Geography 7

Geography
1) What U.S. city shares a border with Tijuana, Mexico?
2) Six states make up New England. Name TWO of them.
3) What German city, home of BMW, was selected as the most livable
in the world by Monocle magazine?
4) The area known as Kurdistan includes small parts of Syria and
Armenia, plus large parts of three other countries. Name two of those
countries.
5) What US state first applied for admission to the union in 1849 under
the name Deseret?
6) Sure, Patagonia is a clothing company, but it’s also a region of South
America covering parts of two countries. Name one of them.
7) The Erie Canal connects Lake Erie to what river in New York?
8) The world’s largest producers of silver are Mexico and what South
American country, which has produced silver for European consumption
since the 1500s?
9) There’s a Moxy Fruvous song that claims the US’s lowest
highest point is in Delaware, but they’re wrong. Which state actually
has that distinction, peaking at a mere 345 feet above sea level?
10) The Golden Shield Project is a government-sponsored
effort to control all Internet traffic into and out of what country?
Answers:
1) San Diego, CA
2) Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Rhode Island
3) Munich
4) Iran, Iraq, Turkey
5) Utah
6) Argentina and Chile
7) Hudson River
8) Peru
9) Florida
10) People’s Republic of China (China is fine