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World geography quiz questions and answers
20 questions on rivers, mountains, lakes, straits and borders, from Everest and the Amazon to Baikal and the Ring of Fire, with answers and explanations.
Medium 20 questions 30 s each · about 16 min Checked against two sources
A physical geography round for a classroom, a homework club or a family that argues over maps. The first questions are the ones your students should get, like the country on the far side of Everest and the river that carved the Grand Canyon. The later ones reach for the Caspian Sea and the time zones of Russia. Every answer is checked against two sources. Twenty questions take about 16 minutes.
How to run it
- Put a world map on the board before you start. After each answer, point to the place. The map does half the teaching for you.
- Stop after question 9, the Andes. Ask the class to name the seven countries the range runs through before you move on. They will get Chile and Argentina, then stall.
- Questions 16 to 20 are app only and hold three of the four hard ones. Question 20, the time zones of Russia, is the tie-breaker.
Questions and answers
1Mount Everest sits on the border between Nepal and which other country?Easy
- AIndia
- BBhutan
- CChina
- DPakistan
Reveal answer
C. China
The summit line runs along the border of Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Most climbers go up from the Nepal side, from Everest Base Camp.
2Which line of latitude, at 0 degrees, divides Earth into the northern and southern hemispheres?Easy
- AThe Tropic of Cancer
- BThe Equator
- CThe Prime Meridian
- DThe Arctic Circle
Reveal answer
B. The Equator
The Equator runs about 40,075 kilometres around the middle of the planet, through countries including Ecuador, Kenya, Indonesia and Brazil. Days there last close to 12 hours all year.
3Niagara Falls lies on the border between Canada and which other country?Easy
- AThe United States
- BMexico
- CIceland
- DDenmark
Reveal answer
A. The United States
The falls straddle the border of Ontario and New York State. The Horseshoe Falls, the biggest of the three, is mostly on the Canadian side.
4The Prime Meridian, at 0 degrees longitude, passes through which capital city?Easy
- AParis
- BMadrid
- CLondon
- DRome
Reveal answer
C. London
It runs through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich in London, chosen at a conference in Washington in 1884. Time zones around the world are still counted from it.
5The Amazon, the largest rainforest in the world, lies mostly in which country?Easy
- APeru
- BColombia
- CVenezuela
- DBrazil
Reveal answer
D. Brazil
About 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest is in Brazil. It spreads across nine countries in all, and the Amazon River runs through the middle of it.
6The city of Istanbul sits on two continents, Europe and Asia. Which country is it in?Easy
- AGreece
- BTurkey
- CEgypt
- DRussia
Reveal answer
B. Turkey
The Bosphorus strait runs through the city, with Europe on one bank and Asia on the other. Turkey itself has about 3 percent of its land in Europe and the rest in Asia.
7Which is the longest river in Asia?Easy
- AThe Ganges
- BThe Mekong
- CThe Yangtze
- DThe Indus
Reveal answer
C. The Yangtze
The Yangtze runs about 6,300 kilometres across China to the sea near Shanghai. Only the Nile and the Amazon are usually listed as longer.
8Which two countries share the longest international land border in the world?Easy
- ARussia and China
- BCanada and the United States
- CArgentina and Chile
- DKazakhstan and Russia
Reveal answer
B. Canada and the United States
The border runs about 8,891 kilometres, counting the Alaska section. Kazakhstan and Russia share the longest continuous one.
9Which is the longest mountain range on land?Medium
- AThe Rockies
- BThe Himalayas
- CThe Andes
- DThe Alps
Reveal answer
C. The Andes
The Andes run about 8,900 kilometres down the west side of South America through seven countries. Aconcagua, at almost 7,000 metres, is the highest peak outside Asia.
10Which is the deepest lake in the world?Medium
- ALake Baikal
- BLake Superior
- CLake Victoria
- DLake Tanganyika
Reveal answer
A. Lake Baikal
Baikal in Siberia reaches about 1,642 metres and holds about a fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh surface water. Tanganyika in Africa is the second deepest.
11Which river carved the Grand Canyon?Medium
- AThe Mississippi
- BThe Rio Grande
- CThe Missouri
- DThe Colorado
Reveal answer
D. The Colorado
The Colorado River cut down through the rock over about five to six million years. The canyon is around 446 kilometres long and more than 1,800 metres deep.
12The Strait of Gibraltar separates Spain from which country?Medium
- AMorocco
- BAlgeria
- CTunisia
- DPortugal
Reveal answer
A. Morocco
At its narrowest the strait is about 14 kilometres wide. It links the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, with Europe on one side and Africa on the other.
13The Danube, the second longest river in Europe, flows into which sea?Medium
- AThe Baltic Sea
- BThe Black Sea
- CThe Adriatic Sea
- DThe North Sea
Reveal answer
B. The Black Sea
The Danube rises in Germany's Black Forest and passes through ten countries before its delta on the Black Sea in Romania and Ukraine. Only the Volga is longer in Europe.
14The Ring of Fire, where most of the world's volcanoes and earthquakes occur, circles which ocean?Medium
- AThe Atlantic
- BThe Indian
- CThe Pacific
- DThe Arctic
Reveal answer
C. The Pacific
The Ring of Fire follows the edges of the Pacific plate, from New Zealand up through Japan and across to the Americas. About two thirds of the world's volcanoes and about 90 percent of its earthquakes happen along it.
15Angel Falls, the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world, is in which country?Hard
- ABrazil
- BColombia
- CVenezuela
- DGuyana
Reveal answer
C. Venezuela
It drops about 979 metres from the top of Auyán-tepui in Canaima National Park. It is named after Jimmie Angel, a US pilot who flew over it in 1933.
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What does the world geography quiz cover?
Physical geography and borders: the mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts, straits and lines of latitude that come up in any school atlas. Capital cities and famous buildings have their own quizzes on RiLiFi, so this one stays with the land and water.
What age is it for?
From about age 11. The first eight questions are easy and most of the hard ones sit in the last five, so younger students stay in the game while older ones still have something to chase.
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Can I change the questions?
Yes. Use this template to make a copy, then swap in the rivers and mountains of your own country, cut the ones your class has not covered, or add a map picture to a question.
Sources
Every answer shown here was checked against two sources, listed below. Links last checked 3 November 2026.
- Mount Everest - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- China-Nepal border - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Equator - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- What is latitude?oceanservice.noaa.gov
- Niagara Falls - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Horseshoe Falls - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Prime meridian - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- What is the Prime Meridian, and why is it in Greenwich?rmg.co.uk
- Amazon rainforest - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Amazon basin - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Istanbul - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Turkey - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Yangtze - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- List of river systems by length - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Canada-United States border - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- List of countries and territories by number of land borders - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Andes - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Aconcagua - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Lake Baikal - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Lake Tanganyika - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Grand Canyon - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Geology - Grand Canyon National Park (U.S. National Park Service)nps.gov
- Strait of Gibraltar - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Morocco - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Danube - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Danube Delta - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Ring of Fire - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- What is the Ring of Fire? - NOAA Ocean Explorationoceanexplorer.noaa.gov
- Angel Falls - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Canaima National Park - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
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