1. What is the capital city of Australia? (Clue: it is not Sydney.)

2. What is the capital city of Canada? (Clue: it is not Toronto.)

3. What is the capital city of Japan?

4. What is the capital city of Brazil? (Clue: it is not Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo.)

5. What is the capital city of Egypt?

6. What is the capital city of New Zealand? (Clue: it is not Auckland.)

7. South Africa has three capital cities, each serving a different branch of government. Name any one of them.

8. The world’s smallest country, Vatican City, is an independent state located entirely within which European capital city?

9. What is the name of the world’s highest mountain above sea level?

10. On which continent is the Amazon River located?

11. Which river is traditionally regarded as the longest in the world?

12. The Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral reef system, lies off the coast of which Australian state?

13. What is the name of the famous waterfall that sits on the border between the United States and Canada?

14. Victoria Falls, one of the world’s largest waterfalls, straddles the border between which two African countries?

15. What is the name of the world’s largest hot desert, covering much of North Africa?

16. The Mariana Trench, the deepest known point on the Earth’s surface, is located in which ocean?

17. How many continents are there on Earth?

18. Which country is the largest in the world by land area?

19. What is the world’s smallest country by area?

20. Which country has the longest coastline in the world, with over 200,000 kilometres of shoreline?

21. On which continent would you find the countries of Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia?

22. Which two countries share the world’s longest international land border, stretching nearly 9,000 kilometres?

23. Which Southeast Asian country, made up of more than 17,000 islands, is the world’s largest archipelago nation?

24. Which vast Central Asian country, formerly part of the Soviet Union, is the world’s largest landlocked country by area?

25. What is the name of the highest mountain in the United Kingdom?

26. What is the longest river in the United Kingdom?

27. How many countries make up the United Kingdom?

28. Which English county, known for its orchards, hop gardens and historic oast houses, is nicknamed the “Garden of England”?

29. What is the name of the narrow stretch of water that separates England from France at its closest point?

30. What is the name of the largest lake in the United Kingdom, located in Northern Ireland?

31. What is the capital city of Scotland?

32. The Pennines are a range of hills and moorland running north to south through northern England. They are sometimes known as the “backbone” of what?

33. How many stars appear on the flag of the United States of America?

34. Which ocean is the largest in the world, covering roughly a third of the Earth’s surface?

35. What is the name of the imaginary line at 0 degrees longitude that passes through Greenwich in London?

36. The International Date Line, where each new calendar day begins, runs roughly along which degree of longitude in the Pacific Ocean?

37. Which mountain range, running roughly north to south through Russia, is traditionally regarded as the natural boundary between Europe and Asia?

38. The Dead Sea, so salty that swimmers float effortlessly on its surface, lies on the border between which two countries?

39. What is the name of the sea that lies between the eastern coast of Italy and the Balkan Peninsula?

40. Which country is the only one in the world to have a national flag that is not rectangular or square in shape?