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World Capitals Flashcards

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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Built about 50 years ago, it’s the only world capital to start with the letter “I”

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Islamabad

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This African capital’s environs include Gezira & Roda, 2 islands in the Nile

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Cairo

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1857 this city was chosen to be the capital of what was then the United Provinces of Canada

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Ottawa

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Montparnasse is one of this capital city’s Left Bank districts

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Paris

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Ginza is this Asian capital’s shopping & entertainment center

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Tokyo

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This port city became the capital of Jamaica in 1872, succeeding Port Royal

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Kingston

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of Israel is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world

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Jerusalem

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Its name ends in the same 3 letters as its country, Iran

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Tehran

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It makes sense that this is the sea closest to Dublin

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the Irish Sea

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of the Dominican Republic was founded by Columbus’ brother Bartolome

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Santo Domingo

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1949 it became the seat of the Chinese nationalist government

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Taipei

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Sphinx stands less than 10 miles from the center of this capital

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Cairo

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Philippine capital’s intramuros, or walled city, was built on the design of a medieval castle

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Manila

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Colombian capital sits over 8,000 feet up in the Andes

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Bogotá

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$2600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Scandinavian capital founded around 1050 lies at the head of a fjord

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Oslo

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Alpine city is the capital of a canton as well as the capital of a country, Switzerland

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Bern

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s located about 30 miles south of the DMZ

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Seoul

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Until 1918 & the collapse of the dynasty, it was home base for the Hapsburgs

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Vienna

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s the largest English-speaking city in the Caribbean, mon

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Kingston (Jamaica)

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This South American capital’s original longer name translated to “Saint Mary of the Fair Winds”

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Buenos Aires

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$7200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| On a plane trip to this capital, you’d likely land at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport

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Jakarta

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Biblioteca Nacional Venezuela is in this city

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Caracas

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Slovakian capital with “slav” in its name was occupied by the Slavs in the 8th century

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Bratislava

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| One of the 2 world capitals on the Rio de la Plata estuary

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Montevideo & Buenos Aires

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of Bangladesh is just west of the Meghna River

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Dhaka

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of Ghana is on the Gulf of Guinea

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Accra

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Australian War Memorial is in this city

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Canberra

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This European capital lies on a plain near the southern end of the Attic Peninsula

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Athens

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1823 Costa Rica moved its capital from Cartago to this city where coffee plantations were prospering

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San José

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital city is on a railway line between Fez & Casablanca

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Rabat

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| One way to see the sights on New Providence Island in the Bahamas is to get on a bus called a jitney in this port

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Nassau

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Because of its altitude, this Kenyan capital rarely exceeds 80 degrees

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Nairobi

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$3400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Around 1050 Harald Hardrade founded this city on a fjord

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Oslo

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A statue of Czech theologian Jan Hus stands in front of this capital’s Old Town Hall

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Prague

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Central American capital, whose name means “holy savior”, has a town center laid out in the form of a cross

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San Salvador

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of Belarus was on a great trade route, thus its Russian name, meaning “exchange”

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Minsk

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Haneda Airport serves this Asian capital

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Tokyo

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This new South American capital was dedicated on April 21, 1960

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Brasilia

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Major projects to reclaim land from the sea have thrived here since the 1850s, before it was N.Z.’s capital

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Wellington

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In the “Spring” of 1968, students in this capital were climbing on Soviet tanks & yelling, “USSR go home!”

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Prague

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Minsk is the capital of this former Soviet republic

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Belarus

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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital city of 113,000 is the closest national capital to the Arctic Circle

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Reykjavík

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Budapest is the capital of Hungary; this is the capital of Romania

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Bucharest

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The capital of India is not pronounced Cal-cut-ah or Cal-eh-cut, but this way

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New Delhi

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This world capital is on the island of Java

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Jakarta

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$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Laid out in 1874, the botanical gardens in this capital have an observatory with a statue of Tycho Brahe

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Copenhagen

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This city on the Malay Peninsula is the capital of Malaysia

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Kuala Lumpur

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Proverbially speaking, “all roads lead to” this city

