Geography Answers

The annotated geography quiz answers.

Rome is farther north than Barcelona. I looked at a map of trade routes the other day that showed Rome but no other Italian city, highlighting how much farther north it is than in my imagination, where it’s south of Naples (and Naples in turn is much farther south).
Kunduz is farther north. If I had to guess not knowing where Kunduz is in Afghanistan I would guess Teheran is farther north; I think it may be farther north than Kabul (just checked, and yes, Teheran is farther north than Kabul. But Kunduz is way north.
The Caucusus has Elbruz at over 5600 meters; none in the Rockies reach 5000 meters. I would have guessed as much but was not sure.
This one is especially interesting to me. The Missouri is much, much longer, but test takers I figured would guess that it was a surprising answer. I only know of the Ucayali from Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo.
Lake Erie. Lake Ladoga is pretty small, but it was where Alexander Nevsky led the Russians to victory in the famous Battle on the Ice (great Prokofiev music in that scene in the eponymous film).
The Lena is a little longer. This is one of those counter Mercator projection questions. When I first say the Lena on a map I wondered why the a river twice the length of the Nile was unknown. I get it now. The Mekong is pretty long given its somewhat curtailed zone, curled up in Indo-china.
California is larger. I hoped it wouldn’t be, but it is.
No speck of Antarctica is farther north than Tierra del Fuego.
Caracas if farther north than Panama City and San Jose.
The older you get, the farther east South America slides. And the Galapagos gos along, at this time almost directly south of Peoria.

I would love to hear any results, observations, etcetera.