Geography by Letter: B

Questions

1. What is the largest city in and capital of the Australian state of Queensland?

2. Which southeast-Asian island - the world's third largest - is shared by three independent nations?

3. Aside from Vienna, which three European capital cities also lie along the River Danube?

4. Which city - by some measures the second largest in the UK - is home to native "Brummies"?

5. Which southern African nation is home to the lush inland Okavango Delta?

6. Which city - the state capital of Idaho - is known as the "City of Trees"?

7. Which Scottish mountain is the highest in the UK, standing at 1345m above sea level?

8. Which Flemish city in Belgium is often referred to as the "Venice of the North" due to its numerous canals?

9. Which major London thoroughfare was the home of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes?

10. Which national park in the Rocky Mountains is Canada's oldest, dating back to 1885?

11. Which peninsula in southeastern-Europe is home to states such as Greece, Serbia and Croatia?

12. What is the name of the strait which lies between Alaska (USA) and the Chukchi Peninsula (Russia)?

13. 1 Ibiza and Majorca make up part of which Spanish island group in the Mediterranean Sea?

14. What is the most commonly adhered-to religion in Mongolia?

15. Which city - the capital of the Republic of Congo - lies across the river Congo from Kinshasa - the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?

16. Rio de Janeiro was replaced in 1960 as the capital of Brazil by which new city, designed and developed by Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa?

17. Lake Titicaca - the highest lake in the world - straddles the border of Peru and which other nation?

18. Which city - home to a Guggenheim museum - is the largest in the Basque Country of northern Spain?

19. Munich and Nuremberg are located in which German state (Bundesland)?

20. Which isolated Himalayan nation did not introduce television until 1999?