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Rome

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Its name is Hebrew for “City of Peace”

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Jerusalem

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The first written mention of this capital’s name was in a 1459 document of Vlad the Impaler

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Bucharest

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$1400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A castle in this world capital was once the home of the kings of Bohemia

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Prague

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this judicial capital of South Africa means “Fountain of Flowers”

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Bloemfontein

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Brandenburg Gate is a famous symbol of this city

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Berlin

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$2600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s the world capital named for our fifth U.S. president

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Monrovia

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| When the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975, it forced most of this capital’s people to evacuate

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Phnom Penh

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Ernest Hemingway’s Finca Vigia home on the outskirts of this city has since been turned into a museum

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Havana

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Once a center of Jewish learning, this city was known as “The Jerusalem of Lithuania”

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Vilnius

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT ||| Dulles

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Washington, D.C.

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT ||| Orly

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Paris

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT ||| Templehof

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Berlin

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT ||| Jose Marti

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Havana

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS BY AIRPORT ||| Schiphol Airport

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Amsterdam

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A Caribbean nation: Santo Domingo

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Dominican Republic

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A European republic: Sofia

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Bulgaria

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A Himalayan kingdom: Thimphu

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Bhutan

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Bordering the Caspian Sea: Baku

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Azerbaijan

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A relatively new country: Dili

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East Timor

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| No, Aretha Franklin is not the queen of this Asian city made a capital in 1394

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Seoul

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Frankly, my dear, this Syrian capital is only about 50 miles from Beirut

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Damascus

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$4000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this South American city translates to “fair winds”

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Buenos Aires

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Let’s talk turkey: since 1927, this city’s province has grown from a pop. of about 400,000 to more than 4 mil.

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Ankara

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Check our Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki raft in this city

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Oslo

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Juan Peron died in this city in 1974

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Buenos Aires

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It joined the Swiss Confederation in 1353

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Bern

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this Malaysian capital means “muddy confluence”

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Kuala Lumpur

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Belize City, a port, was Belize’s capital until a 1961 hurricane; then the capital moved to this inland city

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Belmopan

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s home to King Rama IX Royal Park

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Bangkok

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1970 this capital’s Place de L’Etoile was renamed Place Charles de Gaulle

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Paris

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital’s Cathedral of the Archangel Michael is the burial site for many czars

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Moscow

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Sphinx lies just a few miles southwest of this capital

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Cairo

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Built on the site of the Aztecs’ capital, it later served as the capital of New Spain

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Mexico City

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The old part of this European capital has 3 main squares: Dam, Leidseplein & Rembrandtsplein

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Amsterdam

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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Started in 1988 for this city’s 75th anniversary, a Springtime Flower Festival in September shows off its Commonwealth Park

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Canberra, Australia

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s served by Keflavik airport

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Reykjavik

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It has a museum devoted to composer Zoltan Kodaly

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Budapest

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s home to the Holmenkollen ski jump

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Oslo

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$3400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Guyanese capital named for a Hanoverian monarch

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Georgetown

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s on the Suriname River

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Paramaribo

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The oldest part of this Northern European capital lies on Stadsholmen, or “City Island”

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Stockholm

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This South American capital’s full name means “Our Lady of the Assumption”

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Asunción

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Its Gaelic name, Baile Atha Cliath, means “town of the ford of the hurdles”

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Dublin

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this capital in the North Atlantic is Old Norse for “smokey bay”

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Reykjavik

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this Middle Eastern capital is Persian for “warm place”

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Tehran

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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A 1958 coup in this city ended a monarchy; 10 years of political turmoil followed, then 35 years of dictatorship

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Baghdad

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Charing Cross, a traffic square near the Thames, is usually regarded as this city’s center

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London

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Founded as a railway settlement in Kenya in the 1890s, its name comes from the Masai for “cold water”

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Nairobi

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Brittanica says its 4,082 streets range in size from 394-foot-wide avenue Foch to 8-foot-wide rue du Chat-qui-Peche

