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1995 National Geography Bee Questions

Political Geography 1. One of Zionism’s major goals was realized with the creation of which country in the Middle East in 1948?

2. What city that served as the capital of a united Germany in 1871 became the capital of a reunited Germany in 1991?

3. Sultans or emirs rule many of the countries on what peninsula?

4. In an effort to end more than a quarter of a century of violence, a cease-fire was declared in August 1994 in which political unit of the United Kingdom?

5. The political leader of which Canadian province is in favor of having the province secede from Canada?

6. What is the most populous city in North America that has also served as a capital for five centuries?

7. The population center of the United State is revised every ten years based on data gathered by what bureau of the federal government?

8. In October 1994, Prime Minister Rabin and King Hussein signed a peace treaty that ended almost a half century of hostilities between Israel and which Arab country?

9. What is the term for a territorial division with a state from which a member of the U.S. House of Representatives is elected?

10. Which eastern Mediterranean country changed the site of its capital from Istanbul to Ankara in an effort to achieve greater political and geographical centralization?

11. What is the British colony that is located on a peninsula in southern Spain? Physical Geography 12. What is the term for a flooded field where rice is grown?

13. Which continent has more natural lakes than any other?

14. What is the term for an elongated trough in the ocean floor?

15. The zone of boreal forests extends across northern Canada, Siberia and which multi- country European peninsula?

16. What is the term for the region of tropical grassland and scattered trees that borders Africa’s equatorial forests?

17. Wheat farms in eastern Washington State lie in the rain shadow of what mountain range?

18. The Sinai is a peninsula in what sea?

19. Anthracite and lignite are varieties of which fossil fuel?

20.Shasta, Krakatau and Vesuvius are names of what kind of physical feature?

21. Most of the major rivers that empty into seas bordering the Arctic Ocean have their sources in which country?

22.Most of the world’s tornadoes occur in what country?

23.The largest single land area in the tropics is part of which continent?

24.What is the term for the natural boundary on a mountainside that marks the upper limit of tree growth?

25. Since ancient time, the region between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers has been known by what name? Cultural Geography 26.Although it has many overcrowded cities, most of the people of what country live in more than half a million rural villages?

27. Which country in Latin America is the world’s most populous Portuguese speaking country?

28.The creation of the country of Israel led to a revival of the use of what language as a form of everyday communication?

29.In what country did archeologists in the 1970s unearth an army of life-size clay soldiers that had guarded an emperor’s tomb for 22 centuries?

30.Most of the large, domesticated animals that have played a major role in the development of human societies are native to which continent?

31. What is the famous prehistoric group of monumental stones in southern England?

32.The mountain top statue of Christ the redeemer is a cultural landmark overlooking what city?

33. The Cajun people of Louisiana speak a dialect derived from which language?

34.What is the dominant religion in the region that stretches from Sri lank to Japan and from Mongolia to Vietnam?

35. Various Bantu languages as well as Afrikaans and English are the principal languages spoken in what country?

36.The Catherine Palace and the Hermitage museum are cultural treasures in what city?

37. What is the city in North Africa that is sometimes called “city of a thousand minarets” because of its many Muslim prayer towers?

Regional Geography 38.The Snake, Willamette and Takima Rivers are in which region of the United States? 39.The Bristol Channel separates southwestern England from which other political region in the United Kingdom?

40.What is the name of the plateau region that covers parts of Washington, Idaho and Oregon and shares its names with a river in that region?

41. The Deccan Plateau spans most of the peninsular region of what country?

42.What popular name is given to the broad region of the midwestern southern United States where Protestant Fundamentalism is quite influential?

43.The Gran Chaco is a semiarid plain that covers most of western Paraguay and parts of what two other neighboring countries?

44.Alsace-Lorraine, a mineral-rich region between the Meuse and Rhine Rivers, lies primarily along the border between what two countries?

45. Cotopaxi, an active volcano near Quito, is in one of the most volcanically active regions of the Andes in what country?

46.What is the grain for which the agricultural region that forms a broad belt from Ohio to eastern Nebraska is named?

47. The Mato Grosso Plateaus forms a divide between the basin of the Paraguay River to the south and what major river basin to the north?

48.The music of fiddles, dulcimers and banjos is commonly heard in what mountain range in the Appalachian Mountains that extends from western Maryland to Northern Georgia?

49.Aquitaine is a historical region that once included most of the area south of the Loire in what is now which European country?

50.The terms “glen, “loch” and “firth” are associated with physical features in which political region of the United Kingdom?