Grab Your Travel Packs Trivia Quiz

Answer: Delmarva Peninsula

The name Delmarva, which has been used as early as the year 1913, comes from the names of the three states which lie on the peninsula: Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal cuts through the isthmus in the north. The peninsula has been colonized by at least three different countries, having been given such names as Zwaanendael, New Sweden, and New Netherland.

Answer: Tiburon Peninsula

This peninsula is located entirely in the country of Haiti, which shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. It encloses Haiti's Gulf of Gonâve in the south, separating it from the Caribbean Sea, and helps give Haiti the second longest coastline in the Greater Antilles region of the Caribbean, after Cuba.

The wrong choices all include words for "shark" in languages such as Catalan, French, and Basque.

Answer: Guajira Peninsula

The Guajira Peninsula is home to the Colombian Punta Gallinas (Cape Chicken), the northernmost point of South America's mainland. The Guanahacabibes is a peninsula in the extreme west of the island of Cuba, while the Valdes Peninsula is the site of a nature reserve in eastern Argentina.

The Yucatan Peninsula is a large prominence mostly occupied by Mexico which separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea.

Answer: Gower

Gower Peninsula is a popular coastline for tourists and has many caves. One of these, Paviland Cave in 1823, was the site of the first human fossil to be found in the world. It was that of the Red Lady of Paviland, which was later found to actually be the skeleton of a young male that was dyed in red ochre.

The Llŷn Peninsula is a larger peninsula in northern Wales, located just below the island of Anglesey. Kintyre is a peninsula in Scotland, while Spurn Point is in England.

Answer: Brittany

Bretagne in French, this region and peninsula got its name from the British settlers who came there during an invasion of Britain between the fifth and seventh centuries. It may be called the Breton peninsula and is even sometimes referred to as "Lesser" or "Little" Britain. Brittany is home to a large number of cultural, musical, and maritime festivals and maintains a significant Celtic identity.

Answer: Absheron

The end of the Absheron peninsula is known for ravines and salt lakes, which resonates with the Persian origin of the name, "Abshouran". This name is made up of the words for "water" (ab) and "salty" (shour) made plural by the suffix "-an".

About 55 km (34 mi) from the tip of Absheron lies a city "built on stilts in the Caspian Sea". Neft Daşları, or the Oil Rocks, started as an oil platform, the first one in Azerbaijan and the first offshore one in the world. It eventually became a town of about 5,000 inhabitants with more than 300 km (190 mi) of streets. At first it was built with sunken ships for a foundation, and later on heaps of dirt and even landfill. Serious construction projects during the late 1950s and 1970s left Neft Daşları with buildings like bakeries, hostels, lemonade workshops and more. Its population is made up of men who work week-long shifts on the artificial islands.

(Quote is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku.)

Answer: India

The name Kathiawar may be used synonymously with Saurashtra, a region occupying the same tract of land. This land is home to The Gir Forest National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary, a significant protected area in Asia, which houses animals such as spotted deer, nilgai (blue bull), blackbucks, and just over 400 of the last remaining Asiatic lions in the wild. These lions are smaller than the African lions. African lions have a significantly larger habitat and population due to a long history of Asiatic lions being a favorite hunting animal in India.

Mahatma Gandhi was born in Porbandar, a city on the coast of Kathiawar facing the Arabian Sea.

Answer: Shandong Peninsula

The Shandong faces another peninsula, the Liaodong, which helps it enclose the Bohai Sea. They "meet" at the Bohai Strait. The Yellow River, China's second longest, empties into the sea just north of the Shandong Peninsula, which may also be called the Jiaodong Peninsula.

Shandong province is the second most populous in all of China and was the birthplace of Confucius, in the city of Qufu.

The Leizhou Peninsula is the southernmost point of mainland China and reaches toward Hainan Island across the Hainan Strait. The Kowloon Peninsula is part of Hong Kong.

Answer: Chukchi Peninsula

The Chukchi Sea lies north of Russia and Alaska, separated from the Bering Sea arm of the Pacific Ocean by the Bering Strait. The Chukchi Peninsula, also called the Chukotka or Chukotski Peninsula, is home to the Chukchi people and the easternmost point of the continent at Cape Dezhnyov. It is part of the federal subject of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, which ranks 82nd (of 83 federal subjects) in population.

The Kara Sea is one of several located to the north of Russia, while the Beaufort Sea is to the north of Alaska and part of Canada. The Kola Peninsula, part of Russia, is geographically in Europe.

Answer: Doberai Peninsula

The peninsula's Dutch name is Vogelkop, which also means "bird's head" and comes from the time in the 20th century when it was part of the Dutch East Indies. The peninsula partially encloses the relatively large Cenderawasih Bay in the east and is separated from the Bomberai Peninsula to the south by Bintuni Bay.

The Karpass Peninsula is in Cyprus, the Malay in Southeast Asia, and the Salento makes the "heel" of Italy's "boot".