Test Your Geography Knowledge with the Power Map Geo Quiz for GeoWeek 2013

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The Power BI team loves geography so in honor of National Geographic’s Geography Awareness Week November 17^th -23^rd, we created this video to quiz you about some of our favorite “geo facts”.

Where are highest and lowest points on Earth? Where is the hottest and coldest point? Watch the video below to find the answers to these questions and more!

In order to create the Power Map tour, we simply used Power Query Online Search to find Wikipedia datasets in the Public Data Catalog that answered the questions we wanted to ask in our quiz. Try out these new data search and 3D geospatial visualization capabilities in Excel yourself to see if you can create another “Geo Quiz” of your own and that stumps your friends!

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