3:36- Actually, the Cape of Good Hope is the SouthWESTERN most point of Africa. However, the actual southernmost point of Africa is Cape Agulhas located 34 miles [54 miles] south of the iconic landmark.
My father was a cartographer and as a result, I was always interested in all aspects of geography. He remapped an entire country back in the mid sixties and did tell me how difficult it was to map a 3-D image onto a 2-D map without intoducing too many distortions. Loved the quiz and got an A*.
I wouldn’t call myself a world geography genius but I was able to answer all 50 correctly before hearing the multiple choice answers. Great job @BrianWilesLanguages. For questions like Turkey’s capital I would include Istanbul as a choice similar to how you did the New Zealand capital question.
49/50. I want to thank you for stating correctly that the Potala Palace is indeed in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, occupied by a the foreign hostile so called “People’s Liberation Army”…. FREE TIBET!
The Caspian Sea question is debatable. It is considered a lake by some, but not by everybody. It has the characteristics of both of lake and an ocean. I think that it is much more similar to something like the Black Sea vs. something like Lake Superior.
Hey, just a quick correction. The southernmost point of mainland Africa is actually Cape Agulhas, not the Cape of Good Hope. People often mix the two up.
Cape Agulhas is the geographic southern tip of Africa and the beginning of the traditional dividing line between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans according to the International Hydrographic Organization. It is approximately half a degree of latitude, or 55 kilometres (34 mi), further south than the Cape of Good Hope. ( Wikipedia : Cape Agulhas)
India has over 1.4 Billion people in a country that is less than half the size of Australia. And millions of Americans think global warming is a hoax. Duh.
Oooh im liking the grade idea. Let's see how I go. Ill be back in an edit. (Hope you have a certificate for merely participating. 😂😂😂) Result: 47/50! Pretty chuffed! Pleasant non robotic voice and interaction. Well formed and informed questions. Well done. Subscribed!!
The Iguazu/Iguaçu Falls in Brazil and Argentina are the world's largest waterfall system. Stretching for almost 3km along the border of Argentina and Brazil, the falls are made up of roughly 275 different vertical drops with heights varying from 60 to 82 meters (210-270 ft). This makes the Iguazu Falls taller than Niagara Falls and twice as wide.
Great test! Although I got a B, I learnt a lot of new information from it, and it was a nice memory exercise. And since we are talking about mountains, what is highest point in New Zealand? (Image in avatar) A. Mount Kosciuszko B. Mount Hermon C. Mount Cook
i thought it was Mt. Cook because James Cook and New Zealand, kind of connected, and cancelled out Kosciuszko since I knew that's in Australia. Good quiz, though
I know Turkiye wants English speakers to call it by its native name (so as to avoid association with a certain bird) but old habits die hard, English speakers will still be calling it Turkey for years to come especially since the name change was rather recent.
@@nicholasharvey1232 I know Turkey wants us to use their the native name for their country but that makes no sense for English speakers. We do not call Spain Espana, Italy Italia or Germany Deutschland and so forth, so why should we not continue to use the English word for this particular country?
1. The Cape of Good Hope is NOT the southern-most point on the African continent. There are at least six other capes or points that are further south. The southern-most pont of Africa is Cape Aghulas. 2. The Angel Falls is NOT the largest waterfall on the planet. That largest by volume is the Livingstone Falls on the Congo River in Africa. The largest by width is the Khone Phapheng Falls on the Mekong River in Asia. The Angel Falls is the highest or tallest on the planet with a single drop.
No 19, the highest capital city in the world could be either Quito, Ecuador or La Paz, Bolivia, it depends on own interpretation, this is due to the fact that Bolivia had 2 capital cities, La Paz and Sucre, Sucre is lower in elevation than Quito, so Quito as the only capital city of Ecuador, sometime also being labeled as the highest capital city in the world, of course it depends on interpretation 🤓
I’ve lived around the world and started out really good in this. Then there were some tough questions and I ended up with 40 out of 50 correct. I am not great on landmarks such as where is this building located. I am good on what straight is this and how many oceans there are.
