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Geography Quiz #448

Geography Quiz for 13 August 2017

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Q1. What type of building is famous in Milan, Venice, Florence, Seville, Paris, Chartres, Amiens, Rheims, Cologne, Mainz and Trèves?

A
Railway station
B
Cathedral
C
Town Hall
D
Opera House
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Q2. Which area is particularly favoured for building observatories and powerful astronomical telescopes?

A
Atacama Desert
B
Tierra del Fuego
C
Galapagos Islands
D
Maracaibo
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Q3. Which is most likely to be seen wild in Laos?

A
Armadillo
B
Pangolin
C
Aardvark
D
Echidna
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Q4. Apart from its shape what is seen as the reason for the name of an island known for its part in an expedition by Sir Ernest Shackleton 1914-17?

A
Shackleton's dog at his home in London
B
Hens which the explorers carried with them
C
Dolphins which accompanied the ship round the island
D
Its colony of elephant seals
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Q5. What is at the centre of the flag of Brazil?

A
A dark blue oval carrying one white star
B
A dark blue disc carrying 27 white stars, crossed by a curved white band carrying a motto
C
A gold globe crossed by a straight white bar, set in a circular blue band with white stars
D
A dark blue disc carrying 21 white stars
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Q6. Which award winning building was built directly underneath Waterloo Bridge, London, in the 1980s and has stalactites (from water leaking through the Bridge) growing in it?

A
National Film Theatre
B
Royal National Theatre
C
Hayward Art Gallery
D
Museum of the Moving Image
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Q7. Which river runs through the city of Paris, France?

A
Nile
B
Rhine
C
Hudson
D
Seine
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