Geography quiz — 20 questions with answers.

Who it's for: Ages 13 and up: a geography class, a team quiz, or a quiz night with adults.

Use them as a geography starter, a revision round, or a team quiz. Every question has one correct answer except question 5, which has two. All twenty fit in one Quizoma quiz.

The 20 geography questions with answers

Correct answers are marked with a tick. The same questions, with the same answers, are in the CSV file, in the same order.

Continents & oceans

1. Which is the largest ocean?
   A. The Arctic · B. The Indian · C. The Atlantic · D. The Pacific ✓
2. Which is the largest continent by area?
   A. Asia ✓ · B. North America · C. Europe · D. Africa
3. How many continents are there in the most common model?
   A. 7 ✓ · B. 5 · C. 6 · D. 8
4. Which is the smallest continent?
   A. Antarctica · B. South America · C. Europe · D. Australia ✓
5. Which of these continents does the equator pass through? (more than one answer)
   A. Africa ✓ · B. Europe · C. Australia · D. South America ✓

Rivers & mountains

6. What is the highest mountain above sea level?
   A. Kilimanjaro · B. Mount Everest ✓ · C. K2 · D. Mont Blanc
7. Which is the longest river in Africa?
   A. The Zambezi · B. The Nile ✓ · C. The Congo · D. The Niger
8. On which continent are the Andes mountains?
   A. Europe · B. Africa · C. South America ✓ · D. Asia
9. Which is the largest hot desert in the world?
   A. The Kalahari · B. The Thar · C. The Gobi · D. The Sahara ✓
10. What are mountains formed where two tectonic plates push together called?
    A. Deltas · B. Fold mountains ✓ · C. Volcanic islands · D. Plateaus

Weather & climate

11. In which layer of the atmosphere does weather happen?
    A. The stratosphere · B. The troposphere ✓ · C. The thermosphere · D. The mesosphere
12. What is the climate usually like near the equator?
    A. Cold and dry · B. Cold and wet · C. Hot and wet ✓ · D. Mild and snowy
13. What is a monsoon?
    A. A type of earthquake · B. A desert sandstorm · C. A seasonal wind that brings heavy rain ✓ · D. A cold ocean current
14. Which instrument measures air pressure?
    A. A barometer ✓ · B. A rain gauge · C. An anemometer · D. A thermometer
15. Which instrument measures wind speed?
    A. An anemometer ✓ · B. A seismometer · C. A hygrometer · D. A barometer

Natural hazards

16. Which scale is commonly used to describe the strength of an earthquake?
    A. The Beaufort scale · B. The Richter scale ✓ · C. The pH scale · D. The Celsius scale
17. What is a giant sea wave caused by an undersea earthquake called?
    A. A tornado · B. A tsunami ✓ · C. A hurricane · D. A monsoon
18. Molten rock that reaches the Earth's surface is called what?
    A. Magma · B. Lava ✓ · C. Basalt · D. Ash
19. What is a tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean called?
    A. A typhoon · B. A blizzard · C. A hurricane ✓ · D. A tornado
20. Which instrument records earthquakes?
    A. A seismometer ✓ · B. A barometer · C. A thermometer · D. An odometer

Some wrong options are near misses. K2 in question 6 is the second highest; the Gobi in question 9 is a cold desert; and magma in question 18 is the name while it is still underground. Quizoma's results show the accuracy of every question, so you will see which ones caught the class out.

Students can use the same set to revise on their own: import it, switch on Show Score and Retake, and it becomes a practice test they can take until every answer sticks.

How to use this template

1. Download the file: quizoma-template-physical-geography-quiz.csv.
2. Open Quizoma Studio in your browser (or the Android app) and choose Import from file.
3. Pick the .csv. Quizoma shows every question for review before anything is saved, so you can fix a wording, drop a question or add your own.
4. Save, then share the 6-character quiz code or QR with your class. Participants answer at quizoma.com/take in any browser.

Timing and points are set on the quiz when you import, not in the file. If you would rather not import at all, you can type the questions into the online quiz maker directly.

What is in the file

One row per question: the question, then the options, then a final correct column holding the number of the right option. Where more than one option is right, the numbers are joined with a |. The first lines look like this:

question,option1,option2,option3,option4,correct
Which is the largest ocean?,The Arctic,The Indian,The Atlantic,The Pacific,4
What is the highest mountain above sea level?,Kilimanjaro,Mount Everest,K2,Mont Blanc,2

Open it in any spreadsheet to edit, and save it as CSV again before importing — an .xlsx file is not read. The same format is described on the templates page.