1. In 2006, the Permanent Court of Arbitration decided on a maritime boundary between Barbados and what country made up of two islands?
2. Examples of long-lots, a common name for a type of French settlement pattern, can be found in the second-largest city in Canada. Name this city, located on an island in the St. Lawrence River.
3. The lempira is the currency of which country whose economic reliance on banana and coffee production was disrupted by Hurricane Mitch in 1998?
4. Quezon City, named for the second president of the Philippines, is the former capital and located on the country’s largest island. Name this island.
5. The village of Llívia, a Spanish exclave, is completely surrounded by which neighboring country?
6. Malabo, a city on the island of Bioko, is the capital of what country with more than 90 percent of its area on the African mainland?
7. Chetumal Bay, an inlet of the Caribbean Sea, is shared by Mexico and which Central American country?
8. The Celebes Sea is bounded by three major islands — Celebes to the south, Mindanao to the north, and what island to the west that is shared by three countries?
9. The Hecate Strait separates the Queen Charlotte Islands from the rest of what Canadian province?
10. Located in Australia, Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, is a sandstone rock dome. This type of single giant rock is an example of what geological formation?
ANSWERS: 1. Trinidad and Tobago 2. Montreal 3. Honduras 4. Luzon 5. France 6. Equatorial Guinea 7. Belize 8. Borneo 9. British Columbia 10. Monolith (Also acceptable: inselberg, monadnock)
National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
