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A click language, where “click sounds” serve as consonants, was largely passed down in the oral tradition, with its first written record appearing in the form of a 19th century hymn. Spoken by about 7 million people especially in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, what click language is one of the indigenous languages spoken in the country?
Xhosa
Many people consider the Hawaiian Islands to be the major islands of Oahu, Maui, Kauai, and the Big Island. But there is an atoll that is part of the archipelago but not the state. Name this unincorporated territory that is officially part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands and administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services as the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.
Midway Atoll
The U.S. Dollar is the world’s most widely used currency and is the official currency of the US and its territories, El Salvador, Zimbabwe, Timor-Leste/East Timor, The Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, and the Marshall Islands. What country’s government, midst of a financial crisis when its own currency began to collapse in 2000, made the U.S. Dollar its official currency after the crisis?
Ecuador
Goats are determined munchers - and they don’t let a little thing like a tree stand in their way. At least not in southwest Morocco, where short, gnarled Argan trees grow. The Argan tree produces a bitter fruit that looks a bit like an olive, and the goats climb up to 30 feet off the ground to comb the branches to eat them. One city on Morocco’s Atlantic coast, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2001, is a popular tourist destination and is connected to other cities such as Safi, Marrakech, and Agadir. Name this city, whose strong “Alizee” trade winds make the its crescent beach popular for surfing, windsurfing, and kitesurfing.
Essaouira
The Blue Banana is a corridor of urbanization spreading like a banana in Western and Central Europe, and was coined by a French geographer Roger Brunet, who developed a concept of a Western European “backbone” in 1989. The weirdly named region stretches from Liverpool, namesake of the famed football team in the Premier League, to what large Italian city, home to F.C. Internazionale of the Serie A?
Milan
The Faroe Islands were named for the Norse word for sheep, and you might want to pack a woolly coat to stay warm when you visit. Rugged and windswept, the 18-island archipelago is located approximately halfway between Iceland and Norway in the North Atlantic Ocean. This archipelago’s largest island is home to nearly half of the population and its name means “island of currents”. Name this island, containing the city of Torshavn, which also has the only airport in the Faroe Islands, Vagar Airport.
Streymoy
Love model trains? Head to Miniatur Wunderland, a model train fantasia that became the world’s largest train set with over 51,558 feet of track. Miniatur Wunderland has nine themed worlds, depicting parts of Germany, Austria, the US, Scandinavia, Switzerland, and Italy - there’s everything from snow-covered trains in Sweden to gondolas in Venice. To visit this delightful place, you will need to go to what Germany city, crossed by the Elbe River, the second-largest settlement in the country?
Hamburg
The aurochs was a large wild European ox that is likely the ancestor of most modern-day cattle. They stood six feet tall and has large curved horns, and one time, the aurochs’s range extended across Europe, the Middle East, and northern Africa, but by the 13th century, the population was limited to Eastern Europe, and the last one died in 1627. This extinct cow-like animal was added two times to the coat of arms of what country, which declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991? This country contains the unrecognized and disputed region of Transnistria, whose capital is Tiraspol.
Moldova
The San Blas Islands is an archipelago of more than 350 islands scattered across 100 square miles in the Caribbean Sea. Many of the islands are uninhabited specks of white sand and palm trees, but the archipelago is home to about 50,000 people. The San Blas Islands comprise an autonomous territory of what country, which is once partly controlled by the indigenous Guna/Kuna peoples, who were the first indigenous group in Latin America to gain political autonomy?
Panama
If you’re looking to experience a taste of the great American West, then you’ll want to saddle up and mosey on down to the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Founded in 1955, the museum has welcomed more than 10 million visitors to browse a vast collection of more than 28,000 works of Western art, sculptures, and artifacts. To visit this museum, you will have to journey to what capital city of a US state, known for its cowboy culture and capitol complex?
Oklahoma City
Located at the northwestern edge of the Upper Peninsula, Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park includes a long stretch of lakefront on Lake Superior, as well as old-growth woods and waterfalls along the Presque Isle River. The Upper Peninsula contains the stunning Lake of the Clouds, a fishing destination, and is in what US state, nicknamed the “Great Lake State”, whose largest city is a port on one of the four major straits that connect the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway?
Michigan
There are over 5,000 public airports in the U.S., but the one that claims the highest-altitude title is Leadville-Lake County Airport in Colorado. Located in the Rocky Mountains, the airport sits at an elevation of 9,934 feet, And its lofty status is put to good use: Leadville Airport is an important base for high-altitude aircraft performance testing for both military and commercial purposes. At the opposite end of the spectrum, Furnace Creek Airport is the lowest in the country in what Californian valley, in the Mojave Desert, also bordering the Great Basin Desert?
Death Valley
New Britain and New Ireland are part of the Bismarck Archipelago, found in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. New Britain is the largest island of the archipelago, at about 370 miles long and 50 miles wide at its widest point, and was named by English explorer William Dampier. These islands, who both have been German protectorates, are located in what country that achieved independence from Australia after 70 years of rule? This country has a greater density of languages than any other nation on earth, apart from Vanuatu.
Papua New Guinea
The Beagle Channel is located at the very southern tip of South America, in the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, with the western part of the channel being in Chile and the eastern section forming part of the Chile-Argentina border. The channel wasn’t named after the breed of man’s best friend (at least not directly), but it was instead named for the HMS Beagle, the ship in which what person traveled, known for his theory of natural selection that he introduced to the world?
Charles Darwin
We have President Franklin Roosevelt to thank for the presidential library system. Roosevelt believed that presidential papers were an important part of history, and should be systematically preserved and accessible to the public. His successor Harry Truman agreed, and after both men had created libraries for their papers, Congress passed the Presidential Libraries Act in 1955 to make sure the practice continued. The state with the most presidential libraries contains the Johnson Library, The Bush Library, and the George W. Bush Library. Name this state.
Texas
