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Nat Geo Bee Qualification Quiz

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the capital of Wisconsin?

a)

Appleton

b)

Green Bay

c)

Madison

d)

Milwaukee

2.

What are the 2 Great Lakes that touch Wisconsin?

a)

Lake Erie

b)

Lake Huron

c)

Lake Michigan

d)

Lake Superior

3.

Acadia National Park in the New England region is in what state?

a)

Connecticut

b)

Maine

c)

Massachusetts

d)

New Hampshire

4.

The Rocky Mountain ski resort towns of Aspen and Vail are in which state?

a)

Colorado

b)

Idaho

c)

Montana

d)

Wyoming

5.

The Long Island Sound separates Long Island from which state?

a)

Connecticut

b)

Maryland

c)

New Jersey

d)

Pennsylvania

6.

What state occupies the southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula?

a)

Maryland

b)

Michigan

c)

North Carolina

d)

Virginia

7.

A 600-foot-tall statue of what Native American leader, a Sioux chief, is being carved out in the Black Hills as part of a monument in South Dakota?

a)

Crazy Horse

b)

Geronimo

c)

Red Cloud

d)

Sitting Bull

8.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park, located north of the city of Akron, is in which state?

a)

Indiana

b)

Ohio

c)

Oklahoma

d)

Pennsylvania

9.

Name the 2 states that touch both the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.

a)

Iowa and Minnesota

b)

Iowa and Missouri

c)

Minnesota and Mississippi

d)

Mississippi and Missouri

10.

The headquarters of Starbucks, Microsoft, and Boeing are located in which state?

a)

California

b)

New York

c)

Oregon

d)

Washington

11.

Lake Placid, a village in the Adirondack Mountains and the site of the 1980 Winter Olympics, is in which US state?

a)

Connecticut

b)

New Hampshire

c)

New York

d)

Washington

12.

The town of Vidalia, famous for its sweet onions, is located 90 miles east of the city of Macon. What southern state named the Vidalia onion as the official state vegetable in 1990?

a)

Alabama

b)

Florida

c)

Georgia

d)

Mississippi

13.

Bordered by Cooperstown, Ostego Lake is considered the source of the Susquehanna River. In which state is Ostego Lake?

a)

Connecticut

b)

New Hampshire

c)

New York

d)

Vermont

14.

In 1988 the US government chose Yucca Mountain as the nation's first permanent underground repository for storing spent radioactive nuclear waste. In which state is the site located?

a)

Arizona

b)

California

c)

Nevada

d)

Utah

15.

At 17 million acres, the Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in the US. This temperate rain forest is located in the southeastern part of which state?

a)

Alaska

b)

Florida

c)

Hawaii

d)

Oregon

16.

What state capital on the Cumberland River is known as Music City?

a)

Albany

b)

Nashville

c)

Reno

d)

Sacramento

17.

What growing state capital city in the southwest is located on the Salt River?

a)

Austin

b)

Reno

c)

Phoenix

d)

Santa Fe

18.

The most populated cities in the states of Maine and Oregon share the same name. What is it?

a)

Bangor

b)

Castle Rock

c)

Portland

d)

Salem

19.

Waikiki Beach, Hawaii's most visited resort area, and Diamond Head Crater are located on which island of Hawaii?

a)

Kauai

b)

Lanai

c)

Maui

d)

Oahu

20.

The US Virgin Islands are part of what island group?

a)

Galapagos Islands

b)

The Greater Antilles

c)

Leeward Islands

d)

Windward Islands

21.

What name did the British explorer James Cook give to the Hawaiian Islands when he first arrived in 1778?

a)

The Bacon Islands

b)

The Cook Islands

c)

The Sandwich Islands

d)

The Victorian Islands

22.

The Great Rift Valley is in what continent?

a)

Africa

b)

Antarctica

c)

Asia

d)

South America

23.

The Tropic of Cancer does NOT pass through which continent?

a)

Asia

b)

Europe

c)

North America

d)

It passes through all of these

24.

The islands of Jersey and Guernsey are in which continent?

a)

Asia

b)

Europe

c)

North America

d)

South America

25.

Lake Vostok is in which continent?

a)

Antarctica

b)

Asia

c)

Europe

d)

South America

26.

Alpaca are partially domesticated mammals kept in flocks for their wool-like fleece by native people in highlands of what continent?

a)

Asia

b)

Europe

c)

North America

d)

South America

27.

Name the only mainland Central American country that does not touch the Pacific Ocean.

a)

Belize

b)

Costa Rica

c)

El Salvador

d)

Panama

28.

Which city in Canada has the most people?

a)

Calgary

b)

Ottawa

c)

Toronto

d)

Vancouver

29.

Haiti and what country to its east share the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea?

a)

Cuba

b)

the Dominican Republic

c)

Grenada

d)

Jamaica

30.

Easter Island, famous for large stone carvings called megaliths, is part of which country?

a)

Brazil

b)

Chile

c)

Colombia

d)

Peru

31.

