Answers to the Geo-Quiz

As predicted, the quiz proved difficult, based on the answers provided by those brave readers who gave it a try. The actual answers are as follows:
1=F
2=D
3=B
4=A
5=C
6=E
1. Reliability of Police Services (“To what extent can police services be relied upon to enforce law and order in your country?”)  MAP F
2. Hotel Rooms (Number of hotel rooms per 100 population, 2011 or …

A Fiendishly Difficult Geo-Quiz

After mapping a number of the indicators found in the World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report, I realized that the results could make a particularly challenging geo-quiz. Many of the results seemed surprising to me, and as a result I am not sure if I would have done very well on the quiz.
At any rate, I have included …

Northern Cities GeoQuiz Answers

Several readers named all the cities correctly (we should make our future GeoQuizzes harder). The winner, who was the first one to answer all questions correctly, is Keith Ruffles of Belfast, UK. Congratulations, Keith! The book is on its way to you.
 
1.         Tromsø (pop. 70,000), located mostly on an island, is famous not only for its bridge (depicted), but …

Northern Cities Quiz

Inspired by the Winter Holidays, GeoCurrents presents a Northern Cities Quiz. Please email your answers to [email protected] The first person to name all cities correctly will receive a prize—a signed copy of one of our books. Answers will be posted here in a few days.

1.         THIS CITY (pop. 70,000), located mostly on an island, is famous not only for …

Languages of the World GeoQuiz Answers

Yesterday’s GeoNote introduced this Languages of the World GeoQuiz. This page shows the answers in bold, so if you would like to first take the quiz without seeing the answers, see yesterday’s post before scrolling down.

Languages of the World GeoQuiz

Today’s GeoQuiz comes from the multiple-choice exam I gave my students in Introduction to Linguistics class.

Other ‘new cities’ (the answer)

Several additional toponyms meaning ‘new city’ have been suggested by our readers, including Nieuwstadt (the Netherlands), Nyborg (Denmark), Uusikaupunki (Finland), Naples (originally Neapolis, which means ‘new city’ in Greek).
But the answer I had in mind is both more ancient and more historically significant than those cities: Carthage. It is known in Latin as Carthago or Karthago, in Greek as Καρχηδών …

“New City” (with mini-quiz)

The meanings of many toponyms are rather uncreative, describing features of the physical or social landscape. Perhaps one of the most common among those “dull” place names are those that mean “new city” or “new town”.

Oceania GeoQuiz Answers

Yesterday’s GeoNote introduced this Oceania GeoQuiz. This page shows the answers in bold, so if you would like to first take the quiz without seeing the answers, see yesterday’s post before scrolling down.
 
 
 
1. The area marked A:
a. is a major agricultural region, marked by large sugar and cotton plantations in the north and intensive sheep and cattle ranching in the …

GeoQuiz on Oceania

 
 
 
 
 
 
1. The area marked A:
a. is a major agricultural region, marked by large sugar and cotton plantations in the north and intensive sheep and cattle ranching in the south.
b. is an Australian territory rather than state (owing largely to its small population) that has a relatively high proportion of Aborigines in its population.
c. is an Australian state characterized, like the …

Africa GeoQuiz Answers

Yesterday’s GeoNote introduced this Sub-Saharan Africa GeoQuiz. This page shows the answers in bold, so if you would like to first take the quiz without seeing the answers, see yesterday’s post before scrolling down.

 
 
 
 
 
1. The island marked A:
b. has a unique mixture of Southeast Asian and African cultural influences; all of its closely related indigenous dialects are Austronesian, linked to …

Africa GeoQuiz

Yesterday’s GeoNote criticized a Christian Science Monitor Africa Quiz. Today’s gives an example of the way in which I test my students in multiple-choice exams (I also give essay-format exams).  Answers tomorrow.
 
 
 
 
 
1. The island marked A:
a. is culturally a mélange of South Asian and African influences; partially as a result, it is one of  the more economically successful countries of this …