Around the World in Ten Questions (14) Quiz

Answer: Cambridge

Founded in 1874 and named for Henry Cavendish, some 29 Nobel Prize winners had carried out their research at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge as of 2011.
Founded in 1766 and now regarded as one of the world's premier teaching hospitals, Addenbrooke's Hospital is part of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Answer: China

A fault-bounded trough, the Turpan Basin covers an area of 19,000 square miles, which is about the size of Costa Rica or the combined size of Vermont and New Hampshire together. It is located in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in the north-western corner of China.
Lying 505 feet below sea level, the Turpan Depression is the fourth-lowest exposed surface on Earth, after the Dead Sea, the Sea of Galilee and Lake Assal in Djibouti.
Average rainfall in the region is 0.62 inches/year, with rain falling on an average of just 13 days annually. The average 24-hour daily temperature in July is 90 degrees F.

Answer: New Zealand

Located in the southern Pacific Ocean, the Kermadec Islands are 600-700 miles southwest of Tonga and a similar distance northeast of New Zealand's North Island.
With an area of 11.34 square miles (about half the size of Bermuda), Raoul Island (also known as Sunday Island) is comfortably the largest of the group. Its highest point, Moumoukai Peak, rises 1,693 feet above sea level, though. Other islands within the group include Macauley Island, Curtis Island, Nugent Island and L'Esperance Rock.

Answer: Central African Republic

With an area of 240,000 square miles, Central African Republic is the 45th-largest country in the world, just slightly larger than Ukraine and only a little smaller than the second-largest U.S. state, Texas.
2014 estimates put the country's population at around 4.7 million, a rise of almost a million since the last census, in 2003. The Gbaya People are the country's largest ethnic group, making up about one-third of the population. The country is 80% Christian, 10% Muslim with the remaining 10% following various indigenous beliefs.
Close to 20% of the country's population, more than 700,000, live in the capital, Bangui (not to be confused with the capital of Gambia, Banjul). The second-largest city, Bimbo, is located near the border with the Republic of Congo in the southwest of the country, just 15 miles southwest of Bangui. One of Africa's fastest-growing cities, Bimbo had a population of 125,000 at the time of the 2003 census, but estimates a decade later show that number has more than doubled. Berbérati is the third-largest city, also in the southwest, near the Cameroon border.

Answer: Germany

A landlocked country of around 8.5 million people in Central Europe, Austria is about the same size as the U.S. state of South Carolina. Portugal and Hungary are both slightly larger than Austria whilst the Czech Republic is marginally smaller. Bordered by eight other countries, Austria shares its longest land border with Germany (490 miles), with whom it also shares a common language. Austria's border with Italy is 269 miles, with Hungary 229 miles and with Czech Republic 226 miles. Austria's shorter land borders are with Slovenia (206 miles), Switzerland (103), Slovakia (57) and Liechtenstein (22 miles).

Answer: Delaware

Rhode Island is the smallest U.S. state, but it is divided into the five counties of Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence and Washington. Although Delaware is 75% larger than Rhode Island, it is the state with the fewest counties, just three. The northernmost of the three counties is New Castle.

Its county seat is Wilmington, the state's largest city. Kent county covers the middle of the state. Its county seat is also the state capital, Dover. The southernmost of the three counties is Sussex, which is also the largest of the three.

Its county seat is Georgetown. The oldest European settlement in the state is in Sussex county, the present-day town of Lewes, founded by the Dutch in 1631.

Answer: South Korea

Japan's nearest mainland neighbor is South Korea, which lies some 120 miles to the north of the southernmost of Japan's main islands, Kyűshű and Honshű, across the Korea Strait.
Japan's nearest neighbor is actually the Russian islands lying to the north of Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's main islands. On mainland Asia, Russia's Far Eastern Federal District lies to the northwest of Japan across the Sea of Okhotsk, but is further than the 120 miles across the Korea Strait.

Answer: The Bahamas

The Bahamas consists of more than 700 islands and islets, although only 26 of those are inhabited.
Technically an archipelago connected by mangrove estuaries and tidal swamp lands, politically Andros Island is considered a single island within the Bahamian Federation. With an area of 2,300 square miles (slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Delaware), Andros Island has a larger land area than all of the other Bahamian islands combined. 104 miles long and 40 miles across at its widest point, Andros is the sixth-largest island in the Caribbean.
The Andros Barrier Reef, the world's sixth-largest, runs parallel to the island's shore for more than 140 miles at a distance of 1-2 miles offshore.
The capital of The Bahamas, Nassau, is located on New Providence Island, some 30 miles west of Andros Island.

Answer: Campania

Campania is only the 12th-largest of Italy's 20 regions but, with a population of close to six million (2014 estimate) it is the third-most populous (after Lombardy and Lazio) and the most densely populated.
Located in southern Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the country's west coast, the Romans named the region 'Campania felix' meaning fertile countryside. It has land borders with Lazio to the northwest, Molise to the north, Apulia to the northeast and Basilicata to the east.
The region's major city, Naples, is home to S.S.C. Napoli, founded in 1926. When they won the Serie A title in 1986-87, they became the first team from southern Italy ever crowned champions. They subsequently won the EUFA Cup in 1988-89 and repeated their title success in 1989-90.

Answer: Denmark

Glasgow is located at a latitude of 55?)51?OeN. Traveling due east along that line of latitude you will next make landfall on the west coast of the Jutland Peninsula in central Denmark. Crossing Jutland, you would pass just south of Denmark's second-largest city, Aarhus, and eventually pass through the northern suburbs of the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Continuing eastwards, you would leave Denmark and cross southern Sweden just north of Malmo before crossing the Baltic Sea and eventually passing almost through the centre of Moscow, which lies just a handful of minutes south of Glasgow.