42/50 ... This was indeed a challenging quiz! I knew the answer to 42 of the Q's without seeing the choices; didn't do so well on the 8 for which I had to make a guess! Thanks for the challenge!
Hi, Brian. I'm currently doing my Honors/Bachelor's degree in English Literature. For the past couple of days, I've lost interest in my studies. Even though English is my favorite subject, I can't seem to focus on it. As a teacher, could you please advise me on how to regain my interest in my studies?
Hi Sharmin, great question. My first thought is: what is your long-term goal with studying English literature? To become a teacher? A writer? Or do you have another dream? I find it helpful to think about where/who I want to be in 5/10 years and think about how what I'm doing now (in your case, studying English Literature) will help me get there. I hope that's helpful and good luck!
49/50, just got the St. Louis one wrong as I love geography but have not much interest about USA (all my visits to the US were pretty pathetic, way worse than any European countries), other questions are pretty straightforward. Also, love the Potala Palace question as you made Tibet as the choice instead of China. 👍👍👍
This was a pretty cool test!thanks for the informative video (by the way i am not a bot,but might look like i am one because of the very straight forward writing)
I got 49/50 correct to score an A+, missing only question 21 which was a coin flip. A note about question 27, which asks which river forms part of the USA-Mexico border. I knew the answer that the quiz was looking for was Rio Grande, but I thought that a much smaller part of the border was formed by the Colorado River near Yuma, Arizona. I checked a map of the US, and this does indeed seem to be the case, which means question 27 actually has two correct answers.
I have 47 correct answers I am studying to become a professional geographer, so this is an acceptable result for me. The Russian Geographical Society conducts similar tests every year all over the world, a very small percentage answers 100% correctly, even our Doctor of geographical Sciences have never passed it absolutely correctly😅
46/50 but I feel like I could redeem myself to 50/50 because I also know extra information about things like how Krakatoa is in Indonesia and how in the 1800s one of its volcanoes erupted making the loudest sound on Earth.
@براءالمسلوقي I see no point in convincing you about my connection to my homeland or my ancestry. All I'll tell you is peace and love man, may one day we'll turn our efforts towards positivity and not hate.
@@YarFeld You cannot define yourself as Israeli while claiming to stand for peace, as Israel represents Jewish supremacy, racism, and terrorism. To begin discussing peace, you should identify yourself either as a Palestinian of Eastern European origin if you are secular, or as a Palestinian Jew if you are religious. Just think about it.
@براءالمسلوقي Call me whatever you want. To me Israel represents the only place in the middle east where you can be whatever you want and believe in whatever you want and won't be persecuted for it. I have friends from every religion and ethnicity. Salam Aleyqum, may one day you recognize my country, and fanatics on both sides would lose their power, and maybe then peace will come.
@@YarFeld That is exactly the definition of occupation and apartheid. You can be and believe in whatever you want as long as you are Jewish, while I am deprived of living in my father's house near Jerusalem, deprived of political representation, and denied many basic human rights. Your ability to be whatever you want is a virtue only if I can also have the same rights. Otherwise, it is simply apartheid, also known as Israel. This land will only see justice when it becomes Palestine, ruled by its people.
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One minute the UK is a country, the next minute it has countries. From Wikipedia on Quito: "Quito's elevation of 2,850 m makes it either the highest or the second highest capital city in the world. This varied standing is because Bolivia is a country with multiple capitals; if La Paz is considered the Bolivian national capital, it tops the list of highest capitals, but if Sucre is specified as the capital, then it is the second highest, behind Quito." Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake. It's only a technicality that the Caspian really isn't regarded as a sea. The number of oceans was a long running controversy, and likewise the number of continents. I really don't care which is the correct current answer, but it mainly concerns the fine print of definitions, not geography itself. I got 41 because I was a little bit lax on my heritage sites, ruins, and palaces. This is not a B by the standard of your average American.
49/50. Though I have to admit that I one of the 49 I answered correctly, I didn’t have the answer for sure, but took an educated guess. The rest I could answer before reading the options.
I think I am a geography genius. Let's see if I am right. I did OK but missed four, including did not know India took over China for largest population.
