Geography Flashcards
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In area, it’s the largest country in the world that has a red, white & blue flag
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Russia
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Hippo, in the north of this continent, was the diocesan seat of St. Augustine
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Africa
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| If you live on the equator, you’ll note you usually have this many hours of daylight a day
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12 hours
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Frisia is a European region bordering this sea
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the North Sea
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1972 the Tamil Tigers, a liberation group, not a baseball team, was founded in this country
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Sri Lanka
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the colorful body of water between Korea & Shanghai
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the Yellow Sea
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This branch of the Nile used to flood due to seasonal rainfall in Lake Tana
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the Blue Nile
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$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Guyana shares the Acarai Mountains with this nation, its largest neighbor
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Brazil
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$1600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| What was once called Muslim East Bengal is today known as this
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Bangladesh
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$3200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Gobi Desert straddles these 2 countries
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Mongolia & China
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$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of the 4 U.S. states that border Mexico
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(any 2 of ) Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This river flows through the District of Columbia
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the Potomac
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Egypt’s Qattara depression is the lowest point in this largest desert
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the Sahara
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Swedish island Gotland lies in this sea
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the Baltic Sea
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$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Called Sagarmatha in Nepali, it’s this peak to us
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Mount Everest
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Regina is in this one of Canada’s prairie provinces
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Saskatchewan
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Kuala Lumpur is on this 5-letter peninsula
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Malay
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Venice, Italy is the “mistress of” this arm of the Mediterranean
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the Adriatic
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$5200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This desert’s name is from the Mongolian
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the Gobi
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$1600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1990 it was the seat of the German federal government
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Bonn
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$2000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Bloemfontein is the judicial capital of this nation
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South Africa
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 1 of the 2 Australian states with “Australia” in their names
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South Australia (or Western Australia)
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| There are first-person accounts of this volcano’s eruption in 1767 (as there had been in 79 A.D.)
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Vesuvius
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$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Staffordshire’s chief river is the Trent, & its largest city is this-“on-Trent”
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Stoke
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$1600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| On 11/27/00 King Harald V opened this country's Laerdal Highway Tunnel, the world's longest at 15.2 miles
Norway
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$3000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| These 2 republics united in 1964 to form Tanzania
Tanganyika & Zanzibar
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the larger of the 2 countries that occupy the Iberian Peninsula
Spain
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Mississippi.) Some of the best catfish is caught in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, better known around here as this area
the (Mississippi) Delta
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$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This peninsula that accounts for most of Denmark's land area shares a 42-mile-long border with Germany
Jutland
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$4000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Hundreds of waterfalls make up the spectacular Iguacu Falls on the border of these 2 countries
Brazil & Argentina
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$2000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| St. John, New Brunswick lies on this bay that's noted for its high tides
the Bay of Fundy
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$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The only place where 4 countries meet at one point is found on this continent
Africa
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Lake Vanern, Scandinavia's largest lake, lies just north of Goteborg in this country
Sweden
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Britannica's article on this Sicilian volcano states its name comes from the Greek for "I burn"
Etna
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$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The ownership of the islands of Tierra del Fuego is shared by these 2 nations
Chile & Argentina
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$1600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Indian Ocean's deepest point is in this trench named for the most populous Indonesian island
the Java Trench
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$2000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Sudanese capital was founded as an Egyptian army camp in the 1820s
Khartoum
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Its inner and outer regions are separated by the Gobi Desert
Mongolia
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This second-largest island has an area of about 306,000 square miles & is shaped like a huge bird
New Guinea
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$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Maracaibo is the second-largest city in this country
Venezuela
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$1600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This island's Cape Morris Jesup is about 500 miles from the North Pole
Greenland
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$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This peninsula seen here lies between the Bering Sea & the Sea of Okhotsk
the Kamchatka Peninsula
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$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 10 million people live in this country that is almost bisected by the second-longest river in Europe
Hungary
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Great Lakes are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie & this one whose name implies greatness
Lake Superior
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This largest city in New Mexico has 2 Qs & 3 Us in its name
Albuquerque
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Hartford is the capital of this New England state
Connecticut
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Have you "bean" to this capital of Peru?