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Paris

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1861 it became the capital of the United Principalities of Walachia & Moldavia

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Bucharest

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1619 the Dutch East India Company took it over & began rebuilding it in the form of a Dutch city with many canals

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Jakarta

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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Pizarro founded this city whose present name is from a Quechua word meaning “talker”

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Lima, Peru

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of Venezuela has a population of about 3 million

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Caracas

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Calcutta was once the capital of India; this “New” city was made the capital in 1931

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New Delhi

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s the northernmost capital city in mainland North America

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Ottawa

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| One of the 2 national capital cities located on the island of Hispaniola

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Port-au-Prince (or Santo Domingo)

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| South Africa actually has 3 capitals: Bloemfontein, Cape Town & this one

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Pretoria

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| By population, it’s the largest capital in the Western Hemisphere

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Mexico City

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital is located on Luzon Island

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Manila

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The famous Gold Museum in this Colombian capital houses a large collection of pre-Columbian gold objects

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Bogota

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The world’s largest govt. building after the Pentagon is this city’s Parliament Palace, built by Ceausescu

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Bucharest

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It may ring a bell that this capital of Belize also starts with “Bel”

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Belmopan

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A 1972 earthquake destroyed most of the downtown area of this Nicaraguan capital

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Managua

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital is surrounded by, but is not part of, the Flemish region of Brabant

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Brussels

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Until 1924 this Mongolian capital was called Urga

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Ulan Bator

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$5400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| (<a>Christiane Amanpour of CNN delivers the clue.</a>) In 1992 I reported from the shores of this African capital when the U.S. military launched Operation: Restore Hope

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Mogadishu

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s the home of Belarusian State University

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Minsk

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Jamaican seaport was founded in the 1690s & became the capital in 1872

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Kingston

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| NATO is headquartered on Blvd. Leopold III in this European capital

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Brussels

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$5400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Emperor Menelik II established this city whose name means “new flower”

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Addis Ababa

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Bratislava, on the left bank of the Danube, is the capital of this country

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Slovakia

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Praca Marques de Pombal is at the top of the Avenida da Liberdade, a main street in this city

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Lisbon

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Population 7 million & lends its name to a type of bean

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Lima

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Population 17 million & built on the ruins of Montezuma’s capital

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Mexico City

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Population 11 million & home to the “Gate of Heavenly Peace”

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Beijing (Peking)

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$4000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Population 1.4 million & occupied by Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989

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Kabul

125
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Population 1.7 million & host of the world-famous Chopin piano competition

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Warsaw

126
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Proverbially, it’s where “all roads lead”

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to Rome

127
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s where the government of India meets

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New Delhi

128
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| After the Khmer Rouge came to power, this city’s population dropped from about 2 million to 20,000

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Phnom Penh

129
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Physicist Niels Bohr was born in this capital in 1885

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Copenhagen

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this South African capital means “fountain of flowers”

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Bloemfontein

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 2004 this Portuguese city is set to host the European football championship

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Lisbon

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Now Jamaica’s capital, it was founded in 1693 to replace Port Royal, which was destroyed by an earthquake

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Kingston

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A landmark of this Uruguayan capital is The Cerro, or hill, for which it’s named

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Montevideo

134
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Commissioned by Malcolm III’s wife, the Chapel of St. Margaret is the oldest surviving structure in this capital

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Edinburgh

135
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It ranks as the second-largest city of Morocco, after Casablanca

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Rabat

136
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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| 1 of the 3 national capitals in the Western Hemisphere that have “City” in their English names

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(1 of 3) Guatemala City, Mexico City or Panama City

137
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Hellenic Star is a leading newspaper in this European capital

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Athens

138
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| With seating for 50,000, the world’s largest arena for bullfighting is found in this Western Hemisphere capital

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Mexico City

139
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Depending on the movie, Godzilla crushes either New York or this Asian capital of 8 million

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Tokyo

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In Mandarin, this city’s name means “northern capital”

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Beijing

141
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A Pacino is an Oscar-winning actor; a paceno is a resident of this South American capital

