FunTrivia Geography Mix: Vol 30 Quiz

Answer: Cape Kennedy

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed an executive order shortly after the assassination of John F Kennedy to rename the cape after the fallen president who was instrumental in launching the space program in the United States. The cape itself was home to NASA's Launch Operations Center, which was also renamed the Kennedy Space Center at the same time.

The renaming of the cape itself was opposed by local residents. They cited the history of the name Cape Canaveral (which was first named by Vasco da Gama), and the shoreline town of Cape Canaveral - whose name was unchanged.

In 1973, the Florida State legislature voted to re-establish the Cape Canaveral name.

Question by player George95

Answer: X

Japan, Jordan, and Jamaica all begin with J. Vanuatu, Vatican City, and Vietnam all begin with V. Zambia and Zimbabwe both begin with Z. In all, 25 of the 26 letters of the alphabet begin at least one country, if you count Wales, with X as the only holdouts.

Question by player kevinatilusa

Answer: Morocco

Casablanca is the largest city, but not the capital city, of Morocco, a country situated along the northwest coast of Africa. Its name comes from Portuguese for "white house". The film "Casablanca" (1942) is set during WWII and showed Casablanca as a city in the midst of a power struggle between warring European nations.

The city was an important port during WWII: it had a large American air base, hosted staging for American aircraft, and was the site of the Casablanca Conference with Churchill and Roosevelt in 1943.

Question by player napierslogs

Answer: Quebec

Quebec has many interesting place names: these three, including numbers as part of the name, are translated as "Seven Islands," "Three Rivers," and "Three 17th-century Silver Coins," not, as you might have thought, "Three Pistols."

Question by player StarGaGa

Answer: Islands

Melanesia is part of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is made up of many islands, including Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji and New Caledonia.

Question by player timence

Answer: Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and home to Edinburgh Castle which overlooks Princes Street from its rocky position. The city is well worth a visit and easily reached by plane, train or bus from most of the UK. Other attractions are the home of the Scottish Devolved Parliament, Arthur's seat (an extinct volcano) and for sports fans there are two football teams (Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian) and a Murrayfield Rugby Stadium and of course golf courses.

Question by player Senga2

Answer: Antipodes Islands

The word "antipodes" is from the Greek, meaning "with feet opposite," and it defines the place on the globe exactly opposite from a given location. The Antipodes Islands, originally the Penantipodes, were so named because they are about as far away from London as any place on earth.

They are volcanic, small, uninhabited and they sit minding their own business in the remote reaches of the South Pacific, 760 km southeast of New Zealand. They consist of a 20 square km main island, and several smaller off shore islands and rocks.

The other three island groups all lie off the coast of Scotland; the Hebrides off the west coast, the Shetlands and Orkneys above the northern tip of that beautiful land. They are all populated, although sparsely, and most inhabitants share a commitment to a simpler, farm-based lifestyle, as well as their obvious Scottish heritage.

Question by player Nealzineatser

Answer: Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island, or 'PEI' for short, has only 5,660 sq. km. of land area, compared to more than 1 million sq. km. in others like Quebec, Ontario and Nunavut. Put another way, PEI encompasses 0.1% of the national land area of Canada. Ontario has 10%, Quebec has 15% and Nunavut has more than 20% of the land area of Canada.

Despite its agricultural economy and small size, PEI is the most densely populated of all the provinces.

Question by player ELJ1

Answer: Panama

Panama, which is in Central America, borders Colombia, which is in South America. Central America is a thin strip of land, so traveling through Central America requires going through Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, with transiting through Belize and El Salvador being optional.

However, there are no roads connecting Panama and Colombia, and this specific region between the two countries is called the Darién Gap.

Question by player hotdogPi

Answer: Chocolate Hills

There are an estimated 1700 hills in this famous tourist attraction in Bohol, Philippines. The hills are a prominent landmark, feature on the province's seal and flag, and are a Late Pliocene limestone formation.

Question by player dim_dude