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Travel Before GPS
Satellite navigation gives a dot on a screen. Before that, travellers used a compass, a paper map, a lighthouse, or the angle of a star. This quiz asks what those tools do.
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Latitude and longitude are easy to swap, so the questions say which one measures distance from the equator and which one uses the prime meridian. The Greenwich question names the internationally used meridian.
Each explanation names the public reference checked on 6 October 2026. The quiz is for entertainment and does not compare your score with anyone else. It also does not ask you to guess how an average person would do. Read the wording with care. There is no time limit. Take the questions one at a time.
Updated 6 October 2026.
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