Are You A Maphead?
15 Questions
| Attempts: 1797
Geographic literacy, we’re always hearing, is not what it once was. In the latest National Geographic/Roper poll, for example, half of all college-aged Americans didn’t know Sudan was in Africa. Ninety percent couldn’t point to Afghanistan on a map. But all is not lost! The world is still full of well-read, well-traveled geography obsessives. Are you a maphead? Check your score on our quiz.
Questions and Answers
- 1.In what city could you walk… Across the Prinsengracht canal between the Anne Frank House and the Tulip Museum?
- 2.In what city could you walk… From Galatoire’s at one end of Bourbon Street down to Esplanade Avenue at the other end?
- 3.In what city could you walk… Through Kirstenbosch botanical garden at the foot of Table Mountain, on land donated by Cecil Rhodes in 1902?
- 4.In what city could you walk… From the Casa Rosada, where the president works, across Santiago Calatrava’s Woman’s Bridge down to the banks of the Río de la Plata?
- 5.In what city could you walk… Along Nicollet Mall, where Mary Tyler Moore threw her famous hat?
- 6.What's the largest city on the Tiber River?
- 7.What U.S. national park is headquartered in Crescent City, California, where one of the Star Wars movies was filmed?
- 8.In what African capital city do tourists visit the Mausoleum of Mohammed V?
- 9.What’s the world’s largest ice shelf, a glacial expanse the size of France and 1,000 feet thick?
- 10.What mountain did the Puyallup Indians originally call Tacoma?
- 11.What U.S. state has the longest coastline on the Gulf of Mexico?
- 12.What sea extends east into the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, and the Gulf of Riga?
- 13.The 2009 Islamic Solidarity Games were canceled due to a naming dispute over what gulf, which many Middle Eastern nations call the Arabian Gulf?
- 14.The Gulf of Tonkin lies between China’s Hainan Island and what other nation?
- 15.Because of its foggy weather and history of shipwrecks, St. Paul Island in Nova Scotia is often called the “Graveyard of” which gulf?
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