Geography and Capitals Flashcards
Value – Category – Clue
Answer
200 – EUROPEAN CAPITALS – Among its numerous city squares are Ledise, known for its cafes, & Rembrandt, known for its cabarets
Amsterdam
400 – EUROPEAN CAPITALS – In Russian this Lithuanian capital is called Vilna
Vilnius
600 – EUROPEAN CAPITALS – This city’s best-known thoroughfare is Trakt Krolewski, or Royal Way
Warsaw
800 – EUROPEAN CAPITALS – This capital lies on the Attica Plain surrounded by mountains including Parnes & Hymettus
Athens
1000 – EUROPEAN CAPITALS – In the 15th century, Henry the Navigator founded St. Mary’s Chapel in Belem, now a part of this European capital
Lisbon
400 – CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS – In the mid-1880s, it was the capital of the Crown colony of Vancouver Island
Victoria
800 – CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS – It’s the only provincial capital that lies on the shore of one of the Great Lakes
Toronto
1200 – CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS – Lying about 175 miles north of Calgary, it’s known as the “Gateway to the North”
Edmonton
4000 – CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS – This capital’s harbor is spanned by the Angus L. MacDonald & A. Murray MacKay suspension bridges
Halifax
2000 – CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS – It’s the provincial capital closest to Europe
St. John’s
400 – GEOGRAPHY – Buffalo & Cleveland are major ports on this Great Lake
Erie
800 – GEOGRAPHY – This Atlantic “sea” is named for the seaweed that can be seen there
the Sargasso Sea
3000 – GEOGRAPHY – One of the 2 South American countries trying to claim Graham Land, part of the British Antarctic territory
Argentina (or Chile)
1600 – GEOGRAPHY – In 1951 Portugal allowed NATO to establish an airbase on the island of Terceira in this archipelago
Azores
2000 – GEOGRAPHY – It’s the capital & chief seaport of Trinidad & Tobago
Port-of-Spain
400 – AFRICAN CAPITALS – This capital was founded by North American settlers in 1822
Monrovia
1500 – AFRICAN CAPITALS – In 1993 18 U.S. soldiers were killed in a fierce battle in this capital
Mogadishu
1200 – AFRICAN CAPITALS – This picturesque Moorish city lies about 60 miles northeast of Casablanca
Rabat
1600 – AFRICAN CAPITALS – Tourist attractions in this city near Africa’s northern tip include the ruins of Carthage & other Punic towns
Tunis
2000 – AFRICAN CAPITALS – Muhammad Ali’s “Rumble in the Jungle” with George Foreman was fought in this city, then the capital of Zaire
Kinshasa
200 – GEOGRAPHY “B” – The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge links this borough & Staten Island
Brooklyn
400 – GEOGRAPHY “B” – This Missouri city is “the live music show capital of the world”
Branson
600 – GEOGRAPHY “B” – Zugspitze is the highest point in this mountain range
the Bavarian Alps
800 – GEOGRAPHY “B” – The Rhodope Mountains & the city of Sofia are in this country
Bulgaria
1000 – GEOGRAPHY “B” – This sea off the coast of North America is named for Rear Admiral Francis
the Beaufort Sea
0 – GEOGRAPHY IN LITERATURE – Leo Tolstoy’s story about Hadji Murat, “who slew the Russian swine”, opens in this present-day Russian republic
Chechnya
400 – HUMANITARIAN LADIES – Throughout the 1930s, she taught geography at St. Mary’s High School in Eastern India
Mother Theresa
400 – small state capitals – This capital was once known as Frank’s Ford after Stephen Ford who was killed by Indians nearby in 1780
Frankfort
800 – small state capitals – The Johnson Victrola Museum in this Delaware capital tells the history of the Victor Talking Machine Company
Dover
1200 – small state capitals – Named for a French city, this smallest state capital commands the main pass through the Green Mountains
Montpelier (Vermont)
4000 – small state capitals – This capital lies about halfway between the North Dakota & Nebraska borders
Pierre (South Dakota)
2000 – small state capitals – The Missouri River lies about 10 miles to the east of this capital, the continental divide about 10 miles west
Helena (Montana)
200 – STATE CAPITALS – This Nevada capital was founded by Abraham Curry, who named it for a famous frontier scout
Carson City
400 – STATE CAPITALS – More than half of all U.S. coins are made at the mint in this “Mile High City”
Denver
600 – STATE CAPITALS – This state capital was founded by John Sutter, Jr. a year after gold was discovered on his father’s sawmill
