Whee Geography Trivia Quiz

Answer: Okefenokee

In 1974 the Okefenokee Swamp was designated a U.S. National Natural Landmark. It covers 438,000 acres (1,770 square km), making it the largest "blackwater" swamp in the USA. "Blackwater" rivers are so called because they are slow moving and decaying vegetable matter that falls into them releases tannins that cause the water to appear black.

The swamp also contains the Okefenokee Wilderness and the Okefenokee Wilderness Wildlife Refuge.

Answer: Bodensee

Lake Constance is central Europe's third-largest lake. It accepts the Rhine as the river leaves Switzerland and also sees the river continue onward as it flows toward the North Sea. While the three nations mentioned in the question all border the lake, the lake itself is the only area in Europe where no borders exist, because there is no binding agreement among the three states establishing such a border.

Answer: Menominee

The term "Menominee" is a Chippewa word meaning "Wild Rice People." As a people, the Menominee believe they have always lived in the area of Wisconsin and Michigan where one finds the towns and counties of both Menominee, Wisconsin, and Menominee, Michigan, today. Menominee, WI, is in the northeastern part of the state, a little west of Green Bay off Lake Michigan, and the Michigan community is on the state's Upper Peninsula.

The Michigan community is the larger of the two, with a 2010 population of 8,599, while Wisconsin's Menominee had a population of 4,232 in 2010. Wisconsin's Menominee County is the state's least populous.

Wisconsin also has a city named Menominie in the western half of the state with a 2010 population of 16,264.

Answer: Daintree

Although the region is called "Daintree Rainforest," technically it is actually a tropical seasonal forest. The basic difference is that a rain forest has no dry season, whereas a seasonal forest is, well, seasonal, and does have a dry season.

Included within the Daintree Rainforest, named after Australian photographer and geologist Richard Daintree, which consists of about 460 square miles (1,200 sq. km.), are the Daintree National Park, lands of several state parks, and some privately-owned land. Most of it is also part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site.

Answer: Okeechobee

The Hitchiti, a Muskogeean people, gave the Okeechobee its name, meaning "big water." Floridians also refer to it as "The Big O" and "Florida's Inland Sea." No US state contains a larger lake completely within its borders, and it is the seventh-largest lake in the USA. It is also the headwaters of the Everglades.

Two hurricanes have devastated the lake, 1926's "Great Miami" hurricane, and 1928's Okeechobee Hurricane.

Answer: Spree

The Spree rises in Saxony, near the Czech border and then flows north to Berlin, where it meets the Havel. It was on the banks of the Spree that the original center of Berlin was built. Today it serves as a great source of boating tours of Berlin. The famous Museuminsel (Museum Island), with its five outstanding museums where one can see Babylon's Ishtar Gate and the Bust of Nefertiti, is actually an island in the Spree.

Answer: Pointe Percee

Located in France's Aravis range in the Rhone Alps, Pointe Percee has a height of only 2,750 meters (about 9,000 ft.), but a prominence of 1,640 meters (about 5,400 ft.), making it France's fifth-most prominent peak. It is thus classified as an ultra prominent peak, aka an "Ultra." Ultras are defined as having a peak that is 1,500 meters (4,921 ft) above the area around it.

There are about 1,500 Ultras around the world.

Answer: Pelee

In 1902 Mount Pelee, on the island of Martinique in the Lesser Antilles, erupted, causing enough damage to be labeled the worst volcano disaster of the Twentieth Century. The eruption destroyed the city of Saint-Pierre, the island's largest city at the time, and killed about 30,000 people.

Pelee Island is toward the western end of Lake Erie and is also a township. It is Canada's southernmost populated point as well as the largest island in Lake Erie.

Answer: Chattahoochee

In addition to flowing through Atlanta, the Chattahoochee had earlier significance as the dividing line between the Creek and Cherokee nations. It forms the largest portion of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system which drains much of northern and western Georgia into the Gulf of Mexico.

In 1993 country singer Alan Jackson won Song of The Year, Single of the Year, and Music Video of the Year Awards for his hit "Chattahoochee," winning awards from the Country Music Association, American Music Awards, and Academy of Country Music.

Answer: Goree

Goree Island (Ile de Goree) is a 45-acre island located about a mile from the main harbor of Dakar, Senegal. Its significance as a UNESCO World Heritage Site lies in its role as a exportation site in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade from the 15th to the 19th Centuries. One of its great tourist attractions today is the Maison des Esclaves (Slave House) and its infamous "Door of No Return," the point from which many African slaves forever left their native continent.