Every geography quiz on QuizKite in one place — capitals, flags, islands, oceans crossed and the maps that got them wrong.
Geography is the subject that rewards curiosity fastest. You learn that Istanbul sits on two continents, that Greenland is nowhere near the size the classroom map suggested, and that the only national flag which is not a rectangle belongs to Nepal — and suddenly the world map reads differently. This collection gathers everything on QuizKite about places: the great cities, the flags and what their designers meant by them, the islands people routinely misplace, the projections that distort what you think you know, and the expeditions that filled in the blanks. Every answer comes with its explanation, so a wrong guess still leaves you with the fact.
A river, a statue, a nickname, an altitude — ten capitals identified by a single detail.
Which capital was formed by merging two towns on opposite banks of the Danube?
Ten countries where the famous city is not the capital — and the quieter one that is.
What is the capital of Myanmar?
Countries that picked up their capital and put it somewhere else — and the ones doing it right now.
Brazil moved its capital in 1960 away from which city?
The great cities, and what makes each one distinctive.
Which major city spans two continents?
Ten capitals most people can name — and the reasons behind a few that trip them up.
What is the capital of India?
Ships crushed in ice, disputed claims, and the people whose names were left off the reports.
Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance was lost in 1915 in what way?
Inland journeys, the guides who made them possible, and the names that were already there.
The first descent of the Amazon by a European party, in 1541 and 1542, was led by whom?
The expeditions that redrew the map, credited accurately.
Which expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe?
National flags, their parts and what they were meant to say.
The flag of Japan depicts what?
Dragons, lions, temples and one island drawn in copper — ten things countries put in the middle of their flags.
Which country's flag features a temple complex?
Where the colours on national flags come from, and the families of flags that share them.
On the flag of Ireland, the orange band is generally understood to represent which group?
Square flags, two-sided flags, a flag with a rifle on it and one that is flown upside down in wartime.
The off-centre cross used by Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland is known as what?
Coats of arms, national animals, plants and personifications — the symbols countries use when a flag will not do.
Which flower is the emblem of the Japanese imperial family?
Countries inside countries, straight lines drawn badly, and territory nobody claims.
Which country is entirely surrounded by South Africa?
The driest, coldest, highest and most remote places, and what makes them that way.
What is the largest desert on Earth?
Every flag is a compressed piece of history. See how many you can read.
Which country's flag features a single red maple leaf?
The roof of the world, range by range — and a few peaks that will surprise you.
What is the highest mountain above sea level?
From the Nile to the Amazon — the great rivers that shaped where we live.
Which river is traditionally considered the longest in the world?
The blue that covers most of the planet, from the Pacific to the Dead Sea.
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
The restless forces that build mountains, shake cities and reshape the map.
The Earth's rigid outer shell is broken into large moving pieces called?
Ten capitals that trip up even confident travellers, from Canberra to Abuja.
What is the capital of Australia?
Hotspots, subduction, sinking volcanoes and drowned hills — the four or five ways land ends up surrounded by sea.
The Hawaiian island chain formed as the Pacific plate drifted over what?
Ten countries that have no land border with anybody, from the Caribbean to the central Pacific.
Which island nation lies roughly 800 kilometres east of Madagascar and was the only home of…
Ten questions on the ocean that holds more islands than all the others put together.
Easter Island, home of the moai statues, is administered by which country?
Prisons, exiles, monasteries and one very expensive swap involving nutmeg.
Which island in New York Harbor processed arriving immigrants between 1892 and 1954?
How islands form and which ones people misplace.
What is the largest island in the world?
Reading maps properly, and knowing what each one gets wrong.
The Mercator projection is well known for distorting what?
Grid references, bearings, declination and what the spacing of contour lines is telling you.
On a hillside, what does the spacing between contour lines tell you?
Ptolemy, al-Idrisi, portolan charts and the draughtsman who straightened the Underground.
Ptolemy's Geographia, written in the second century, was influential chiefly because it did…
Lift, ailerons, turbofans, holding patterns and why the black box is orange.
An aircraft wing generates lift chiefly by doing what?
Metros, buses, traffic and the counterintuitive rules of urban transport.
Which city opened the world's first underground railway?
The canals, railways and machines that shortened the world.
Which canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea?
Loading marks, draught, tonnage and the vocabulary of the merchant fleet.
On a ship, what do "port" and "starboard" refer to?