Navigation Trivia
Steer your trivia ship with a compass and chronometer—if you're not lost yet, you've got the right bearing!
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
Originally developed for military use and fully operational by 1993, which country owns and operates the Global Positioning System (GPS)?
United States
Unlike monster-filled mappae mundi that centered Jerusalem, late-13th-century portolan charts with rhumb lines and compass roses were practical tools for what?
Maritime navigation
Christchurch, New Zealand, sits around 43.5° latitude and has a near-antipode in Spain—what hemisphere is it in?
Southern Hemisphere
Cassiopeia’s five brightest stars trace a famous zigzag; which letter shape does it resemble in the northern sky?
W or M
Among ancient China’s Four Great Inventions—papermaking, printing, and the compass—what’s the fourth?
Gunpowder