THE GEOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION WORLDWISE 2006 LOCAL QUIZ
ALPHABET RUN
Questioner’s Introduction
This is an individual oral round. Each team member will be asked up to 4 questions,
each to be answered in 10 seconds. If you give a wrong answer or pass, you have
another life, but two wrong answers end your turn. Each correct answer earns one
point and anyone answering all 4 questions correctly gains a bonus point. Total
possible with bonus is 15.
What A is the capital of Greece?
What B is a fine-grained igneous rock?
What C is a French region producing a sparkling wine?
What D is the term applied to land damaged by previous use?
What E is the world’s highest mountain?
What F became a republic in 1793 after a revolution?
What G is a large desert in Central Asia, mostly in Mongolia?
What H was the wall built in Roman times across northern England?
What I is the name of a former empire in the Andes of South
America?
What J is a Commonwealth Caribbean island?
What K is the capital of the Ukraine?
What L is a large Scottish lake that had “Bonnie Banks” in the song?
What M is a Principality, surrounded by France that has a Grand Prix?
What N is a series of chalk stacks off the Isle of Wight?
What O is the material worked for extraction of a metal?
What P is the largest Ocean?
What Q is the latest geological time period?
What R is both a Yorkshire town and a London park?
What S is the island being kicked by the Italian Boot?
What T is a small lake often found in a corrie?
What U is an adjective describing a city or town?
What V is an Australian State?
What W is the river flowing through Durham to the sea at Sunderland?
What Y is a country in the Arabian peninsula, with cities Sana and
Aden?
What Z is the largest city in Switzerland?
Athens
Basalt
Champagne
Derelict
Everest
France
Gobi
Hadrian’s
Inca
What A is the continent with no permanent human population?
What B is a spa town in England founded by the Romans?
What C is the French ferry port for the short sea crossing from
England?
What D is a lake 390m below sea level between Israel and Jordan?
What E is the home of the Scottish Parliament?
What F is a fracture in rock along which movement occurs?
What G is a West African country, formerly Gold Coast
What H is the capital of Vietnam?
Antarctica
Bath
Calais
Jamaica
Kiev
Lomond
Monaco
Needles
Ore
Pacific
Quaternary
Richmond
Sicily
Tarn
Urban
Victoria
Wear
Yemen
Zurich
Dead Sea
Edinburgh
Fault
Ghana
Hanoi
What I is the sea between Holyhead and Dun Laoghaire?
What J is an industrialised Asian country on four main islands?
What K is a Cumbrian tourist centre on Derwentwater?
What L is a Baltic member of the EU, capital Vilnius?
What M is a large Island in the Indian ocean, east of Africa?
What N is the type of park of which Snowdonia is an example?
What O is a cut off lake in a river valley?
What P is the main food of many fishes and some whales?
What Q is the name for a fixed amount of goods that can be traded?
What R is a structure for storing water?
What S is a major fault between tectonic plates in California
What T is a Spanish Cape after which a famous naval battle is
named?
What U is a range of mountains in Russia, the E. boundary of
Europe?
What V is an independent city state, surrounded by Rome
What W is a London street-site of government offices and the
Cenotaph?
What Y is the name for a Norfolk port and resort?
What Z is the metal derived from galena and used for galvanising?
Irish
Japan
Keswick
Lithuania
Madagascar
National
Ox-bow
Plankton
Quota
Reservoir
San
Andreas
Trafalgar
Urals
Vatican City
Whitehall
Yarmouth
Zinc
What A is the capital of South Australia?
What B is an Indonesian island popular with tourists?
What C is an English county renowned for its cheese?
What D is a type of brown sugar and a river in Guyana?
What E is an east African country once called Abyssinia?
What F is a river flowing under London and a street where
newspapers were once produced
What G was applied to the revolution giving more productive
agriculture?
What H is the mountain range with the world’s highest mountain?
What I is a Yorkshire town with a moor made famous in a song?
What J is an Israeli port and a type of orange?
What K is the county in the SE called the Garden of England?
What L describes the total amount of sediment carried by a river?
What M is an Atlantic island which is part of Portugal?
What N is the fictional location of CS Lewis’s Chronicles?
What O is a fishing and ferry port on the west coast of Scotland?
What P was the town destroyed during a volcanic eruption in AD 79
What Q is the class of economic activity that is information based?
What R is the river rising in Switzerland and flowing into the North
Sea?
What S is the war torn country containing the Darfur region?
What T is the cold polar desert region of Siberia?
What U is an Asian Republic whose capital is Tashkent?
What V is a New England state, containing the Green Mountains?
What W is the crop most closely associated with the Canadian
Prairies?
What Y was a communist country bordering the Adriatic, now split up?
What Z is an African country, formerly the Belgian Congo?
Adelaide
Bali
Cheshire
Demerara
Ethiopia
Fleet
What A is a mountain range forming the backbone of Italy?
Apennines
Green
Himalayas
Ilkley
Jaffa
Kent
Load
Madeira
Narnia
Oban
Pompeii
Quaternary
Rhine
Sudan
Tundra
Uzbekistan
Vermont
Wheat
Yugoslavia
Zaire
What B is a resort on the west coast in Lancashire
What C is the crop farmers are being encouraged to grow for
bumblebees and for fixing nitrogen in the soil?
What D is the lowest, hottest and driest area of the USA?
What E is a Netherlands town making a cheese with red rind?
What F is an island group in the south Atlantic also called the
Malvinas?
What G is a Pacific island group, visited by Darwin?
What H is the town on the river Thames which hosts a Regatta?
What I is the main river of Pakistan?
What J is a Channel island and breed of cow?
What K is an East African country suffering drought and famine
(spring 06)
What L is the southern state of the USA badly affected by hurricane
Rita?
What M is the river separating Liverpool and Birkenhead?
What N is the most recently nominated British National Park?
What O is a US river and State whose capital is Columbus?
What P is the mountain range between France and Spain?
What Q is a semi precious stone belonging to the silica group of
minerals?
What R is the sea between Egypt and Saudi Arabia?
What S is a product mined from deposits in Cheshire and Siberia?
What T is the name of the moraine at the maximum extent of a
glacier?
What U is a landlocked African country NW of Lake Victoria?
What V is the opening through which a volcano ejects igneous
material?
What W is an island group in the Caribbean?
What Y is an English city whose Roman name was Eboracum?
What Z is the village below the Matterhorn, where cars are banned?
Blackpool
Clover
Death
Valley
Edam
Falklands
Galapagos
Henley
Indus
Jersey
Kenya
Louisiana
Mersey
New Forest
Ohio
Pyrenees
Quartz
Red
Salt
Terminal
Uganda
Vent
West Indies
York
Zermatt