World Geography trivia questions and answers

The Quickfire pack has 50 World Geography questions, all written in English and Spanish. Here are 15 of them. Hosts get the full set, ready to put on a TV with players answering on their phones.

Tap a question to reveal the answer. The sample runs from very easy to very hard, like the pack itself. Showing 15 of 50 questions.

1. What is the largest continent?Very easy

   Answer: Asia.

2. What is the highest mountain in the world?Very easy

   Answer: Mount Everest.

3. What desert is in Africa?Very easy

   Answer: Sahara.

4. What is the name of the imaginary line that divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?Easy

   Answer: The equator.

5. What is the term for a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides?Easy

   Answer: A peninsula.

6. What name is given to the horseshoe-shaped belt of volcanoes and earthquake zones around the Pacific Ocean?Easy

   Answer: The Ring of Fire.

7. What type of landscape, marked by sinkholes and caves, forms where limestone dissolves?Intermediate

   Answer: Karst.

8. Which country has the highest population density in the world?Intermediate

   Answer: Monaco.

9. What are the Great Lakes?Intermediate

   Answer: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior.

10. Which country contains the largest portion of the Amazon Rainforest?Hard

    Answer: Brazil.

11. Which strait connecting the Persian Gulf to the open ocean is the world's most important oil-transit chokepoint?Hard

    Answer: The Strait of Hormuz.

12. What is the term for a long, narrow sea inlet carved by glaciers, common along Norway's coast?Hard

    Answer: A fjord.

13. What are the climate zones by Köppen classification?Very hard

    Answer: Tropical, dry, temperate, continental, polar.

14. What is the largest tectonic plate on Earth?Very hard

    Answer: The Pacific Plate.

15. Which two countries are 'doubly landlocked', surrounded entirely by other landlocked countries?Very hard

    Answer: Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan.