Central Asia
Star question: Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country. It's a question that comes up a lot in pub quizzes!
Quiz Questions
- Which city is the most populous in Central Asia and also the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan?
- Can you name the five 'stans' in Central Asia?
- Which two landlocked Central Asian countries have territory in two continents?
- Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan and also the largest city on which sea?
- Which lake, the world's fourth largest in 1960, has shrunk to more than half its former size?
- Who was born on 13 April 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan?
- Which desert occupies about 70 percent of Turkmenistan?
- Kazakhstan's capital is Astana, however which city is the country's largest?
- All five Central Asian republics obtained their independence in which year?
- On his journey along the Silk Road who describes Samarqand in Uzbekistan as "a very large and splendid city"?
- What is plov?
- Bishkek is the capital of which country?
- Which of the Central Asia 'stans' is the biggest by square miles?
- The Darvaza gas crater is also known as the 'Door to' where?
- What is Uzbek?
- Given the name of a flower, which revolution began in Kyrgyzstan in 2005?
- Ashgabat is the capital of which country?
- Nearly every city and town in Kyrgyzstan has a statue, usually located in the central square, of which political figure?
- What sort of facility is based in the city of Baikonur in Kazakhstan?
- Which country in Central Asia is one of only two doubly landlocked countries in the world?
- What did Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina famously win in 2022?
Answers
- Tashkent
- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan
- The Caspian Sea
- The Aral Sea
- Garry Kasparov (former World Chess Champion)
- The Karakum Desert
- Almaty
- 1991
- Marco Polo
- Plov is a rice and lamb dish
- Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan
- Door to Hell
- The official and national language of Uzbekistan
- Tulip Revolution
- Turkmenistan
- Lenin
- A space launch facility (used by Russia)
- Uzbekistan (Note: the only other doubly landlocked country on Earth is Liechtenstein in Europe)
- Wimbledon