Peninsula Quiz Questions

Quiz

1. Which peninsula in southwestern Europe is principally divided between Portugal and Spain?
2. Which peninsula in Northern Europe forms the continental portion of Denmark?
3. Name the small peninsula crossing the mouth of Poole Harbour known for its high property prices?
4. Birkenhead is on the which peninsula?
5. Name the peninsula in Southeast Europe that takes its name from a a mountain range that stretch throughout the whole of Bulgaria?
6. Which large peninsula encompasses three Mexican states, plus portions of Guatemala and Belize?








7. Also known as Asia Minor, what is the name of the large peninsula in Western Asia that constitutes most of Turkey?
8. What is the better known name for the Somali Peninsula, a large peninsula of East Africa?
9. Cape York Peninsula is a large peninsula located in which country?
10. Which Welsh peninsula is the most westerly part of the historic county of Glamorgan and became the first UK area to be designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty?
11. Which peninsula is the only part of Egypt located in Asia?
12. The metropolitan areas of Nantes, Rennes and Brest are on which peninsula in the west of France?
13. The Crimea Peninsula is almost entirely surrounded by which two seas?
14. The Kola Peninsula is a peninsula in the extreme northwest of which country?
15. The Furness and Cartmel peninsulas are in which English county?

Answers

1. The Iberian Peninsula
2. Jutland
3. Sandbanks
4. Wirral Peninsula
5. Balkan Peninsula
6. The Yucatan Peninsula
7. Anatolia
8. Horn of Africa
9. Australia (Queensland)
10. Gower
11. The Sinai Peninsula, or Sinai
12. Brittany
13. The Black Sea and the Sea of Azov
14. Russia
15. Cumbria