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La Paz

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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Other than Washington, D.C., it’s the only world capital named for an American

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Monrovia, Liberia

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$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| King Juan Carlos’ main home, Zarzuela Palace, lies just outside this capital

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Madrid

144
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea; this is the capital of South Korea

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Seoul

145
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Augustus Caesar said he found it “A city of bricks and left it a city of marble”

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Rome

146
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s served by Saddam International Airport

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Baghdad

147
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Ecuadorian capital is located near the foot of the volcano Pichincha

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Quito

148
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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Lucio Costa designed this new capital in 1957 to hold 500,000 people; today it has more than 3 times that number

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Brasilia, Brazil

149
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Capitals with a capital “O” include Burkina Faso’s Ouagadougou & this capital of Canada

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Ottawa

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| We should all make a pact to meet one year from now in Warsaw, this country’s capital

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Poland

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Head to South America & you’ll discover its capital is Bogota

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Colombia

152
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| If “Baywatch” moved to the beach in Beirut it would be in this country’s capital

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Lebanon

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Nassau is the capital of this island group located between Florida & Haiti

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the Bahamas

154
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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Founded in 1840, this city is the world’s southernmost national capital

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Wellington, New Zealand

155
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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A large bay bearing its name borders this capital settled by the Spaniards in 1571

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Manila, Philippines (Manila Bay)

156
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital is linked to the North Sea via the Thames River

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London

157
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Indira Gandhi International Airport lies just outside this capital

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New Delhi

158
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| As its name implies, this Middle Eastern capital was once known for its damascened steel sword blades

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Damascus

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$1500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| 1 of 2 capitals on South America’s Rio de la Plata

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Buenos Aires/Montevideo

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$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In this capital on the Danube you can stroll the Nagy Korut (Great Boulevard) or the Kis Korut (Small Boulevard)

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Budapest

161
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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital’s name is from the Greek for “Three Towns”

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Tripoli, Libya

162
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Staszic Palace in this capital is the headquarters of the Polish Academy of Sciences

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Warsaw

163
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Opera lovers know the Royal Danish Opera is based in this city

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Copenhagen

164
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| James Joyce’s nephew sometimes conducts tours of the James Joyce Cultural Centre in this city

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Dublin

165
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Now Haiti’s capital, this city once known as L’Hopital was nearly destroyed by an earthquake in 1751

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Port-au-Prince

166
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| You’ll find this city’s Museum of Moroccan Arts inside a former royal palace

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Rabat

167
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Kremlin sits atop Borovitsky Hill in this capital city

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Moscow

168
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this capital of Belgium might remind you of “sprouts” that Mom tries to make you eat

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Brussels

169
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Toronto is the capital of Ontario, but this other Ontario city is the capital of Canada

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Ottawa

170
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Key West, Florida is only about 100 miles away from this foreign capital

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Havana, Cuba

171
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this capital of Argentina means “fair winds” or “good air”

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Buenos Aires

172
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| During the Middle Ages, this capital was mostly confined to Stadsholmen & Riddarholmen islands

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Stockholm

173
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in the center of this Bulgarian city celebrates its liberation from the Turks

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Sofia

174
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In this capital you can watch the sun turn the Tagus’ estuary into Mar de Palha, the “sea of straw”

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Lisbon

175
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Diplomats live in the Chanakyapuri section of this capital designed by Edwin Lutyens & Herbert Baker

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New Delhi

176
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| From 1936 to 1961 this Caribbean capital was known as Ciudad Trujillo in honor of dictator Rafael Trujillo

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Santo Domingo

177
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The bear is the heraldic symbol of this Swiss capital whose name means “bear”

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Bern

178
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale life ended in this capital August 4, 1875

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Copenhagen

179
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Batu Cave in this Malaysian capital is noted for its Hindu temple

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Kuala Lumpur

180
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This judicial capital of Bolivia is named for the country’s first president

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Sucre

181
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$1500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s situated on numerous islands including Helgeandsholmen, where the house of Parliament is located

