Can You Answer These 3 Geography Questions? | National Geographic 

this lady acting like she actually knows these answers when in reality she is just reading the damn card.

is it really that surprising. these kids are actively taught to memorize these facts. ask them again in 5-10 years and see how much they retained.

2/3 I am not American so I don't know km to miles

I got Madagascar.

I wouldn't exactly consider them basic questions. They're simply questions of trivial importance that you'd only really know if you either studied Geography at a higher level or put some effort into teaching yourself them.

The questions were not very difficult. However, the last question should have been in km not miles.

23,000 miles guy was thinking of the circumference which is 24,900

All Kids are from Different Different Countries But Lot of them are Indians , Well Done India :)

If you did not get any one right, don`t despair, these are very specific questions no one needs to know, unless you are a cartographer.

This is a lot of memorizing facts though, which a lot of people incorrectly think geography is about. This is better than those videos asking people to name countries in a blank map, but geography is SO much more complex than random trivia.

I got 3rd place for this at my school. Considering everyone there is a nerdy Asian. I feel I did well

For us it is km not miles. So we'll do 6400 (radius rounded) times 2 to get the diameter in km = 12800 km ...

Got zero out of three.

1. Driest place on earth is Antarctica 2. Australia is the largest island in the Indian ocean 3. Who the fuck still uses the imperial system?

Heres what I said... *somewhere in the Andes Mountains *Madagascar *9000 Not bad for an American high school drop out?

You would be surprised how little people know about geography.

I said "somewhere in Chile or Argentina" for the first question, "Sri Lanka" for the second, and "around 7000" for the third. I guess that's not too bad compared to the average person even if sri lanka was wrong (I wasn't thinking a large enough area)

I came close to answering the 3rd one correctly, and I knew the 2nd one in a heartbeat.

wait, Madagascar is considered part of the Indian Ocean? I know where Madagascar is, but i never knew the indian ocean went so far

The first two questions were really important information that those adults need in their everyday lives

1. easy 2. no idea 3. I only know it in kilometer

I guessed 8,000 because I happened to know that the circumference at the equator is around 25,000 miles, so divide pi (call it 3) is around 8,000

These aren't just 8th grade kids. They're Indian kids with strict parents. I literally knew none of these.

2 out of 3 and then came the miles....

Driest place in the world i thought was Antarctica.

Love the way they paint it like every 4th to 8th grader knows these things. Bet she didn't know herself, not without her cheatsheet. Anyway, are these really the sort of important things that we should know? If I need to know what the diameter of the earth is, I can look it up. Not the sort of pressing information I need to remember.

as we grow older we learn to forget things that have absolutely no bearing or relevancy to our lives. The young are taught to memorise everything.

these strangers were just going about their day, the kids had weeks to prepare for that gameshow

I got them correct. Once you do a lot of Geography quizzes (I do), those questions are pretty easy, except maybe the last one, but I knew from Astronomy, because I'm also interested in that topic ^^

I’m actually a qualifier for the 2020 geo bee, too bad I’m missing it because of covid 😢

The driest place in the world is Antarctica.

1:33 haha! I did NOT expect that voice! xD

0:52 Hellooooooooo mama!

These questions do not have any relevancy to everyday life, and I wouldn't expect most people to remember the answers, if they had ever encountered the information. Ok, so the earth's diameter is around 8000 miles. So what? I am more disturbed by the number of people who have no idea where countries like Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan are, or where countries like Israel, Syria and Jordan are, and what kind of government, economics, resources, and industry they have. Where is Saudi Arabia, and what are its connections with its neighboring countries? What impact do these and other geographical areas have on the rest of the world? Where does our food come from (and the raw materials for what we manufacture, and the manufactured goods that we purchase from other countries) and at what cost to the environment? Why would people care about geography if they don't understand the impact that other areas have on their own lives? Geography by itself is not terribly useful--and questions like "What is the largest island in the Indian Ocean?" just serve to underscore in people's minds that geography is something esoteric which is meaningless in their own lives. Knowledge for knowledge's sake is fine--being able to quote from Shakespeare, understanding how to find a square root, knowing about life in England in the middle ages, being able to recite American presidents in order, knowing that there is a desert in South America, etc., etc., but these are not things that affect the average person's everyday life. Wouldn't it be better if we were to teach geography in conjunction with things such as politics, economy, religion, history, and interactions with other countries?

0:51 I LIKE that answer.

It's funnier if they don't know the answer to really easy geography questions; Where is the middle-east located?

More important question, is any of this information relevant to the average person?

If only television was this educative we could change the whole world.

My answers: 1. "Maybe Atacama? Dude, I have no idea." *answer is revealed* "Oh, wow, how lucky." 2. "Sri Lanka." *woman guesses Sri Lanka and it is wrong* "Oh, shoot, Madagascar, of course." *answer is revealed* 3. "6731 meters (radius). Eff the Imperial system, I'm not American, and no, I'm not going to multiply it by 2 for its diameter." So, that's 2.5 out of 3, I guess? Pretty good, I'd say.

The question is...............what on earth do American teachers do all day in school classes?

lol Tedashii is in here.

Is that.....Tedashii? Lol

1- got it correct 2- missed it 3- guessed 8,000 miles so definitely in the realm

My answers- 1st- no idea 2nd- 1st guess-sri Lanka 2nd-australia 3rd - madagaskar 3rd-7800 miles

My Boy T-Dot, Tedashii is at 0:36 (Christian Rapper)

too difficult. knowing these doesn't help you in life.

