1. Banc d’Arguin National Park, covering over 4,530 square miles, includes sand dunes, swamps and islands where millions of birds migrate annually. This park is located in which large West African country on the Atlantic Ocean?
2. Darien National Park, a World Heritage site that borders Colombia, contains rain forest and the Tuira River. This park is located in what small country?
3. Corbett National Park, situated in the foothills of the Himalaya, was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park. This park is the oldest in what South Asian country?
4. Bashkiria National Park contains boreal coniferous and broadleaf forests, waterfalls and caves. This park is located along the Ural Mountains in what country?
5. The 2006 G-8 Summit convened in a historic city that gives Russia an outlet on the Baltic Sea. Name this city that has been known as Russia’s “Window on Europe.”
6. In 2005, an estimated 1.1 million refugees returned voluntarily to their country of origin. Nearly 70 percent of these former refugees returned to which country that is bordered by Iran to the west?
7. On March 6, 2007, Ghana, one of West Africa’s most stable democracies, marked its 50th year of independence from British rule with celebrations in its capital city. Name this city.
8. Bikini Atoll is still mainly uninhabitable because of United States nuclear testing that took place there after World War II. Bikini Atoll is part of which country that was a United States administered Trust Territory of the Pacific until 1986?
9. United Nations and United States troops tried unsuccessfully between 1992 and 1995 to bring stability and provide humanitarian relief to a semi-arid country on the Horn of Africa. Name this country that has been without an effective central government since 1991.
10. On June 3, 2006, Serbia, a former Yugoslav republic, became a landlocked country after losing valuable access to the Adriatic Sea when its union with what neighboring country was dissolved?
ANSWERS: 1. Mauritania 2. Panama 3. India 4. Russia 5. St. Petersburg 6. Afghanistan 7. Accra 8. Marshall Island 9. Somalia 10. Montenegro
National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