3:36- Actually, the Cape of Good Hope is the SouthWESTERN most point of Africa. However, the actual southernmost point of Africa is Cape Agulhas located 34 miles [54 miles] south of the iconic landmark.
👍. You mean 34 miles= 54 km
@@RiadhSridi You're right. Sorry, I'm still haven't got the hang of the metric system.
Moins de 10 fautes
@@wardarcade7452 You must be American then!
@@RootlessNZ I could be a very stubborn English holdout but you guessed correctly!
First try got 50 out of 50. NOW I can finally call myself a geography master at the age of 14
Wow I am also 14 but I got some incorrect I didn’t keep score tho cuz I was a little too lazy lol😭
Ma jeste.
Q 27 has two correct answers. The Colorado River also serves as a short segment of the US/Mexico border at the SW corner of Arizona.
My father was a cartographer and as a result, I was always interested in all aspects of geography. He remapped an entire country back in the mid sixties and did tell me how difficult it was to map a 3-D image onto a 2-D map without intoducing too many distortions. Loved the quiz and got an A*.
As a 17 years old boy I got 44/50 as a Geography Lover 🌏 so I got A Grade 😭👍 Love from India 🇮🇳❤
I got 45 4 yrs younger than you but you're still better at geography than my entire family so congratulations! 🎉
turning 18 next month, got 46 heheh
@@winstonzhou4595 👍
47 I'm 14
50 , i am 26
Number 17 is wrong. Cape Agulgas is further south than the Cape of Good Hope
I wouldn’t call myself a world geography genius but I was able to answer all 50 correctly before hearing the multiple choice answers. Great job @BrianWilesLanguages. For questions like Turkey’s capital I would include Istanbul as a choice similar to how you did the New Zealand capital question.
Ye idk why I thought this would be hard
Really enjoy the quizzes.
Suggestion: for those of us who listen while driving, if you spoke the answer it would help me keep my eyes on the road.
49/50.
I want to thank you for stating correctly that the Potala Palace is indeed in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, occupied by a
the foreign hostile so called “People’s Liberation Army”….
FREE TIBET!
There is nothing you can do about the fact that Tibet is China or Crimea and Donbass is Russia. Nothing🤷♂️
The Caspian Sea question is debatable. It is considered a lake by some, but not by everybody. It has the characteristics of both of lake and an ocean. I think that it is much more similar to something like the Black Sea vs. something like Lake Superior.
Most of the questions were so easy that i felt dumb for answering correct
33/50. Could've been better, so I guess I have some geography learning to do.
12-year-old me from 🇮🇳,got 44/50.And I bet if he asks about country's flags I would got even more points.
Exaclly
Stop lying kid 😂
@@junelinn9161 bark loudly if u can't believe me and only gays don't believe me....
No. 18 - I was taught in school the are four. Then I read there's something called the Southern Ocean...
Me too
This is a fair point. As of 2024, almost all countries recognize 5 oceans- but the Southern Ocean is a fairly recent addition to the list.
Live In Australia, can definitely vouch there is the Great Southern Ocean.
It’s on many maps.
I'm in NZ, the Southern Ocean is alive and well. Yes, it's a more recent addition to the long term four we were taught as children.
It is just the southernmost ends of the Atlantic Pacific and Indian oceans
Hey, just a quick correction. The southernmost point of mainland Africa is actually Cape Agulhas, not the Cape of Good Hope. People often mix the two up.
Cape Agulhas is the geographic southern tip of Africa and the beginning of the traditional dividing line between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans according to the International Hydrographic Organization. It is approximately half a degree of latitude, or 55 kilometres (34 mi), further south than the Cape of Good Hope. ( Wikipedia : Cape Agulhas)
41 right. Lots of tricky questions mixed in with easy ones. I can't believe I missed the memo about Indiana overtaking China in population!
Indiana has overtaken China in population?!? Surely you jest.
India has over 1.4 Billion people in a country that is less than half the size of Australia. And millions of Americans think global warming is a hoax. Duh.
Wow. What is the population of Indianapolis now?
This is a geography quiz for Americans.
27, the river colorado is bordes between Arizona and Baja California
Another excellent quiz. Thanks Brian, keep up the great work. I live in Australia and am 56. I scored 48/50.
