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Basic Geography
Question | Answer |
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Lowest place in Asia (and the rest of the world, actually) | Dead Sea |
Tallest mountain in Africa and its country | Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania |
Second tallest mountain in Africa and its country | Mount Kenya in Kenya (shocker, I know) |
Where is the Kalahari Desert? | South Africa |
Where is the Mojave Desert? | California |
What is the coldest desert and which in countries is it? | Gobi Desert in Mongolia and northern China |
What and where is the largest desert? | Sahara Desert in northern Africa |
Longest river in the world? | Nile River |
Largest river in the world by volume? | Amazon River |
Southern African river (best guess for a question)? | Zambezi |
Largest lake in the world? | Caspian Sea |
Largest lake in Africa? | Lake Victoria |
What is the tallest mountain in the world and in which mountain range is it? | Mount Everest in the Himalayas |
Waterfalls in South America? | Angel Falls in Venezuela or Kaiteur Falls in Guyana |
Most populated city in the world? | Tokyo |
Most populated city in the US? | New York City |
Most populated US capital city? | Phoenix, Arizona |
Highest elevated capital city in the US? | Santa Fe, New Mexico |
Tallest building in the world? | Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE |
Tallest twin towers in the world? | Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
Lowest capital city in the world? | Baku, Azerbaijan |
Highest capital city in the world? | La Paz, Bolivia |
Highest peak in the US? | Denali in Alaska, the United States' tallest mountain |
Lowest point in the US? | Badwater Basin in Death Valley (the basin itself is in California, but Death Valley is also in Nevada) |