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What season is it in Australia at Christmas? Answer: Summer
What is Santa Claus traditionally called in the United Kingdom? Answer: Father Christmas
Which country has sent a Christmas tree to Trafalgar Square in London since 1947? Answer: Norway
Saint Nicholas was a bishop in a town in which modern country? Answer: Turkey
What is December 26 called in the United Kingdom? Answer: Boxing Day
What red-leafed Christmas plant is native to Mexico? Answer: Poinsettia
What fish is the traditional Christmas Eve dinner in Poland and the Czech Republic? Answer: Carp
In the novel Dracula, what region is the Count's castle in? Answer: Transylvania
Transylvania is part of which modern country? Answer: Romania
What Massachusetts town held witch trials in 1692? Answer: Salem
In the novel Dracula, at what English seaside town does the Count's ship come ashore? Answer: Whitby
In which city does a glowing ball drop in Times Square at midnight on New Year's Eve? Answer: New York City
Which city reaches midnight on New Year's Eve first: Sydney or London? Answer: Sydney
When it is New Year's Eve, what season is it in Australia? Answer: Summer
Which lucky color covers the decorations at Chinese New Year? Answer: Red
Which country does the song "Auld Lang Syne" come from? Answer: Scotland
What is New Year's Eve called in Scotland? Answer: Hogmanay
What is the Scottish custom of being the first visitor through a door after midnight called? Answer: First-footing
On New Year's Eve in Japan, how many times do Buddhist temples ring their bells? Answer: 108
Which noodles do people in Japan eat on New Year's Eve? Answer: Soba (buckwheat noodles)
In Spain, people eat twelve of which fruit at midnight, one for each chime of the clock? Answer: Grapes
In Italy, which small legumes are eaten at New Year because they look like coins? Answer: Lentils
Which peas are eaten for luck on New Year's Day in the American South? Answer: Black-eyed peas
Which imaginary line in the Pacific Ocean marks where each new calendar day begins? Answer: The International Date Line
What is the Persian New Year, celebrated at the spring equinox, called? Answer: Nowruz
What is New Year's Eve called in Germany? Answer: Silvester
In Brazil, what color do many people wear on New Year's Eve for peace and good luck? Answer: White
In Greece, what is baked inside the New Year's cake called vasilopita? Answer: A coin
What are the deep-fried dough balls eaten on New Year's Eve in the Netherlands called? Answer: Oliebollen
In Denmark, what do people jump off at midnight to leap into the new year? Answer: A chair or sofa
Plymouth, where the Pilgrims settled, is in which present-day US state? Answer: Massachusetts
Which country celebrates its Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October? Answer: Canada
The ship that carried the Pilgrims to America set sail from which country? Answer: England
Which ocean did the Pilgrims cross to reach America? Answer: The Atlantic Ocean
What is the capital of France? Answer: Paris
What is the capital of Japan? Answer: Tokyo
What is the capital of Australia? Answer: Canberra
What is the capital of Canada? Answer: Ottawa
What is the capital of Italy? Answer: Rome
What is the capital of Brazil? Answer: Brasilia
What is the capital of Turkey? Answer: Ankara
What is the capital of New Zealand? Answer: Wellington
What is the capital of Argentina? Answer: Buenos Aires
What is the capital of Kenya? Answer: Nairobi
What is the capital of Morocco? Answer: Rabat
What is the capital of Scotland? Answer: Edinburgh
What is the capital of the US state of California? Answer: Sacramento
What is the capital of the US state of Texas? Answer: Austin
What is the largest ocean on Earth? Answer: The Pacific
What is the tallest mountain on Earth above sea level? Answer: Mount Everest
What mountain range is Mount Everest part of? Answer: The Himalayas
On which continent is the Sahara Desert? Answer: Africa
What is the largest continent? Answer: Asia
What country is shaped like a boot? Answer: Italy
What river runs through London? Answer: The Thames
What river runs through Paris? Answer: The Seine
What river flows north through Egypt into the Mediterranean Sea? Answer: The Nile
Off the coast of which country is the Great Barrier Reef? Answer: Australia
In which country would you find Machu Picchu? Answer: Peru
In which country is the Taj Mahal? Answer: India
What US state is made up entirely of islands? Answer: Hawaii
What is the smallest country in the world? Answer: Vatican City
What is the longest river in South America? Answer: The Amazon
What imaginary line circles the Earth at 0 degrees latitude? Answer: The Equator
What line of 0 degrees longitude passes through Greenwich in London? Answer: The Prime Meridian (Greenwich Meridian)
What sea lies between southern Europe and North Africa? Answer: The Mediterranean
What country has a red maple leaf on its flag? Answer: Canada
What country's flag is a red circle on a white background? Answer: Japan
In which US state is the Grand Canyon? Answer: Arizona
How many states are in the United States? Answer: 50
On which continent is the South Pole? Answer: Antarctica
What ocean lies between North America and Europe? Answer: The Atlantic
What is the largest country in the world by area? Answer: Russia
What canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans? Answer: The Panama Canal
What canal connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea? Answer: The Suez Canal
In which country is the city of Timbuktu? Answer: Mali
What strait separates Spain from Morocco? Answer: The Strait of Gibraltar
What island country lies just off the southern tip of India? Answer: Sri Lanka
Which of the Great Lakes lies entirely inside the United States? Answer: Lake Michigan
In which country is Mount Kilimanjaro? Answer: Tanzania
What waterfall lies on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe? Answer: Victoria Falls
What famous waterfalls lie on the border between Canada and the United States? Answer: Niagara Falls
On which Hawaiian island is the city of Honolulu? Answer: Oahu
What salt lake between Israel and Jordan lets swimmers float with no effort? Answer: The Dead Sea
Lemurs are native to which island off the coast of Africa? Answer: Madagascar

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What are some good geography trivia questions?: Five from this list: What is the capital of Canada? (Ottawa) What is the capital of the US state of Texas? (Austin) Off the coast of which country is the Great Barrier Reef? (Australia) In which US state is the Grand Canyon? (Arizona) Which of the Great Lakes lies entirely inside the United States? (Lake Michigan)