Lima
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| On an alphabetical list of world nations, this country immediately follows the United States
Uruguay
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Buffalo & Cleveland are major ports on this Great Lake
Erie
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Atlantic "sea" is named for the seaweed that can be seen there
the Sargasso Sea
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$3000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| One of the 2 South American countries trying to claim Graham Land, part of the British Antarctic territory
Argentina (or Chile)
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$1600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1951 Portugal allowed NATO to establish an airbase on the island of Terceira in this archipelago
Azores
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$2000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the capital & chief seaport of Trinidad & Tobago
Port-of-Spain
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$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Of Kenya, Colombia or Thailand, the one not found on the equator
Thailand
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The geographic center of North America is near the town of Rugby, in this U.S. state that borders Canada
North Dakota
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$1800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Except for its coast, this sultanate is completely surrounded by Malaysia
Brunei
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Besides Budapest, 1 of the 3 national capitals located on the Danube River
Belgrade, Bratislava & Vienna
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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This French possession that's largely rain forest has a satellite launch complex at Kourou
French Guiana
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Many residents of this sprawling valley that includes North Hollywood want to secede from Los Angeles
San Fernando Valley
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Most of the residents of this small island city-state off the Malay Peninsula are Chinese
Singapore
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This country's capital is Wellington
New Zealand
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This "Stan" is wedged in among Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan & Kyrgyzstan
Uzbekistan
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| You'll find the Shrine of Fatima, seen here, in this country's city of Qom
Iran
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Peninsulas in this country include the Zamboanga & Bataan
the Philippines
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This river's name is Sanskrit for "Son of Brahma"
the Brahmaputra
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1861 this island with its Port of Cagliari was "squeezed" into the Kingdom of Italy
Sardinia
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The "amiable" former name of the Tongan archipelago
the Friendly Islands
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Bigfoot walks the Pacific Northwest; this area, whose name means big foot, is in Argentina
Patagonia
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The tiny nation of Andorra is located in the Pyrenees Mountains between France & this country
Spain
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Lake Disappointment is a dry salt lake on the edge of this country's Gibson Desert
Australia
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this area of the Pacific is from the Greek for "many islands"
Polynesia
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Sharing its name with a seaport in Yemen, this gulf provides a link between the Red Sea & the Arabian Sea
Gulf of Aden
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The city of Nizhny Novgorod in Russia was formerly known by this name, after a famous Communist writer
Gorky
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$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This imaginary line separates the north Pacific from the south pacific
Equator
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This continent occupies about 30% of the Earth's total land area
Asia
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$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This country's Queen Charlotte Islands lie south of the USA's Prince of Wales Island
Canada
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Cape York Peninsula stretches northward from this continent's mainland
Australia
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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Gulf of Fonseca is this Central American country's only direct access to the Pacific Ocean
Honduras
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Hokkaido is the largest & northernmost of this country's 47 prefectures
Japan
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This small nation borders Spain's California region
Andorra
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Masai Mara & Marsabit Game Reserves in this African nation were created to protect animals from poaching
Kenya
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Aland Island, Finland's largest island, lies at the entrance to this gulf
Gulf of Bothnia
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The highest point on Iwo Jima lies at the summit of this extinct volcano
Mount Suribachi
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$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Name given to the parallel of latitude at 66 degrees 30' S.
