1. To visit the Daintree Rain Forest, you might fly into the closest international airport, which is in Cairns, a city on the Coral Sea coast of which country?
2. The Commander Islands, administered by Russia, are the geographically westernmost extension of what island chain that begins at the tip of the Alaska Peninsula?
3. Kingston, the capital of Canada from 1841 through 1844, is located at the eastern end of the Great Lakes in what province?
4. The Diaguita people are indigenous to parts of which mountain range in northwestern Argentina and northern Chile?
5. Piraeus, a seaport city, has been the chief port of which European capital since the fifth century B.C.?
6. What is the term for cold habitats at high elevations located above the tree line?
7. In 2006, what South American country elected Michelle Bachelet as its first female president?
8. Name the largest city in Australia’s sparsely populated Northern Territory, which is home to the highest indigenous population, by percent, of all Australian cities.
9. Waitangi is a village on the Bay of Islands in New Zealand and was the site of a treaty between the British and what indigenous people in 1840?
10. Cordoba is the second-most-populous province in which South American country?
ANSWERS: 1. Australia 2. Aleutian Islands 3. Ontario 4. Andes 5. Athens 6. Alpine 7. Chile 8. Darwin 9. Maori 10. Argentina
National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
