Q 01/05

Which US state is the easternmost as well as the westernmost, because its islands cross the 180° meridian?

A) Hawaii

B) Texas

C) Florida

D) Alaska

Answer · why

D) Alaska

Alaska's Aleutian chain runs past 180° into the Eastern Hemisphere, where Semisopochnoi Island lies just past the line, so the International Date Line...

Q 02/05

Which state joins Arizona, Colorado and Utah at the Four Corners Monument, the only point four US states share?

A) New Mexico

B) Nevada

C) California

D) Oklahoma

Answer · why

A) New Mexico

New Mexico completes the quadripoint, though the 1875 marker sits about 1,800 feet east of where surveyors intended. The states accepted that survey, ...

Q 03/05

Which US state borders just one other state, New Hampshire, while touching two Canadian provinces?

A) Vermont

B) New York

C) Massachusetts

D) Maine

Answer · why

D) Maine

Maine was part of Massachusetts until 1820, yet the two do not touch: New Hampshire's short coast lies between them, which leaves Maine with a single ...

Q 04/05

Which country set its clocks in 1986 to a meridian over Gaurishankar peak, giving it the odd offset UTC+5:45?

A) Bhutan

B) Nepal

C) Sri Lanka

D) Myanmar

Answer · why

B) Nepal

Nepal moved its clocks a quarter of an hour ahead of India's to match a meridian through Gaurishankar, a peak east of Kathmandu, so crossing the borde...

Q 05/05

Which Canadian city on the south bank of the Detroit River is entered by driving south from Detroit?

A) Sarnia

B) Hamilton

C) Kingston

D) Windsor

Answer · why

D) Windsor

Windsor is the real 'South Detroit': Journey's Don't Stop Believin' sings of a boy born and raised there, but no such district exists, and due south o...