the Antarctic Circle
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$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| There's a lighthouse at Cape Gris-Nez, this country's closest point to England
France
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Our name for this Arizona region comes from the Spanish term for it: El Desierto Pintado
The Painted Desert
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$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Skopje is the capital of this nation that was once part of Yugoslavia
Macedonia
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Though 50 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico, this Texas city is one of the nation's major ports
Houston
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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Paramaribo, capital of this country, came under Dutch rule in 1815
Suriname
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Venezia is the Italian name for this city
Venice
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Famous for its pyramids, Giza is a suburb of this city
Cairo
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| You'll find this highest mountain in the world about 100 miles northeast of Katmandu
Mount Everest
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This country borders every other country in South America except Ecuador & Chile
Brazil
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Montego Bay has been called the resort capital of this Caribbean island
Jamaica
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This tiny principality is bordered on 3 sides by the French department of Alpes-Maritmes
Monaco
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Both Spain's & California's highest mountain peaks are in a range called this
Sierra Nevadas
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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Balaklava lies on the tip of this peninsula, opposite Yalta
Crimean Peninsula
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Sudanese capital is located at the junction of the Blue & the White Nile
Khartoum
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the landlocked African country formerly known as Bechuanaland
Botswana
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$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| If you include all the fjords & peninsulas, this country's coastline is more than 13,000 miles in length
Norway
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Oman, Yemen & Kuwait lie on this large peninsula
Arabian Peninsula
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$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Lajes Field is a U.S. Air Force base in this Portuguese island group in the Atlantic
Azores
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$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this country on Hispaniola is from an Indian word meaning "Land of Mountains"
Haiti
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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This small Mideastern country's Bekaa Valley is a fertile farming area
Lebanon
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Known in Arabic as Halab, Aleppo is this country's second-largest city, Damascus is first
Syria
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this capital city found in the Andes means "the peace"
La Paz
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Taj Mahal city on the Yamuna River is also home to the beautiful marble tomb of Itmad-Ud-Daulah
Agra
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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Explorer James Clark Ross named 2 of this continent's volcanoes Erebus & Terror, for his ships
Antarctica
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Africa's Rusizi is one of the few rivers that drains into this, the world's longest freshwater lake
Lake Tanganyika
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Grampians, a part of this continent's Great Dividing Range, is also known by its Aboriginal name, Gariwerd
Australia
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This African river enters the Mediterranean via 2 main branches: the Rosetta & the Damietta
Nile
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Located on the Danube, Linz is one of this country's major ports
Austria
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Dragon's Mouth is a strait that separates Venezuela's Paria Peninsula from this Caribbean nation
Trinidad & Tobago
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This world capital is the most populous city in the West Indies
Havana, Cuba
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Canada's James Bay was named for Thomas James, who explored it while looking for this passage
Northwest Passage
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It flows around the Ile de la Cite
The Seine
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Ulm in this country is home to the cathedral with the tallest spire in the world
Germany
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Golden Gate of Yaroslav the Wise can be seen in this largest city in the Ukraine
Kiev
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| You can find the Wilhelmina Mountains in this South American country
Suriname (formerly Dutch Guyana)
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$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Corfu is this country's second-largest Ionian island, & its most populous
Greece
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Cape Morris Jesup in the Arctic is the most northerly point on this Danish island
Greenland
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$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Patagonian region of South America lies mainly in this country
Argentina
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| These mountains extend 270 miles along the French-Spanish border, from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean
Pyrenees
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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Wales' smallest city is named for this patron saint who established a monastery there in the 6th century
St. David
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In Egypt & Algeria, some areas of this desert are below sea level
Sahara
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This South American river has the world's largest drainage basin
Amazon
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the admministrative capital of this country
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
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$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Rhodope Mountains delineate Bulgaria's southern border with this country
Greece
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Aland Islands are usually regarded as the dividing line between the Baltic Sea & this large gulf
Gulf of Bothnia
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$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Highland Lakes are a chain of artificial lakes in & around this Texas capital
Austin
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Peoria, Illinois is surrounded by rich deposits of this solid fuel
coal
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$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The city of Thon Buri was incorporated into this Thai capital in 1971
Bangkok
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The main street of Interlaken in this country affords a spectacular view of the Jungfrau peak
Switzerland
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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this bay between Brittany & Spain comes from the Spanish name vizcaya
(Bay of) Biscay
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$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Ishikari Plain is the largest lowland on this country's Hokkaido island
