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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

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Norway

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$3000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| These 2 republics united in 1964 to form Tanzania

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Tanganyika & Zanzibar

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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the larger of the 2 countries that occupy the Iberian Peninsula

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Spain

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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| (<a>Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Mississippi.</a>) Some of the best catfish is caught in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, better known around here as this area

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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

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Jutland

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$4000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Hundreds of waterfalls make up the spectacular Iguacu Falls on the border of these 2 countries

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Brazil & Argentina

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$2000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| St. John, New Brunswick lies on this bay that’s noted for its high tides

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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

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Africa

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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Lake Vanern, Scandinavia’s largest lake, lies just north of Goteborg in this country

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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”

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Etna

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$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The ownership of the islands of Tierra del Fuego is shared by these 2 nations

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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

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the Java Trench

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$2000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Sudanese capital was founded as an Egyptian army camp in the 1820s

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Khartoum

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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Its inner and outer regions are separated by the Gobi Desert

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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

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New Guinea

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$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Maracaibo is the second-largest city in this country

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Venezuela

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$1600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This island’s Cape Morris Jesup is about 500 miles from the North Pole

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Greenland

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$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This peninsula seen <a>here</a> lies between the Bering Sea & the Sea of Okhotsk

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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

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Hungary

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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Great Lakes are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie & this one whose name implies greatness

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Lake Superior

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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This largest city in New Mexico has 2 Qs & 3 Us in its name

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Albuquerque

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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Hartford is the capital of this New England state

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Connecticut

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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Have you “bean” to this capital of Peru?

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Lima

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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| On an alphabetical list of world nations, this country immediately follows the United States

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Uruguay

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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Buffalo & Cleveland are major ports on this Great Lake

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Erie

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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Atlantic “sea” is named for the seaweed that can be seen there

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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

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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

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Azores

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$2000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the capital & chief seaport of Trinidad & Tobago

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Port-of-Spain

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$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Of Kenya, Colombia or Thailand, the one not found on the equator

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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

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North Dakota

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$1800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Except for its coast, this sultanate is completely surrounded by Malaysia

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Brunei

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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Besides Budapest, 1 of the 3 national capitals located on the Danube River

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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

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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

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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

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Singapore

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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This country’s capital is Wellington

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New Zealand

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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This “Stan” is wedged in among Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan & Kyrgyzstan

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Uzbekistan

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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| You’ll find the Shrine of Fatima, seen here, in this country’s city of Qom

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Iran

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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Peninsulas in this country include the Zamboanga & Bataan

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the Philippines

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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This river’s name is Sanskrit for “Son of Brahma”

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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

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Sardinia

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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The “amiable” former name of the Tongan archipelago

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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

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Patagonia

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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The tiny nation of Andorra is located in the Pyrenees Mountains between France & this country

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Spain

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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Lake Disappointment is a dry salt lake on the edge of this country’s Gibson Desert

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Australia

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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this area of the Pacific is from the Greek for “many islands”

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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

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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

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Gorky

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$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This imaginary line separates the north Pacific from the south pacific

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Equator

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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This continent occupies about 30% of the Earth’s total land area

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Asia

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$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This country’s Queen Charlotte Islands lie south of the USA’s Prince of Wales Island

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Canada

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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Cape York Peninsula stretches northward from this continent’s mainland

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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

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Honduras

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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Hokkaido is the largest & northernmost of this country’s 47 prefectures

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Japan

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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This small nation borders Spain’s California region

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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

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Kenya

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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Aland Island, Finland’s largest island, lies at the entrance to this gulf

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Gulf of Bothnia

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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The highest point on Iwo Jima lies at the summit of this extinct volcano

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Mount Suribachi

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$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Name given to the parallel of latitude at 66 degrees 30’ S.

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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

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France

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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Our name for this Arizona region comes from the Spanish term for it: El Desierto Pintado

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The Painted Desert

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$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Skopje is the capital of this nation that was once part of Yugoslavia

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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

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Houston

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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Paramaribo, capital of this country, came under Dutch rule in 1815

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Suriname

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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Venezia is the Italian name for this city

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Venice

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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Famous for its pyramids, Giza is a suburb of this city

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Cairo

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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| You’ll find this highest mountain in the world about 100 miles northeast of Katmandu

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Mount Everest

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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This country borders every other country in South America except Ecuador & Chile

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Brazil

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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Montego Bay has been called the resort capital of this Caribbean island

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Jamaica

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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This tiny principality is bordered on 3 sides by the French department of Alpes-Maritmes

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Monaco

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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Both Spain’s & California’s highest mountain peaks are in a range called this

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Sierra Nevadas

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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Balaklava lies on the tip of this peninsula, opposite Yalta

