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Europe Geography Quiz

Plan the trip before you pack. This quiz wanders across Europe: Italian coasts, Alpine villages, Nordic fjords, island groups and old canal towns. It starts with places on every bucket list and slips into hidden gems, with a fact about each so your next itinerary writes itself.

101 questions · Explorer 34 · Globetrotter 34 · Cartographer 33

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  1. Explorer
    Hot-spring geyser shooting a white column of water skyward

    Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Geysir, the hot spring that gave all geysers their name, is in which country?

    1. Finland
    2. Iceland
    3. Ireland
    4. Norway
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    Answer: B · Iceland

    Geysir itself is mostly quiet now, but its neighbor Strokkur still shoots water up to 35 m high every few minutes.

  2. Explorer
    Castle ruins on the shore of a dark loch under stormy skies

    Photo: Sam Fentress · CC BY-SA 2.0

    Loch Ness, home of the legendary 'Nessie', is in which country?

    1. England
    2. Ireland
    3. Scotland
    4. Wales
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    Answer: C · Scotland

    It's so deep that it holds more water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined.

  3. Globetrotter
    Purple lavender field with a stone hut and distant hills

    Photo: Ylliab Photo from Grenoble, France · CC BY 2.0

    Which French region is famous for its purple summer lavender fields?

    1. Alsace
    2. Brittany
    3. Normandy
    4. Provence
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    Answer: D · Provence

    The name comes from the Romans, who simply called the area 'Provincia', meaning 'the province'.

  4. Globetrotter
    Lit-up mountain village below a pyramid-shaped snowy peak

    Photo: chensiyuan · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Zermatt, the ski village at the foot of the Matterhorn, is in which country?

    1. Austria
    2. France
    3. Italy
    4. Switzerland
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    Answer: D · Switzerland

    The whole town bans combustion-engine cars, partly so smog never spoils the view of the Matterhorn.

  5. Cartographer
    Blue lake with a tiny island seen from above

    Photo: Carsten Steger · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Lake Bled, with its tiny church island, is in which country?

    1. Austria
    2. Croatia
    3. Slovakia
    4. Slovenia
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    Answer: D · Slovenia

    Visitors climb 99 steps to the island church and ring its bell to make a wish. Grooms traditionally carry their brides up.

  6. Cartographer
    Fishing village at the foot of jagged peaks across still water

    Photo: Jörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 2.0

    Reine, a village of red fishing cabins, is in which island group?

    1. Faroe Islands
    2. Lofoten
    3. Shetland Islands
    4. Svalbard
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    Answer: B · Lofoten

    Norway's Allers magazine voted Reine the country's most beautiful village in the late 1970s.

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