Question: What river forms the border between the United States and Mexico?

Answer: The Rio Grande River. 1,896 miles long, the Rio Grande River originates in south-central Colorado and flows into the Gulf of Mexico. It's the fourth longest river in both the United States and North America.

Question: Which country has the longest Arctic Ocean coastline in the world?

Answer: At approximately 15,000 miles long, Russia has the world's longest Arctic Coastline. This is over half of the entire arctic coastline, which comes in at about 28,000 miles long. Around 2.5 million of Russia's inhabitants live in Arctic territory. 

Question: What is the northernmost national capital city in the world?

Answer: The northernmost capital city is Reykjavik, Iceland. With a latitude of 64.1470°N, it sits on the southern shore of Faxaflói Bay in southwestern Iceland.

Question: What is the largest desert in the world?

Answer: The largest desert on Earth is Antarctica, which covers 5.5 million square miles. It's also the coldest desert on Earth, even colder than the planet's other polar desert, the Arctic.

Question: What is the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume?

Answer: Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia is the world's largest freshwater lake by both volume and depth. Lake Baikal contains 5,670 cubic miles of water, which is 20–23% of the world's fresh surface water. Lake Baikal's maximum depth is 5,712 feet.

Question: Which European country has the highest number of castles per square mile?

Answer: Wales has more castles per square mile than any other country in Europe. Wales, with more than 600 castles in about 8,023 square miles of land, has more than 1 castle per 13 square miles.

Question: If you head directly south from San Diego, what border town will be the first city you hit in Mexico?

Answer: Tijuana will be the first city you'll hit in Mexico.

Question: In which country is the world's oldest active volcano located? Bonus: Can you name it?

Answer: Located on the island of Kyushu, Japan, Mt. Unzen is the world's oldest active volcano. It is estimated to be about 2.5 million years old, and has erupted as recently as 1984.

Question: What is the largest country by land area in the Caribbean?

Answer: The answer is Cuba, at 42,800 square miles.

Question: What is the world's longest land border between two countries and about how long is it?

Answer: The world's longest land border is between Canada and the United States, and it is about 5,525 miles long.

Question: Which is the least densely populated country/territory in the world?

Answer: Greenland had 56,421 inhabitants in 2021. With a population of 0.14 people per square kilometer in 2021, Greenland is the least densely populated country/territory in the world.

Question: What is the name of the waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea?

Answer: The Strait of Gibraltar.

Question: Which capital city in the United States is at the highest elevation?

Answer: At 7,199', Santa Fe, New Mexico is at the highest elevation.

Question: The animal life of which islands in the Pacific Ocean inspired much of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution?

Answer: The Galapagos Islands.

Question: Which state on the east coast, excluding Florida, is closest to California?

Answer: Georgia

Question: In straight-line distance, the Rocky Mountains stretch about how many miles from the northernmost part of western Canada to New Mexico in the southwestern United States?

Answer: The Rocky Mountains stretch 3,000 miles in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada to New Mexico in the southwestern United States.

Question: France shares a land border with the small countries of Monaco and Andorra as well as 6 other European countries. Can you name the 6 other countries?

Answer: Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain.

Question: What are the 6 state capitals that lie west of Los Angeles?

Answer: Those capital cities are: Honolulu,  HI,  Juneau, AK,  Salem, OR,  Olympia, WA,  Sacramento, CA, and  Carson City, NV.

Carson city is the closest: LA is 118.2437 degrees west of Greenwich, and Carson City is 118.2817 degrees west of Greenwich.

Question: How many miles long is the Equator?

Answer: The Equator is 24,901 miles long, and it is described as "the circumference of the earth halfway between the North and South Poles".

Question: Which states are the northernmost and southernmost of the Lower 48?

Answer: The Northwest Angle (or Angle Inlet) in the Lake of the Woods area of Minnesota is the only point in the continental United States that lies north of the 49th Parallel. Ballast Key in Florida is the southernmost point in the 48 states continuously above water.

Question: What is the world's largest inland body of water?

Answer: The Caspian Sea, with salinity about one third that of the ocean, is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake. (Wikipedia)

Question: What is the only state whose east and west borders are formed almost entirely by rivers?

Answer: Iowa is bordered by the Mississippi River on the east, and the Missouri and Big Sioux Rivers on the west.

Question: In order of size, what are the five largest countries in South America?

