1. Mactan Island, the site of Ferdinand Magellan’s death, is in what present-day country?
2. Alexandra David-Neel, a French explorer, writer and spiritualist, traveled throughout Asia, including Sikkim, a state in what present-day country?
3. The least populous member of the European Union is located just south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea. Name this island country.
4. While many Caribbean cities focus on tourism, which city, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, also benefits from its status as a regional center of trade?
5. In the 14th century, which present-day Baltic country, led at first by Grand Duke Gediminas, expanded its empire into Russia and as far south as the Black Sea?
6. Cerro de Pasco was historically an important silver- mining center in the Andean highlands of what present- day coastal South American country?
7. Sampans, small flat-bottomed boats, are a type of transportation used daily in which country located east of Laos and Cambodia?
8. Which South American capital’s Plaza San Martin has a monument dedicated to the military casualties of the Falkland Islands War of 1982?
9. Spanish Town, located on the Rio Cobre, was once called Santiago de la Vega and was the capital of which Caribbean country from 1692 to 1872?
10. Which country, with Aden as its chief port, was home to the ancient Minaean, Sabaean and Himyarite kingdoms?
1. Philippines 2. India 3. Malta 4. Port-of-Spain 5. Lithuania 6. Peru 7. Vietnam 8. Buenos Aires 9. Jamaica 10. Yemen
National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
