Geography and History Quiz
Questions are from the National Geography Bee, a program of the National Geographic Society.
1.Franz Kafka was born in the capital of Bohemia, a former province of the Austro- Hungarian Empire. Name this city, which lies on the Vltava River.
2.Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, vacationed frequently in the seaside town of Eastbourne, where chalk cliffs, ending at Beachy Head, are located. Eastbourne lies on the northern shore of which body of water, known by the French as La Manche?
3.Both Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were born, grew up, and attended university in the second largest city in Scotland. Name this city.
4.In Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Sun Also Rises," the characters meet in a city in northern Spain to witness the running of the bulls. Name this city, which is the capital of the autonomous community of Navarre.
5.John Keats, an early 19th-century English Romantic poet, moved from England to a drier, warmer climate after a tuberculosis relapse. He settled near the famous Spanish Steps located in what southern European city founded on seven hills?
6.Windmills are a famous image from "Don Quixote," a classic work by Miguel de Cervantes. The story's hero was born in La Mancha, a region about 125 miles southeast of which city, the largest on the Iberian Peninsula?
7.George Bernard Shaw, who wrote more than 40 plays in his lifetime, was born and grew up in a city famous for its Georgian doors. Name this city, located at the northern end of the Wicklow Mountains, where you can see the Book of Kells at Trinity College.
8.The family estate of Leo Tolstoy, author of "War and Peace," lies outside the city of Tula, which is 200 miles south of Russia's largest city. Name this city.
9.Tudor-style houses are still popular in Stratford upon Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare. Stratford upon Avon lies southeast of which city, the second largest in England?
10.American writer John Steinbeck wrote a classic novel revolving around the characters Ed Ricketts, Lee Chong and Doc, who lived and worked in Monterey in an area that shares a name with the Steinbeck novel. What is the name of this area, which is now home to a world-class aquarium?
I got 7 out of 10 and had to think about a couple of those.