1. Located adjacent to the Mariana Trench, which Pacific island has an economy that relies heavily on tourism and is home to a U.S. military base?
2. What country, seeking to modernize its port facilities, established a deepwater port in 1986 near its capital city of Nouakchott?
3. A large Canadian island, which forms a province with Labrador, was reached by Italian explorer, John Cabot, under the English flag in 1497. Name this island.
4. Which country controls the Khyber (KHEI-buhr) Pass, a traditional invasion route between Central Asia and India?
5. Australia’s considerable reserves of iron ore are found predominantly in the country’s northwestern Pilbara region and on an island state that lies south of Melbourne. Name this island.
6. Momotombo Volcano, reaching above 4,100 feet, is located on the northwestern shore of Lake Managua, near the spot where the Cocos and Caribbean plates converge in which Central American country?
7. Which city, founded nearly 3,000 years ago on the Tiber River, was once the capital of an empire stretching from Britain to the Persian Gulf?
8. Situated on the Neva River delta, what city served as its country’s capital from 1712 to 1918?
9. Natural pastures cover more than 50 percent of the landscape on which Italian island whose capital is Cagliari?
10. The Cuchumatanes Mountains lie northwest of the Motagua River in what country that borders Honduras?
1. Guam 2. Mauritania 3. Newfoundland 4. Pakistan 5. Tasmania 6. Nicaragua 7. Rome 8. St. Petersburg 9. Sardinia 10. Guatemala
National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
