Around the World Trivia Questions

It's a myth: astronauts can see many man-made structures like cities from orbit, but the Great Wall is not visible to the naked eye because it's narrow and blends into the landscape.

Russia's territory extends from Kaliningrad in the west to Kamchatka in the east, covering 11 time zones, one of the widest spans of any country.

Mauna Kea in Hawaii is over 33,000 feet from its base on the ocean floor, making it taller than Everest's 29,032 feet above sea level.

This is a widespread myth. Most of the Amazon's oxygen is consumed by its own ecosystem, and the ocean's phytoplankton produces the majority of Earth's oxygen.

Canada has about 2 million lakes, but the Earth has over 117 million lakes, so Canada's lakes are far fewer than the rest combined.

Antarctica gets only about 2 inches of precipitation annually, mostly as snow. It's technically a polar desert, making it the driest continent by far.

Because observers in each hemisphere are oriented differently on Earth, the Moon appears rotated 180 degrees. A crescent that looks like a 'C' in the north looks like a backwards 'C' in the south—essentially upside down.

Around 10,000 years ago, the Sahara had grasslands, lakes, and rivers due to shifts in Earth's orbit. Rock art in the area depicts animals like hippos.