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Geography by Letter - B

Guess these geographical answers that start with the letter B.
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Last updated: September 21, 2018
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First submittedApril 26, 2013
Times taken129,930
Average score63.6%
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Capital of Germany
Berlin
Central American country
Belize
Italian city or type of lunch meat
Bologna
Strait that divides Russia and Alaska
Bering
Capital of Iraq
Baghdad
Ancient city that was located
near the above
Babylon
Moscow's famous ballet theater
Bolshoi
Myanmar, by another name
Burma
Capital of Colombia
Bogotá
Canada's first national park
Banff
Britain's highest mountain
Ben Nevis
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Answer
Country just south of Rwanda
Burundi
Peninsula of Albania, Serbia, Greece, etc...
Balkans
Capital of Romania
Bucharest
Island shared by three different countries
Borneo
Spanish city with a Guggenheim museum
Bilbao
Slow moving river or swamp found in
Louisiana or nearby states
Bayou
Capital of Queensland
Brisbane
Sea bordering Sweden, Latvia, Poland, etc...
Baltic
Nickname for the Mumbai film industry
Bollywood
German state famous for Oktoberfest
Bavaria
Host of the 1992 Olympics
Barcelona
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Level 68
Jun 12, 2013
Did anyone else think of "F Troop" and "Ze Burglar of Banf-f" for Canada's National Park?
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Level 51
Apr 29, 2015
Unfortunately, I did not. I need to watch F Troop again.
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Level 52
Jun 12, 2013
If you want to play some fun quizzes, you can play mine! :)
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Level 77
Jul 18, 2013
Britain has mountains?
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Level 83
Oct 30, 2015
Admittedly they are laughably small mountains, but mountains nonetheless.
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Level 62
Nov 21, 2015
Don't you be laughing at our mountains, beautiful today covered in snow :)
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Level 59
Feb 4, 2019
Not big by international standards, but still high enough to require respect when hiking and climbing them.
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Level 75
Nov 21, 2015
Remember the film, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain?
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Level ∞
Jun 22, 2018
I "climbed" Britain's tallest mountain in one afternoon. A really nice hike with great scenery.
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Level 65
Jun 22, 2020
yes, Ben Nevis.
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Level 45
Nov 13, 2013
Bayern needs to be accepted.
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Level 64
Mar 17, 2020
it doesn't as this is an English quiz
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Level 57
Dec 3, 2020
I would say this is an exception to the English names rule, as Bayern is also what it is pretty famous as in English for its football team
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Level 57
Feb 19, 2014
Uhh, the 1992 Olympics were hosted by Albertville... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Winter_Olympics
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Level ∞
Feb 19, 2014
Uhh, the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics used to be held in the same year.
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Level 57
Feb 24, 2014
It would be nice if Summer Olympics was specified.
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Level 77
Feb 28, 2014
not necessary. If you knew that the winter games were hosted in Albertville, and you know that these answers begin with a 'B' then it isn't a major stretch to then type Barcelona. Unless you didn't know that the summer games were held in Barcelona in '92 in which case none of this matters in the first place.
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Level 57
Mar 14, 2014
I only knew Albertville hosted the 92 winter games, i had no idea Barcelona had the summer games. I thought it was an error in the question.
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Level 70
Aug 16, 2015
Precision is always preferred to ambiguity.
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Level 75
Nov 21, 2015
I only got Barcelona because I tried it instead of Bilbao at first.
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Level ∞
Jun 22, 2018
There is zero ambiguity. There is one and only one correct answer.
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Level 59
Feb 4, 2019
It's almost as if people can't engage brain for a little while. Albertville doesn't begin with B, so there must be some other place that hosted the Olympics in that year. There is nothing ambiguous about this question. Everything doesn't have to be spoonfed to you, it's ok to be stretched or for you to think. It's also ok if you don't know things.
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Level 66
Jun 16, 2019
There might only be one right answer. But if you were not aware summer and winter used to be in the same year, then it is logical that people would think there was an error in the question or something

To use your tone:"Quite logical, couldnt you think of that yourself, did I have to spoonfed to you? you could ve used your own common sense to understand that". To place yourself in the others' shoes.. their train of thought is completely understandable. If you have allways learned there is only one at a time, their is no reason for you to think of other cities... (use your brain...) only two thougths are logical then. Either it was a different place than you thought, or the question got the dates wrong.

that does not mean the question needs to be altered. They just learned something new.

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Level 60
Apr 4, 2014
I thought Babylon was a country not a city
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Level 59
Feb 3, 2019
That's Babylonia
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Level 48
May 26, 2014
Thanks for throwing a bone to the "Myanmar" crowd.
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Level 45
Jun 10, 2014
20-22 not bad for a 13 year old
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Level 59
Feb 11, 2024
Im now curious of many you can guess as a 23 year old
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Level 52
Feb 13, 2016
Bilbao is not in Spain (my opinion). It is in Basque country. Basque with B... :)
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Level 46
Feb 4, 2019
still SPAIN
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Level 68
Jan 18, 2017
How about Basra in Iraq?
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Level 37
Feb 8, 2017
Why don't you accept both the original (native) spellings as well as the English translations? - The we'll be able to determine exactly

how many braggarts actually know their stuff. Then, after a while

we may be able to get on with the business of just doing the quizzes, without all the bellyaching!

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Level 66
Jun 16, 2019
I think usually the native names áre accepted. Which answer are you referring to ?

Ps I dont see how it would make a difference in determining who knows their stuff if both variations are accepted.

