All Of The Above True Or False (Geography) Quiz

Answer: True

The Niagara flows between Canada and the USA; the Paraná between Brazil and Paraguay; the Bug between Belarus and Poland (and also between Ukraine and Poland) and the Foyle between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Answer: False

Scafell Pike, 3,209ft, 978m, is England's tallest mountain.
Helvellyn, 3,117ft 950m, is third on the list and Ill Craig, 3,068ft 935m is fourth. All are in the South West sector of the Lake District.
Mount Errigal, 2,464ft 751m, is in the Republic of Ireland.

Answer: True

All are listed in the order of population.
Although not the longest river in the USA - its tributary the Missouri holds that record - the Mississippi and all of its tributaries are the largest river drainage area in North America.
Thirty-one US states and two Canadian Provinces feed the drainage system.
Native Americans called it "Misi-ziibi" - "Great River." The French translated that as "Messipi", and the American translation followed.

Answer: False

Hokkaido, Honshu, and Skikoku are three of the five main islands in Japan. The other two are Kyushu and Okinawa.
The country's capital, Tokyo, is located on Honshu.
Kotelny is one of the New Siberian Islands in the Russian Arctic.

Answer: False

Clearwater and Pensacola are both in Florida and Linikai in Hawaii. All three were named in the "TripAdvisor" 2016 list of the "Best Beaches in the USA".
Tulum was also an acclaimed beach, but in Mexico.

Answer: True

Built in the 1920s, the route ran from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California, a distance a little short of 2,500 miles.
By the 1980s, many of the small towns it went through had been by-passed by faster roads. In 1984, Route 66 was decommissioned, although the old route has been designated 'Historic Route 66' and continues to be a tourist magnet.

Answer: False

In terms of freight volume, the first three listed were by 2014 the three largest in Europe, and in that order.
Rotterdam, though, was only 11th in the world list, handling about a third of the volume of the leader, Shanghai, China.
Austria, of course, is landlocked so has no access to the sea. Bregenz is on shores of Lake Constance, which is the third-largest freshwater lake in Central Europe.

Answer: True

In fact they are all among the tallest mountains in New Zealand.
Mount Cook, also known as Aoraki, is the tallest, 3,724m or 12,218ft.
Mount Tasman, 3,497m or 11,473ft, is fourth.
Mount Dampier, 3,440m or 11,286ft is fifth.
Mount Hicks, 3,198m or 10,492ft is ninth.

Answer: True

Mount Buller is a three-hour drive from Melbourne.
Mount Hotham boasts of being the "powder capital of Australia" and is in the state of Victoria. It is about 4.5 hours drive from Melbourne.
Thredbo is midway between Sydney and Melbourne and at one time boasted the steepest overall terrain in Australia. By car from Sydney or Melbourne will take around six hours.
Perisher, in New South Wales - 210km, two hours and 35 minutes from Canberra - was the largest resort in the Southern Hemisphere.
June to October are the best times to go skiing in Australia.

Answer: False

Thunder Bay, Ontario, is on Lake Superior; Port Colborne, Ontario is on Lake Erie; Kingston, Ontario is on Lake Ontario; Huron, Ohio, USA, is also on Lake Erie.
Kingston and Thunder Bay both had populations of greater than 100,000.
Kingston was the earliest to be established as a place of commerce when the French had a fort and fur trading post there in 1673.