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Crimean Peninsula

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$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Sudanese capital is located at the junction of the Blue & the White Nile

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Khartoum

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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the landlocked African country formerly known as Bechuanaland

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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

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Norway

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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Oman, Yemen & Kuwait lie on this large peninsula

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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

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Azores

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$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this country on Hispaniola is from an Indian word meaning “Land of Mountains”

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Haiti

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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This small Mideastern country’s Bekaa Valley is a fertile farming area

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Lebanon

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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Known in Arabic as Halab, Aleppo is this country’s second-largest city, Damascus is first

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Syria

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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this capital city found in the Andes means “the peace”

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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

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Agra

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$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Explorer James Clark Ross named 2 of this continent’s volcanoes Erebus & Terror, for his ships

A

Antarctica

109
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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

A

Lake Tanganyika

110
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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

A

Australia

111
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This African river enters the Mediterranean via 2 main branches: the Rosetta & the Damietta

A

Nile

112
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Located on the Danube, Linz is one of this country’s major ports

A

Austria

113
Q

$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Dragon’s Mouth is a strait that separates Venezuela’s Paria Peninsula from this Caribbean nation

A

Trinidad & Tobago

114
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This world capital is the most populous city in the West Indies

A

Havana, Cuba

115
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Canada’s James Bay was named for Thomas James, who explored it while looking for this passage

A

Northwest Passage

116
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It flows around the Ile de la Cite

A

The Seine

117
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$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Ulm in this country is home to the cathedral with the tallest spire in the world

A

Germany

118
Q

$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Golden Gate of Yaroslav the Wise can be seen in this largest city in the Ukraine

A

Kiev

119
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$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| You can find the Wilhelmina Mountains in this South American country

A

Suriname (formerly Dutch Guyana)

120
Q

$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Corfu is this country’s second-largest Ionian island, & its most populous

A

Greece

121
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$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Cape Morris Jesup in the Arctic is the most northerly point on this Danish island

A

Greenland

122
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$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Patagonian region of South America lies mainly in this country

A

Argentina

123
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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

A

Pyrenees

124
Q

$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Wales’ smallest city is named for this patron saint who established a monastery there in the 6th century

A

St. David

125
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In Egypt & Algeria, some areas of this desert are below sea level

A

Sahara

126
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This South American river has the world’s largest drainage basin

A

Amazon

127
Q

$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the admministrative capital of this country

A

Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

128
Q

$1200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Rhodope Mountains delineate Bulgaria’s southern border with this country

A

Greece

129
Q

$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Aland Islands are usually regarded as the dividing line between the Baltic Sea & this large gulf

A

Gulf of Bothnia

130
Q

$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Highland Lakes are a chain of artificial lakes in & around this Texas capital

A

Austin

131
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Peoria, Illinois is surrounded by rich deposits of this solid fuel

A

coal

132
Q

$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The city of Thon Buri was incorporated into this Thai capital in 1971

A

Bangkok

133
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$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The main street of Interlaken in this country affords a spectacular view of the Jungfrau peak

A

Switzerland

134
Q

$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this bay between Brittany & Spain comes from the Spanish name vizcaya

A

(Bay of) Biscay

135
Q

$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Ishikari Plain is the largest lowland on this country’s Hokkaido island

A

Japan

136
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Point Tarifa, in Andalusia in this country, is Europe’s southernmost point

A

Spain

137
Q

$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This European country’s 14,000’ mountains include Weisshorn, Taschhorn & Finsteraarhorn

A

Switzerland

138
Q

$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This country’s Kemijoki River rises near the Russian border and empties into the Gulf of Bothnia

A

Finland

139
Q

$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This capital of Queensland in Australia was founded as a station for British convicts in 1824

A

Brisbane

140
Q

$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s Europe’s second-largest island

A

Iceland

141
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| A smaller canal connecting to this river brings fresh water to the Suez Canal

A

the Nile

142
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Many things in Hong Kong are named for this queen, including the mountain peak on Hong Kong island

A

Victoria

143
Q

$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Lake Avernus in Campania in this country was believed by the ancients to be the entrance to Hades

A

Italy

144
Q

$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The western portion of the Baltic island of Usedom belongs to Germany; the eastern, to this country

A

Poland

145
Q

$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Boothia Peninsula in this country is the former location of the north magnetic pole

A

Canada

146
Q

$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Devil’s Triangle is also known as this more famous triangle

A

the Bermuda Triangle

147
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Known in the Middle Ages as the Gateway to China, Lanzhou was an important stop on this trade route

A

the Silk Route

148
Q

$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Honduras borders these 2 large bodies of water

A

the Pacific Ocean & the Caribbean

149
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| World capital in which Jose Napoleon Duarte was born

A

San Salvador

150
Q

$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1980 Mt. McKinley National Park was renamed this