Japan
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Point Tarifa, in Andalusia in this country, is Europe's southernmost point
Spain
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$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This European country's 14,000' mountains include Weisshorn, Taschhorn & Finsteraarhorn
Switzerland
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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This country's Kemijoki River rises near the Russian border and empties into the Gulf of Bothnia
Finland
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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This capital of Queensland in Australia was founded as a station for British convicts in 1824
Brisbane
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$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It's Europe's second-largest island
Iceland
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| A smaller canal connecting to this river brings fresh water to the Suez Canal
the Nile
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Many things in Hong Kong are named for this queen, including the mountain peak on Hong Kong island
Victoria
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Lake Avernus in Campania in this country was believed by the ancients to be the entrance to Hades
Italy
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The western portion of the Baltic island of Usedom belongs to Germany; the eastern, to this country
Poland
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Boothia Peninsula in this country is the former location of the north magnetic pole
Canada
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$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Devil's Triangle is also known as this more famous triangle
the Bermuda Triangle
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Known in the Middle Ages as the Gateway to China, Lanzhou was an important stop on this trade route
the Silk Route
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$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Honduras borders these 2 large bodies of water
the Pacific Ocean & the Caribbean
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| World capital in which Jose Napoleon Duarte was born
San Salvador
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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1980 Mt. McKinley National Park was renamed this
Denali National Park
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This river is responsible for irrigating about 6 million acres of land in Egypt
Nile
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Katowice & Warszawa are this country's two most populous provinces
Poland
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| A British colony until 1959, this island city-state is the smallest nation in southeast Asia
Singapore
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This South Dakota peak near Rapid City was named for a New York attorney, who represented mining investors
Mount Rushmore
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 131 feet below sea level, Argentina's lowest point is on this dry, windy region's Valdez Peninsula
Patagonia
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Gulf of Ob in Siberia is only free of this for about two months of the year
Ice
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The highest point in this mountain range is Pico de Aneto, near Spain's northern border
Pyrenees
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This port on the Arabian Sea is known as "The Gateway to India"
Bombay
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This South American country, a former British colony, is officially called a cooperative republic
Guyana
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Canadian province proportionally has more people of Asian descent than any other
British Columbia
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Mother & the Father are two active ones of these on New Britain Island in the Bismarck Archipelago
Volcanoes
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros lies in this ocean in the Mozambique Channel
Indian Ocean
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In the mid-19th century the Sultan of Zanzibar established Dar es Salaam, which means "haven of" this
Peace
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Ajman, Abu Dhabi & Dubai are 3 of this nation's 7 autonomous states
United Arab Emirates
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Once known as Urga, this capital city is the cultural center of Mongolia
Ulan Bator
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$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, this is the largest country in area in the world
Russia
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This British River rises in the Cotswold Hills of Gloucester
the Thames
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1886 Congress "closed" this sea off Alaska due to indiscriminate fur-sealing practices of other nations
the Bering Sea
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The tallest mountains in Egypt are located on this large peninsula
the Sinai
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| French cities on this bay or its inlets include Bordeaux, Nantes & Rochefort
the Bay of Biscay
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Mount Elbrus, the highest point in Europe, is a peak of this mountain range
the Caucasus
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$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1997 this British crown colony will become a special administrative region of China
Hong Kong
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Zambia and Zimbabwe used to be Northern & Southern this
Rhodesia
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$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Ponce is the chief Caribbean port of this island once ruled by Ponce de Leon
Puerto Rico
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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Canadian Maritime province was named after the native land of England's James I
Nova Scotia
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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 1 of the 4 countries on the continent of Africa whose name starts with "B"
Botswana
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The former name of the Moluccas, islands known for cloves, mace & nutmeg
the Spice Islands
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of the 3 South American countries on the equator
(2 of) Ecuador, Brazil, & Colombia
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Canadian province’s largest lake is Lake Winnipeg
Manitoba
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| With over a million people, this township is South Africa’s most populous black community
Soweto
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Moroccan capital city is located about 60 miles northeast of Casablanca
Rabat
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$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the southernmost independent country in the world
Chile (which goes down around Tierra Del Fuego & sweeps a little south of Argentina)
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$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the only country whose name begins with "A", but doesn't end with "A"
Afghanistan
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Though Abidjan has the main gov't buildings, Yamoussoukro is this country's official capital, tusk, tusk
Ivory Coast
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| To Tibetans it's "Chomolungma", the goddess mother
Mount Everest
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| There's a canyon full of odd rocks named for pioneer Ebenezer Bryce in this state
Utah
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the longest U.S. river east of the Mississippi