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Stockholm, Sweden

182
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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This city was once known as Dong Kinh & to Europeans as Tonquin

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Hanoi, Vietnam

183
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| At 420 feet, Montmartre on the right bank is this city’s highest natural point

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Paris

184
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Haitian capital was founded in 1749 by the French, who named it L’Hopital

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Port-au-Prince

185
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital city’s port, Piraeus, lies on the Saronic Gulf

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Athens

186
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Among the parks in this Costa Rican capital are Morazan Park, Bolivar Park & John. F. Kennedy Park

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San Jose

187
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It was chosen in 1394 as the capital of the kingdom of Choson

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Seoul

188
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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| One of the 2 European capitals closest to the United States

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(1 of) Lisbon or Reykjavik

189
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of Cuba has a colonial museum & not surprisingly, a Museum of the Revolution

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Havana

190
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1561 King Philip II chose this city as the capital of Spain, perhaps because he was born in the area

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Madrid

191
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It “reigns” as Jamaica’s chief port

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Kingston

192
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Temple of the Reclining Buddha is the largest temple in this capital of Thailand

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Bangkok

193
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A revolving restaurant spins atop the hot water storage tanks on this northern capital’s Oskjuhlid Hill

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Reykjavik

194
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Among this capital’s 32 boroughs are Tower Hamlets, Hackney & Westminster

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London

195
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Szechenyi Chain Bridge is the oldest one linking the Danube’s banks in this capital

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Budapest

196
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A square museum & office building in this capital are named for Simon Bolivar, who was born there in 1783

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Caracas (Venezuela)

197
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In late winter northwesterly winds from the Gobi Desert shroud this city in yellow dust storms

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Beijing

198
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Muslim section of this north African capital is dominated by the Casbah, a 16th century Turkish fortress

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Algiers

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$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In English, Peking is also commonly referred to by this name

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Beijing

200
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| You’ll find Red Square at its center

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Moscow

201
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Great Mosque in this Syrian capital supposedly contains the head of John the Baptist

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Damascus

202
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital has 2 districts: Karkh on the west bank of the Tigris & Rusafah on the east

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Baghdad

203
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s located about 240 miles west of the Persian Gulf & 480 miles northeast of Mecca

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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

204
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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Spaniards named it for the Virgin of the Fair Winds for bringing them safely across the Atlantic

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Buenos Aires

205
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Costa Rican capital is named for the country’s patron Saint Joseph

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San Jose

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s home to the Glinka Music Museum & the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall

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Moscow

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Though only 90 miles from the equator, this Kenyan capital has a moderate climate

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Nairobi

208
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Saudi Arabian capital has long been visited by Muslims on their way to Mecca

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Riyadh

209
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Named for a British monarch, it’s the capital of Guyana

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Georgetown

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Once the capital of the Spanish Netherlands, today it’s the capital of Belgium

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Brussels

211
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s the capital of Taiwan

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Taipei

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Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s home to the Hofburg, the former imperial palace of the Hapsburgs

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Vienna

213
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| One of this city’s top attractions is the masuoleum of Kemal Ataturk

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Ankara

214
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s the city where the Althing, the world’s oldest parliament, is located

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Reykjavik, Iceland

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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Many homes in this city are heated by near-boiling water pumped in from hot springs at Nesjavellir

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Reykjavik, Iceland

216
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| St. Margaret’s Chapel, the oldest surviving building in this Scottish city, may date back to the 11th century

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Edinburgh

217
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This legislative capital is nicknamed the “Mother City of South Africa”

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Cape Town

218
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Biblioteca Nacional in this capital of Chile is one of South America’s largest libraries

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Santiago

219
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum in this city displays Franz Liszt’s gold baton & St. Stephen’s crown

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Budapest

220
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Ilya Chavchavadze Boulevard in this capital of Georgia is named for a Georgian poet

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Tbilisi

221
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s no longer forbidden to visit the Forbidden City in this capital of China

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Beijing

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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s the world’s northernmost national capital

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Reykjavik, Iceland

223
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$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This European city is alphabetically last among the world’s national capitals

