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WorksheetsNat Geo Bee Qualification Quiz
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 30mins
What is the capital of Wisconsin?
Appleton
Green Bay
Madison
Milwaukee
What are the 2 Great Lakes that touch Wisconsin?
Lake Erie
Lake Huron
Lake Michigan
Lake Superior
Acadia National Park in the New England region is in what state?
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
The Rocky Mountain ski resort towns of Aspen and Vail are in which state?
Colorado
Idaho
Montana
Wyoming
The Long Island Sound separates Long Island from which state?
Connecticut
Maryland
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
What state occupies the southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula?
Maryland
Michigan
North Carolina
Virginia
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?
Crazy Horse
Geronimo
Red Cloud
Sitting Bull
Cuyahoga Valley National Park, located north of the city of Akron, is in which state?
Indiana
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Name the 2 states that touch both the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
Iowa and Minnesota
Iowa and Missouri
Minnesota and Mississippi
Mississippi and Missouri
The headquarters of Starbucks, Microsoft, and Boeing are located in which state?
California
New York
Oregon
Washington
Lake Placid, a village in the Adirondack Mountains and the site of the 1980 Winter Olympics, is in which US state?
Connecticut
New Hampshire
New York
Washington
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?
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Mississippi
Bordered by Cooperstown, Ostego Lake is considered the source of the Susquehanna River. In which state is Ostego Lake?
Connecticut
New Hampshire
New York
Vermont
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?
Arizona
California
Nevada
Utah
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?
Alaska
Florida
Hawaii
Oregon
What state capital on the Cumberland River is known as Music City?
Albany
Nashville
Reno
Sacramento
What growing state capital city in the southwest is located on the Salt River?
Austin
Reno
Phoenix
Santa Fe
The most populated cities in the states of Maine and Oregon share the same name. What is it?
Bangor
Castle Rock
Portland
Salem
Waikiki Beach, Hawaii's most visited resort area, and Diamond Head Crater are located on which island of Hawaii?
Kauai
Lanai
Maui
Oahu
The US Virgin Islands are part of what island group?
Galapagos Islands
The Greater Antilles
Leeward Islands
Windward Islands
What name did the British explorer James Cook give to the Hawaiian Islands when he first arrived in 1778?
The Bacon Islands
The Cook Islands
The Sandwich Islands
The Victorian Islands
The Great Rift Valley is in what continent?
Africa
Antarctica
Asia
South America
The Tropic of Cancer does NOT pass through which continent?
Asia
Europe
North America
It passes through all of these
The islands of Jersey and Guernsey are in which continent?
Asia
Europe
North America
South America
Lake Vostok is in which continent?
Antarctica
Asia
Europe
South America
Alpaca are partially domesticated mammals kept in flocks for their wool-like fleece by native people in highlands of what continent?
Asia
Europe
North America
South America
Name the only mainland Central American country that does not touch the Pacific Ocean.
Belize
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Panama
Which city in Canada has the most people?
Calgary
Ottawa
Toronto
Vancouver
Haiti and what country to its east share the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea?
Cuba
the Dominican Republic
Grenada
Jamaica
Easter Island, famous for large stone carvings called megaliths, is part of which country?
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Peru
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?
Alberta
British Columbia
Ontario
Quebec
In which Central American country did the US support guerilla fighters known as Contras that opposed the Marxist Sandinista regime during the 1980s?
Costa Rica
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Panama
The Normandy region, which was the location of a massive Allied invasion during World War II, is in which country?
Belgium
France
Germany
Great Britain
Name the small landlocked country that lies in the Pyrenees Mountains and has borders with Spain and France.
Andorra
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Monaco
The Volga-Don shipping canal, which connects the Volga River and the Don River, is in which country?
Germany
Poland
Russia
Ukraine
The Black Forest, where the headwaters of the Danube River are located, is in the southwest corner of which country?
Belgium
Denmark
France
Germany
Madrid is the capital city of what country?
Greece
Italy
Portugal
Spain
Matterhorn Peak in the Alps is in the the southwestern region of what country?
Germany
Italy
Sweden
Switzerland
Transylvania, the historic plateau region of eastern Europe, is part of what present-day country with a coastline on the Black Sea?
Bulgaria
Hungary
Romania
Slovakia
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.
Florence
Milan
Rome
Venice
What mountain range stretches across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia in Africa?
Atlas
Nuba
Semien
Virunga
What is the biggest country in Africa by land area?
Algeria
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Egypt
Libya
Name the deepest lake in Africa that is also Africa's longest lake.
Lake Albert
Lake Malawi
Lake Taganyika
Lake Victoria
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?
Egypt
Ethiopia
Sudan
Tanzania
Which country has the largest number of Arab people in the world?
Egypt
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Sudan
What river has the highest annual water flow in Africa?
Congo River
Niger River
Nile River
Limpopo River
What small landlocked African nation was formerly known as Basutoland?
Botswana
Lesotho
Liberia
Morocco
How many independent countries are there in Africa?
44
54
64
74
Mount Fuji is an iconic symbol for what East Asian country?
China
Japan
North Korea
South Korea
Saddam Hussein was a dictator of what Middle Eastern country whose capital is Baghdad?
Iran
Iraq
Kuwait
Yemen
The Three Gorges Dam was constructed on China's longest river. Name this river.
Amur
Mekong
Yangtze
Yellow
The two-humped Bactrian camel is native to the Central Asian Steppes and what desert in northern China and Mongolia?
Gobi Desert
The Great Sandy Desert
Karakum Desert
Thar Desert
Asia Minor, which may be described as a peninsula, is part of which country?
China
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Turkey
The historic biblical cities of Hebron, Bethlehem, and Jericho are in which present-day territory?
East Bank
North Bank
South Bank
West Bank
The most populated state in Pakistan shares its name with a state in India. Name this state.
Apu
Darjeeling
Punjab
Zanzibar
What farm animal was first domesticated in Thailand around 6000 BCE along the Chao Phraya River?
Chickens
Goats
Sheep
Water buffalo
What river, the longest in Syria, flows diagonally across the country and brings much needed irrigation water?
Euphrates
Khabur
Orontes
Tigris
The two main islands of New Zealand are separated by what strait?
Cook
Darwin
Dire
Hemingway
The sparsely populated Kimberley Plateau, with a small mining industry, is located in the northwestern region of which country?
Australia
Fiji
New Zealand
Tazmania
Which city is the national capital of Australia and is its 6th most populous city?
Canberra
Melbourne
Perth
Sydney