A

Denali National Park

151
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This river is responsible for irrigating about 6 million acres of land in Egypt

A

Nile

152
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Katowice & Warszawa are this country’s two most populous provinces

A

Poland

153
Q

$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| A British colony until 1959, this island city-state is the smallest nation in southeast Asia

A

Singapore

154
Q

$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This South Dakota peak near Rapid City was named for a New York attorney, who represented mining investors

A

Mount Rushmore

155
Q

$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 131 feet below sea level, Argentina’s lowest point is on this dry, windy region’s Valdez Peninsula

A

Patagonia

156
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Gulf of Ob in Siberia is only free of this for about two months of the year

A

Ice

157
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The highest point in this mountain range is Pico de Aneto, near Spain’s northern border

A

Pyrenees

158
Q

$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This port on the Arabian Sea is known as “The Gateway to India”

A

Bombay

159
Q

$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This South American country, a former British colony, is officially called a cooperative republic

A

Guyana

160
Q

$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Canadian province proportionally has more people of Asian descent than any other

A

British Columbia

161
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Mother & the Father are two active ones of these on New Britain Island in the Bismarck Archipelago

A

Volcanoes

162
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros lies in this ocean in the Mozambique Channel

A

Indian Ocean

163
Q

$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In the mid-19th century the Sultan of Zanzibar established Dar es Salaam, which means “haven of” this

A

Peace

164
Q

$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Ajman, Abu Dhabi & Dubai are 3 of this nation’s 7 autonomous states

A

United Arab Emirates

165
Q

$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Once known as Urga, this capital city is the cultural center of Mongolia

A

Ulan Bator

166
Q

$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, this is the largest country in area in the world

A

Russia

167
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This British River rises in the Cotswold Hills of Gloucester

A

the Thames

168
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1886 Congress “closed” this sea off Alaska due to indiscriminate fur-sealing practices of other nations

A

the Bering Sea

169
Q

$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The tallest mountains in Egypt are located on this large peninsula

A

the Sinai

170
Q

$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| French cities on this bay or its inlets include Bordeaux, Nantes & Rochefort

A

the Bay of Biscay

171
Q

$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Mount Elbrus, the highest point in Europe, is a peak of this mountain range

A

the Caucasus

172
Q

$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1997 this British crown colony will become a special administrative region of China

A

Hong Kong

173
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Zambia and Zimbabwe used to be Northern & Southern this

A

Rhodesia

174
Q

$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Ponce is the chief Caribbean port of this island once ruled by Ponce de Leon

A

Puerto Rico

175
Q

$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Canadian Maritime province was named after the native land of England’s James I

A

Nova Scotia

176
Q

$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 1 of the 4 countries on the continent of Africa whose name starts with “B”

A

Botswana

177
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The former name of the Moluccas, islands known for cloves, mace & nutmeg

A

the Spice Islands

178
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of the 3 South American countries on the equator

A

(2 of) Ecuador, Brazil, & Colombia

179
Q

$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Canadian province’s largest lake is Lake Winnipeg

A

Manitoba

180
Q

$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| With over a million people, this township is South Africa’s most populous black community

A

Soweto

181
Q

$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Moroccan capital city is located about 60 miles northeast of Casablanca

A

Rabat

182
Q

$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the southernmost independent country in the world

A

Chile (which goes down around Tierra Del Fuego & sweeps a little south of Argentina)

183
Q

$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the only country whose name begins with “A”, but doesn’t end with “A”

A

Afghanistan

184
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Though Abidjan has the main gov’t buildings, Yamoussoukro is this country’s official capital, tusk, tusk

A

Ivory Coast

185
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| To Tibetans it’s “Chomolungma”, the goddess mother

A

Mount Everest

186
Q

$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| There’s a canyon full of odd rocks named for pioneer Ebenezer Bryce in this state

A

Utah

187
Q

$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the longest U.S. river east of the Mississippi

A

Ohio River

188
Q

$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1884 it lost its Atacama province to Chile & became a landlocked country

A

Bolivia

189
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This capital city sits on the southern end of New Zealand’s North Island

A

Wellington

190
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Dutch named this island in the Indian Ocean for Prince Maurice of Nassau

A

Mauritius

191
Q

$2000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Isle of Man lies in this body of water

A

Irish Sea

192
Q

$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the longest river entirely within Massachusetts

A

Charles

193
Q

$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Smaller in area than Cleveland, this German-speaking alpine country remained neutral during WWII

A

Liechtenstein

194
Q

$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The 2 independent South American countries named after famous men

A

Bolivia and Colombia

195
Q

$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the only papal state left in the world

A

Vatican City

196
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| To feel an earthquake shake Djibouti, you have to be on this continent

