A ten year old from Washington just one the National Geographic Bee. Could you have beat him?
Here are ten sample questions which accompanied the article in USA Today:
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Which state has the greater area of federally owned land - Pennsylvania or New Mexico?
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What is the term for pollution created by the mixture of precipitation and chemicals released by the burning of fossil fuels?
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The Union Jack appears on the flag of several countries due to previous rule by which country?
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Ivory, Gold and Skeleton have all been the names of coasts of which continent?
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What is the name of the fortress in Moscow built in the late 1400s that is used as the center of the Russian government?
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Roquefort is the name of a kind of cheese that is aged in limestone caves not far from the town. Roquefort lies near the Pyrenees in what country?
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In December 2000, Ethiopia signed a peace accord ending a two-year border war with which country that was originally carved out of Ethiopia’s territory?
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Permanent sea ice connects part of Canada’s Ellesmere Island with what large island to the east?
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The only glaciers in the tropics of Asia are in the mountains of Indonesia’s easternmost province. Those glaciers are on what island?
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Until the mid-1970s East Timor was a colony of which European country?
Answers:
The answers: 1. New Mexico. 2. Acid rain. 3. United Kingdom. 4. Africa. 5. Kremlin. 6. France. 7. Eritrea 8. Greenland. 9. New Guinea. 10. Portugal.