1. The Soviet Union’s 1948 blockade of the western section of a German city led to a 15- month airlift by Western Allies. Name this city.
2. Australia’s only island state is named for the Dutch navigator who reached it in 1642. Name this island state.
3. The ancient town of Beersheba has long been a source of water and a trade center for Bedouins traveling in the Negev. Beersheba is in which present-day country?
4. Cappadocia, an ancient region north of the Taurus Mountains in Asia Minor, is located in which present-day country?
5. By the 5th century A.D., Germanic tribes had conquered much of Europe, leading to the end of the western half of which empire?
6. The Battle of Chacabuco, fought in 1817 near Santiago, began the expulsion of the Spanish from which country in South America?
7. U.S. troops fought Muslim groups in the Moro Wars of 1901 to 1913 on Mindanao and other islands in which present-day country?
8. Name the coastal city that was the capital of Brazil from 1763 until 1960.
9. From 1979 to 1989, the Soviet Union occupied what landlocked country in Central Asia?
10. In 1899, what is now Sudan came officially under the joint control of the United Kingdom and Sudan’s northern neighbor. Name this bordering country.
ANSWERS: 1. Berlin 2. Tasmania 3. Israel 4. Turkey 5. Roman Empire 6. Chile 7. Philippines 8. Rio de Janeiro
9. Afghanistan 10. Egypt
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BEE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
