Today's Bing Quiz

Need a little help with today’s Greenland Bing quiz (Sunday, October 18, 2026)? Explore hints about the world’s largest island, from its Norse history and Inuit culture to its vast ice sheet, icy fjords, and highest peak. Full answers and educational explanations appear as you play and in your final review.

1. What is the capital of Greenland? Clue: The city sits on the southwest coast, at the mouth of a long fjord. A missionary founded it in 1728 under a Danish name meaning “Good Hope.”
2. Greenland is an autonomous territory within which kingdom? Clue: The same Scandinavian kingdom also includes the Faroe Islands. Its red-and-white flag is often called the oldest national flag still in use.
3. Which Norse explorer led the first European settlers to Greenland around 985 CE? Clue: He sailed west after being exiled from Iceland over a deadly feud. His son later became one of the first Europeans to reach North America.
4. About how much of Greenland is covered by its ice sheet? Clue: The ice covers far more than half of the island. In places the ice is about 3 km (2 miles) thick, second only to Antarctica’s ice sheet.
5. What do Greenlanders call their homeland in the Greenlandic language? Clue: The name means “Land of the Greenlanders.” Its first word is the plural name the island’s Inuit people use for themselves.
6. Sermeq Kujalleq, one of the world’s fastest-moving glaciers, flows into which UNESCO-listed fjord? Clue: The fjord shares its name with a nearby town whose name means “icebergs.” It opens onto Disko Bay and joined the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2004.
7. On which date does Greenland celebrate its National Day? Clue: It falls on the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Greenland’s Self-Government Act took effect on this same date in 2009.
8. In what year did Greenland gain home rule from Denmark? Clue: It came more than 25 years after Greenland stopped being a Danish colony. Fuller self-government followed exactly three decades later.
9. What is the highest mountain in Greenland? Clue: It rises in the Watkins Range on Greenland’s east coast. At about 3,694 m (12,119 ft), it is the highest peak north of the Arctic Circle.
10. The U.S. military base in northwest Greenland once called Thule Air Base is now known as what? Clue: Its new name, adopted in 2023, comes from the Greenlandic name for the area. It is the U.S. military’s northernmost installation, about 1,100 km (700 miles) north of the Arctic Circle.