1. The Djemaa el Fna, the main square in Marrakech, attracts crowds in which North African country?
2. Napoleon Bonaparte, who was crowned Emperor of the French in 1804, was born on which large island in the Mediterranean Sea?
3. The Dead Sea borders Israel and which other country?
4. The B-ab al Mandab is a strait that separates Eritrea and Djibouti from which country?
5. What is the name for the cultural region located east of the Philippines that includes the islands of Palau, Guam and Nauru?
6. What capital city, located approximately 470 miles southwest of Moscow, is found on the Dnieper River?
7. The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest, originally built in 1420, is part of the Ming dynasty’s Temple of Heaven, and can be visited in which Asian city?
8. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79 it buried the cities of Herculaneum, Stabiaem and which other Italian city?
9. Bonobos, a sister species to the common chimpanzee, can be found in the Sankuru Nature Reserve, a large rain forest preserve in which large central African country?
10. In 2002 the island country of Timor-Leste achieved full independence from which Asian country?
ANSWERS: 1. Morocco 2. Corsica 3. Jordan 4. Yemen 5. Micronesia 6. Kiev 7. Beijing 8. Pompeii 9. Democratic Republic of the Congo 10. Indonesia
National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