With abundant rains on the western slopes of the Rockies creating ideal conditions for trees to grow, what province produces almost half of Canada's timber?

a)

Alberta

b)

British Columbia

c)

Ontario

d)

Quebec

32.

In which Central American country did the US support guerilla fighters known as Contras that opposed the Marxist Sandinista regime during the 1980s?

a)

Costa Rica

b)

Guatemala

c)

Nicaragua

d)

Panama

33.

The Normandy region, which was the location of a massive Allied invasion during World War II, is in which country?

a)

Belgium

b)

France

c)

Germany

d)

Great Britain

34.

Name the small landlocked country that lies in the Pyrenees Mountains and has borders with Spain and France.

a)

Andorra

b)

Liechtenstein

c)

Luxembourg

d)

Monaco

35.

The Volga-Don shipping canal, which connects the Volga River and the Don River, is in which country?

a)

Germany

b)

Poland

c)

Russia

d)

Ukraine

36.

The Black Forest, where the headwaters of the Danube River are located, is in the southwest corner of which country?

a)

Belgium

b)

Denmark

c)

France

d)

Germany

37.

Madrid is the capital city of what country?

a)

Greece

b)

Italy

c)

Portugal

d)

Spain

38.

Matterhorn Peak in the Alps is in the the southwestern region of what country?

a)

Germany

b)

Italy

c)

Sweden

d)

Switzerland

39.

Transylvania, the historic plateau region of eastern Europe, is part of what present-day country with a coastline on the Black Sea?

a)

Bulgaria

b)

Hungary

c)

Romania

d)

Slovakia

40.

Name the northern Italian city situated on more than 100 islands formed by about 150 canals in the lagoon between the mouths of the Po and Piave Rivers.

a)

Florence

b)

Milan

c)

Rome

d)

Venice

41.

What mountain range stretches across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia in Africa?

a)

Atlas

b)

Nuba

c)

Semien

d)

Virunga

42.

What is the biggest country in Africa by land area?

a)

Algeria

b)

Democratic Republic of the Congo

c)

Egypt

d)

Libya

43.

Name the deepest lake in Africa that is also Africa's longest lake.

a)

Lake Albert

b)

Lake Malawi

c)

Lake Taganyika

d)

Lake Victoria

44.

Serengeti National Park, most famous for the annual migration of hundreds of thousands of wildebeest and zebra, is in which country that is south of Kenya?

a)

Egypt

b)

Ethiopia

c)

Sudan

d)

Tanzania

45.

Which country has the largest number of Arab people in the world?

a)

Egypt

b)

Iran

c)

Saudi Arabia

d)

Sudan

46.

What river has the highest annual water flow in Africa?

a)

Congo River

b)

Niger River

c)

Nile River

d)

Limpopo River

47.

What small landlocked African nation was formerly known as Basutoland?

a)

Botswana

b)

Lesotho

c)

Liberia

d)

Morocco

48.

How many independent countries are there in Africa?

a)

44

b)

54

c)

64

d)

74

49.

Mount Fuji is an iconic symbol for what East Asian country?

a)

China

b)

Japan

c)

North Korea

d)

South Korea

50.

Saddam Hussein was a dictator of what Middle Eastern country whose capital is Baghdad?

a)

Iran

b)

Iraq

c)

Kuwait

d)

Yemen

51.

The Three Gorges Dam was constructed on China's longest river. Name this river.

a)

Amur

b)

Mekong

c)

Yangtze

d)

Yellow

52.

The two-humped Bactrian camel is native to the Central Asian Steppes and what desert in northern China and Mongolia?

a)

Gobi Desert

b)

The Great Sandy Desert

c)

Karakum Desert

d)

Thar Desert

53.

Asia Minor, which may be described as a peninsula, is part of which country?

a)

China

b)

Egypt

c)

Saudi Arabia

d)

Turkey

54.

The historic biblical cities of Hebron, Bethlehem, and Jericho are in which present-day territory?

a)

East Bank

b)

North Bank

c)

South Bank

d)

West Bank

55.

The most populated state in Pakistan shares its name with a state in India. Name this state.

a)

Apu

b)

Darjeeling

c)

Punjab

d)

Zanzibar

56.

What farm animal was first domesticated in Thailand around 6000 BCE along the Chao Phraya River?

a)

Chickens

b)

Goats

c)

Sheep

d)

Water buffalo

57.

What river, the longest in Syria, flows diagonally across the country and brings much needed irrigation water?

a)

Euphrates

b)

Khabur

c)

Orontes

d)

Tigris

58.

The two main islands of New Zealand are separated by what strait?

a)

Cook

b)

Darwin

c)

Dire

d)

Hemingway

59.

The sparsely populated Kimberley Plateau, with a small mining industry, is located in the northwestern region of which country?

a)

Australia

b)

Fiji

c)

New Zealand

d)

Tazmania

60.

Which city is the national capital of Australia and is its 6th most populous city?

a)

Canberra

b)

Melbourne

c)

Perth

d)

Sydney