Q 01/05

What is the largest continent by land area?

A) Africa

B) Asia

C) Antarctica

D) Europe

Answer · why

B) Asia

Asia is the largest continent, covering approximately 44.6 million square kilometers, which is about 30% of Earth's total land area.

Q 02/05

Which river is the longest in the world?

A) Congo

B) Mississippi

C) Yangtze

D) Nile

Answer · why

D) Nile

The Nile is traditionally ranked the longest river, but its length depends on where the measuring starts and ends, so some scientists dispute the titl...

Q 03/05

Which purpose-built city became Australia's capital as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne?

A) Brisbane

B) Adelaide

C) Canberra

D) Perth

Answer · why

C) Canberra

Canberra wasn't ready for decades, so Parliament sat in Melbourne until 1927, when it finally moved into Canberra's Provisional Parliament House.

Q 04/05

Which ocean is the largest by area?

A) Atlantic Ocean

B) Pacific Ocean

C) Indian Ocean

D) Arctic Ocean

Answer · why

B) Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean covers more of the planet than all of Earth's land put together.

Q 05/05

Which European country is nicknamed 'the land of a thousand lakes'?

A) Sweden

B) Norway

C) Finland

D) Estonia

Answer · why

C) Finland

Finland's nickname undersells it: the country has more than 160,000 lakes bigger than 500 square metres.