Trivia Quiz on Antarctica

1. What is the world's largest desert, as determined by the least amount of precipitation

A) The antarctic antarctic

B) The Sahara Desert

C) The Arabian Desert

D) The Gobi Desert

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2. Amundsen reached the South Pole in which year

A) 1911

B) 1910

C) 1909

D) 1912

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3. What is the international telphone dialing code for Antarctica

A) 1

B) 672

C) 61

D) 44

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4. Where in the world would you find Adelie Land

A) Antarctica

B) Greenland

C) Arctic Circle

D) South Africa

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5. What is the average temperature (f) at the South Pole

A) Minus forty 40

B) Minus seventy 70

C) Minus thirty 30

D) Minus fifty six 56

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6. What is known as amundsen scott station

A) North Pole

B) McMurdo Station

C) Palmer Station

D) South pole

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7. Roald Amundsen Achieved A World First On "Dec 14 th – 1911” What Was It?

A) First Person To Reach The North Pole

B) First Person To Navigate The Northwest Passage

C) First Person To Climb Mount Everest

D) First Person To Reach The South Pole

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8. What is the only place on earth that does not have a time zone?

A) Antarctica

B) South Pole

C) Greenwich

D) Sahara Desert

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9. Who was the first person to reach the South Pole, in 1911

A) Robert Falcon Scott

B) Ernest Shackleton

C) Roald Amundsen

D) Richard E. Byrd

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10. Emelio Marco Palma was the first to do what in 1978

A) First person to fly a helicopter over Antarctica

B) Born in Antarctica

C) First to map Antarctica using satellite imaging

D) First to establish a permanent base in Antarctica

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11. An Antarctic island was named after which cartoon character

A) Mickey Mouse

B) Huckleberry Hound

C) SpongeBob SquarePants

D) Scooby-Doo

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12. Where would you find Queen Maud Land

A) Greenland

B) Australia

C) South America

D) Antarctica

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13. Where is Dronning Maud land to be found

A) Arctic Circle

B) Greenland

C) South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

D) Antarctica

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14. Where is Queen Maud Land located?

A) Antarctica

B) Greenland

C) Australia

D) South Africa

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15. Where is Queen Maud Land located

A) Arctic Circle

B) Greenland

C) Australia

D) Antarctica

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16. What is also known as Amundsen Scott Station?

A) McMurdo Station

B) Rothera Research Station

C) Princess Elisabeth Station

D) South Pole

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17. There are 42 other year_round research stations on Antarctica. All told, about __________ people live on Antarctica in summer, 1,000 in winter.

A) 2500

B) 3500

C) 4000

D) 5000

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18. What continent contains queen maud land, wilkes land and bird land

A) Antarctica

B) Africa

C) Europe

D) Australia

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19. What continent is part of both the East and Aest hemispheres?

A) Africa

B) Europe

C) Antarctica

D) Asia

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20. Which is the Earth's fifth largest continent

A) Europe

B) Antarctica

C) Australia (Oceania)

D) South America

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21. In 1911 Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach where ?

A) North Pole

B) Mount Everest

C) South Pole

D) Cape Horn

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