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Northern America Trivia Quiz

Here are ten questions on the most northern part of North America.

A multiple-choice quiz by jvannouhuys. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
jvannouhuys

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
38,330

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
6562

Last 3 plays: Guest 104 (8/10), Guest 64 (3/10), Rumpo (9/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. What is the capital of Greenland, Nuuk, also called?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 2 of 10

2. Where are the Aleutian Islands? Hint

In the Hudson Bay

In the Beaufort Sea

In Lake Superior

In the Bering Sea

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Question 3 of 10

3. Baffin Island is the fourth largest island in the world, after Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo. True or false?

True

False

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Question 4 of 10

4. Where is 'Gates of the Arctic National Park'? Hint

Yukon

Greenland

Quebec

Alaska

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Question 5 of 10

5. Where is the Denmark Strait? Hint

Between Baffin Island and Greenland

Between the US and Canada

Between Russia and Alaska

Between Greenland and Iceland

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Question 6 of 10

6. Where is the Beaufort Sea? Hint

East of Canada

South of Alaska

North of Alaska and Canada

Between Greenland and Canada

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Question 7 of 10

7. What is the capital of Nunavut? Hint

Inuvik

Resolute

Aklavik

Iqaluit

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Question 8 of 10

8. Where are the Ottawa Islands? Hint

Gulf of St. Lawrence

Hudson Bay

Lake Ontario

Ottawa River

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Question 9 of 10

9. Where was the Klondike Gold Rush? Hint

Alaska

Yukon

California

British Columbia

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Question 10 of 10

10. Where would you find the Inuit people? Hint

Alaska

All three

Nunavut

Greenland

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What is the capital of Greenland, Nuuk, also called?

Answer: Godthab

Modern Nuuk (Godthab) dates from 1721, when the Norwegian missionary Hans Egede founded a colony near the site of Vesterbygden, a 10th-century Norse settlement. About 13,000 people live in Nuuk (Godthab).

2. Where are the Aleutian Islands?

Answer: In the Bering Sea

Between Russia and Alaska. The Aleutians Islands mark the boundary between the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska.

3. Baffin Island is the fourth largest island in the world, after Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo. True or false?

Answer: False

It's fifth. The ten largest being: Greenland, New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar, Baffin , Sumatra, Honshu, Great Britain, Victoria and Ellesmere.

4. Where is 'Gates of the Arctic National Park'?

Answer: Alaska

Spread across northern Alaska, beyond the Arctic Circle, is the 600 mile long Brooks Range. In the heart of the mountain range is Gates of the Arctic National Park. The southern slopes are covered with taiga (forest). In contrast, north of the range is the Arctic tundra (treeless).

5. Where is the Denmark Strait?

Answer: Between Greenland and Iceland

6. Where is the Beaufort Sea?

Answer: North of Alaska and Canada

7. What is the capital of Nunavut?

Answer: Iqaluit

Nunavut is a vast territory of northern Canada that stretches across most of the Canadian Arctic. Created in 1999 out of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut encompasses the traditional lands of the Inuit, the indigenous peoples of Arctic {Canada;} its name means 'Our Land' in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit.

The capital is Iqaluit, at the head of Frobisher Bay on southern Baffin Island.

8. Where are the Ottawa Islands?

Answer: Hudson Bay

9. Where was the Klondike Gold Rush?

Answer: Yukon

August 17, 1896: Discovery of Gold in the Yukon . On Rabbit Creek, three men searched for gold. They were the Yukon natives, Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie, and their American friend, George Carmack. They discovered gleaming gold, quickly staked their claims, and renamed the creek 'Bonanza'. By today's standards, gold from the area would be worth over a billion dollars. Word of The Bonanza Discovery spread fast, and soon thousands descended on Dawson, hastily constructed at the meeting point between the Yukon and Klondike Rivers. One hundred thousand adventurers, from all over the globe, set out for the Frozen North. Steamships were swamped with requests. Outfitters ran out of supplies.

History's greatest gold rush was under way.

10. Where would you find the Inuit people?

Answer: All three

Source: Author jvannouhuys

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