Can you name the superlative geographic features of each continent? by ElPez

Africa
Country (population)
Country (area)
Country (nominal GDP)
Country (nominal GDP per capita)
City (population)
Building (height)
River (length)
Mountain (from sea level)
Desert (area)
Lake (area)

Asia
Country (population)
Country (area)
Country (nominal GDP)
Country (nominal GDP per capita)
City (population)
Building (height)
River (length)
Mountain (from sea level)
Desert (area)
Lake (area)

Europe
Country (population)
Country (area)
Country (nominal GDP)
Country (nominal GDP per capita)
City (population)
Building (height)
River (length)
Mountain (from sea level)
Desert (area)
Lake (area)

North America
Country (population)
Country (area)
Country (nominal GDP)
Country (nominal GDP per capita)
City (population)
Building (height)
River (length)
Mountain (from sea level)
Desert (area)
Lake (area)

Oceania
Country (population)
Country (area)
Country (nominal GDP)
Country (nominal GDP per capita)
City (population)
Building (height)
River (length)
Mountain (from sea level)
Desert (area)
Lake (area)

South America
Country (population)
Country (area)
Country (nominal GDP)
Country (nominal GDP per capita)
City (population)
Building (height)
River (length)
Mountain (from sea level)
Desert (area)
Lake (area)

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Geography Superlatives by Continent Quiz

by ElPez

Created May 10, 2011 in Geography
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	ElPez:	May 10th, 2011 at 20:43 GMT		2 points
	The sources are as follows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_length, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremes_of_Altitude#Extreme_elevations_and_temperatures_per_continent, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_population, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deserts_by_area, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deserts#Europe, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_the_world#List_by_continent, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_outlying_territories_by_total_area, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_by_area A few notes: Lake Vostok is accepted for Australia because it lies in a part of Antarctica claimed by Australia. GDP data is from International Monetary Fund. City population is for urban areas. For the purposes of this quiz, the Caspian Sea is considered a lake, although Lake Baikal is accepted for Asia. Russia is generally considered the largest country in Europe, so it is accepted. Also Denmark (largest European country outside of Russia) and France (largest country fully in Europe) are accepted.

	AdmiralMaxtreme:	May 10th, 2011 at 21:23 GMT		4 points
	Not a bad idea. The question about Antarctica could probably be excluded, but that's up to you. If you changed it to three (or four, if you keep the Antarctica question) columns wide instead of five, it would look a lot better. I would also recommend against the default color scheme. But most importantly, don't call this quiz "Ultimate Geography Quiz." Many people (myself included) don't even give quizzes with the word "ultimate" in the title a chance because they are so often terrible. If you called this "Geography Superlatives" or something like that, more people would be likely to play it.

	TheBigE1980:	May 10th, 2011 at 21:45 GMT		3 points
	I put "Great Basin" for the largest North American desert and it wasn't accepted.

	ajf:	May 10th, 2011 at 22:07 GMT		2 points
	Puncak Jaya, a.k.a. Carstensz Pyramid, in Indonesia is probably a better answer for Oceania's high point. It is after all on the same island as Wilhelm, and it's generally the one people trying to climb the seven summits go for.

	tahitiwahini:	May 10th, 2011 at 22:17 GMT		1 point
	Good quiz! I especially liked that you provided links to all your sources. I wish that practice would become more common on Sporcle. That said, I believe the largest desert in Europe to be the Tabernas Desert in Spain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernas_Desert) at 280 km². There are bigger "deserts" in Europe but they are in actuality not true deserts, at least from a climatological perspective. Tabernas is the only true desert in Europe, the others listed by the source are semi-deserts. Deserts under the Köppen Climate Classification System (Group BW, desert climate) are defined as having actual precipitation less than one-half of potential evapotranspiration.

	wasting2muchtime:	May 10th, 2011 at 23:30 GMT		3 points
	accept burj dubai

	koopa08:	May 11th, 2011 at 00:36 GMT		2 points
	see above comment

	cantthinkofaname:	May 11th, 2011 at 05:12 GMT		1 point
	accept just great victoria

	koipen:	May 11th, 2011 at 14:08 GMT		0 points
	Burj Dubai is different if I'm correct.

	tomahaha:	May 11th, 2011 at 20:25 GMT		1 point
	damn, I didn't see the break and missed all of South America. Maybe it was just my screen but it was out of the picture and I thought it was not there. ):

	tahitiwahini:	May 13th, 2011 at 02:10 GMT		2 points
	@koipen: Burj Dubai and Burj Khalifa are the same: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa Dubai ran out of money and UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan was apparently instrumental in getting Abu Dhabi to kick in some scratch so the building could be completed. Kind of like naming rights for sports stadiums ;-)

	RedLIon:	Nov 25th, 2011 at 16:36 GMT		1 point
	Sudan no longer exists. Algeria is now the largest country in Africa.