We present Tribune Newspapers' Geography Challenge, timed to coincide with the National Geographic Society's Geography Awareness Week, Nov. 11-17. Many questions come from this year's National Geographic Bee (nationalgeographic.com/geobee), sponsored by the National Geographic Society for children in fourth through eighth grades.
Compiled by Phil Marty,
special to Tribune Newspapers
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1. Name the landlocked country that borders Botswana and South Africa.
2. The wreck of the Titanic was discovered in 1985, a few hundred miles off the coast of Cape Race, which is on what island?
3. The Vltava, Havel and Saale are tributaries of what river?
4. This city is the capital of Uzbekistan.
5. One of the oldest universities in the world, Al-Azhar, was founded in the 10th century and still exists in what present-day capital near the Eastern Desert?
6. Uttar Pradesh is a state in what country?
7. Though most species of lemurs live only in Madagascar, two species also live in a group of islands off its northwest coast. Name this group of islands.
8. White sand beaches stretch northeast of Port Olimpic marina in Spain's largest port city on the Balearic Sea. Name this city.
9. What is the largest city on the island of Sicily?
10. Capt. James Cook named this mountain range on New Zealand's South Island after he saw its impressive height.
11. Manitoulin Island is the world's largest island in a freshwater lake. Name the lake that surrounds the island.
12. What city on the Amazon River is a major inland port for Peru?
13. This city on a northern arm of the Adriatic Sea is home to the Rialto Bridge.
14. What city just north of the Mekong River Delta was formerly known as Saigon?