This is the archive of the mapping.com
daily geography trivia quiz for December 2012 found on
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Question for Dec 1: What is Earth's circumference at the
Equator, to the nearest 1000 miles or kms?
Answer: 24,901.55 Miles, 40,075.16 km.
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Question for Dec 2: What is the highest temperature ever
recorded on Earth, and where?
Answer: 134 F (56.7 C) at Greenland Ranch, Death Valley, CA, 10 July 1913
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Question for Dec 3: What is Earth's circumference around the
Poles?
Answer: 24,859.82 miles, 40,008 KM. See Dec 1 -- Earth's a bit bigger around the Equator
than around the Poles.
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Question for Dec 4: What is the lowest temperature ever
recorded on Earth, and where?
Answer: -128.5 F, -89.2 C, Vostok, Antarctica, 21 July 1983
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Question for Dec 5: The Equator passes through the land or
water of 13 countries. How many can you name?
Answer: Sao Tome and Principe, Gabon, Republic of The Congo, Democratic Republic of The
Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia, Kiribati, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil
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Question for Dec 6: What was the former name of Ho Chi Minh
City?
Answer: Saigon
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Question for Dec 7: What country makes up more than half the
coastline of Western South America?
Answer: Chile
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Question for Dec 8: What continent is located at 90 degrees
South Latitude?
Answer: Antarctica
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Question for Dec 9: What capital city lies on Lake Burley
Griffin, near Mount Mugga Mugga?
Answer: Canberra
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Question for Dec 10: What capital city is the largest city in
the world the did not exist 100 years ago?
Answer: Brasilia
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Question for Dec 11: What major Canadian city is on the Red and
Assiniboine Rivers?
Answer: Winnipeg
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Question for Dec 12: Four towns were evacuated and submerged
when this huge reservoir was created in Massachuesetts. Name?
Answer: Quabbin Reservoir
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Question for Dec 13: What 5 US states are included in the "Ring
of Fire"?
Answer: Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Hawai'i
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Question for Dec 14: Eight nations have territory north of the
Arctic Circle. How many can you name?
Answer: Canada, Greenland (Denmark), Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Russia, the
United States
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Question for Dec 15: At least 4 countries have flags that
contain only the colors blue and yellow. Names?
Answer: Kazakhstan, Palay, Sweden, Ukraine, and the European Union
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Question for Dec 16: Only one country has a flag with just a
single color. Name it.
Answer: Libya
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Question for Dec 17: The Grand Coulee Dam was created to block
what river that flows through Canada and the Northwest US?
Answer: The Columbia River
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Question for Dec 18: What are the Easternmost and Westernmost
points of the 50 United States (all 50 states, without outlying
territories).
Answer: West Quoddy Head, Maine, and Peaked Island, just off Cape Wrangell, Alaska
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Question for Dec 19: Which is the only US state without a
National Park?
Answer: Delaware
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Question for Dec 20: What is the capital of Slovakia?
Answer: Bratislava
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Question for Dec 21: Ancient Abyssinia is now what country?
Answer: Ethiopia
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Question for Dec 22: Name the capital of Moldova.
Answer: Chisinau
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Question for Dec 23: What city park features a zoo, an obelisk,
a carousel, and a statue of Alice in Wonderland?
Answer: Central Park, NY
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Question for Dec 24: The smallest national park is located in
Pennsylvania. Name it.
Answer: Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, in Philadelphia
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Question for Dec 25: In what year was 25 December officially
declared the birth date of Christ, and by whom?
Answer: Pope Julius I, in 320 CE
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Question for Dec 26: Why is Dec 26 called Boxing Day?
Answer: An 'Alms Box' was placed in every church on Christmas Day, into which
worshippers placed a gift for the poor of the parish. These boxes were always opened the
day after Christmas, the day now known as Boxing Day.
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Question for Dec 27: Name the only Great Lake that is
completely within US borders.
Answer: Lake Michigan
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Question for Dec 28: Christmas Island -- where is it, what
country is it part of, when was it named?
Answer: Pacific Ocean, North of New Zealand, part of the Republic of Kiribati; names
1643, on Christmas Day.
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Question for Dec 29: Name the Norwegian explorer who beat Scott
to the South Pole.
Answer: Amundsen
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Question for Dec 30: What two major Mediterranean islands are
part of Italy?
Answer: Sicily and Sardinia
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Question for Dec 31: What nations are the first ones to arrive
at Midnight Dec 31, and enter Jan 1, the New Year?
Answer: Kiribati and Samoa, then 15 minutes later the Chatham Islands, then 45
minutes after that, New Zealand.
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