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“Land of Many Waters” in South America

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What is Guyana?

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Capital of Brazil’s state of Pernambuco, “reef” in Portuguese

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Recife

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Longest river entirely within Spain

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What is the Ebro River?

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Peninsula almost entirely surrounded by Black Sea and Sea of Azov, formerly known as the Tauric Peninsula

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What is Crimea?

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Western French peninsula that jutts out into the Atlantic Ocean

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What is Brittany?

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Island nation in the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean Sea

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What is Cyprus?

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Island of Cyprus peninsula that stretches towards Turkey

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What is the Karpaz peninsula?

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Peninsula that borders Germany, separates North and Baltic seas

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What is Jutland?

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Southernmost state in Mexico

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What is Chiapas?

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Largest Mediterranean island

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What is Sicily?

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Second largest Mediterranean island

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What is Sardinia?

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Bay in western Japan at the South central end of the main island, Honshu

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What is Osaka bay?

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World’s largest inland body of water

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What is the Caspian sea?

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Body of water bounded by Kazakhstan (NE), Russia (NW), Azerbaijan (SW), Iran (S), and Turkmenistan (SE)

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What is the Caspian sea?

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Largest freshwater lake by volume, world’s deepest lake, world’s oldest lake

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What is lake Baikal?

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This country’s extra long staple cotton generally fetches a premium

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What is Egypt?

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Highest mountain in New Zealand

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What is Mount Cook?

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This fourth-largest Vietnamese city is located in the Mekong Delta region is known for its floating markets and picturesque rural canals

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What is Can Tho?

19
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Northernmost island in the Mediterranean

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What is Krk Island?

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Sea separating the Italian and Balkan peninsulas

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What is the Adriatic Sea?

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Country occupying a peninsula jutting 100 miles north into the Persian gulf

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What is Qatar?

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Capital of Qatar

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What is Doha?

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In the beginning of what war was Liberia the only independent nation in West Africa?

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What is WWI?

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Capital of Tanzania

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What is Dodoma?

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African country home to the continent’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro

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What is Tanzania?

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Africa’s highest mountain

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What is Kilimanjaro?

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Most populous country entirely south of the equator

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What is Tanzania?

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Most populous country at least partly below the equator?

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What is Indonesia?

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Zanzibar’s two main islands

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What are Unguja and Pemba?

30
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Fifth-most-populous city of Iran and capital of its Fars Province

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What is Shiraz?

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This River received National Wild and Scenic River designation in 1990, it originates in north-central New Mexico and empties into the Rio Grande in Texas

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What is the Pecos?

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Founder of New Westminster in 1858, which served as the capital of British Columbia until 1866

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Who is Richard Moody?

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One of the world’s largest waterfalls on the Zambia and Zimbabwe border, on the Zambezi River

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What is Victoria Falls?

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Location and name of Europe’s tallest observation wheel

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What is the Millennium Wheel in Lambeth, London? (Or London Eye)

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Oldest bridge in Paris and the river it’s on, its name is deceiving

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What is Pont Neuf (New Bridge) on the Seine?

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Capital of Saint Lucia

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What is Castries?

37
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Because it switched so often between British and French Control, this Caribbean Island was known as the “Helen of the West”

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What is Saint Lucia?

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City home to the oldest university in the western world, nicknamed The Red, The Fat, and The Learn’d

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What is Bologna, Italy?

39
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The three waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls

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What are the America, Bridal Veil, and Horseshoe falls?

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The three waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls

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What are the America, Bridal Veil, and Horseshoe falls?

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