A woman, her husband and their three rambunctious young sons we=
re in their car waiting at a traffic light. The woman glanced over at the c=
ar next to them and noticed a blissfully happy mother with her baby daughte=
r.
Lo=
oking at her husband, she said, "As soon as I lose my weight from the =
last baby, I want to try for a daughter."
The husband reached up to the das=
h, grabbed an open box of snacks and said, "Here, dear. Have another c=
ookie."
~~QUIZ ANSWERS~~
1. What is the world’s highest mountain range? HIMALAYAS
2. What is the world’s largest country in la=
nd area? RUSSIA
3. What is the world’s=
largest single sand dune? SEIF DUNE, SAUDI ARABIA
4. What is the world’s largest city by area? BEIJING, CHINA
5. What is the world’s richest country? QATAR
6-7. What is the world’s most populated and =
second most populated country, in order? INDIA (as of April 28th=
, 2023) is #1 and CHINA now #2
8. What is th=
e lowest point on earth (on land)? DEAD SEA SHORE, ISRAEL/JORDAN=
9. What is the world’s largest Archipelago? MALAY ARCH=
IPELAGO (including Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea)
10. What is the world’s largest flood plain? RIVER GANGES ESTUAR=
Y, INDIA
11. What is the world’s largest int=
er-tidal wetlands? HIROSHIMA BAY, JAPAN
12. =
Where is the world’s largest swamp? SIBERIA, RUSSIA
13. Where is the world’s largest steppe? MONGOLIAN STEPPE
14. What is the world’s largest land-locked cou=
ntry (there are 12 in Asia)? KAZAKHSTAN
15. =
What is the world’s most-spoken language? MANDARIN CHINESE=
16. What is the world’s largest city by population? TO=
KYO, JAPAN
17. Where is the world’s la=
rgest mangrove forest? SUNDERBAND, BANGLADESH
18. Approximately how much of the world’s population lives in Asia?=
50%
19. Approximately how much of the world=
’s land area does Asia cover? 30%
21-2=
6. There are a dozen monarchies in Asia. List 6. BAHRAIN, BHUTAN, BRUNEI, C=
AMBODIA, JAPAN, JORDAN, KUWAIT, MALAYSIA, OMAN, QATAR, SAUDI ARABIA, THAILA=
ND
27-30. Asia includes the four highly deve=
loped free economies known as the “Four Asian Tigers”. These ec=
onomies include:
REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN),=
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH KOREA, SINGAPORE (city-state), HONG KONG (special admini=
strative region of China)
~~
Dr Bob Griffin
[email protected] www.grif.net=
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