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The Americas Geography by Letter - G

Can you guess these North and South American geographical answers that start with the letter G?
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First submittedAugust 26, 2014
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Clue
Answer
Famous bridge of San Francisco
Golden Gate
Mile-deep gorge in Arizona
Grand Canyon
Southern U.S. state
Georgia
Central American country
Guatemala
Michigan, Erie, Superior,
Huron, and Ontario
Great Lakes
Decaying industrial city in Indiana;
Birthplace of Michael Jackson
Gary
National park in northern Montana
Glacier
South American country
Guyana
Posh D.C. neighborhood or
capital of the above
Georgetown
Mexico's second biggest city
Guadalajara
Island nation invaded by the
United States in 1983
Grenada
Clue
Answer
Nickname of New Jersey
Garden State
Pennsylvania Civil War battleground
Gettysburg
Term for a "cowboy" of South America
Gaucho
Texas city on a barrier island; Site of the
deadliest hurricane in U.S. History
Galveston
The vast flat area in the middle
of North America
Great Plains
U.S. naval base in Cuba
Guantánamo Bay
NYC bridge; The busiest in the world
George Washington
Biggest city in Ecuador
Guayaquil
U.S. territorial acquisition of 1853
Gadsden Purchase
Second biggest city in Michigan
Grand Rapids
Lower Manhattan neighborhood
called "The Village"
Greenwich Village
thecoolestdude2
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Level 68
Jan 21, 2015
I got the Gadsden Purchase but missed the NYC bridge-- total history nut.
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Mar 4, 2015
I got the purchase but only after googling the spelling. I tried Gadsen.. Gasden.. knew it was something like that.
caribdevist
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Level 62
Jan 28, 2015
According to wikipedia, Guadelejara is only the third largest city in Mexico now. Might wanna verify that.
stubblyhead
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Level 76
Mar 4, 2015
Everything I saw listed it as second after Mexico City. Link?
jriddycuz
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Level 67
Mar 4, 2015
Ecatepec is a suburb of Mexico City. OP might want to change the hint to 2nd largest metropolitan area.
Symmetrik
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Level 57
Mar 4, 2015
Gros Morne? National park in Newfoundland, also happens to be a world heritage site. A much better choice than Glacier National Park.
quizzicalguy
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Level 65
Mar 4, 2015
Um, you do realize that Glacier National Park is also a Canadian National Park as well? One of two (along with Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park) shared national parks between Canada and the US, Glacier NP is, in addition to being very beautiful, a very bright example of cooperation and friendship among two nations.
Roger77024
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Level 57
Mar 4, 2015
The northern extension of Glacier N.P. into Canada is called Waterton Lakes N.P.
jmellor13
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Level 67
Mar 4, 2015
UNESCO slaps "World Heritage Site" on anything that has been around for more than 30 years. That label is meaningless.
Symmetrik
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Level 57
Mar 5, 2015
Is that why Glacier National Park is a World Heritage Site? Oh wait, it's not, even though its 105 years old.
Symmetrik
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Level 57
Mar 5, 2015
Also happens to be one of the few (possibly only) place in the world where you can actually walk on the Earth's mantle. It's very important geologically, because of the exposed mantle as well as deep ocean crust.
samiamco
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Level 69
Oct 23, 2018
Annual visitors to Gros Morne: 238,540. Annual visitors to Glacier? 3.31 million.
mikeb
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Level 66
Mar 4, 2015
Tried "Gasden" and "Gadsen"; @#&! that second D!
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Mar 4, 2015
heh, me too
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Mar 4, 2015
Probably only got Guayaquil because it show up on my best airports in the world quiz I made recently.
Antofagasta
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Level 67
Jan 13, 2017
It's worth it for the colours.
JustinH17
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Level 69
Mar 4, 2015
y is there nothing about the frozen wasteland of Canada?
EdPsycho
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Level 55
Mar 5, 2015
17/22 items on the Americas quiz have a direct or somewhat indirect link to one nation. It is not exactly an "Americas" quiz when the farthest south an item reaches is Guyana.
brandybuck96
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Level 83
Nov 27, 2015
I got so far through the comments hoping that this would be the one quiz without that one comment.
redsplat