A

Africa

197
Q

$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The 2nd largest city in W. Germany, its state senate is headed by a burgermeister

A

Hamburg

198
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| California’s 2 longest rivers, the San Joaquin & Sacramento, meet & flow into this bay

A

San Francisco Bay

199
Q

$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Pile O’ Bones was the original name of this capital of Saskatchewan

A

Regina

200
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This city that straddles the Bosporus Strait is located in Europe & Asia

A

Istanbul

201
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Entoto, the old capital, was very cold so the Ethiopian emperor created this capital in 1887

A

Addis Ababa

202
Q

$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This region that covers 1/3 of the Asian continent has only about 11 people per square mile

A

Siberia

203
Q

$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Only Antarctica has a larger ice sheet than this island

A

Greenland

204
Q

$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This geographical feature is defined as a bend or curve of a shoreline, like the Great Australian one

A

Bight

205
Q

$None ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Now independent, this island has been ruled by Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, Normans, French, and British

A

Malta

206
Q

$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Brig O’Doon refers to a bridge over the River Doon in this part of the United Kingdom

A

Scotland

207
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the largest area of land named for Thomas West, Lord de la Warr

A

the State of Delaware

208
Q

$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The northern part of this country was once called “Kitai” or “Cathay”

A

China

209
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Since August 10 was this saint’s day, Cartier named the bay he discovered that day in 1535 after him

A

St. Lawrence

210
Q

$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The rock & fortress of Masada are found by this sea’s shore

A

the Dead Sea

211
Q

$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Besides North America, it’s the only continent completely north of the equator

A

Europe

212
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| North Yemen and South Yemen are both found on this Mideast peninsula

A

the Arabian Peninsula

213
Q

$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| In the mid 1960s, France began building a space center near Kouru in this, its South American territory

A

French Guiana

214
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This Yugoslavian republic covers part of and shares its name with Alexander the Great’s ancient home

A

Macedonia

215
Q

$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Most of the 60 to 70 people who live on this South Pacific island are descendants of the mutineers

A

Pitcairn Island

216
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| If you’re thinking of the 2nd largest city in Colorado, this one should spring to mind

A

Colorado Springs

217
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| A province of Indonesia & a former territory of Australia share this, the world’s 2nd largest island

A

New Guinea

218
Q

$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| The Khyber Pass connects these 2 countries

A

Pakistan and Afghanistan

219
Q

$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Seeing residents huddled around campfires on the shore, Magellan named the region this, meaning “Land of fire”

A

Tierra del Fuego

220
Q

$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 1 of the 2 gulfs which border the Sinai Peninsula

A

the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba

221
Q

$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| From Cree words “win nipee” meaning muddy water, it’s the capital of Manitoba

A

Winnipeg

222
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s bordered by the Bristol Channel, Cardigan Bay, the Irish Sea, & England

A

Wales

223
Q

$900 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Besides Spanish, 3 of 4 other official languages of South American countries

A

Portugues, English, French, and Dutch

224
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| This desert is home to Africa’s Bushmen

A

the Kalahari

225
Q

$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| You’d find the cities of Kotte ‘n’ Kandy on this “Serendipitous” island

A

Sri Lanka

226
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Located in Alaska, it’s North America’s highest peak

A

Mt. McKinley

227
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s across the Danube from Pest

A

Buda

228
Q

$600 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| New Zealand, Midway & Hawaii are all a part of this “many islands” group

A

Polynesia

229
Q

$800 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of the 3 countries that make up the Benelux Economic Union

A

(2 of) Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg

230
Q

$1000 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Abu Dhabi & Dubai are 2 of the 7 states that make up this Middle Eastern federation

A

the United Arab Emirates

231
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Honolulu is on this Hawaiian island

A

Oahu

232
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of 4 countries bordering Greece

A

(2 of) Yugoslavia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Albania

233
Q

$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Formerly Formosa

A

Taiwan

234
Q

$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 8th most populous country in the world, this “Bengal Nation” was once East Pakistan

A

Bangladesh

235
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| First colony since 1776 to break from Britain without consent, it is now Zimbabwe

A

Rhodesia

236
Q

$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| About 1/3 of Africa’s Pygmy population lives in what was once Belgian Congo

A

Zaire

237
Q

$100 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Christmas, Easter, or Bermuda, for example

A

islands

238
Q

$200 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Europe’s only wild monkeys live on this “rock”

A

(rock of) Gibraltar

239
Q

$300 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| 1/3 the size of U.S., this royal kingdom has no rivers or lakes but lots of oil

A

Saudi Arabia

240
Q

$400 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Largest country entirely in Europe

A

France

241
Q

$500 ||| Category: GEOGRAPHY ||| Clocks in Lima, Peru, read the same as in this U.S. time zone

A

Eastern

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