Wow great score- and thanks for your comment!
Question 37 has an incorrect answer, the UK is not a country. The correct answer would be England.
The United Kingdom is a sovereign country/political union made up of other countries/nations (England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland)
I always search for geography quizzes since I love this subject so much :)
Oooh im liking the grade idea. Let's see how I go. Ill be back in an edit. (Hope you have a certificate for merely participating. 😂😂😂)
Result: 47/50! Pretty chuffed!
Pleasant non robotic voice and interaction. Well formed and informed questions. Well done. Subscribed!!
The Iguazu/Iguaçu Falls in Brazil and Argentina are the world's largest waterfall system. Stretching for almost 3km along the border of Argentina and Brazil, the falls are made up of roughly 275 different vertical drops with heights varying from 60 to 82 meters (210-270 ft). This makes the Iguazu Falls taller than Niagara Falls and twice as wide.
I think he meant the tallest. And that is for sure the Angel waterfall with almost 1km
@@salakamen1113 That's what it looks like yup
50 / 42 . I am 14 year old boy from Sri Lanka.I got 97 marks for the Geography paper.It is my most favourite subject.
Fantastic! You should be so proud. Greetings from Idaho, USA. 😀🇺🇸
I hear the Angel Falls is the world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall (979m/3,212 ft) not necessarily the largest
44 here which included some lucky guesses. I wonder how most people went especially by nationality?
Great test! Although I got a B, I learnt a lot of new information from it, and it was a nice memory exercise.
And since we are talking about mountains, what is highest point in New Zealand? (Image in avatar)
A. Mount Kosciuszko
B. Mount Hermon
C. Mount Cook
i thought it was Mt. Cook because James Cook and New Zealand, kind of connected, and cancelled out Kosciuszko since I knew that's in Australia. Good quiz, though
I scored 42/50, it's a B. Can you please correct the scores on certificates to post Sir 🙏🏾
47/50. I could have sworn Quito was the highest
Thank you Brian.❤ Perhaps one small correction, its nowadays Turkiye not Turkey.
Thanks for this note, Maria!
I know Turkiye wants English speakers to call it by its native name (so as to avoid association with a certain bird) but old habits die hard, English speakers will still be calling it Turkey for years to come especially since the name change was rather recent.
@@nicholasharvey1232 I know Turkey wants us to use their the native name for their country but that makes no sense for English speakers. We do not call Spain Espana, Italy Italia or Germany Deutschland and so forth, so why should we not continue to use the English word for this particular country?
Question #27- the Colorado River does form part of the boundary near Yuma, AZ, so two correct answers.
As 17 year old boy I got 43 /50 as a science student so I got A grade😊😊😊
1. The Cape of Good Hope is NOT the southern-most point on the African continent. There are at least six other capes or points that are further south. The southern-most pont of Africa is Cape Aghulas.
2. The Angel Falls is NOT the largest waterfall on the planet. That largest by volume is the Livingstone Falls on the Congo River in Africa. The largest by width is the Khone Phapheng Falls on the Mekong River in Asia. The Angel Falls is the highest or tallest on the planet with a single drop.
No. 17 is incorrect. Answer is Cape Agulhas.
Yep you're right 👍🏻
Suggest you re-title this quiz as Geography quiz for beginners!!
Would you be happier with Quantum Physics 101 ? It's just a bit of fun.
Omg ur mi hero
No 19, the highest capital city in the world could be either Quito, Ecuador or La Paz, Bolivia, it depends on own interpretation, this is due to the fact that Bolivia had 2 capital cities, La Paz and Sucre, Sucre is lower in elevation than Quito, so Quito as the only capital city of Ecuador, sometime also being labeled as the highest capital city in the world, of course it depends on interpretation 🤓
I missed 3, for 47/50 ... an A. Interesting quiz, thanks for posting it.
I’ve lived around the world and started out really good in this. Then there were some tough questions and I ended up with 40 out of 50 correct. I am not great on landmarks such as where is this building located. I am good on what straight is this and how many oceans there are.