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Level 74
Nov 19, 2018
Amen EdPsycho
CardinalSin
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Level 77
May 30, 2019
If you Americans want to avoid seeing such comments, then you need to be far less insular. EdPsycho is spot on with his comment.
TheForsakenFurby
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Level 73
Feb 26, 2024
This is one of the few quizzes where such a comment is completely warranted.
Danno
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Level 68
Mar 7, 2015
I would like to point that Grenada was saved by the US from cuban backed forces, not invaded.
TheWombat
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Level 74
Apr 30, 2015
What? The US invaded because a moderate Prime Minister was overthrown (and subsequently executed) by hardline opponents. Also because Reagan reckoned the civilian runway under construction on Grenada was actually being built to accommodate heavy military aircraft. Cuba had nothing to do with it, other than Reagan also thought that the presence of Cuban construction workers was suspicious. Hardly good reasons to invade a country.
divantilya
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Level 37
Mar 10, 2018
You are correct. Reagan invaded because its Premier, Maurice Bishop, (a socialist, not a communist) was overthrown, and murder-ed by his former compatriot, Bernard Coard. Bishop had initially approached the USA for assistance when he seized power from Eric Gairy, and was rebuffed so he turned to Castro for assistance. While there were Cubans working on lengthening (and lighting) the airport, no quid-pro-quo existed. Bishop was firmly socialist while Coard, who was in Bishop's Cabinet, leaned toward Communism. That was what created the chasm between the former "friends". Reagan was aware of this and invaded because he feared what would happen if Coard gained power. (He was also intent on protecting the students attending St. George's Medical School)
NOTKimJongUn
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Level 74
Mar 7, 2015
How the hell did so many people get Greenwich Village? I've never heard of it
reverendmeat
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Level 80
Feb 3, 2023
I only know about it from "Friends"
DanJS
+4
Level 74
Mar 10, 2015
Too Americas-centric.
shuriken15
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Level 39
Mar 23, 2015
That's why it's called "Americas Geography".
fromaj
+5
Level 70
Mar 22, 2016
I think they mean USA centric.
Finnisme
+2
Level 58
Dec 2, 2020
I think they mean a joke.
awesomeguy
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Level 36
Mar 23, 2016
I live in Gadsden!! Nice quiz
ChaosLord
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Level 74
Jan 5, 2021
I'd just like to say that the USA isn't the only country in the Americas, and this quiz does absolutely no justice to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Uruguay or Argentina. Chichen Itza, Macchu Picchu, the Andes, Atacama, Amazon rainforest and river, the Rio de la Plata, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, the Pampas, Tierra del Fuego and Angel Falls are all significant geographical features in American countries which aren't the USA. And that doesn't even go into the Caribbean islands and Central America, which themselves barely got a mention. Most quizzes on this site are USA-centric, but this one in particular is ridiculous. Make the quiz more diverse.
Quizmaster
+9
Level ∞
Jan 5, 2021
None of the things you mentioned start with G.
reverendmeat
+2
Level 80
Feb 3, 2023
lol.
Pearl2270
+2
Level 79
Apr 8, 2023
What a completely original, totally non-obnoxious comment that definitely hasn't been said multiple times on every single quiz having to do with the Americas lol.

We get it. It offends you that a US website filled with mostly US users trends towards US-centric questions. Americans (yep, that's what the whole world calls us even though there are technically "Americans" all over the two American continents) are ignorant, insular, arrogant, and every other bad thing. We get it. Please stop making these comments, for the love of all that is holy. STOP. lol

TheForsakenFurby
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Level 73
Feb 26, 2024
Nah, Quizmaster is surely doing this just to spite people at this point.

US-focused questions on an English-language, US-based trivia site should absolutely be expected, which is what comments like ChaosLord's usually don't get when they show up completely unnecessarily. But, for this quiz in particular, given it's BRANDING ITSELF as being about "the Americas" in general, it's honestly just really dumb to be so hyper-focused on one nation.

If I go to a restaurant in Paris, I'm not gonna throw a fit that the all the dishes are French. But if I go to restaurant in Paris named "Cuisune du Monde Entier", and the menu ends up being 95% French dishes and 5% sushi, that'd be pretty stupid.

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