Quiz round 3: Geography

[philmophlegm]

1. What is the capital city of Australia?


2. What is the county town of Shropshire?


3. Which southeast African country gained independence from Portugal in 1975?


4. What is the world's largest lake?


5. Which is further west, Liverpool, Edinburgh or Dundee?


6. Which end of the Panama Canal is furthest west, the Atlantic end or the Pacific end?


7. Hobart is the largest city in Tasmania (in terms of population). What is the second largest?


8. Los Angeles is the largest city in California (in terms of population). What is the second largest?


9. By area, what is the largest country in Africa?


10. Which country has more Scouts and Guides than any other?

Comments

[prester-scott.livejournal.com]

1. Canberra
5. (guess) Edinborough
6. (guess) Atlantic
8. San Francisco, though I'm tempted to guess San Diego
9. (guess) Zaire

I suppose y'all are right about Americans.... ;P

[ozisim.livejournal.com]

1. Canberra
4. Lake Victoria
5. Liverpool
6. Pacific
7. Launceston
8. San Francisco
10. USA

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

1. Canberra
2. Shrewsbury
3. Mozambique
4. Superior (freshwater), Caspian (salt)
5. Edinburgh?
6. Atlantic
7. Launceston?
8. San Diego?
9. Nigeria?
10. China?

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

1. Canberra
2. Shrewsbury

4. Caspian Sea
5. Ooh, sneaky. "Surely it's Liverpool," I thought, but then started doubting myself, because it seemed too obvious. I know Edinburgh's further west than I think, so... No, I still feel that Liverpool's further west.
6. But in this case I'm going to go with the counter intuitive answer, to balance out my previous answer, so: Pacific.

8. San Diego?
9. No idea, so have a random guess: South Africa
10. Also no idea, so another random guess: USA

[eledonecirrhosa.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be rubbish at this one (and I'n not even going to attemmpt the Sport category)
1. Melbourne
2. ?
3. Angola maybe?
4. Lake Superior
5. Liverpool
6. Further west from where?!! :-) The Pacific end is further west than the Atlantic end is. Both of them are further west than me!
7. ?
8. San Francisco maybe
9. I think it is one of the Congo ones. I'll go for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
10. guess at India

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

Canberra
Shrewsbury
Angola
Baikal
Edinburgh
Atlantic
Trick question: Tasmania doesn't even have any large towns
San Diego
Chad
China

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

The answers:

1. Canberra
2. Shrewsbury
3. Mozambique
4. The Caspian Sea
5. Edinburgh
6. The Atlantic end, oddly enough
7. Launceston
8. San Diego
9. Algeria
10. Indonesia

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Ugh, geography is not my strong point :-(

1. I'm pretty sure it's *not* Sydney. Brisbane?
2. Oh, where the Cadfael books are set. Got it - Shrewsbury!
3. dunno
4. dunno
5. dunno
6. Since this is a question, I'm guessing the Atlantic end
7. dunno
8. dunno
9. dunno
10. India?

...well, that was pretty pathetic!