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Level 55
Jul 5, 2018
Stumped by "Britain's highest mountain." Tried "Bump," which sadly didn't work. Turns out Ben Nevis is only 4411 feet. They call that a mountain? I think you should definitely take "Bump" ;-)
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Level 93
Oct 29, 2018
According to the OED it needs to rise abruptly compared to the surroundings and be notable or impressive. The UN seems to define one anywhere between 980 feet and 8200 feet depending on the slope and prominence (>300m). Sometimes it only rises a little above a nearby valley/neighbouring peak but is labelled a different mountain usually if it's particularly high. Sometimes not though as Mt Pinchot, OK is 755 feet but is called "Mount". Ben Nevis being the highest mountain on its island has the same prominence as its height and has a pretty steep slope in places, and incidentally has snow on top in summer. I'd say that classes as a mountain.
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Level 66
Jun 16, 2019
I thought anything above 2000 ft was considered a mountain. And in some cases as low as 1000 feet, but like you said, then there are other conditions that have to be met aswell, like steepness of the mountain. There is difference between official and local use of the term. If it is the highest point in miles (I dont know, 100 miles?) People mind tend to call it mountain.

Of all that said I am amazed at how hilly the uk is. I ve been there twice and was awestruck haha, not flatness, hillyness everywhere you look! Heaven ( unless you need to go everywhere on your bike ofcourse..)

I from the netherlands and well, if there is a moleshill it is the highest place in miles. But seriously, I dont think there are many points higher than overpasses... that is about as high as it gets..

So from my point of view england is alllll mountain haha (eventhough they would mostly fall under hill, but that is sort of the same word in dutch, we use berg(mountain) for small stuff too (15+m)

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Level 66
Jun 16, 2019
We do have a word like hill though, heuvel, they share the same root. But we tend to use that for small stuff that have a verry small incline. (like 5meters up but 100meters forward.) if it is steep we tend to call it berg. But we use that word like you do pile aswell. A pile of clothes, een berg kleren. Basicly anything thing that is stacked high. (and it is synonymous for a lot, like you use bunch. Een berg huiswerk= a pile/ a bunch of homework. or heaps...)
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Level 68
Nov 10, 2020
The Montagnes Noires are the highest summits of Brittany, and culminates in the triple peak of the Menez Hom, 300 meters above the sea. They still have within them the memory of the gigantic volcanoes they once were. Don't you dare tell us they're not mountains!!
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Level 73
Jul 18, 2018
Britain is arguably an island shared by three countries!
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Level 49
Nov 1, 2018
Great Britain, yes.
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Level 75
Nov 6, 2018
Can you please accept Baalkan?
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Level 59
Feb 4, 2019
No one (except yourself it would seem) spells it that way.
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Level 45
Jan 23, 2019
I got 100% and i'm only 10!
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Level 32
Feb 3, 2019
I got 23/22 and I'm only 1
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Level 17
Feb 1, 2019
what about bern, capital of switzerland?
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Level 59
Feb 4, 2019
What about it?
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Level 44
Feb 3, 2019
Great quiz! I missed several that I should have gotten (like Baghdad, but fun nonetheless :)
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Level 52
Feb 3, 2019
is Barbados not a country in central america...?
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Level 75
Feb 3, 2019
Nope. It's considered part of North America, but it's an island in the eastern Caribbean, not part of Central America.
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Level 66
Jun 16, 2019
It is sort of in the center though.. but not central america. It is in middle america though. And the terms middle and central can be confusing since the words itself are usually used as synonyms of eachother. So I get the confusion.
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Level 67
Feb 3, 2019
Got em all except Bil bloody bao. Grrr.
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Level 45
Feb 4, 2019
I typed baring and bearing for the Bering Straight. I think these should be accepted as typos.
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Level 59
Feb 4, 2019
I think I should be lazy and not bother learning the spellings of things, or to give up after only two attempts at spelling something when I can guess as many times as the time limit will allow. Or to just accept that I didn't get it right #everythingmustbeeasy
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Level 66
Jun 16, 2019
I think I should not bitch and whine and be nasty to people without reason besides feeling better about myself.. #Ilikeputtingpeopledownbybeingsarcastic
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Level 72
Jul 15, 2019
Maybe add a few more type-ins for bolshoi? Like with a c instead of an s and/or a y instead of an i...
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Level 67
Jan 29, 2020
I'm a teenager and I call it Burma
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Level 80
Aug 14, 2020
Please accept Myanmar as an alternative answer as per other quizzes.
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Level 62
Apr 21, 2021
That might be a reasonable request if Myanmar also started with B, which is the sort of answer this quiz is looking for.
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Level 64
Feb 16, 2023
I thought it was Byanbar tho.?/?/??
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Level 68
Dec 3, 2021
Could "bog" be accepted for the one about slow-moving rivers in Louisiana and neighboring states or is that too much of a stretch?
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Level 78
Jan 14, 2022
Doesn't Ben Nevis sound like it could be an Israel PM? (Blame Ben-Gurion)
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Level 64
Feb 23, 2022
If you're going to allow Ben Nevis, when ben is simply Scottish for mountain, and most of us refer to it as Nevis, then you really should allow Britain for island with 3 countries: Scotland, Wales, England
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Level 76
Aug 24, 2022
Where in the world is "bologna" a type of meat? I know "sauce bolognese" as a tomato sauce with minced meat or meatballs, but "bologna" I never heard in this context anywhere in Europe. Is this a US term? I mean, you also have cheese from a spray can so I´m not too surprised ...
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Level 82
Oct 8, 2022
food products named after regions... like champagne, parmesan, frankfurters, hamburgers ... yeah... totally inexplicable and comparable to spray-can cheese... or Rakfisk... or blood sausage... or bread pudding... or escargot... or fried frog legs... or Hákarl... or Surströmming... or...
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Level 55
Feb 16, 2024
I remembered that the mountain started with "ben" and then got nonsensically stuck on "Ben Hur" before I finally remembered the correct name!