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Question	Answer	% Correct
What region surrounding the Pacific is responsible for 90% of the world's earthquakes?	Ring of {Fire}	93%
What is the deepest part of the world's oceans?	{Mariana} Trench	87%
Which three major regions of Oceania end in "nesia"?	{Micro}nesia	83%
Which three major regions of Oceania end in "nesia"?	{Poly}nesia	80%
What is the largest city located on the Yangtze river delta?	Shanghai	74%
What major Mexican peninsula juts into the Pacific?	Baja California	70%
What country controls the Society Islands, which include Tahiti and Bora Bora?	France	68%
What sea of the Pacific Ocean borders 10 different countries - with China trying to claim nearly all of it?	South China Sea	68%
What is the least populous country that touches the Pacific?	Nauru	64%
What island, also known as Rapa Nui, is famous for its statues of giant heads?	Easter Island	63%
What country is that island a part of?	Chile	58%
What is the most populous Russian city on the Pacific?	Vladivostok	58%
What sea, named for a Dutch explorer, separates New Zealand and Australia?	Tasman Sea	56%
What Japanese island was the site of the deadliest battle in the Pacific theater of WWII?	Okinawa	51%
What Alaskan island chain spans a distance of over 1,900 kilometers?	Aleutian Islands	50%
Of the countries that border the Pacific, which one comes last alphabetically?	Vietnam	50%
What line, at roughly 180° of longitude, could be considered the opposite of the Greenwich Meridian?	International Date Line	46%
What is the largest island in the Pacific?	New Guinea	44%
What Hawaii volcano is the tallest mountain in the world when measured from its base on the ocean floor?	Mauna Kea	39%
Which three major regions of Oceania end in "nesia"?	{Mela}nesia	38%