World Geography Jeopardy

A whirlwind tour from the Andes to the Yangtze: world geography review that costs nothing to copy and turns every student's phone into a buzzer.

6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone

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Continents and Oceans

$200
This is the largest ocean on Earth, stretching between Asia and the Americas.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
$400
This is the smallest of the seven continents by land area, and it is also a single country.
What is Australia?
$600
This ocean lies at the top of the world and is covered for much of the year by sea ice.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
$800
This continent is split nearly in half by the Equator and contains the Sahara, the world's largest hot desert.
What is Africa?
$1,000
This continent has no permanent human population and holds nearly 90 percent of the world's ice.
What is Antarctica?

Rivers and Lakes

$200
This African river is traditionally considered the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
$400
This South American river carries more water than any other river on Earth.
What is the Amazon River?
$600
This river winds through the heart of Paris, France.
What is the Seine?
$800
This river, the third longest in the world, flows through central China and empties near Shanghai.
What is the Yangtze River?
$1,000
This river forms much of the border between the United States and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?

Mountains and Deserts

$200
This is the tallest mountain on Earth above sea level, sitting on the border of Nepal and China.
What is Mount Everest?
$400
This is the largest hot desert in the world, covering much of North Africa.
What is the Sahara?
$600
This South American mountain range is the longest continental mountain range in the world.
What are the Andes?
$800
This cold desert covers much of Mongolia and northern China.
What is the Gobi Desert?
$1,000
This mountain range, running through Russia, is often used to mark the boundary between Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?

World Capitals

$200
This city is the capital of France.
What is Paris?
$400
This city is the capital of Japan.
What is Tokyo?
$600
This city is the capital of Egypt and sits along the Nile.
What is Cairo?
$800
This city is the capital of Canada, even though it is not that country's largest city.
What is Ottawa?
$1,000
This city is the capital of Australia, built as a planned compromise between Sydney and Melbourne.
What is Canberra?

Islands and Peninsulas

$200
This is the world's largest island, located mostly within the Arctic Circle.
What is Greenland?
$400
This boot-shaped peninsula in southern Europe is home to Italy.
What is the Italian Peninsula?
$600
This Southeast Asian nation is the largest archipelago country in the world, made up of more than 17,000 islands.
What is Indonesia?
$800
This peninsula in the Middle East, bordered by the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, contains Saudi Arabia.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
$1,000
This Mediterranean island nation has Nicosia as its capital and is divided between Greek and Turkish communities.
What is Cyprus?

Flags and Borders

$200
This country's flag features a red maple leaf on a white square flanked by two red bars.
What is Canada?
$400
This Himalayan country's flag is the only national flag in the world that is not rectangular.
What is Nepal?
$600
This European country shares a land border with only one other nation, Spain.
What is Portugal?
$800
This African country completely surrounds the small nation of Lesotho.
What is South Africa?
$1,000
This country shares with Canada the longest international land border in the world.
What is the United States?

Final Jeopardy — Superlative Lakes

This Siberian lake is the deepest on Earth and holds roughly one fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh surface water.

What is Lake Baikal?

How to run this board

Physical and political geography split this board down the middle - rivers, mountains, and islands on one side; capitals, flags, and borders on the other - so a class reviewing for a mapping test and a class reviewing for a capitals quiz both get their material.

The spread of difficulty is intentional: every category opens with a clue almost any team can take, and closes with one that rewards the map nerds.

With a world map projected next to the board, wrong answers become teachable in seconds; without one, keep an atlas handy for disputes, because there will be disputes.

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