1. Wood Buffalo National Park, home to the largest remaining herd of bison in North America, is located in the Northwest Territories and which Canadian Prairie Province?
2. The city of Casper, Wyo., is located on which river?
3. Lapland is to Finland as the High Veld is to WHAT?
4. Bassas da India, an uninhabited atoll in the Mozambique Channel, is administered by France, but is located near which large island country?
5. Which poverty-stricken African country west of Lake Tanganyika is a major producer of diamonds and has an enormous wealth of natural resources?
6. Favelas, which are urban slums and shantytowns built by the poor, are found in Vitoria, a city located on the Atlantic coast of which South American country?
7. Australia, host of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, also hosted the Summer Olympics in 1956 in what large city on Port Phillip Bay?
8. What international financial and trade giant in Asia is an island, a city, a deepwater port, and a republic about 250 square miles in area?
9. What European country — after the gunpoint takeover known as the Anschluss, or annexation — was absorbed into Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945?
10. Which European country relinquished control over the western half of the island of New Guinea, formerly called Irian Jaya, in 1962?
ANSWERS: 1. Alberta 2. North Platte River 3. South Africa 4. Madagascar 5. Democratic Republic of the Congo 6. Brazil 7. Melbourne 8. Singapore 9. Austria 10. Netherlands
National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
