FunTrivia Geography Mix: Vol 8 Quiz

Answer: Springfield

Not to be confused with Springfield, Massachusetts or Springfield, Missouri, or even the hometown of "The Simpsons", Springfield is the third city in Illinois history to serve as its state capital.

Question by player Planet_Express

Answer: Montana

Yogo sapphires are usually a cornflower blue because they contain trace amounts of iron and titanium. They are found in Judith Basin County, Montana, mostly in Yogo Gulch (part of the Little Belt Mountains). Far from being 'big sky' states, the three wrong answers are the smallest states in the US.

Question by player Quiz_Beagle

Answer: Edam and Gouda

Edam is located in the province of North Holland. It is so named for the dam on the River E (IJe), which was the site chosen by the first people living there. It is also the place where the Edam cheese originated. Gouda is in the province of South Holland.

It is the place where the cheese that bears the city's name was sold, although it was not made in the city but in surrounding areas. There is a cheese market in the city every Thursday.

Question by player Babilonia

Answer: Alaska

Alaska's Aleutian Islands reach all the way to the edge of the Western Hemisphere as well as stretching up to the Russian Federation in the Eastern Hemisphere. The state of Alaska is also the most northern, which makes Alaska the most eastern, western and northern place in the United States. Alaska also wins in the category of the largest state by surface area.

Question by player sharonfaye

Answer: Kigali, Rwanda

Luanda, Manila, and Havana are all major ports for their nation. Rwanda, of course, is landlocked, so its capital cannot be a port!

Question by player geobeechamp

Answer: mistaken as source of Solomon's gold

Mendana, who discovered Solomon Islands, believed them to be the source of King Solomon's gold. He didn't do Solomon Islands much good--his expedition brought malaria to the islands.

Question by player merip

Answer: Singora-Singapore

The former name for Singapore was Temasek. On the other hand, Singora or Singgora was a former province name for Songkla, situated in southern Thailand.

The military government of Myanmar officially changed its country name from Burma in 1989. Sri Lanka changed from Ceylon in 1972. Malaya was changed to Malaysia in 1963 after uniting with North Borneo, Sarawak, and Singapore.

Question by player romeo4u

Answer: Lifestyle

Betty Guillard, society and gossip columnist of the the New Orleans Times-Picayune, first used the Big Easy nickname in the 1970s in her column. She came up with the Big Easy attribution based on the easy going lifestyle found in New Orleans. New Orleans is also known as the Crescent city due to its geography created by the bend in the Mississippi River.

Question by player golfer46

Answer: The Great Dividing Range

The Great Dividing Range is the fourth longest in the world. It stretches more than 3500 km (2175 miles) from Dauan Island in north Queensland, down through all of New South Wales, and the into Victoria. There it turns west and converges with the Grampians. Well-known areas of the Great Dividing Range include the Dandenong Ranges, the New England Plateau, the Blue Mountains, and the Australian Alps.

Question by player rb6359

Answer: Monaco

Prince Albert II became the sovereign of this independent, wealthy Mediterranean city-state of 1.95 km2 upon the death of Prince Rainier III in 2005. Andorra is also a small principality that borders France, but its principal official language is Catalan and it is 468 km2. Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast in English) is over 300,000 km2 in Africa, and is a republic. Genovia is a fictional French-speaking principality in "The Princess Diaries" series.

Question by player SonOfSaradoc