Answer: Brazil has 45% of the whole continent, followed by Argentina (16%), Peru (7%), and Colombia and Bolivia at 6% - with Bolivia being slightly smaller.

Question:  The southwest Pacific countries of Australia and New Zealand are about how many miles apart?  a. 400 b. 1,200 c. 2,000

Answer: b. They are about 1,200 miles apart.

Question: How many square miles are in Mexico (United Mexican States)?

Answer: There are about 761,610 square miles and 32 Federal Entities (states).

Question:  Besides the District of Columbia, which six states form the drainage for the Chesapeake Bay?

Answer:  Those six states are Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Question: According to the World Atlas and Wikipedia, what are the 3 largest islands on Earth?

Answer:  The largest is Greenland (822,700 sq. mi.), followed by New Guinea (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea 303,381 sq. mi.) ) and Borneo (Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia 288,869 sq. mi.).

Question:  Which country in the world has the most natural lakes?

Answer: Canada is home to about 62% of the almost 1.42 million lakes around the world.

Question: Lascar (18,077'), the highest active volcano in the world, is located in which country?

Answer: Lascar is a stratovolcano located in the Andes Mountains in Chile.

Question: Which of the 48 states (shown above) has the greatest water area?

Answer: Of the 48 states, Michigan has the greatest water area with about 40,275 square miles. Alaska has the most of all 50 states, with 94,743 square miles.

Question: What are the world's top 5 cities by population?

Answer: Tokyo (37,468,000), Delhi (28,514,000), Shanghai (25,582,000), Sao Paulo (21,650,000), and Mexico City (21,581,000) according to Wikipedia.

Question:  What is the desert along the southwest coast of Africa noted for?

Answer: It is noted for the mining of diamonds.

Question: What are the capital cities of the 6 New England states?

Answer:  They are: Augusta (Maine), Boston (Massachusetts), Montpelier (Vermont), Concord (New Hampshire), Hartford (Connecticut), and Providence (Rhode Island).

Question:  The collision of the Eurasian and Indo-Australian tectonic plates gave birth to a. Antarctica , b. the Philippines, c. the world's highest mountains, or d. Africa

Answer: c. The world's highest mountains, including Mount Everest, are the Himalayas.

Question: What are the capital cities of Greece, Sweden, Norway, and Spain?

Answer: Those capitals are Athens (Greece),  Stockholm (Sweden) , Oslo (Norway), and Madrid (Spain).

Question: The Nile River, considered to be the world's longest river, is how long?

Answer: The Nile is 4,130 miles long.

Question: Near which large city does the Missouri River join the Mississippi?

Answer: The Missouri River joins the Mississippi River just north of St. Louis.

Question: Which is the most populated country in Africa?

Answer: The most populated country in Africa is Nigeria, with 223,804,632 people. Second is Ethiopia with 126,527,060, and third is Egypt, with 112,716,598.

Question: What is the smallest of Canada's 10 provinces?

Answer: Prince Edward Island (2,190 sq. miles).

Question: In which desert is Las Vegas located ?

Answer: Las Vegas is in the Mojave Desert.

Question: What is the least populated state in the country?

Answer: The answer is Wyoming, with a population of 576, 851. The second least populated is Vermont with 643,077.

Question: What is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area? (Hint: It is in the United States)

Answer: One of the Great Lakes, Lake Superior, is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area (1,200 sq. miles).

Question: In which state would you find the largest number of endangered species?

Answer: That state is Hawaii, which has about 503 endangered species at this time.

Question:  The fossil fuel coal formed from _______that died millions of years ago. Please fill in the blank.

Answer: Coal is formed from plants that died millions of years ago.

Question: What is considered to be the oldest city in the United States?

Answer: According to the Library of Congress, Pedro Menendes de Avilés landed in today’s Matanzas Bay on September 8, 1565.  He then began the founding of the Presidio of San Agustin or St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest city in the country.

Question: Where is the world's largest tropical rain forest?

Answer: South America contains the world's largest rain forest. Tropical rain forests are characterized by a warm and wet climate with no substantial dry season.  They are typically found within 10 degrees north and  south of the  Equator.  Brazil is home to the majority of the rain forest in South America. (60%).

Question: One definition of the word "desert" is that it has fewer than how many inches of rain annually?

Answer: To be classified as "desert",  the amount of annual rainfall should be less than 10".