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Zagreb, Croatia

224
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Wangfujing Street, this city’s most famous shopping district, is located east of Tiananmen Square

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Beijing

225
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of the Czech Republic is known as the “City of 100 Spires”

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Prague

226
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Afghan city was capital of the Mogul Empire from 1504 to 1526

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Kabul

227
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this largest African city is Arabic for “The Victorious”

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Cairo

228
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| 1 of 2 capitals located on South America’s Rio de la Plata estuary

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Buenos Aires & Montevideo

229
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Swiss capital is the headquarters for the International Copyright Union

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Bern

230
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this capital of Bosnia & Herzegovina is from the Turkish for “palace”

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Sarajevo

231
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The street that runs along this city’s western dike is known as Nieuwendijk, or New Dike

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Amsterdam

232
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| During the Roman & Byzantine Empires, this Jordanian capital was known as Philadelphia

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Amman

233
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s located on Liberia’s Bushrod Island & Cape Mesurado

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Monrovia

234
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Dutch city has more than 400 bridges linking its approximately 90 islands

A

Amsterdam

235
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This South American capital was founded in 1538 close to a Chibcha Indian center called Bacata

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Bogota, Colombia

236
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Islamic University of Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud & the Abdulaziz Military Academy are in this city

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Riyadh

237
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1768 the Gurkhas captured this city & made it their capital

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Kathmandu, Nepal

238
Q

$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Jose Marti Monument is a 450-foot tower in the Plaza de la Revolucion in this capital

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Havana, Cuba

239
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The viceroy of India lived in the Rashtrapati Bhavan in this city; now the president does

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New Delhi

240
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Kenyan capital is the starting point for many safaris

A

Nairobi

241
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Built for the Asian Games in 1962, the Hotel Indonesia was this city’s first high-rise

A

Jakarta

242
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1988 Bela Bartok’s remains were moved from the U.S. & reburied in this capital city

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Budapest, Hungary

243
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| From 1920 to 1939, this Lithuanian capital was controlled by Poland

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Vilnius

244
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| When visiting this Portuguese capital you can sample port wine at the Port Wine Institute

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Lisbon

245
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Ottawa, the capital of Canada, lies in the southeastern part of this province

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Ontario

246
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Church of St, Francis in this Peruvian capital is noted for its eerie catacombs

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Lima

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| You’ll find the Kyongbok Palace at the foot of Mount Pugak in this South Korean capital

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Seoul

248
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Aleje Ujazdowskie has been called the “Champs-Elysees” of this Polish capital

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Warsaw

249
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Danish city was named the 1996 Cultural Capital of Europe

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Copenhagen

250
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Port Moresby is the capital of Papua New Guinea & Port-Au-Prince is the capital of this island nation

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Haiti

251
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The once-numerous canals of this Thai city earned it the nickname “Venice of the West”

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Bangkok

252
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1962 Kampala succeeded Entebbe as the capital of this country

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Uganda

253
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It was formerly the capital of East Bengal and East Pakistan

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Dacca

254
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Old Capitol Building in this Cuban capital resembles ours in Washington, D.C.

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Havana

255
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A bullet train runs between this capital & Fukuoka

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Tokyo

256
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1886 Freud set up a private practice in this capital

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Vienna

257
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The statue of Leif Ericson in this country’s capital of Reykjavik was a gift from the U.S.

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Iceland

258
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1930 the name of its capital was changed from Angora to Ankara

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Turkey

259
Q

$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The capital of Albania is named for this other world capital

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Teheran, Iran

260
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Although in a predominantly Flemish region, most of this city’s inhabitants speak French

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Brussels

261
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This South American capital lies only 7 miles inland from the Caribbean Sea

A

Caracas, Venezuela

262
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In ancient times this Libyan capital was known as Oea

A

Tripoli

263
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It controls the main approaches thru the Khyber Pass to Pakistan & India

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Kabul

264
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The name of this capital is probably from Sinhalese for “port” or “ferry”

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Colombo

265
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It was founded by the Gauls as a fishing settlement in the Seine River in the 3rd century B.C.