2 video of you this makes my day ❤
Haha thanks, Daniel!
42/50 ... This was indeed a challenging quiz! I knew the answer to 42 of the Q's without seeing the choices; didn't do so well on the 8 for which I had to make a guess! Thanks for the challenge!
Hi, Brian. I'm currently doing my Honors/Bachelor's degree in English Literature. For the past couple of days, I've lost interest in my studies. Even though English is my favorite subject, I can't seem to focus on it. As a teacher, could you please advise me on how to regain my interest in my studies?
Hi Sharmin, great question. My first thought is: what is your long-term goal with studying English literature? To become a teacher? A writer? Or do you have another dream? I find it helpful to think about where/who I want to be in 5/10 years and think about how what I'm doing now (in your case, studying English Literature) will help me get there. I hope that's helpful and good luck!
I only got the last one wrong so "49/50" almost a perfect grade of "A+"
40/50, not a nerd, but love to know more abt geography from youtubers and intellect people around me. So fair result
49/50, just got the St. Louis one wrong as I love geography but have not much interest about USA (all my visits to the US were pretty pathetic, way worse than any European countries), other questions are pretty straightforward.
Also, love the Potala Palace question as you made Tibet as the choice instead of China. 👍👍👍
The St. Louis one was easy for me since my brother got married under the arch.
This was a pretty cool test!thanks for the informative video (by the way i am not a bot,but might look like i am one because of the very straight forward writing)
فينك يا براين ايه الغيبة الطويلة دي تحياتي لك من مصر
Good job Brian❤❤
Keep up the good work 🎉
18 year old egyptian and i got 46, i think it's alright
That's amazing, Alonzo!
I got 49/50 correct to score an A+, missing only question 21 which was a coin flip.
A note about question 27, which asks which river forms part of the USA-Mexico border. I knew the answer that the quiz was looking for was Rio Grande, but I thought that a much smaller part of the border was formed by the Colorado River near Yuma, Arizona. I checked a map of the US, and this does indeed seem to be the case, which means question 27 actually has two correct answers.
I have 47 correct answers
I am studying to become a professional geographer, so this is an acceptable result for me. The Russian Geographical Society conducts similar tests every year all over the world, a very small percentage answers 100% correctly, even our Doctor of geographical Sciences have never passed it absolutely correctly😅
Excellent work!
6:54, What is the capital of Chile? (The picture is San Martin Square, in Lima Perú)
I enjoyed the quiz very much. 43/50, Grade A.
A word to the wise, the Cliffs of Moher. Moher is pronounced Mow (mowing the lawn)-her.
50/50, probably because I've been around the world twice and studied geography
Thank you for the video ❤😊
Thanks for watching!
I got a C. It was fun and got me thinking. Thanks for the reminder to keep learning about our amazing world.
Thanks and I'm glad you enjoyed the quiz!
50/50 geography is my favourite subject in quizzes. If it was art/ literature I would probably get a zero. Not bad for an old man of 61.
46/50 but I feel like I could redeem myself to 50/50 because I also know extra information about things like how Krakatoa is in Indonesia and how in the 1800s one of its volcanoes erupted making the loudest sound on Earth.
No. 27 - Technically, the Colorado forms a very short segment of the Arizona border
First 36, 9 wrong next 14 another 9 wrong 😭😭
I'm going to get out some Geography books. I failed miserably.
There are 2 Cristo(s) Redentore(s). One in Brazil and another one in Portugal.
I guess they are like Lady Liberties, they are all over the place (NYC, Paris and, obviously, Colmar) 😊
@@user-zw6pn3ql7y Why Colmar?
No, Cristo Redentor is in Brazil, in Portugal there's Cristo Rei
What happened to wuan? Did I miss something? Btw 49/50. I only missed the one with the South African cape.
43/50, hoped to do better but that was fun. Love from Israel.
That's quite confusing. It's surprising for an Israeli person to score 43, as he belongs more to historical myths than to his homeland, Galicia.
@براءالمسلوقي I see no point in convincing you about my connection to my homeland or my ancestry. All I'll tell you is peace and love man, may one day we'll turn our efforts towards positivity and not hate.
