Try your geographic expertise at the following geography stumpers.  More are added all the time.  

 

1. What is the longest bridge in the world?

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2. What state in the US has the most national parks, and how many?

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3. What is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world?

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4. What was the first city in the Us to put fluorine in its water?

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5. What country is the leading importer of iron ore?

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6. What is the highest city in the world?

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7. What is the only state in the Us to grow coffee?

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8. What is the only county in England to have two coasts?

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9. What is the oldest capital city in the Americas?

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10. What state has the largest number of hazardous waste sites?

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11. What is the oldest city in the US?

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12. What waterfall sees the most water flow over it in one calendar year?

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13. Where was the first zoo in the Us built?

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14. Why is O'Hara Airport's baggage code 'ORD'?

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15. What is the smallest and shallowest ocean?

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16. What is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace and war?

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17. What is the largest landfill site on earth?

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18. What did the Hollywood sign originally read, and why?

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19. What is Antarctica's dialing code?

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20. What is the largest body of freshwater in the world?

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21. What was the original name of Los Angeles? (spelling counts)

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22. What zoo has the largest collection of animals in the world?

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23. Name the seven hills of Rome.

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24. What are the only mobile national monuments in the US?

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25. Who designed the Vatican's Swiss Guard uniforms?

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26. Where is the wettest place on earth?

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27. Which state is the only one whose flag is not in the shape of a rectangle?

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28. What is the name of the longest railway in the world, and where is it located?

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29. What are the only states in the US without a natural lake?

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30. What is the deepest lake in the world?

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31. Name the only countries to border three oceans.

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32. What is the only country in the world whose name begins an "A" but doesn't end with an "A"?

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33. What is the only state in the US that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the US flag?

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34. What is the highest US state capital?

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35. What is the oldest continuously occupied state capital?

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36. In a non leap year, in what month and on what date does the middle of the year occur?

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37. New York's nickname is the "Big Apple".  From where did that name come from?

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38. What are the four Commonwealths of the US?

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39. What state has the most personalized license plates?

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40. What is the name of the ship on the New Hampshire state flag?

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41. What is the only country in the world to have a bible on its national flag?

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42. What is the only country in the world to not have a rectangular shaped flag?

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43. What is the only country to have a flag of a single color, without decoration or writing?

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44. What is the only state in the US to be bordered on both the east and west by rivers?

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45. Name the nations of the world that are named after actual people?

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46. What state has the highest percentage of people living it, that were born there?

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47. What state has the lowest percentage of people who live within its border, that were born there?

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48. Where is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane?

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49. What do Rome, Italy and Seattle, Washington have in common? (hint: it has to do with their early founding)

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50. Brooklyn is Dutch for what?

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51. What four states have the first letter of their capital the same as the first letter of their name?

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52. Where are the only freshwater sharks in the world found?

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53. What is the only city in the US that celebrates Halloween on October 30 instead of October 31 and why?

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54. Genuine Waterford Crystal comes from what country?

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55. Why are there 5,280 feet in a mile?

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56. What US city averages the lowest summer temperature?

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57. What state is the toothpick capital of the world?

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58. Where were Panama hats created?

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59. What is the only city in the US situated on the Saint Lawrence River?

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60. What US state has the longest official name, and what is it?

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61. Which of the 50 states has the most people per square mile?

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62. What is the only US state that has four consecutive consonants in it (in the same word)?

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63. What is the only country in the world that contains every type of climate?

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64. What US state is the only one where the state capital and the state name contain none of the same letters?

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65. Name the three most densely populated countries in the world.

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66. What is the only nation in the world without an official capital city?

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67. What is unique about the Eisenhower Interstate System?

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68. What US state has the longest coastline of the 48 lower states?

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69. What is the largest city in the United States with a one syllable name?

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70. What are the only two state names that begin with double consonants?

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71. What was the first state to plow it roads, and use the yellow dividing line?

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72. What is the southern most city in the United States?

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73. What is the only US capital city that does not have a McDonalds?

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74. What state has the greatest number of independent telephone companies?

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75. name the 5 Caribbean nations that include the world "and" in their names?

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76. What do Arizona, Hawaii, and Saskatchewan have in common?

A. These are states or territories that do not change their clocks when the rest of their country goes to summer or Standard time.

77. Canada has three of the world's top ten islands in reference to size.  What are those three islands?

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78. What is the only Canadian Province that is possible to go to the US by travelling either North, South, East, or West?

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79. How many time zones does China have?

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80. Where is the largest Lego statue in the world?

A. Legoland, in Billund, Denmark

81. How long is a jiffy?

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82. In order for a storm to be designated a hurricane, it must have sustained winds of how many miles per hour?

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83. In what year did NOAA announce that it would alternate men's and women's names in naming hurricanes?

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84. Who invented the wristwatch?

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85. Where would you find the Statute of Armed Freedom?

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86. What do Amsterdam, Venice and New Orleans all have in common?

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87. What is unique about 60 degrees latitude?

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88. Which nation has the most neighbors?

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89. What tree has the heaviest wood?

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90. What lake has the longest place name in the United States? Clue: It has 49 letters, 17 of them "g".

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91. The feared extinction of what bird led to the est. of the first national wildlife refuge in the US in 1903?

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