1. Plantains are grown north of Lake Victoria in a country that is the world’s largest producer of the fruit. Name this country.
2. Gold is mined near the city of Ciudad Bolívar, an inland port located on which South American river?
3. What city, the planned capital of Australia, was built between the country’s two largest cities?
4. Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion in France, Spain, and which other country that is surrounded by France and Spain?
5. The Italian city of Ravenna, once the center of rule of the Western Roman Empire, is connected by canal to what sea?
6. Which South American capital is home to Plaza San Martín, where a monument is dedicated to the military casualties of the Falkland Islands War of 1982?
7. Spanish Town, located on the Rio Cobre, was once called Santiago de la Vega and was the capital of a Caribbean country from 1692 to 1872. Name this island country.
8. Which present-day country on the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea was the southernmost point of the Ottoman Empire at its greatest extent?
9. Peninsula de Paraguaná, located just south of Aruba, is part of what country?
10. What country, seeking to modernize its port facilities, established a deepwater port in 1986 near its capital city of Nouakchott?
National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
ANSWERS: 1. Uganda 2.Orinoco River 3. Canberra 4.Andorra 5. Adriatic Sea 6. Buenos Aires 7. Jamaica 8. Yemen 9. Venezuela 10. Mauritania