Question: Christopher Columbus was hoping to sail all the way to Asia, perhaps including the islands of Cipangu, which were probably what country?

Answer: Cipangu was another name for Japan at that time.

Question: In 1853, the last land was added to the lower 48 states. What was the name of this purchase, and what was added?

Answer: The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,640-square-mile region of southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the US bought from Mexico.

Question: What is the only continent in all 4 hemispheres?

Answer: The earth is divided into seven major regions that have been defined as independent continents; these are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. Of these, Africa is the only continent to be situated in all four hemispheres.

Question:  What is both the highest mountain in Africa and is also the highest free-standing mountain above sea level in the world?

Answer: Mt. Kilimanjaro, at 19,341',  is this mountain.

Question: Micronesia is in which large body of water?

Answer: Micronesia is in the central Pacific Ocean and includes the Marshall, Caroline, and Gilbert Islands.

Question: Which U.S. river runs through the most state capitals? Bonus: Can you name them?

Answer: The Missouri River runs through 3 state capitals: Bismark-North Dakota, Pierre-South Dakota, and Jefferson City-Missouri.

Question: Which island in the U.S. is owned by the federal government and is within the borders of 2 states ?

Answer: Ellis Island is a federally owned island in New York Harbor, situated within the US states of New Jersey and New York.

Question: After Hawaii, which state has the highest annual rainfall?

Answer: Louisiana, with an average annual rainfall of about 60 inches, has the second highest rainfall average, closely followed by Mississippi and Alabama.

Question: What countries form the Iberian Peninsula?

Answer: The 2 primary countries are Peninsular Spain and Continental Portugal, as well as Andorra, Gibraltar, and a small part of Southern France.

Question: The Hawaiian Islands stretch about how many miles across the Pacific Ocean?

Answer: Hawaii consists of 137 volcanic islands that spread about 1,500 miles across the Pacific Ocean.

Question: There are 8 countries that extend north of the Arctic Circle. Can you name them?

Answer: Those countries are Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, United States, Canada, Iceland, and Greenland (autonomous country within the kingdom of Denmark).

Question: Which 2 of the 12 sovereign countries of South America do not share a border with Brazil?

Answer: Those 2 countries are Ecuador and Chile.

Question: What is both the highest mountain in Africa and the highest single free-standing mountain above sea level in the world?

Answer: Mount Kilimanjaro at 19,341'.

Question: Which continent has the largest river by volume, the longest mountain range, and the highest capital city on Earth?

Answer: South America (the Amazon, the Andes, and La Paz (11,942') in Bolivia).

Question: What is the largest country (by population) without an official language?

Answer: The United States.

Question: Heading due south from the center of North Dakota, which 5 states will you be passing through before you get to the US border?

Answer: Starting in North Dakota, those states are South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Question: Can you name all the states that begin with the letter M?

Answer: There are 8: Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, and Montana.

Question: What is the only Canadian Province bordering the Great Lakes?

Answer: The Province of Ontario borders 4 of the Great Lakes.  It does not border Lake Michigan. Quebec is at times included as part of the region because of the the St. Lawrence watershed.

Question: Can you name all 13 of the original colonies of the United States?

Answer: In no particular order, they are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode island, New Hampshire, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

Question: Mount Everest lies on the border between which two countries?

Answer: Mount Everest (29,031.7') is located on the border between Koshi Province in Nepal and Tibet Autonomous Region in China.

Question: A total of about how many peaks of the Rockies in the state of Colorado are higher than 14,000' and are considered to be Fourteeners?

Answer: There are 53 peaks higher than 14,000' in Colorado which are considered to be Fourteeners.*

*Summits that qualify are those considered by mountaineers to be independent. Objective standards for independence include topographic prominence and isolation (distance from a higher summit), or a combination of the two. However, Fourteener lists do not always use such objective rules consistently.

Question: What is the largest city in India by population?

Answer: Mumbai has 12.4 million, followed by Delhi with 11 million,  and Bangalore with almost 8.5 million.

Question:  What are the Horse Latitudes?

Answer: According  to Wikipedia, the Horse Latitudes are "the latitudes about 30 degrees north and south of the Equator, characterized by sunny skies, calm winds, and very little precipitation".

Question:The Rocky Mountains, the largest mountain system in North America, is about how long from its start in western Canada to its end in New Mexico?

