We present Tribune Newspapers' Geography Challenge, timed to
coincide with the National Geographic Society's Geography
Awareness Week, Nov. 11-17. Many questions come from this year's
National Geographic Bee (nationalgeographic.com/geobee),
sponsored by the National Geographic Society for children in
fourth through eighth grades. Compiled by Phil Marty, special to
Tribune Newspapers Fill in the blank 1. Name the landlocked
country that borders Botswana and South Africa. 2. The wreck of
the Titanic was discovered in 1985, a few hundred miles off the
coast of Cape Race, which is on what island? 3. The Vltava,
Havel and Saale are tributaries of what river? 4. This city is
the capital of Uzbekistan. 5. One of the oldest universities in
the world, Al-Azhar, was founded in the 10th century and still
exists in what present-day capital near the Eastern Desert? 6.
Uttar Pradesh is a state in what country? 7. Though most species
of lemurs live only in Madagascar, two species also live in a
group of islands off its nort