The World’s Geo Quiz tests your knowledge of world geography, and introduces you to fascinating people and places around the globe. Produced by The World’s David Leveille.

 

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Elephants as Possible Solution to Stop Australia’s Wildfires

African Elephant in Addo National Park, South Africa. (Photo: Gorgo/Wikipedia)

We are looking for a vast, but sparsely-populated territory of Australia. It borders the Timor Sea to the north and to the south it abuts South Australia.

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Illegal Ivory Market Flourishes in Cairo

A shop in the Khan el-Khalili bazaar in Cairo selling illegal ivory. (Photo: Lucy Vigne)

The marketplace that we are looking for in the Geo Quiz sells everything from chandeliers and spices to hookahs and shisha and now even illegal ivory.

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Meet Way-C: The African-Designed Tablet

The Way-C table. (Photo: vmktech.com)

We are looking for two cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the African-designed tablet went on sale.

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Canadian Lego Man Goes to Space

Lego man in space (Photo: mathewmho/YouTube)

For the Geo Quiz we’re talking with two Toronto teenagers who launched a Lego man into space.

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Cyber Tycoon Wanted for Internet Piracy Arrested in New Zealand

Kim Dotcom, founder of file-sharing website Megaupload. (Photo: Andreas Bohnenstengel/Wikipedia)

Dotcom is the man behind a website called “Megaupload,” which the FBI alleges has carried out massive worldwide online piracy.

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Burns, Haggis and Highland Dancers – A Postcard From Scotland

Burns portrait by Alexander Nasmyth (Scottish National Portrait Gallery)

We’re in Scotland for the Geo Quiz, in the city where Robert Burns started to make a name for himself in the late 1780′s, and where his portrait now hangs in the Scottish National Gallery.

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Video: Solar Storm To Lash Earth Until Wednesday

Solar Flare (Photo: NASA/SDO and the AIA Consortium/Edited by J. Major)

Our Geo Quiz starts 93 million miles away: on the surface of the Sun. That’s where a solar eruption happened over the weekend. It’s described as an immense blast of plasma and radiation streaming out from the sun. The question is, what kind of storm are we talking about?

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European King of Seltzer

Seltzer bottles in Hungarian restaurant (Photo: Nate Tabak)

For our Geo Quiz, we want you to name a landlocked country in central Europe where seltzer rules.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Appointed Cultural Ambassador

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Hall-of-Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. (Photo: State Dept)

Marco Werman talks with the NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about his upcoming trip to Brazil, his first as US cultural ambassador.

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Slideshow: A Gabonese Lake with Legend of the Dwarves

Gabon's Lac Bleu (Lake Blue). (Photo: Daniel Glick)

A pristine freshwater lake that is famous for its clear blue water and for the dwarves that, according to the local legend, protect the lake.

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‘Angry Brides’ Game Targets India’s Dowry Problem

The "Angry Brides" application is aimed at discouraging people from taking dowry. (Photo: facebook.com/shaadicom)

We are looking for a city in India where the creators of a matrimony site have designed a game to raise awareness about the problem of dowry in India.

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A 3000-Year-Old Singer Discovered in Egypt

A handout picture released by Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities on January 15, 2012 shows the grave of Nany of the 22nd Dynasty, a singer of the Egyptian deity Amun-Re.

For the Geo Quiz, we are looking for a modern Egyptian city where a team of Swiss archaeologists has discovered an 1,100-year-old tomb.

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AP Opens Office in North Korea

AP President Tom Curley, right, shakes hands with Korean Central News Agency President Kim Pyong Ho. (Photo: AP/David Guttenfelder)

For the Geo Quiz we want you to name the city where the Associated Press has just opened a full-time news bureau.

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Australian Horse Cheats Death Twice

Boyd Martin and Neville Bardos at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington, KY (Copyright Amber Heintzberger 2010)

For the Geo quiz, we want you to name a town that some call “the horse capital” of Australia.

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Dutch Queen Beatrix Sparks Controversy Over Headscarf

For the Geo Quiz we are looking for one of the cities in the Arab world where Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands paid a visit and got into trouble because of what she was wearing.

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