Answer: According to Wikipedia, "the Rocky Mountains stretch 3,000 miles in straight line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada to New Mexico in the southwestern United States".

Question: Ice covers what percent of the land surface of the Earth?

Answer: About 10 percent of the land surface of the Earth is covered by ice at this time.

Question: The Appalachian Trail between Georgia and Maine is about how long?

Answer: The Appalachian Trail between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine is 2,198.4 miles long.

Question:  What is the least populated state capital?

Answer: Montpelier, Vermont, with about 8,000 residents.

Questions: Which country is the world's leading producer of coal?

Answer: China  leads the world in coal production.

Question: Which state's  nickname is the Constitution State, and which state is nicknamed the Bluegrass State?

Answer: Connecticut is the Constitution State, and Kentucky is the Bluegrass State.

Question: Which U.S. state shares borders with Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico?

Answer: Texas

Question: Mt. Elbert is the highest summit in the Rocky Mountains, and the second highest summit in the contiguous United States. In which state is it located and about how tall is it?

Answer: Mt. Elbert is 14,440' high and it's in Colorado.

Question: Which country, the 8th largest in the world by area, is also the largest Spanish speaking country in the world by area?

Answer: That country is Argentina.

Question: Which state borders 3 Canadian Provinces, and, for extra credit, what are they?

Answer: Montana borders British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan.

Question: What are the 5 boroughs of New York City?

Answer: The five boroughs are Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island.

Question: Along with Spain and France, what is the other country with both an Atlantic and
Mediterranean coastline?

Answer: Morocco

Question: Which state has the most active volcanoes?

Answer: There are about 169 volcanoes in the United States that are considered active by scientists.  The majority of these (about 130) are located in Alaska, where eruptions occur almost every year. 
Source: USGS Volcano Hazards Program.

Question: Which river is viewed as the national river of Russia?

Answer: The Volga is widely viewed as the national river of Russia.  Eleven of the twenty largest cities of Russia, including Moscow, are in the Volga's drainage basin.

Question: What is the only US state that calls its counties parishes?

Answer: Louisiana.

Questions: The narrow landform with water on both sides that connects 2 larger land areas is

called:  a. an atoll   b. an isthmus  c. an islet, or  d. a cay?

Answer: b. An isthmus

Question: What is the name of the waterway between Albany and Buffalo, New York?

Answer: Erie Canal, now 351 miles long.

Question: Most of Japan's population lives on one of the country's 4 main islands: a. Honshu, b. Shikoku, c. Kyushu, or d. Hokkaido ?

Answer: a. Honshu has a total population of 104 million people, according to a 2017 estimate, 81.3% of the entire population of Japan.

Question: Which US state has no documented poisonous snakes?

Answer: Alaska

Question: Which state, nicknamed the “Land of Enchantment,” became the 47th state in 1912?

Answer: New Mexico

Question: Although there is truly just one ocean on Earth, can you name the 5 standard oceans recognized by NOAA?

Answer: Those 5 oceans are Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern (Antarctic).

Question: As of 2020, which US state has the most populous capital city (not including metropolitan area)?

Answer: Arizona (Phoenix: 1,660,272), Texas (Austin: 988,216), Ohio (Columbus: 922,223), and Indiana (Indianapolis: 875,929)

Question: In a climate called Mediterranean, it rains most often in which season?

Answer: Winter.

Question: Which state has the most electoral votes?

Answer: California has the most at 55, followed by Texas with 38, and New York and Florida with 29.

Question: According to the UN, how many "internationally recognized sovereign countries fall even partially under any common geographical or political definitions of Europe?"

Answer: There are 50 countries falling under that definition.

Question: What is the highest mountain in Europe and about what is its elevation?

Answer: Located in the Caucasus Mountains, Mount Elbrus, at 18,510', is considered the highest peak in Europe. 

Question: Lake Mead was created when Hoover Dam was built on which river?

Answer: Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the building of Hoover Dam on the Colorado River.   The lake is located in the states of Nevada and Arizona, and the Colorado River is 1,450 miles long.

Question: Which US State has the highest number of endangered species?

Answer: Hawaii, with 503, has the most, followed by California with 299, and Florida with 135.

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Question: Which state has the shortest ocean coastline and about how long is it?

Answer: New Hampshire, whose coastline is between 13-18 miles long.

Question: Between 2010 - 2021, which US state added the most people to its population count?

