1. The Chuquicamata mine, one of the largest open-pit copper mines in the world, is located in which desert that runs parallel to the Pacific coastline in South America?
2. Nanga Parbat, one of the world’s tallest mountains with a height of 26,660 feet, is located in which country whose capital is Islamabad?
3. In June 2006, women voted for the first time in parliamentary elections in what small country at the northwestern end of the Persian Gulf?
4. Except for Gdansk, which was declared a free city, Germany ceded all of West Prussia to what country upon signing the Treaty of Versailles in 1919?
5. Which Caribbean country, whose chief port is Roseau, was sighted by Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1493?
6. The Ataturk Dam, one of the world’s largest earth-and- rock-fill dams, was completed in 1990. It provides irrigation water and electricity to the arid southeastern part of which country?
7. Rich volcanic soils support an agricultural sector that employs about two-thirds of the workforce in the country of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa. These Polynesian islands gained their independence from what country in 1962?
8. After the signing of the Treaty of Berlin in 1878, Bulgaria gained a measure of autonomy from a former empire with the help of the Russians. Name this empire.
9. Once known as the Gold Coast, which West African country became independent from Great Britain in 1957?
10. Ruled by the same family for more than six centuries, which country neighboring the Malaysian state of Sarawak benefits from extensive petroleum and natural-gas fields?
1. Atacama Desert2. Pakistan 3.Kuwait 4. Poland 5. Dominica 6. Turkey 7. New Zealand 8. Ottoman Empire (Also acceptable: Turkish Empire) 9. Ghana 10. Brunei
National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
