How well do you know geography?

You'd think with maps hanging in every school classroom people would at least have a clue about geography. But then Jay Leno goes out and asks really basic questions and people can't answer them. "What's the capital of the United States?" "Um, Las Vegas?"

So how much do you know about the world we live in? Do you know what else there is, beyond the town you live in? Or are you a potential Jaywalk All-Star?

Created by: Xavier Kun
  1. How many continents are there?
  2. What country is Johannesburg in?
  3. Which one of these cities is not in Canada?
  4. What is the capital of China?
  5. Which one of these countries is not an Arab country?
  6. If someone is Dutch, and I don't mean Pennsylvania Dutch, where is that person from?
  7. There is a long, famous river that winds through European cities like Vienna and Budapest, that Strauss wrote a waltz about back in the 1800s. What river is this?
  8. What is the name of that country that borders Texas to the south?
  9. Where is New Zealand?
  10. What state in the USA would you have to go to see Niagara Falls?
  11. What country is the Suez Canal in?
  12. Is Alaska an island?
  13. Way back in 1999 this place called Kosovo was all over the news. Where is Kosovo?
  14. Karachi is a really huge city. What country is it in?
  15. The tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, is in what country?

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Quiz topic: How well do I know geography?