My Geography Trivia Question Bank

I enjoy learning geographical facts and asking people geography trivia questions. Below is a subset of my question bank on geography. They are perfect for parties. Answers are at the end of the page.

Questions

1. Name the two doubly landlocked countries in the world.
2. Where is L’Anse aux Meadows?
3. Where is the Chicxulub crater?
4. Find the 5 countries in the world whose capitalized names do not contain any letters with closed counters.
5. Which countries does the river Rhine flow through?

Answers

1. Liechtenstein (in Western Europe, surrounded by Austria and Switzerland) and Uzbekistan (in Central Asia, surrounded by Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan).

2. Just find it. “L’Anse aux Meadows is the only undisputed site of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact of Europeans with the Americas outside of Greenland.”

3. Just find it. The impact crater of the asteroid that caused the mass extinction event 66 million years ago.

4. Liechtenstein, Fiji, Chile, Yemen, Seychelles.

5. Switzerland (starts at the Swiss Alps), Liechtenstein (Swiss-Liechtenstein border), Austria (Swiss-Austrian border), Germany (Swiss-German border), France (Franco-German border), Netherlands (the painter’s full name is Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn)