a luxury hotel from a fishing island by connecting it to Budva Municipality via tombolo. This sea's inlets include the Bay of Kotor and Gulf of Trieste, and this sea is used as a vertical datum to measure peaks of the Dinaric Alps. Said to contain its 'pearl' at Dubrovnik, for the point, what is this sea between Italy and the Balkans?

• Adriatic Sea
• Red Sea

• Caspian Sea

• Black Sea

The Zamboanga Peninsula extends off of this island, connected by ferry to Great Santa Cruz Island, home to a pink-sand beach. The volcano Mount Apo overlooks this island's largest city, Davao, and this island, grouped with the Sulu Archipelago, is located north of the Celebes [SEL-uh-bees] Sea. The Moro conflict is an ongoing insurgency on and around, for the point, what southernmost island of the Philippines, the site of Muslim separatism?

• Minadanao
• Mecca

• Shanghai

• Jerusalem

This region's northernmost portion contains the Torngat Mountains, where a weather station known as "Kuujjuaq" established the only armed German presence in the Americas during World War Two. This region's town Happy Valley-Goose Bay is located on the Churchill River, which contains the world's second-largest manmade lake, the Smallwood Reservoir. For the point, what is this region in Canada that forms a province with Newfoundland?

• Labrador
• Greenland

• Iceland

• Norway

This island, which is inhabited by the indigenous Batak and Minangkabau [mee-nahng-KAH-bah-oo] peoples, contains the Toba supervolcano in its Barisan Mountains. The northern and westernmost province, Aceh [AH-cheh], is located at the tip of this island, whose largest cities include Palembang and Medan. The Sunda Strait separates Java from the southern coast of, for the point, what other Indonesian island, located across the Strait of Malacca from the Malay Peninsula?

• Sumatra

• Malaysia

• Japan

• Sicily

This peninsula's southernmost point is Cape Charles, and this peninsula's main commercial center is Salisbury. Rehoboth Beach and Ocean City are resorts on this peninsula whose city of Lewes is connected to Cape May via ferry, and the Chincoteague ponies lives on this peninsula's offshore island of Assateague. Located on the east of Chesapeake Bay, the city of Dover lies on, for the point, what peninsula whose name is a portmanteau of three states?

• Cape Cod

• Arabian Peninsula

• Delmarva Peninsula

• Crimean Peninsula

This mountain, which is delineated by the Tamur and Teesta Rivers, was considered the highest point in the world until 1852 when that title passed to Mount Everest. Tourists can view the southeast face of this mountain by trekking the Goecha La pass, which is located in the state of Sikkim. For the point, name this mountain in the Himalayas, the highest point in India.

• Mount Everest

• Mount Fuji

• Mount Kangchenjunga

• Mount Olympus