American university students struggle to answer basic geography questions as one claims the capital of France is Rome and another says Iraq is in Scandinavia ...

Surprisingly tricky quiz will put your knowledge of basic geography and science to the test Quizmaster Tal Garner has shared a tricky quiz aimed at seven-year-old students ...

James Boxall, a geography professor at Dalhousie University, said he wasn't exactly shocked when he saw a previous CBC report in which university students struggled to locate basic things.

A CBC News report last winter that detailed how many university students could not accurately answer basic geography questions has inspired some academics to deal with the problem at a meeting in ...

On the federal geography test administered last year, about a third of fourth-graders could answer a question showing they could determine distance on a map.

I didn’t think it would come to this: writing a note explaining some basic geography. But after a couple of on-air mistakes relating to Saturday’s US-England match, I felt I had no option ...

It is clear from watching any TV quiz show that the schools appear to no longer teach basic geography, and this would appear to confirm the appalling decline in knowledge about the geography of ...