The Trivia Lover’s Guide to the World: Geography for the Lost and Found
Gary Fuller
2012, 270 pages
Nonfiction
The author has a PhD in geography, was a geography professor for 35 years, and was a winning contestant on Jeopardy! He posits that geographic ignorance is widespread, but that geographic intelligence is necessary for us to understand how the world is organized.
Here you’ll find 150 geography-based trivia questions with entertaining explanations of the answers. For example, without looking at a map or globe, which city is farthest west? Chicago, Denver, Reno or Los Angeles? Or, which is the first foreign country you would encounter if you went due south from downtown Detroit? For all trivia fans or those who think they know their world.
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