Wait, I'm on that List too (Geography) Quiz

Answer: Utah

Utter fiction. I had a favorite Uncle Jimmy, but he never vacationed with us. Nor did we ever go to the Four Corners. Nor did we ever call him "Unca".

However, sometimes young children have difficulty saying the word "uncle" and use "unca" instead; and that may stay as a permanent affectionate name. UNCA is also a bad mnemonic I invented for the four states, since the letters N, C, and A are used for multiple states. However U is unique to Utah.

Utah is in the northwest quadrant from the four corners spot; Arizona is in the southwest, New Mexico the southeast quadrant, and Colorado the northeast.

Answer: Austria

A bucket list trip for many of us includes waltzing on the deck of a cruise ship on the Danube River, which flows through these countries and Austria.

The only country not on the list is the one most associated with the Danube River, Austria. How can we forgot the homeland of Johann Strauss, the Waltz King and composer of "The Blue Danube".

Answer: Islamabad

Thought you knew capital cities? Well these are the capital cities of the so-called "stans".

Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan
Nur-Sultan, formerly known as Astana, for Kazakhstan
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Ashgabat, Turkmanistan
Tashkent, Uzbekistan

The remaining "stan" is, of course, Pakistan with its capital city being Islamabad.

Answer: Gibraltar

The sun never set on the British Empire. Well it's much smaller and still covers a wide expanse. These countries are remnants of the Empire, now part of the British Overseas Territories. Gibraltar is another member, although Spain still contests this.

Answer: Dover

These are all cities or towns in the county of Kent, situated in the southeast corner of England. Ramsgate, Margate, Dover, and Folkestone are seaport towns in Kent. Canterbury is the second most important Church of England cathedral, once a pilgrimage site to the Thomas a Becket shrine.

Dover with its famous white cliffs is on the coast, a relatively short boat ride from France.

Answer: Santa Monica, California

These are some of the cities and towns on the "Mother Road" of the US, Route 66. The road started in Chicago and ended at the Santa Monica Pier in Greater Los Angeles. Before the US interstate system of roads was started in the 1950s, Route 66 was the main US highway linking the Midwest to the West, and was the road traveled in the 1930s by the Dust Bowl migrants to the Promised Land of California.

Although many of these towns were bypassed by the interstate system, you can still see remnants of their glory days standing. As the song says, "Get your kicks on Route 66".

Answer: Karachi

These cities were once the capital of their country and were replaced by another city some time in the 20th or 21st century.

Abuja replaced Lagos as Nigeria's capital in 1976.

Naypyidaw replaced Yangon (Rangoon) as the capital city of Myanamar (Burma) in about 2006.

Belmopan replaced Belize City as the capital of Belize after hurricane damage in 1961 to the former capital.

Istanbul had been capital of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey until 1923 when Kemal Atatürk moved the capital to Ankara.

Rio de Janeiro was capital of Brazil until 1960 when a new planned city of Brasilia replaced it.

Karachi is still the largest city of Pakistan was its first capital until 1967 when the capital was temporarily moved to Rawalpindi and then permanently to nearby Islamabad.

Answer: Lake Titicaca

These lakes are international lakes, on the border of two or more countries, and you could be traveling between countries.

Lake Victoria: Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania

Lake Chad: Chad, Niger, Nigeria, and Cameroon

Lake Champlain: United States and Canada

Lake Geneva: France and Switzerland

Lake Lugano: Switzerland and Italy

Lake Superior: US and Canada

Lake Titicaca is shared by Bolivia and Peru.

A tip of the cap to Ken Jennings who gave me this idea with a similar question on mountains shared by two countries.

Answer: Bath, England

The list includes many of the notable hot springs and spa towns in Europe. The hot mineral springs in Bath were known before the Romans arrived, but they built up the spa. After they left in the 5th century, rising water and silting placed them in a state of disrepair. By the 1700s they had regained their popularity among the gentry.

Answer: Ecuador

Ecuador is derived from the Spanish for equator; so obviously it belongs in the list of countries which the equator passes through.

Incidentally a quick Internet search will produce similar lists of countries that have the Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, or Greenwich Prime Meridian transversing them.