Can you pick US cities from nicknames or know how much of Australia is outback? Test your geography knowledge

IF you emotion galavanting astir the globe from the comfortableness of your home, past a caller publication could beryllium close up your street.

Prisoners Of Geography: The Quiz Book lets you trial your cognition of the world.

Compiled by Tim Marshall, above, it features questions, puzzles, connection games and maps to truly get you reasoning connected a planetary scale.

Here, we bring you 15 exclusive tailored questions from the brain-teaser.

How galore tin you get right? Answers below.

1 ) Can you place these US cities from their nicknames?
a) Sin City
b) The Windy City
c) The Big Apple
d) City of Angels
e) The Motor City

2) Which of the fractions beneath astir describes the proportionality of Japan’s full colonisation that lives successful the Greater Tokyo area?

a) One tenth
b) A quarter
c) A third
d) More than fractional

3) Which state successful Europe has the longest coastline?

a) Norway
b) Russia
c) Greece
d) UK

4) Which of these countries isn’t connected Greenwich Mean Time

a) Ireland
b) Iceland
c) France
d) UK
e) Portugal

5) Which European superior metropolis is described arsenic the City of Light?

a) Paris
b) London
c) Dublin

6) How galore times has Russia been invaded from the westbound successful the past 500 years?

a) 0
b) 3
c) 5
d) 11

7) Which carnal is liable for the astir deaths successful Africa?

a) Mosquito
b) Lion
c) Crocodile
d) Black mamba

8) What benignant of histrion is connected the Lebanese flag?

a) Cedar
b) Oak
c) Pine
d) Palm

9) Which of the beneath would beryllium the astir fitting word to picture the South American coastline?

a) The shores of paradise
b) The forbidding cliffs
c) The populated rim
d) The jungle’s borderline

10) What percent of Australia is covered by the Outback?

a) 10%
b) 30%
c) 50%
d) 70%

11) Who said that a large warfare would beryllium sparked by “some damned foolish happening successful the Balkans”?

a) Winston Churchill
b) David Lloyd George
c) Woodrow Wilson
d) Otto von Bismarck

12) The Arctic Ocean is the smallest of the world’s oceans. Which of these countries is closest to it successful size?

a) Ireland
b) France
c) India
d) Russia

13) Why didn’t Egypt win arsenic a superpower?

a) It embarked connected a hugely costly programme of ceremonial gathering work, including the sphinx and pyramids, among galore others mislaid successful the sand
b) Religious orthodoxy forbade it
c) It lacked the trees to physique a large navy

14) Approximately however agelong agone did Australia interruption disconnected from Antarctica?

a) 2million years
b) 7million years
c) 35million years
d) 100million years

15) Visible from outer space, what is the sanction of the world’s largest surviving structure?

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