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Paris

266
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Every 4 years this Polish capital hosts a Frederic Chopin international piano competition

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Warsaw

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Schonbrunn, the Hapsburgs’ summer palace, is a top tourist attraction just outside this capital

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Vienna

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Bahamian capital served as a supply base for Confederate blockade runners in the Civil War

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Nassau

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| A prominent landmark in this Australian capital is the 258-foot-tall Australian-American Memorial

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Canberra

270
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The University of San Marcos, Peru’s oldest school of higher learning, was founded here in 1551

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Lima

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| From 1936-1961, this capital of the Dominican Republic was called Ciudad Trujillo

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Santo Domingo

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This city was founded in 1434 to succeed Angkor Thom as capital of the Khmer Empire

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Phnom Penh

273
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Windhoek is the capital & largest city of this newly independent former mandate of South Africa

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Namibia

274
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| When in this European capital, don’t forget to see the Antonin Dvorak Museum and the tomb of St. Wenceslas

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Prague

275
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This city’s royal palace was built for Philip V on the site of an ancient Moorish fortress

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Madrid

276
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| From 1822 to 1960 this city served as Brazil’s capital

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Rio de Janeiro

277
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Belmopan takes its name from this Central American country & a Mayan Indian tribe

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Belize

278
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The National Museum in this Northern European capital was co-designed by E. Saarinen

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Helsinki

279
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Caribbean capital lies near the foothills of the Blue Mountains

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Kingston (Jamaica)

280
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Simon Bolivar is buried in the National Pantheon in this capital of Venezuela

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Caracas

281
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Almost 1/3 of New Zealand’s population lives within 100 miles of this city, the nation’s first capital

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Auckland

282
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$3400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Central American capital was destroyed by earthquakes in 1931 & 1972

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Managua, Nicaragua

283
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This suburb of Manila was the official capital of the Philippines from 1948-1976

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Quezon City

284
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This troubled capital lies 5,890 feet above sea level in the Hindu Kush mountains

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Kabul, Afghanistan

285
Q

$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| “The Rome of the North” is how famed sculptor Rodin described this Czech capital

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Prague

286
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Foreign embassies are located in Jiddah, some 500 miles from this country’s capital, Riyadh

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Saudi Arabia

287
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli” refers to the capitals of these two countries

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Mexico & Libya

288
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Founded in 1496 by Columbus’s brother, this Dominican capitol is the oldest European city in the new world

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Santo Domingo

289
Q

$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Construction of this planned Asian capital began in 1912; the government was moved there in 1931

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New Delhi, India

290
Q

$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Due to its many canals, this Thai capital has been called “the Venice of Asia”

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Bangkok

291
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Fabled city of Arabian Nights’ caliph Harun-al-Rashid where Israelis bombed nuclear reactor in 1981

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Baghdad

292
Q

$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Long noted for its universities, this Colombian capital is called “the Athens of South America”

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Bogotá

293
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Encyclopedia Americana implies this Swiss city is boring, but Birnbaum’s Guide mentions topless sunbathers

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Bern

294
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Excluding East Berlin, 2 of 3 capitals of East European Communist countries that begin with “B”

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(2 of) Bucharest, Budapest & Belgrade

295
Q

$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Half a city, it’s capital of East Germany

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East Berlin

296
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The only national capital to begin with a “Q” is this, Ecuador’s

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Quito

297
Q

$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| While Paris is on the Seine, this Belgian capital is on the Senne

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Brussels

298
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1979 Soviet troops began occupying this Afghan capital

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Kabul

299
Q

$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, was called this when the country was Rhodesia

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Salisbury

300
Q

$100 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Costa Rican capital people might know the way to

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San Jose

301
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s divided into the Kanda, Marunoucki, Asakusa & Ginza districts

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Tokyo

302
Q

$300 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Home to NATO & little green sprouts

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Brussels

303
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital’s street signs are in English, Arabic & Hebrew

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Jerusalem

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$500 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| If the other twin had founded it, it might have been called “Reme”

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Rome

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