| Year |
Winner |
State |
Question |
Answer |
| 2006 |
Bonny Jain |
IL |
Name the mountains that extend across much of Wales, from the Irish Sea to the Bristol Channel
|
Cambrian Mountains |
| 2005 |
Nathan Cornelius |
MN |
What is the name of the river that was dammed to form Lake Gatún as part of the construction of the Panama Canal?
|
Chagres River |
| 2004 |
Andrew Wojtanik |
KS |
Peshawar, a city in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, has had strategic importance for centuries because of its location near what historic pass?
|
Khyber Pass |
| 2003 |
James Williams |
WA |
Goa, a state in southwestern India, was a possession of which country until 1961? |
Portugal |
| 2002 |
Calvin McCarter |
MI |
Lop Nur, a marshy depression at the east end of the Tarim Basin, is a nuclear test site for which country? |
China |
| 2001 |
Kyle Haddad Fonda |
WA |
Below the equilibrium line of glaciers there is a region of melting, evaporation, and sublimation. Name this zone.
|
zone of ablation |
| 2000 |
Felix Peng |
CT |
Name two of the three largest sections of Denmark, which include its mainland peninsula and two largest islands? |
Jutland, Sjaelland and Fyn |
| 1999 |
David Beihl |
SC |
The condition characterized by unusually cold ocean temperature in the equatorial region of the eastern Pacific Ocean is known by what Spanish name? |
La Niña |
| 1998 |
Petko Peev |
MI |
More than 80 million people live in the European Union's most populous member country. Name this country. |
Germany |
| 1997 |
Alex Kerchner |
WA |
Asia's most densely populated country has about three million people and an area of less than 250 square miles (402 square kilometers). Name this country. |
Singapore |
| 1996 |
Seyi Fayanju |
NJ |
Name the European co-principality whose heads of state are the president of France and the bishop of Urgel. |
Andorra |
| 1995 |
Chris Galeczka |
MI |
Pashtu and Dari are the official languages of which mountainous, landlocked country in southwestern Asia? |
Afghanistan |
| 1994 |
Anders Knospe |
MT |
The Tagus River roughly divides which European country into two agricultural regions? |
Portugal |
| 1993 |
Noel Erinjeri |
MI |
Tagalog is one of the three main native languages of which island country in Asia? |
Philippines |
| 1992 |
Lawson Fite |
WA |
Many coastal countries have established so-called EEZs areas extending 200 nautical miles from shore over which countries have sovereign rights for resource exploration. What do the initials EEZ stand for? |
Exclusive Economic Zone |
| 1991 |
David Stillman |
ID |
What type of landform is commonly associated with orographic precipitation? |
mountain |
| 1990 |
Susannah Batko-Yovino |
PA |
Mount Erebus is a volcano on which continent? |
Antarctica |
| 1989 |
Jack Staddon |
KS |
Name the flat intermontane area located at an elevation of about 10,000 feet (3,050 meters) in the central Andes. |
Altiplano |