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Monthly Competitions - Schools
October - Level 3

2: Both the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia and the country of New Caledonia are named after a European country. What country, as evidenced by the meaning of their names, are they named after?
A: Scotland

3: Who is the father of geology?
A: James Hutton

4: What theory explains continental drift (why the continents drift over the Earth's surface)?
A: Plate Tectonics ; (also accept Continental Drift Theory)

5: What is the name of the world's deepest lake? In what country will you find it?
A: Lake Baikal ; Russia

6: What is the main city in the Italian region of Lombardy?
A: Milan

7: The Sinai Peninsula is bordered by which two gulfs?
A: Gulf of Suez ; Gulf of Aqaba (also known as Gulf of Eliat)

8: Which US state became the first state of the "United States of America"? On what date? Who was the state named for?
A: Delaware ; 7 December 1787 ; Lord De La Warr

9: By what name was the city of Darwin originally known? In what year was the city renamed Darwin?
A: Palmerston ; 1911

10: What is Europe's longest river?
A: Volga

11: The capital city of Hungary was once two cities. What were the names of the two cities? What river separated them? In what year did they unite?
A: Buda & Pest ; Danube River ; 1873

12: What "-ology" is the study of land forms and the processes which create them?
A: Geomorphology

13: Who postulated in the late 1700s that the world's population, if left unchecked, would grow exponentially, while the world's resources would only grow arithmetically?
A: Thomas Robert Malthus

14: What is the name of the ship wrecked off the Abrolhos Islands, whose crew and passengers came to a grisly end at each others' hands? The trouble was instigated by crew member Jeronimus Cornelisz.
A: Batavia

15: What is the Australian mainland's:
A: Northernmost point - Cape York Peninsula ; Southernmost point - Wilson's Promontory/South Point ; Easternmost point - Cape Byron/Byron Bay ; Westernmost point - Steep Point/Shark Bay

16: This Queensland town recorded the nation's highest ever temperature of 53 degrees Celsius in 1889. What is the name of this town?
A: Cloncurry

17: The Hutt River Province is located in which Australian state? In what year did the province secede and over what agricultural crop was the dispute? Who is the Province's Prince?
A: Western Australia ; 1970 ; Wheat ; Prince Leonard

18: What are the capital cities of the following nations?
A: Haiti - Port-au-Prince ; Angola - Luanda ; Latvia - Riga ; Mongolia - Ulaanbaatar

19: In what country is Timbuktu, and on what continent?
A: Mali ; Africa

20: Climate and weather. One of these terms describes the short-term, the other describes the long-term. Which is which?
A: Climate - long-term ; Weather - short-term