Sacramento
1000 – STATE CAPITALS – The 20-foot tall statue that stands in this capital’s City Hall Plaza was a gift from the citizens of Genoa, Italy
Columbus (Ohio)
1000 – STATE CAPITALS – Peter Stuyvesant gave it the name Beverwyck in 1652; 12 years later it was given its present name
Albany (New York)
0 – WESTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY – The 2nd-smallest independent country in area in the Western Hemisphere; in the ’80s it was invaded by the 2nd largest
Grenada
200 – U.S. GEOGRAPHY – Louisiana’s lowest point is 8 feet below sea level in this city
New Orleans
400 – U.S. GEOGRAPHY – The Wrigley family owns much of this resort island 22 miles off the coast of Los Angeles
Catalina
600 – U.S. GEOGRAPHY – This island, a NYC Borough, is separated from New Jersey by 2 narrow channels: the Kill Van Kull and the Arthur Kill
Staten Island
1115.700546 – STATE CAPITALS – This Nevada capital was founded by Abraham Curry, who named it for a famous frontier scout
Carson City
1116.670788 – STATE CAPITALS – More than half of all U.S. coins are made at the mint in this “Mile High City”
Denver
1117.363818 – STATE CAPITALS – This state capital was founded by John Sutter, Jr. a year after gold was discovered on his father’s sawmill
Sacramento
1118.056848 – STATE CAPITALS – The 20-foot tall statue that stands in this capital’s City Hall Plaza was a gift from the citizens of Genoa, Italy
Columbus (Ohio)
1118.33406 – STATE CAPITALS – Peter Stuyvesant gave it the name Beverwyck in 1652; 12 years later it was given its present name
Albany (New York)
1120.066635 – WESTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY – The 2nd-smallest independent country in area in the Western Hemisphere; in the ’80s it was invaded by the 2nd largest
Grenada
1126.511814 – U.S. GEOGRAPHY – Louisiana’s lowest point is 8 feet below sea level in this city
New Orleans
1127.135541 – U.S. GEOGRAPHY – The Wrigley family owns much of this resort island 22 miles off the coast of Los Angeles
Catalina
1127.482056 – U.S. GEOGRAPHY – This island, a NYC Borough, is separated from New Jersey by 2 narrow channels: the Kill Van Kull and the Arthur Kill
Staten Island
1023.943367 – EUROPEAN CAPITALS – Among its numerous city squares are Ledise, known for its cafes, & Rembrandt, known for its cabarets
Amsterdam
1024.844306 – EUROPEAN CAPITALS – In Russian this Lithuanian capital is called Vilna
Vilnius
1025.537336 – EUROPEAN CAPITALS – This city’s best-known thoroughfare is Trakt Krolewski, or Royal Way
Warsaw
1026.022457 – EUROPEAN CAPITALS – This capital lies on the Attica Plain surrounded by mountains including Parnes & Hymettus
Athens
1026.368972 – EUROPEAN CAPITALS – In the 15th century, Henry the Navigator founded St. Mary’s Chapel in Belem, now a part of this European capital
Lisbon
1130.115571 – EUROPEAN CAPITALS – Among its numerous city squares are Ledise, known for its cafes, & Rembrandt, known for its cabarets
Amsterdam
1131.01651 – EUROPEAN CAPITALS – In Russian this Lithuanian capital is called Vilna
Vilnius
1131.70954 – EUROPEAN CAPITALS – This city’s best-known thoroughfare is Trakt Krolewski, or Royal Way
Warsaw
1132.194661 – EUROPEAN CAPITALS – This capital lies on the Attica Plain surrounded by mountains including Parnes & Hymettus
Athens
1132.541176 – EUROPEAN CAPITALS – In the 15th century, Henry the Navigator founded St. Mary’s Chapel in Belem, now a part of this European capital
Lisbon
1160.331681 – CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS – In the mid-1880s, it was the capital of the Crown colony of Vancouver Island
Victoria
1160.816802 – CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS – It’s the only provincial capital that lies on the shore of one of the Great Lakes
Toronto
1161.648438 – CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS – Lying about 175 miles north of Calgary, it’s known as the “Gateway to the North”
Edmonton
1161.856347 – CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS – This capital’s harbor is spanned by the Angus L. MacDonald & A. Murray MacKay suspension bridges
Halifax
1162.064256 – CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS – It’s the provincial capital closest to Europe
St. John’s
1188.538004 – GEOGRAPHY – Buffalo & Cleveland are major ports on this Great Lake
Erie