Answer: Texas, with 4.3 million more residents.

Question: How many miles long is the border between the United States and Canada?

Answer: The border is about 5,525 miles, and is considered to be the longest international border in the world.  The border includes the area between the contiguous US and Canada , and the border between Canada and Alaska in the west.

Question: What is the longest river in Asia?

Answer: The Yangtze River in China, at about 3,917 miles, is the longest river system in Asia, and the third longest in the world, after the Nile (4,130 miles) and the Amazon (3,976 miles).

Question: What are the top three major food crops grown in the United States?

Answer: The top three food crops are corn, soybeans, and wheat.

Question: According to Claudius Ptolemy's (100-170 AD) Earth-centric view of the universe,
which major orbs/planets were circulating around the Earth?

Answer: At that time, the orbs that were perceived to be circulating around the Earth instead of around the sun were: the moon, Mercury, Venus, the sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

Question: Where is the Barbary Coast ?

Answer: The term Barbary Coast was used from the 16th century to the early 19th.  It refers to the coastal regions of North Africa, specifically the Ottoman borderlands (Regencies of Algiers and Tripoli)  as well as the Beylik of Tunis and the Sultanate of Morocco.

Question:  From 1926 to 1984, this highway stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica and became a very popular route for Americans to travel. Can you name it?

Answer: Route 66, about 2,448 miles long , was such a popular route there was even a television show named after it from 1960-1964.

Question: It takes how many minutes for light from the Sun to reach Earth?

Answer: Sunlight takes about 8.3 minutes to reach Earth.

Question: It took over two million years of human prehistory and history for the world population to reach one billion in 1804, and only slightly over 200 more years for it to grow to...?

Answer: The population is now right around 8 billion people.

Question: The tallest arch structure in the world, Gateway Arch, can be found in the U.S. city of...

Answer: St. Louis, Missouri, is the home of the 630' Gateway Arch. The Arch was designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen in 1947.

Question: What is the highest mountain in the Alps and where is it located?  Extra Credit: What is the elevation of the aforementioned peak?

Answer: Mont Blanc, a mountain which straddles parts of France, Italy and, by some smaller measure, Switzerland (but whose peak is only in France and Italy), is 15,773' high.

Question: Which river contains nearly 1/5 of all the fresh river water that discharges into the oceans?

Answer: At about 4,000 miles long, the Amazon River contains about 1/5 of the Earth's fresh river water.

Question: What is the southernmost country in the world?

Answer: The Republic of Chile.

Question: Which state is known as the Constitution State, which state is known as the Buckeye State, and which state is the Show Me state?

Answer: The answers are: Connecticut, Ohio, and Missouri.

Question: Can you name the top five states in order of population as of 2021?

Answer: 1. California (39,237,836)   2. Texas (29,527,941)  3. Florida (21,781,128)  4. New York (19,835,913) 5. Pennsylvania (12,964,056).

Question: Mount Elbert, the highest of the Rocky Mountains, is located in which state?

Answer: Mount Elbert, at 14,440', is the highest point in Colorado and in the Rocky Mountains.  It is also the second-highest summit in the contiguous United States after California's Mount Whitney, 14,505'.

Question: Where is the largest National Park in the US located?

Answer: Wrangell -St. Elias National Park and Preserve is in Alaska and it is 13.2 million acres.
Compare it to the smallest, Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, PA, at 0.02 acres!

Question: Which of these countries is NOT on 0° longitude?  a.England, b.South Africa c. Mali d. Spain?

Answer: b. South Africa

Question: In 1607, the London Company established the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Which state has it become?

Answer: The area became known as the state of Virginia, and the town was Jamestown (which was briefly abandoned in 1610).

Question: Which president was quite active in the early days of the conservation movement?

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt.

Question: What are the top five countries by total area (land and water)?

Answer: In square miles, they are (approximately): Russia:6,601,670, Canada: 3,855,100, The United States: 3,796,742, China: 3,705,407, and Brazil: 3,287,596.

Question:  About how long is the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California?

Answer: From Fredonyer Pass in the north to Tehachapi Pass in the south, the mountain range is about 400 miles long and about 80 miles wide.

Question: Which 2 bodies of water does the Strait of Gibraltar connect?

Answer: The Strait connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. Additionally, it separates the Iberian Peninsula in Europe from Morocco in Africa.

Question: What is the name of the highest mountain in Canada?