@@YarFeld
You cannot define yourself as Israeli while claiming to stand for peace, as Israel represents Jewish supremacy, racism, and terrorism. To begin discussing peace, you should identify yourself either as a Palestinian of Eastern European origin if you are secular, or as a Palestinian Jew if you are religious. Just think about it.
@براءالمسلوقي Call me whatever you want. To me Israel represents the only place in the middle east where you can be whatever you want and believe in whatever you want and won't be persecuted for it. I have friends from every religion and ethnicity. Salam Aleyqum, may one day you recognize my country, and fanatics on both sides would lose their power, and maybe then peace will come.
@@YarFeld
That is exactly the definition of occupation and apartheid. You can be and believe in whatever you want as long as you are Jewish, while I am deprived of living in my father's house near Jerusalem, deprived of political representation, and denied many basic human rights. Your ability to be whatever you want is a virtue only if I can also have the same rights. Otherwise, it is simply apartheid, also known as Israel. This land will only see justice when it becomes Palestine, ruled by its people.
Sir please upload more I planning to participate a general knowledge quiz
Good mix of difficulty levels. I thought initially it was going to be too easy. Ended with 45/50. 55 years old in Australia.
Thanks for your feedback, and nice score!
It would be great if you make a podcast to teach english 🥺
missed 2 been to 26 countries. Greg, Springfield, Louisiana.
Kindly request to upload live quiz videos
43, not too bad.
I missed 6 or 7, so I did better than i thought I'd do
48/50. Good quiz, thanks. 🇬🇧👍
Great job!
50/50🗿
From India 49/50❤-17 yo
Hi Brian,could you please tell me how I can buy your language course?I've been trying for hours but am unable to make the payment.Which card do I need to purchase this course?
Have you eve heard about Skandinavia and Central Eastern Europe? 49 by the way .
Very easy questions.
I'm pretty damn smart. Thank you Jeopardy!!
Yay i got 43 to 47
The capitals of Uruguay and Argentina are on the world's widest river, the Río de la Plata
Thank you Brian. ❤ 2:03
One minute the UK is a country, the next minute it has countries.
From Wikipedia on Quito:
"Quito's elevation of 2,850 m makes it either the highest or the second highest capital city in the world. This varied standing is because Bolivia is a country with multiple capitals; if La Paz is considered the Bolivian national capital, it tops the list of highest capitals, but if Sucre is specified as the capital, then it is the second highest, behind Quito."
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake. It's only a technicality that the Caspian really isn't regarded as a sea.
The number of oceans was a long running controversy, and likewise the number of continents. I really don't care which is the correct current answer, but it mainly concerns the fine print of definitions, not geography itself.
I got 41 because I was a little bit lax on my heritage sites, ruins, and palaces. This is not a B by the standard of your average American.
Very useful ❤
Please, check question 11 : singular or plural ?
49/50. Though I have to admit that I one of the 49 I answered correctly, I didn’t have the answer for sure, but took an educated guess. The rest I could answer before reading the options.
Shucks, I got a B.
yeah nah, you probably got an A, so many of the questions have wrong answers.
44/50 I enjoyed the quiz. Cheryl Wagner
Nothing could be easier.
I got 42/50 😅
49/50... The Tigris got me lol
I missed one. Where was the Atacama Desert located. I picked Peru instead of Chile. At least I was close.
There was an Atacama Desert question? I don't remember that.
I think I am a geography genius. Let's see if I am right. I did OK but missed four, including did not know India took over China for largest population.
Yeah. I missed that one too. China's been the most populous country for a long time.
46/50 for Team Harlow. Cheers Brian. Nice geography quiz.
Great job, and thanks!
Is Giza really a town? Isn’t it called the plateau of Giza as a part of Cairo? Just askin …
38- most of the questions weren’t too bad
If you come from Muscogee some of these might present a bit of a challenge.
43/50 right. Some lake/sea questions threw me off
Got 48/50. I cant believe I failed how many oceans are there in the world.
I got 35 points! Im dumb! 😔
42/50, but I'm really old and half my brain has rotted away and I did 3 bong hits while taking the quiz.
42/50