1. Welcome to the Geography
Worldwise Quiz!
• Please write your name in LARGE writing on your piece
of card.
• Sign the register.
• Do fill up your water bottles before we start!

2. Prizes
• Winning House receives 30 HPs for the House
• 15 HPs for second place
• 10 HPs for third place
• All participants receive a certificate and a
housepoint.
• Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place.

3. Rules
• Whispering only
• Conferring to all members where possible
• Cannot go back/write notes on a previous
round
• Listening
• Cannot ask to repeat a question

4. Round 1 – Fieldwork round
• There are 10 questions all somehow
connected to fieldwork.
• Answer each question in turn and write down
your answer on the answer sheet – consulting
with other members of the team.
• You have 30 seconds per question.
• GOOD LUCK!

5. Question 1
This piece of fieldwork equipment has to be held up in the
air to take a reading, but what is it used to measure?

6. Question 2
These students are carrying out a study of a heather
moorland. Name the piece of equipment (with the brown
wooden frame in the photo above) they are using to
sample the plants found here?

7. Question 3
The three picture clues above represent a type of place
which attracts a lot of visitors and often forms the basis of
a study on tourism or tourism impacts. What is this type
of place called?

8. Question 4
This equipment is commonly used for fieldwork whilst
working in a river. The plastic oranges are used to
measure the speed of the flow. Why might plastic
oranges be better for this task than real oranges?

9. Question 5
Most of you will have or have used a smartphone, but you
may not know that they can be very helpful when doing
fieldwork. What is being displayed on the screen of this
smartphone?

10. Question 6
Some students have visited a local river and taken this
photograph. They have identified the features as a
meander, but where across the meander is the water
going to be flowing the fastest?

11. Question 7
What are the two types of farming shown and what
activity does each involve taking place?

12. Question 8
What are the two types of question which can be asked
whilst conducting public questionnaires?

13. Question 9
Groynes are a common form of coastal defence and often
form part of a fieldwork study into coastal
processes/management. What is the natural process
which groynes aim to slow down?

14. Question 10
After carrying out a fieldwork investigation it is important
to present clearly the data you collected. One type of
data presentation is shown on this map, what is type of
presentation called?

15. Round 2 – The alphabet run
• You will be asked individual questions and
may pass once.
• On your second pass we will move onto the
next person.
• If you answer 4 answers correctly in a row, you
will be awarded 1 bonus point.
• NO CONFERRING!!
• SILENCE!
• Player to speak loudly

16. Round 3 – World rivers
• On your answer sheet, name the continent
the following rivers are located in.
• The rivers will be read out QUICKLY.

17. Break time!
• Our prefects and staff will now total up your
points so far….
• Top three teams in no particular order are….

18. Round 4 – Local round
• As a team, confer and then write down your
answers 1-5 in the space provided.
For part two, you will be
presented with some
local towns with missing
vowels. You only have 1
minute to write the
name of the town in your
answer sheets.
Ready? ………..

19. LOCAL ROUND –(part 2)
Missing vowels/letters
Name these towns – 1 min!
1. Tkm
2. Hnlw
3. Kgtn
4. Rhmd
5. Wtn
6. Kw
7. Tdgn
8. Htn
9. Fltm
10. Hm

20. Round 5 – Map round
• You will be presented with 5 true or false
questions, and 5 harder questions. You must
use the map in front of you and confer with
your team.
• Write down your answers
• You will have 7 minutes.

21. Questions – Map round
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Does the River Dearncomb (1251) flow north or south?
There is a bus station in Ilkley. True or False?
The woods at High Moor (0845) are coniferous. True of False?
The letters CH (0546) show a type of church. True or False.
The dotted line running north – south in grid square 0750 mark the route
of an old railway line
6. What is the name of the dual carriage way running through the map?
7. What is the straight line distance to the nearest km between the golf
course NW of Ilkley and the golf course N of Addington?
8. If you walked from the church in 1248 to the phone box in Middleton
(1249) you would have climbed: (a) 50 metres (b) 70 metres (c) 90
metres
9. What tourist place of interest is located at 131,468?
10. If you wanted to park up your caravan near Addingham give a 4 figure
grid reference for an appropriate site.

22. Round 6 – Guess the place
• The aim of this round is to guess the place.
• There are five clues for each place.
• The quiz master reads out one clue at a time to all the
teams, and the first team to shout out the correct place
name wins the round.
• The quiz master than goes onto the next place...
• There will be a 20 second gap between each clue.
• If a team shouts a correct answer on the first clue, they get
five points.
• The number of points available goes down by one with
each clue. So if a team gets the place right on the 3’rd
clue, they get three points (the number of available points
are in brackets).

23. Final bonus round! Mixed bag
• If you know the answer (after conferring)
shout it out!
• 2 points awarded for each question.

24. Winners!

25. Answers - rivers
1)Thames
2)Nile
3)Zambezi
4)Amazon
5) Mississippi
6)Senegal
7)Ganges
8)Congo
9)Ural
10)Volga
11)Colne
12)Yangtze
13)Yellow
14)Yukon
15)Colorado
16)Columbia
17)Tigris
18)Tay
19)Yenisy
20)Murray Darling
Europe
Africa
Africa
South America
North America
Africa
Asia
Africa
Europe
Europe
Europe
Asia
Asia
North America
North America
North America
Asia
Europe
Asia
Australia

26. Answers - Guess the place round
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Madagascar
Venezuela
Wales
Poland
Barcelona
Dublin

27. Answers – Local round
1. The Crane
2. Middlesex
3. Richmond or Richmond upon Thames
4. Heathrow
5. Kew Gardens
6. M3
7. Oxford
8. Inside
9. Barn Elms Wetland Centre or Richmond Park.
10. Eel Pie Island

28. Answers – Map round
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Does the River Dearncomb (1251) flow north or south?
There is a bus station in Ilkley. True or False?
The woods at High Moor (0845) are coniferous. True of False?
The letters CH (0546) show a type of church. True or False.
The dotted line running north – south in grid square 0750 mark the route
of an old railway line (True)
6. What is the name of the dual carriage way running through the map?
A65
7. What is the straight line distance to the nearest km between the golf
course NW of Ilkley and the golf course N of Addington? 3km
8. If you walked from the church in 1248 to the phone box in Middleton
(1249) you would have climbed: (a) 50 metres (b) 70 metres (c) 90
metres
9. What tourist place of interest is located at 131,468? Viewpoint
10. If you wanted to park up your caravan near Addingham give a 4 figure
grid reference for an appropriate site. 0548

29. Answers 1
What is the capital of Poland?
Warsaw
2
Which is the odd one out? Cape Verde Islands,
Maldives, Seychelles
Cape Verde are in the
Atlantic
3
Half of which metal’s production comes from South
Africa, USA and Canada?
Gold
4
In which county is the majority of the Lake District
National Park?
Cumbria
5
What do the letters IMF stand for?
6
In which country could you spend yen in?
International Monetary
Fund
Japan
7
In which country would you find 2000 miles of the
Andes?
Which city’s CBD was devastated by an earthquake in
February 2011?
Chile
In which English county is the Jurassic coast?
Dorset
9
9
10 What does the acronym LDC stand for?
Christchurch NZ
Least developed country