"The construction of the Aswan High Dam has caused silt to build up in what lake?"* "Which city is in southern Nevada and saw its population grow by more than 80% in the 1990s?"* Today is the day for all of the state-level competitions for the National Geographic Society geography bee. You can try your hand at bee-style questions every day: www.nationalgeographic.org/education/student-experiences/geobee/study/quiz/
*Lake Nasser and Las Vegas
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Can you identify a country based on three images from that country? You can test your skills with this 38-question quiz: play.howstuffworks.com/quiz/97-people-cant-identify-the-country-three-images-can-you
Global population is expected to grow another 2+ billion by 2050, and the world's cities are expected to absorb all of that future growth. This 79-question multiple-choice quiz invites users to identify a sampling of world cities by location. (Unless it's been fixed, Question 48 is wrong, though.) Want to learn more? Look up the cities that are the incorrect choices.
offbeat.topix.com/quiz/18524/qidx48 Today is the National Geographic Society geography bee for local home schoolers. You can test (and expand) your own geography knowledge with this 35-question quiz for which every answer starts with an S: play.howstuffworks.com/quiz/only-a-genius-can-ace-this-geography-quiz-all-s-answers
Buildings represent some of the most distinctive ways humans put their mark on the earth. Test your geographic knowledge: can you identify these 49 international cities from a single image? play.howstuffworks.com/quiz/can-you-name-the-international-city-an-image-learn
The ability to recognize other languages/alphabets often comes in handy in identifying place names, understanding historical relationships between countries, and otherwise interpreting geographic information. This thoughtfully designed 60-question quiz combines a written phrase (typically a proverb) in a given language with a photo of a place that language is spoken. passport.topix.com/quiz/19816
The finals of the National Geographic Bee air tonight (8 pm ET, National Geographic Channel), but you can try your hand at answering practice questions every day: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/bee/study/quiz (FWIW, the questions posted online are more typical of state- or national-level competition and are generally substantially more difficult than those students would see at a school-level bee.)
On Tuesday (11/15) the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum is launching its one-day-only "Geography from Space" contest. Participants can log in (beginning at 7:00 am EST) to play the game, which involves identifying geographic landmarks based on satellite images and written clues. The first three people (U.S. residents 13 or older) to submit correct answers win a Smithsonian book, but *anyone* can play and the site includes all of previous years' "Geography from Space" games: airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/geography-from-space/
Want to brush up on your world geography while helping address world hunger? FreeRice allows users to donate grains of rice by answering questions correctly. Visit world landmarks? http://freerice.com/#/world-landmarks/1346445. Prefer to practice your country identification or national capital knowledge? http://freerice.com/#/identify-countries-map/837 or http://freerice.com/#/world-capitals/13642
Even if you don't know anything at all about Aristotle, you can learn a few new things by taking this short quiz, courtesy of Oxford University Press, "How well do you know Aristotle?" http://blog.oup.com/2016/09/aristotle-quiz-philosophy/
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