The driest place on Earth isn't Atacama desert but the dry valleys of Antarctica, believe it or not.

what to do if you know the perimeter of Earth: The perimeter is 40075 = 2πr that means that 2r = 40075/π = 40075/3.14159 = 12756 km...now divide with 1.6093 for miles (1mile= 1.6093 km) and that makes 7.926 miles.

Notice little miss Soledad has to look at the cue cards herself. She is part of the lame stream media.

Kudos to the kid who got the final question. Clearly he did the math.

It's about time the world went totally metric.

The strong part of American is they never quit . Great people.

But the question about Madagascar was as simple as...

I had everything except the equatorial diameter. Who the heck knows that? I feel like Madagascar was something people should know, but I give a pass to those who didn't get the desert either.

“No clue.” Says the guy with the “Think Big” shirt. See 2:08

Hey that's Tedashii!! "You just gotta live!"

I will admit, those were difficult questions. Anyone here able to answer all 3? I couldn't. Could anyone answer a single question? I doubt it

none of them students were from the usa lol

Yaay I got the question at the end right. Can I have a selfie?...yes.

Great quiz questions, nice brain workout !

Just a shame there's a huge error in the first question, since the Atacama desert isn't the driest place on earth, that position belongs to the dry valleyes in Antarctica.

Two out of three, I immediately thought _Sri Lanka_ too.

The last question seemed closer to geology than geography.

My answer: 1. The Atacama Desert 2. Madagascar (took me less than a second) 3. 12,000 km I'm 12

The Atacama is not the driest place on Earth. That spot belongs to Dry Valley in Antarctica. So much for a geography bee. Can't even get your facts right.

Damn! I was pretty damn close with that last question. I thought it was between 7,000-8,000. Too bad I didn't know the exact number. But it's a LOT better than hundreds of thousands of miles like one person said. The first two I didn't have a clue. I knew the Sahara was in Africa. I just didn't know the one in South America.

“Can I get a selfie” 😂😂😂😂😂

OK, the last one was difficult, but these people must have missed all the geography lessons when they were young. How can anyone say that the Sahara is in South America?

yeah but you just know those poor kids have been forced by their strict parents to learn useless facts for that gameshow

I wonder what proportion of people in the comments saying they knew the answers are just lying. Probably most of them.

Proud to see the Indian origin kids answer them all

Lets face it Americans had an inauspicious start at geography when Columbus thought he was in India.

I don't use miles. I am from an industrialized country.

The largest island in the Indian Ocean is Australia

Memorising facts doesn't make you intelligent. It makes you educated.

Seriously? I can identify nearly every country on the planets, most rivers, all oceans and continents, and a bunch of other geo stuff and I had no idea about #1, and on #3, to within one mile??? Really?? I don't even know how far it is to my favorite store to within a mile. I never learned that to more than the 8,000 mile estimate. I knew it was slightly less, but ONE MILE? This truly qualifies as TRIVIA.

5 of them were Indians. Spelling bee or quiz, Indians dominate!

Isn't the diameter of the Earth a geology question?

I wish we taught more geography and science in school. People need to know these subjects.

Atacama Desert--Easy, Madagascar--Easy, I know the equatorial circumference is about 25000 miles but the diameter one had me reaching for a calculator to divide by pi.

But isn't Antarctica the driest place in earth?

Of course kids who were just studying geography in school recently are gonna do well, but try asking them 30 years down the road!

1. Chile - Atacama's Desert 2. Madagascar 3. 8000

Those questions are trickier than those in Jimmy Kimmel Live. I love it.

I think Madagascar was the only really easy one. I didn't know what the desert in South America was called, though I knew there was one. You tend to get deserts on land masses at 30 degrees North or South due to the way air moves in the atmosphere. And I've taken geology courses in college, so I pretty much memorized diameter of the earth in kilometers, but I can't really convert to miles off the top of my head.

Is that TEDASHII at 1;08

I remember Soledad from CNN. Time has past and she's changed a little bit but she is still charming and good looking.

I love how the final contestants in the Nat Geo kid's game show were all Indian/other Central Asian.

To remember fact that you can look up is a waste off time to remember - Einstein

Can I get your selfie or no....

Pass .... the best answer for every problem in life

Why don’t you go up to random kids and ask them the questions when they don’t have time to study answers for a game show

I'm mexican and I answered correct the first 2 questions and my last answer was 7,000 km.

1 and 2 were easy.Wheras 3 is for a statistical nerd.

1 - somewhere southern part of Peru 2 - Madagascar 3 - 6000 My guess

People in this country struggle with much easier questions.

I got 2 out of 3, I know the atacama because they went there on top gear, and I know about madagascar because of the film, i was off on the last one I said about 7238.

Those kids just learnt from the books.. Its not like they physically traveled there.. Madagascar is pretty easy one though.And for the diameter of earth,not being learnt from the books .. i could guess something like, to calculate from the air travel you have done.. from america->Europe->Australia,as all flights shows the miles you travel from origin to dest.. approximating the circumference and get the diameter of it by diving by 3.. These kids are not smart at all by the way..Well, they are good at memorizing things..

The driest place in the world is not the Atacama desert, but parts of Antarctica, where it hasn't rained in over 2 million years.

1) idk 2) Madagaskar 3) ~ 10000 i guess