Ohio River
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1884 it lost its Atacama province to Chile & became a landlocked country
Bolivia
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This capital city sits on the southern end of New Zealand's North Island
Wellington
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Dutch named this island in the Indian Ocean for Prince Maurice of Nassau
Mauritius
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$2000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Isle of Man lies in this body of water
Irish Sea
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the longest river entirely within Massachusetts
Charles
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Smaller in area than Cleveland, this German-speaking alpine country remained neutral during WWII
Liechtenstein
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$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The 2 independent South American countries named after famous men
Bolivia and Colombia
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$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the only papal state left in the world
Vatican City
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| To feel an earthquake shake Djibouti, you have to be on this continent
Africa
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$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The 2nd largest city in W. Germany, its state senate is headed by a burgermeister
Hamburg
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| California's 2 longest rivers, the San Joaquin & Sacramento, meet & flow into this bay
San Francisco Bay
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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Pile O' Bones was the original name of this capital of Saskatchewan
Regina
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This city that straddles the Bosporus Strait is located in Europe & Asia
Istanbul
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Entoto, the old capital, was very cold so the Ethiopian emperor created this capital in 1887
Addis Ababa
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This region that covers 1/3 of the Asian continent has only about 11 people per square mile
Siberia
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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Only Antarctica has a larger ice sheet than this island
Greenland
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This geographical feature is defined as a bend or curve of a shoreline, like the Great Australian one
Bight
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$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Now independent, this island has been ruled by Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, Normans, French, and British
Malta
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$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Brig O'Doon refers to a bridge over the River Doon in this part of the United Kingdom
Scotland
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the largest area of land named for Thomas West, Lord de la Warr
the State of Delaware
208
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The northern part of this country was once called "Kitai" or "Cathay"
China
209
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Since August 10 was this saint's day, Cartier named the bay he discovered that day in 1535 after him
St. Lawrence
210
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The rock & fortress of Masada are found by this sea's shore
the Dead Sea
211
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Besides North America, it's the only continent completely north of the equator
Europe
212
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| North Yemen and South Yemen are both found on this Mideast peninsula
the Arabian Peninsula
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$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In the mid 1960s, France began building a space center near Kouru in this, its South American territory
French Guiana
214
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Yugoslavian republic covers part of and shares its name with Alexander the Great's ancient home
Macedonia
215
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Most of the 60 to 70 people who live on this South Pacific island are descendants of the mutineers
Pitcairn Island
216
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| If you're thinking of the 2nd largest city in Colorado, this one should spring to mind
Colorado Springs
217
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| A province of Indonesia & a former territory of Australia share this, the world's 2nd largest island
New Guinea
218
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Khyber Pass connects these 2 countries
Pakistan and Afghanistan
219
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Seeing residents huddled around campfires on the shore, Magellan named the region this, meaning "Land of fire"
Tierra del Fuego
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 1 of the 2 gulfs which border the Sinai Peninsula
the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba
221
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| From Cree words "win nipee" meaning muddy water, it's the capital of Manitoba
Winnipeg
222
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It's bordered by the Bristol Channel, Cardigan Bay, the Irish Sea, & England
Wales
223
$900 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Besides Spanish, 3 of 4 other official languages of South American countries
Portugues, English, French, and Dutch
224
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This desert is home to Africa's Bushmen
the Kalahari
225
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| You'd find the cities of Kotte 'n' Kandy on this "Serendipitous" island
Sri Lanka
226
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Located in Alaska, it's North America's highest peak
Mt. McKinley
227
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It's across the Danube from Pest
Buda
228
$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| New Zealand, Midway & Hawaii are all a part of this "many islands" group
Polynesia
229
$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of the 3 countries that make up the Benelux Economic Union
(2 of) Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg
230
$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Abu Dhabi & Dubai are 2 of the 7 states that make up this Middle Eastern federation
the United Arab Emirates
231
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Honolulu is on this Hawaiian island
Oahu
232
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of 4 countries bordering Greece
(2 of) Yugoslavia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Albania
233
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Formerly Formosa
Taiwan
234
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 8th most populous country in the world, this "Bengal Nation" was once East Pakistan
Bangladesh
235
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| First colony since 1776 to break from Britain without consent, it is now Zimbabwe
Rhodesia
236
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| About 1/3 of Africa's Pygmy population lives in what was once Belgian Congo
Zaire
237
$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Christmas, Easter, or Bermuda, for example
islands
238
$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Europe's only wild monkeys live on this "rock"
(rock of) Gibraltar
239
$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 1/3 the size of U.S., this royal kingdom has no rivers or lakes but lots of oil
Saudi Arabia
240
$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Largest country entirely in Europe
France
241
$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Clocks in Lima, Peru, read the same as in this U.S. time zone
Eastern
