Where in the World is...? (2010-2011)
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Correctly identify the exact location of the photograph above. Use your geographic knowledge, the internet or books in the MMC to help.
Winners in years 7, 8 and 9 will earn a Geography Credit All winners will
be posted outside the Geography rooms.
Send your answers to Mr. Ashworth at: duncan . ashworth @ ecolint . ch
Previous Winners
The quiz below (2010-2011/24) was won by: Adrien Wessendorp (Grade 7), Nacho Garcia-Abad (Grade 7) and Kieran Wilson(Grade 8)
12 Apostles (12 Stacks), Victoria, Australia
The quiz below (2010-2011/23) was won by: Andrew Filipuik (Grade 7), Ewen Cameron (Grade 7) and Julien Lock (Grade 8)
Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto, Canada.
The quiz below (2010-2011/22) was won by: Adrien Wessendorp (Grade 7), Alex Jones (Grade 7) and Léo de Riedmatten (Grade 9)
Molokini Crater and Maui, Hawaii
The quiz below (2010-2011/21) was won by: Adrien Wessendorp (Grade 7),Alex Jones (Grade 7) and Léo de Riedmatten (Grade 9)
Fengdu Ghost City, China (Now just above the water level of the new 3 gorges reservoir on the Yangtze)
The quiz below (2010-2011/20) was won by: Adrien Wessendorp (Grade 7), Ignacio Abad (Grade 7) and Jason Dietz (Grade 12)
Cappuccino Coast! New South Wales, Australia. A cyclone whipped up bacteria in
the Pacific to produce an unusual foam along many km of the coast
The quiz below (2010-2011/19) was won by: Adrien Wessendorp (Grade 7), Ignacio Abad (Grade 7) and Alex Jones (Grade 7)
The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania. The World's Heaviest Building!
The quiz below (2010-2011/18) was won by: Adrien Wessendorp (Grade 7), Ignacio Abad (Grade 7) and Alex Jones (Grade 7)
The Ryugyong Hotel is a 105-floor skyscraper in Pyongyang, North Korea
The quiz below (2010-2011/17) was won by: Adrien Wessendorp (Grade 7), Julien Fraiha (Grade 13) and Ali Dodin (Grade 8)
Sink Hole (collapsed cave), Guatamala City, June 2010 A 3 storey building with one man inside were swallowed by this event.
The quiz below (2010-2011/16) was won by:
Adrien Wessendorp (Grade 7), Daniel Chouchena (Grade 10)
and Sam Pickens (Grade 12)
Statue of Louis Agassiz (A Swiss Geologist), which fell during 1906 San Francisco earthquake, at Stanford University
The quiz below (2010-2011/15) was won by: Alex Kerpelman (Grade 12), Jonathan Ramesar (Grade 10)
Perfoming Arts Center, Trinidad
The quiz below (2010-2011/14) was won by: Adrien Wessendorp (Grade 7) and Ignacio Abad (Grade 7)
Ice Covered, West Pierhead Lighthouse, December 2010
The quiz below (2010-2011/13) was won by: Adrien Wessendorp (Grade 7)
Sultan the Pit Pony, South Wales.
(landscaped from spoil from a disused coal mine)
The quiz below (2010-2011/12) was won by: Jason Dietz (Grade 12), Adrien Wessendorp (Grade 7)
and Tomohito Shibata (Grade 12)
Trift Glacier Bridge, Switzerland
The quiz below (2010-2011/11) was won by: Max Vermilye (Grade 12), Jason Dietz (Grade 12),
Brian Reed (Grade 13), Adrien Wessendorp (Grade 7)
Wave Rock, Heyden, Western Australia
The quiz below (2010-2011/10) was won by: Max Vermilye (Grade 12), Julien Fraiha (Grade 13),
Adrien Wessendorp (Grade 7)
Kansas City Library, USA
The quiz below (2010-2011/09) was won by: Max Vermilye (Grade 12)
The World's Largest Beach Towel (created for a beer commercial), Playa de la Canteras, Gran Canaria, Spain.
The quiz below (2010-2011/08) was won by: Brian Reed(Grade 13) and Max Vermilye (Grade 12)
AMARC, or the Aerospace Maintenance And Regeneration Center, 'The Boneyard', Tuscon, Arizona, USA
The quiz below (2010-2011/07) was won by: Alex Lock(Grade 13), Kim Halle (Grade 12), and Jason Dietz (Grade 12)
Chand Baori Step Well, India
The quiz below (2010-2011/06) was won by: Max Vermilye(Grade 12), Kim Halle (Grade 12), and Jason Dietz (Grade 12)
Centre Pompidou, Paris (the inside out building)
The quiz below (2010-2011/05) was won by: Kim Halle (Grade 12), Jason Dietz (Grade 12) and Paolo Bernasconi (Grade 13)
Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge (prior to collapse in 1940), Washington State, USA
The quiz below (2010-2011/04) was won by: Kim Halle (Grade 12), Alex Kerpelman(Grade 12) and Jake Kreier (Grade 13)
Funicular Railway in Châtelard, Switzerland (steepest 87% in the world)
The quiz below (2010-2011/03) was won by: Julien Lock (Grade 8), Alex Jones(Grade 7) and Alexis McGivern (Grade 13)
Goats on a dam wall! Cingino Dam, Northern Italy
The quiz below (2010-2011/02) was won by: Katherine Sturt-Scobie (Grade 12), Max Vermilye(Grade 12)
Kariba Dam, Zimbabwe/Zambia
The quiz below (2010-2011/01) was won by: Julien Fraiha (Grade 13), Max Vermilye(Grade 12)
HORSETAIL-Waterfall, Yosemite National Park, California, USA
The quiz below (2009-2010/34) was won by: Ali Dodin (now Grade 7), James Francis (now Grade 8)
US Submarine surfaces at the North Pole
