1. Although production levels have dropped since the 1980s, what country that spans 11 time zones still grows almost 25 percent of the world’s oats?
2. Global warming and the shrinking of polar ice have affected the natural habitat of polar bears living along the Beaufort Sea in Alaska and which country?
3. A new, high-altitude railway recently opened, connecting the capital of Tibet with the rest of China. Name this capital.
4. Which South Asian capital, located on the flood-prone Ganges-Brahmaputra delta, serves as the industrial center of Bangladesh?
5. The Central American Integration System, which promotes regional cooperation, was signed in 1991 in Tegucigalpa (te-goo-see-GAHL-pah), the capital of what country?
6. Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion in France, Spain and which other country that France and Spain completely surround?
7. Scientists recently found evidence of a history of tsunamis triggered by underwater landslides off the coast of which large island east of Hispaniola?
8. Textile manufacturing employs a substantial part of the industrial labor force in what country that has plans to build more than 20 dams on the upper Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
9. Hudson Bay, which is shallow and fed by numerous rivers, is bounded on the north and northwest by which Canadian territory?
10. The largest coal importer in the world is an Asian constitutional monarchy that is made up of more than 3,000 islands. Name this country.
ANSWERS: 1. Russia 2. Canada 3. Lhasa 4. Dhaka 5. Honduras 6. Andorra 7. Puerto Rico 8. Turkey 9. Nunavut 10. Japan
National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
