1. Which European country, occupying most of the Jutland Peninsula, gets about 20 percent of its electricity from wind power?
2. Tikal, the great Maya city abandoned in the 10th century, is located in which Central American country?
3. The Valley of the Kings, the burial site for many pharaohs, was once a part of the ancient city of Thebes in what country?
4. What country, west of the Gulf of Bothnia, has large deposits of iron ore by the city of Kiruna?
5. What body of water is connected with the Black Sea through the Bosporus and with the Aegean Sea through the Dardanelles?
6. The Great Barrier Reef, located in the Coral Sea, runs just east of which country?
7. What Southeast Asian country, crossed by the Tropic of Cancer, is bordered by India and China?
8. In 2005, the “Cedar Revolution” took place in Beirut, the capital of which country that is famous for its cedar trees?
9. The 1912 Treaty of Fez established French control of which North African country that borders the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean?
10. The region of Alsace-Lorraine has changed hands four times since 1870 between France and what other country, which occupied the area during most of World War II?
ANSWERS: 1. Denmark 2. Guatemala 3. Egypt 4. Sweden 5. Sea of Marmara 6. Australia 7. Myanmar (Also acceptable: Burma) 8. Lebanon 9. Morocco 10. Germany National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
