1. A Scandinavian country was invaded by the Germans in World War II and joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization after the war, but is not a member of the European Union. Name this country.
2. Which Central American country, whose capital is San Jose, has enjoyed stable democracy since 1949?
3. Prior to the construction of the Panama Canal, Chile’s present-day largest port served as a stop-off point for ships traveling around Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean. Name this city.
4. Yalta, site of a major World War II conference of chief Allied leaders, is located on the Black Sea in which present-day European country?
5. By the 1600s, Cartagena was a major naval base and commercial port in the Spanish empire. Cartagena is located in which present-day South American country?
6. Macau is the oldest permanent European settlement in East Asia. What European country first used Macau as a trading center with China?
7. Some slaves from Africa were taken to colonies along the Atlantic coast of South America, including what colony formerly known as Dutch Guiana?
8. Founded in 1860 as a military outpost, Vladivostok is now the chief commercial port on the Pacific Ocean for what large country?
9. Gorno-Badakhshan, controlled at times by the Mongols, Arabs and Russians, is now an autonomous province in the Pamirs in what country that borders Afghanistan and China?
10. Tamerlane’s empire, known for conquering and terrorizing much of Southwest Asia in the late 1300s, almost encircled the largest inland body of water in the world. Name this sea.
ANSWERS: 1. Norway 2. Costa Rica 3. Valparaíso 4. Ukraine 5. Colombia 6. Portugal 7. Suriname 8. Russia 9. Tajikistan 10. Caspian Sea
National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
