ANSWERS TO exQUIZite GEOGRAPHY QUIZ
Rebecca Keenan - August 31, 2020
Just Deserts
1. Honeypot ant or honey ant
2. Uluru
3. Mojave/Sonoran
4. Atacama Desert (Chile)
5. The Arctic
How Dishy
1. Iceland
2. Poland
3. India
4. Tanzania
5. Brazil
Scenic Superlatives
1. Rocky Mountains (North America)
2. Venezuela (Angel Falls)
3. Russia (Lake Baikal)
4. Lebanon (Jeita Grotto)
5. North Sentinal Island
That’s so Vexing
1. Bulgaria
2. Cuba
3. Djibouti
4. Malta
5. Fiji
It's a Numbers Game
1. 6 (Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France)
2. 5%
3. 10 minutes
4. USA, Canada, Russia
5. Papua New Guinea
Capital, Old Chum
1. Bratislava
2. Sofia
3. Islamabad
4. Ulan Bator
5. Phnom Penh
6. Addis Ababa
7. Lusaka
8. Ottawa
9. Kingston
10. Apia
Image credits
Image 1: Photo by Greg Hume CC-BY-2.5. Wikipedia
All other images from Pixabay
Sources (all available from Dunedin Public Libraries)
· Atlas of the world’s deserts – Nathaniel Harris
· Totally amazing facts about geography – Cari Meister
· Maps – Aleksandra Mizielińska and Daniel Mizieliński
Atlas Obscura – Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras