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Random Geography General Knowledge Quiz

In this quiz the questions change every time you play!
Can you find the answer to each of these questions?
There are 384 possible questions that could appear in this quiz!
Quiz by Stewart
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Last updated: November 2, 2019
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First submittedNovember 17, 2018
Times taken95,555
Average score60.0%
Rating4.42
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Question
Answer
What island is home to lemurs?
Madagascar
What group of islands are controlled by the United Kingdom but claimed by Argentina?
Falkland Islands
What country controlled the city of Goa, until it was invaded and annexed by India in 1961?
Portugal
What country's name starts with "North"?
North Korea |
North Macedonia
What was the former name of Ho Chi Minh City?
Saigon
What is the official nickname of Florida?
The Sunshine State
What ocean gulf borders 5 U.S. states, including Florida and Texas?
The Gulf of Mexico
What is the most populous state in Australia?
New South Wales
What is the most famous building in Seattle?
Space Needle
What pioneer trail started in Independence, Missouri and ended in the Willamette Valley?
Oregon Trail
What country is the world's top oil exporter?
Saudi Arabia
What is the most populous urban area in Africa?
Cairo or Lagos
What is Africa's second longest river?
Congo
What is the world's first national park?
Yellowstone
What de-facto independent country does China claim ownership of?
Taiwan
What mountain was officially known as Mount McKinley until 2015?
Denali
What is the biggest city on the Yangtze river?
Shanghai
What mountain range separates France and Spain?
Pyrenees
What is Ayers Rock also known as?
Uluru
In what English city would find a famous street named Penny Lane?
Liverpool
Lilylee
+10
Level 74
Nov 17, 2018
My pet peeve, it's Ayers Rock, not Ayer's. Not even Quizmaster gets that right. Nevertheless it was a very entertaining quiz.
Stewart
+16
Level 68
Nov 17, 2018
Sorry about that! Will fix it now. With 400+ questions there's bound to be a mistake in there somewhere!
Malbaby
+18
Level 71
Jan 28, 2019
Lilylee wins the 'Golden Nitpick Award' for Nov. 2018... Congratulations:
Sifhraven
+9
Level 67
Aug 11, 2019
You still havent't run out of those rewards? you 've given hundreds by now.
nios
+17
Level 53
Nov 21, 2020
Pointing out an error and nitpicking are two different things, Malbaby.
elcampeador
+1
Level 78
Nov 3, 2022
Nitpicking is "looking for small or unimportant errors or faults, especially in order to criticize unnecessarily." So, they are actually the same thing, nios.
AntiMatter8192
+6
Level 68
Nov 3, 2022
Nope, nitpicking is just pointing out an insignificant error, while pointing out an error applies to anything, big or small. So nitpicking is a way of pointing out an error, but not all errors are nitpicks.

I apologise in advance for the nitpick.

kogatora
+5
Level 93
Nov 18, 2018
The question what state has the lowest population density cam straight after an Australian state question. Could be clearer - unless we are supposed to assume by default that questions are about the USA.
redsplat
+2
Level 74
Nov 18, 2018
Agreed! Confusing.
Stewart
+3
Level 68
Nov 19, 2018
Sorry about that! Some questions I have gone through every question and clarified those which needed it.
ReyFer
+12
Level 64
Nov 18, 2018
Maybe I had bad luck but 8/20 questions about the US, one of them asking about the state flower of Kansas.

The quiz idea is amazing, but really... state flowers??

Ponderosa
+5
Level 86
Nov 19, 2018
To be fair, Kansas does have the most iconic state flower, being the Sunflower State and all.
Stewart
+7
Level 68
Nov 19, 2018
I have removed a few of the more US-centric questions, however remember that with many people taking this quiz, it is likely that a few people will end up with lots of questions from one particular area. It's how randomness works!
Yanni47
+5
Level 77
Aug 1, 2020
True. I had five US-related questions in a row, which got me thinking I must have missed the US geography quiz part in the title.
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 68
Jan 27, 2019
I wrote sun for sunflower, but it didn't accept it :-(
bentshaggyoil
+2
Level 59
Nov 3, 2022
That makes sense. It’s like accepting “cheese” for “cheeseburger”
doctors
+5
Level 82
Nov 19, 2018
"What is a three-letter word for a professor from that university?" doesn't make sense in a randomised quiz
Stewart
+3
Level 68
Nov 19, 2018
Yep sorry about that, stupid mistake on my part, the question has been removed.
Qikiq
+2
Level 86
Nov 19, 2018
Still there.
Stewart
+3
Level 68
Nov 19, 2018
Still waiting for it to be reapproved. Featured quizzes take a few hours for changes to go through.
kolp
+10
Level 87
Nov 19, 2018
Bet the answer is "don".
Yanni47
+2
Level 77
Nov 19, 2018
Is it really necessary to have highlighted boxes in this quiz? No other general knowledge quiz - or "random" quiz - has that. It's not like you can type a random answer and it magically appears somewhere, like in other quizzes.
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Nov 19, 2018
Some random quizzes do feature it, but in this case I think you’re right, it’s not needed. I have requested for it to be turned off. (Awaiting approval)
Tramp
+3
Level 76
Nov 19, 2018
"From what Roman title are the words Tsar and Kaiser derived?" Isn't this more of a history question?
BMDragon
+3
Level 82
Nov 19, 2018
"What mountain range is id Massachusetts?" Ok, easy.

"What tiny country is in that mountain range?" WTF

Stewart
+2
Level 68
Nov 19, 2018
Sorry about that, the second question shouldn't have been there. It's fixed in the update but waiting for approval.
halpie
+3
Level 77
Nov 19, 2018
Fun quiz. Thanks Stewart! QM, the percentages don't seem to be showing up on this one.
Stewart
+8
Level 68
Nov 19, 2018
Since 20 questions are randomly chosen, there's no point in showing percentages since everybody gets a different set of questions. This is the case with all randomised quizzes.

The advantage is that you can refresh the page and play the same quiz, with a whole new experience!

You can also still go to the stats page after finishing the quiz (or appending "/stats" to the end of the URL to see how many questions people get right.

GeographyGeek42
+4
Level 66
Jan 27, 2019
have you thought of making a quiz with all 400 or so questions? probably would take too much time.
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Jan 27, 2019
Most of these are derived from various featured quizzes. The idea is to not overwhelm the player with 100s of questions, but rather a random selection each time!
madmonte
+3
Level 72
Jan 27, 2019
when it comes to northernmost city in the US, please define city, as in over 1000 people or something...

Anyway, Barrow, Alaska doesn't exist anymore. They changed their name to Utqiagvik.

Stewart
+2
Level 68
Jan 28, 2019
Have added a clarification now. (Once approved)
ninjastar9
+3
Level 57
Jan 27, 2019
Pitcairn does actually have a tiny population of about 50 people.
ander217
+2
Level 75
Jan 27, 2019
Loved this quiz, Stewart. Every darn time I missed two. I kept taking it and finally on the fourth or fifth time I got 'em all. Thanks for all the work you did.
Lunken
+2
Level 51
Jan 27, 2019
Lake Baikal contains 20% of the World's fresh SURFACE water, not 20% of the World's fresh water. Great quiz though!
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Jan 28, 2019
Fixed. (Once approved)
pkerr116
+2
Level 73
Jan 27, 2019
scorched it .... 2:38 remaining
PotatoBoy
+2
Level 66
Jan 28, 2019
So I got a question asking the english name for Kobenhavn (imagine a dash across that O), and then right below that a question asking which swedish city is across the bridge from Copenhagen. One kind of spoiled the other. I don't know if this is fixable, but I just wanted to give you a "heads up"
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Jan 28, 2019
Fixed that too. (Once approved)
wheikes
+2
Level 74
Jan 28, 2019
Why do we have to questions that have the same answer? Bengal is both a tiger and a bay, so if you guess one you get both questions right. We should only have one of those
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Jan 28, 2019
Sorry! I tried to remove all duplicate questions, it seems this one slipped through. Have fixed now. (Once approved)
zakatan
+2
Level 65
Jan 29, 2019
Alexandria is also an answer to at least two questions (second most populated city in Egypt and home of the greatest library of old)
leon321
+3
Level 46
Jan 30, 2019
gulf stream is not an ocean
gatacca
+2
Level 52
Jan 31, 2019
you should accept "roissy" for "charles de gaulle" as it's what it's commonly named

nice quiz!

Jakub
+2
Level 68
Jun 16, 2019
I typed in New York as a guess for the question that asks for the location of the American Coat of Arms and it accepted Cape York.
catie09
+2
Level 82
Jul 16, 2019
"What is usually considered to be the northernmost city in the United States?" I'm curious why you worded it this way. Why not just "What IS the northernmost city in the United States?"
divantilya
+3
Level 37
Jul 22, 2019
Thought that the Maasai were native to Kenya, not Tanzania.
ageekinkuwait
+2
Level 71
Nov 7, 2019
Not sure if I spelled it wrong or not but does the quiz allow for Arabian Gulf in addition to the Persian Gulf?
MaddMaxx05
+2
Level 47
Nov 25, 2019
You do realize that Chechnya isn't a country... right?
Stewart
+5
Level 68
Nov 25, 2019
It clearly says republic not country in the question.
elliottc88
+2
Level 65
Feb 24, 2020
I really don't think, referring to the answer to second most spoken language in the UK, that Scots really has more speakers than Welsh- that's not to say I think even Welsh is the second most spoken language in the UK, but maybe just Polish?
parkave
+2
Level 57
Nov 30, 2020
Could Moon be accepted as the symbol on Turkey and Pakistan's flag?
TurkeyCookTime
+1
Level 76
Apr 9, 2021
Didn't Barrow change its name to Utqiagvik?
Minutiae
+1
Level 73
Jul 26, 2021
Great quiz, just a couple of minor errors:

The "city" should be capitalised in "What was the former name of Ho Chi Minh city".

On the Carpathians question "wth" should be "with".

Stewart
+1
Level 68
Jul 26, 2021
Both fixed, thanks!
zack22
+1
Level 67
Sep 9, 2021
I got a question about Alexandria, Coptic Christians and Sinai Peninsula! If this wasn't randomized I would say its too Egypt centric.
Azerk
+1
Level 64
Feb 18, 2022
Drat, I spelled it as Chechenya and not Chechnya!
thegoatisgoaty
+1
Level 71
Feb 23, 2022
Whoo mine was so easy
Koopa
+1
Level 77
Mar 9, 2022
Four questions about the UK, and seven about the Americas. I suppose it's some kind of random.
HappyQuizzer
+1
Level 67
Jun 10, 2022
There seems to be a glitch - half of the questions didn't appear for me (I'm on mobile) and when I answered, the answers appeared under the wrong question
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Jun 10, 2022
This is now fixed - thanks for reporting the bug! :)
HappyQuizzer
+1
Level 67
Jun 11, 2022
Great thanks looks good now :)
JohnK
+3
Level 69
Jun 24, 2022
For the question: "What U.S. city is sometimes called "Nola"?" you probably shouldn't accept "Nola". I tried it for laughs, and succeeded.
Chrome
+1
Level 69
Nov 3, 2022
Could just "Olympus" be counted for the tallest mountain in Greece question?
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Nov 3, 2022
Added
Bonzo65
+1
Level 70
Nov 3, 2022
For the question "What disputed territory is divided between Morocco and the Sahrawi Republic?", could 'Sahara' on its own be accepted as a write in? Entered that first and when it was rejected didn't think the answer had to be so specific.
GeoRockstar14
+1
Level 87
Nov 3, 2022
Awesome quiz.

Just so you know, Ayers Rock hasn't been fixed from "Ayer's" to "Ayers."

Stewart
+1
Level 68
Nov 3, 2022
No idea why it reverted itself. Thanks
Maggiejo
+1
Level 69
Nov 3, 2022
Barrow, AK is now called Utqiagvik.
Freaker
+1
Level 59
Nov 4, 2022
Nice quiz
nicosnextbots
+1
Level 35
Nov 4, 2022
and the british empire had the biggest land
dogmeat
+1
Level 67
Nov 10, 2022
What European capital city is a common women's name?

err - Paris? Reckon it's common enough to be correct

supermuro
+1
Level 57
Sep 28, 2023
The most spoken language is English, not Mandarin. Mandarin has the most NATIVE speakers, but that was not the question.
AnaSrBanana
+1
Level 19
Jan 13, 2024
Too many Albanian questions to look at. I gave up.
vitriden
+1
Level 81
Mar 11, 2024
The other quizzes now state that India is the most populous country in the world, this one still sticks with China.
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Mar 11, 2024
Fixed!
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