Answer: Mt. Logan, at 19,551', is the highest mountain in Canada. It is located in the Saint Elias Mountains which are part of the Pacific Coast Range.

Question: About what percent of the world's population lives above the equator?

Answer: As of 2015, the Northern Hemisphere is home to approximately 6.4 billion people which is around 87.0% of the earth's total human population of 7.3 billion people.  Keep in mind that the majority of the earth's land surface is above the equator as well.

Question: Which Midwest state has the nicknames The Prairie State, the Sucker State, and the Corn State?

Answer: The 21st state: Illinois.

Question: The Republic of San Marino is a tiny European country completely surrounded by what other country?

Answer: Italy

Question: What is the most populous city (city proper, not metro area surrounding it) in North America?

Answer: As of 2015, Mexico City has about 9.2 million people, while New York City has about 8.5 and Los Angeles has about 3.9.

Question: What state is bordered by Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming?

Answer: That state is Colorado, The Centennial State, so named because it was admitted to the Union in 1876.

Question: Washington, D.C. was created from portions of which states?

Answer: The land was originally ceded to the federal government by Virginia and Maryland in 1790.

Question: Which US states are made up entirely of straight lines?

Answer: There are only three states whose borders are entirely made up of straight lines:  Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado. 

Question: What are the 5 most populated countries in the world?

Answer: From first to fifth, they are China (1,412,600,000), India (1,374,781,750), The United States (332,593,599), Indonesia (272,248,500), and Pakistan (225,199,586).  As of November 2021, the total world's population is about 7,940,160,000!

Question: Who was the first President of the United States to live in the White House?

Answer: The White House has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams and his wife Abigail moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW in 1800.

Question: Can you name 6 state capitals that lie west of Los Angeles?

Answer: The capitals, in order of degrees west of Greenwich, England (from farthest to nearest) are:
Honolulu-Hawaii, Juneau-Alaska, Salem-Oregon, Olympia-Washington, Sacramento-California, and the closest: Carson City-Nevada.

Answer: The southernmost place is Hilo, Hawaii.

Answer: The pole of inaccessibility (location that is the most challenging to reach due to its remoteness from geographical features that could provide access) in North America is about 7 miles north of Allen, South Dakota.

Answer: California's Death Valley:1. On July 10, 1913, a record high 134° F was recorded 2. Badwater Basin in Death Valley is 282' below sea level 3. With several mountain ranges between Death Valley and the ocean, it lies in a severe rain shadow and receives an annual rainfall of about 1.5".

Answer - Georgia is the largest state entirely east of the Mississippi River in land area, although Michigan is the largest if water is included in size.

Answer - The only state flag in the United States that is not rectangular is the state flag of Ohio. 

Answer - As they are commonly referred to today, the 13 Original colonies are: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

Answer - All 54* countries in Africa are in the African Union

*This includes all internationally recognized territories and states on the continent by the UN and the African Union.

Which is the largest Scandinavian country in square miles?

Answer - At 173,860 square miles, Sweden is the largest. Norway is second with 148,718, and Denmark is third at 16,576.

Which states have the lowest and the highest average rainfall per year?

Answer - Hawaii has the highest at 63.70", and Nevada has the lowest at 9.54".

What do the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn represent?

Answer - According to Wikipedia - “The Tropic of Cancer is currently 23°26′13.3″ north of the Equator. It is the most northerly circle of latitude on the Earth at which the Sun can be directly overhead.  The Tropic of Capricorn is 23° 26′ 22″ south of the Equator. It marks the most southerly latitude at which the sun can appear directly overhead.”

Which state is home to the highest point (6,684') east of the Mississippi River?

Answer - Located in the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina, Mount Mitchell is the highest US mountain east of the Mississippi River.

What is the course or direction of flow of most Russian rivers?

Answer -  Most Russian rivers flow north, eventually into the Arctic Ocean.

What is the longest mountain range on the earth?

Answer - The mid-ocean ridges of the world are connected and form a
continuous mountain range over 40,000 miles long. The world's longest
above-ground mountain range is the Andes (4,300 miles long)

Which state has the highest mean elevation, and which state has the lowest mean elevation?

Answer:  Colorado has the highest mean elevation (6,800'), and Delaware has the lowest (60').

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The town of Rugby in which state is considered to be the "Geographic Center of the North  American Continent"?

Answer: North Dakota   

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