1. The four French enclaves of Pondicherry, located on the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea and now known as Puducherry, were officially transferred to which South Asian country in 1962?
2. October 1956 student demonstrations against the communist government led to a revolt demanding the removal of Soviet troops from which landlocked European country?
3. Electricity produced from the nearby Snare River powers the capital of the Northwest Territories in Canada. Name this city.
4. Name the cape that forms the southwestern tip of the island of Great Britain.
5. In spring or summer, guests can rent a historic fisherman’s cabin or visit a Viking museum in the Lofoten Islands, north of the Arctic Circle, in which country?
6. Which country, the southernmost of the Lesser Antilles, is a major exporter of liquefied natural gas?
7. Hunza, a region in the Karakoram Range, is near what country’s borders with India, Afghanistan and China?
8. Lomo montado, a beef dish that includes eggs, rice and fried bananas, is a national specialty in which landlocked South American country with two national capital cities?
9. Which arm of the Mediterranean Sea separates Greece from Italy?
10. Which country’s struggle for independence gained momentum with the Salt March to the Arabian Sea in 1930?
GEOQUIZ ANSWERS: 1. India 2. Hungary 3. Yellowknife 4. Land’s End 5. Norway 6. Trinidad and Tobago 7. Pakistan 8. Bolivia
9. Ionian Sea 10. India
National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
