World Geography Flashcards

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Persian Gulf is an arm of the Arabian Sea, which is part of this ocean

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Indian Ocean

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Although British Columbia is Canada’s only province on the Pacific, this territory is farther west

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Yukon

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Much of this range that begins in the Arctic & divides Asia & Europe is less than 1,000 meters in height

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the Urals

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$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Marseille, this country’s main seaport, is on its Mediterranean coast

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France

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This body of water borders the northern coast of Wales

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the Irish Sea

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The origins of Bangalore, a city in this country, go back to a mud fort erected in 1537

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India

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Botany Bay is on the southeast coast of this country & Geographe Bay is on the southwest coast

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Australia

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Bavaria, this country’s southernmost state, is also its largest in area

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Germany

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Belize & parts of Mexico & Guatemala are located on this peninsula

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Yucatan Peninsula

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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| These 3 nations each border the world’s largest & smallest oceans

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Russia, the United States & Canada

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The valley of this river is also called the North Italian Plain

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Po

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$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This sea is divided into the Yucatan, Cayman, Colombian, Venezuelan & Grenada basins

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Caribbean Sea

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In medieval times, this southern peninsula of Greece was known as Morea

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Peloponnesus

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Deep granite gorges of this river have led some to call it “the crease in the map of Spain”

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the Tagus

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Rhine Valley occupies one-third of this 62-square-mile country; the Alps cover the rest

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Liechtenstein

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$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Even without its ice, this continent would have the highest average altitude

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Antarctica

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| (<a>Jeff Probst delivers the clue from China.</a>) Zhelin is sometimes called a lake, but it’s really one of these French-sounding bodies of water

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a reservoir

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this Australian capital is from an aboriginal word for “meeting place”

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Canberra

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1995 this country marked 20 years of reunification & the U.S. restored full diplomatic ties

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Vietnam

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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| 3 of this federation’s constituent parts are Ash Shariqah, Al Fujayrah & Umm Al Qaywayn

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Unired Arab Emirates

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Jarama & Alagon are among the chief tributaries of this river that flows across Spain & Portugal

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Tagus

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The capitals of British Columbia, Hong Kong & the Seychelles share this name

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Victoria

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$300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Located on the Tropic of Capricorn, this, Brazil’s largest city, stays cool because of its altitude

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São Paulo

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This river flows through Toledo, Spain on its westerly trip to the sea

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Tagus

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| London is this country's tenth most populous metropolitan area; Hamilton & Edmonton are larger
Canada
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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The promotional slogan of this territory is "Where America's Day Begins"
Guam
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Paulistas live in a large city in this large South American country
Brazil
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| At the old observatory here you can stand with 1 foot in the eastern hemisphere & one in the western
Greenwich, England
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| At about 175 miles, it's Europe's westernmost landlocked country
Andorra
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Judas trees grow on the northern slopes of this country's Mount Carmel National Park & Nature Reserves
Israel
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Channel that's between the 2 land masses the Romans called "The Pillars of Hercules"
Strait of Gibraltar
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The island of Anglesey, which the Welsh call Ynys Mon, lies off the northwest coast of Wales in this sea
Irish Sea
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This French island in the Mediterranean was once ruled by the Bank of San Giorgio in Genoa
Corsica
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Hobart is the capital city of this island state of Australia
Tasmania
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Oman & Iran lie on opposite sides of this strait
Strait of Hormuz
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Israel's northernmost region; Jesus spent most of his life there
Galilee
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This continent's Polyus Nedostupnosti, the pole of inaccessibility, is Guinness' coldest place
Antarctica
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Russians call this sea between Asia & Europe Chernoye More
Black Sea
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The redundant-sounding Townsville, in this country's Queensland state, was named for Robert Towns
Australia
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This longest river on the Iberian Peninsula is also known as the Tajo
the Tagus
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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Other than Antarctica, the 2 continents without a landlocked country
Australia & North America
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Libya's Gulf of Sidra is the southernmost point of this huge sea
Mediterranean Sea
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Bhopal is the capital of this country's Madhya Pradesh state
India
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Like the city of Bern, the Bernese Alps are in this country
Switzerland
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| James Bay, in Ontario & Quebec, is the southern arm of this larger bay
Hudson Bay
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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country's coastline, on the Gulf of Aden & the Indian Ocean, is the longest on the African continent
Somalia
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$3000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This mountain range separates Spain & France
the Pyrenees
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| You can get to this northwesternmost African nation by crossing the Strait of Gibraltar
Morocco
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Administrative units in this country include Giza, Aswan & Suez
Egypt
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This part of the United Kingdom is called "Cymru" in its native language
Wales
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| You can use your head to figure out that Dunnet Head is this U.K. country's northernmost mainland port
Scotland
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Ancient Egyptians never lived in this city near the Nile delta; Moslems founded it in 969 A.D.
Cairo
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This "great" Canadian lake lies on the Arctic Circle
Great Bear Lake
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The only river in this Chilean desert to reach the sea is the Loa
Atacama
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$1700 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This sea provides most of Turkey's northern border
Black Sea
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Antipodes & Auckland Islands are part of this Southern Hemisphere nation
New Zealand
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Major tributaries of this beautiful blue river include the Inn of Austria & Germany & the Tisza of Hungary
Danube
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Each year over 50,000 pilgrims climb to the summit of this Japanese volcano
Mount Fuji
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Principality that calls itself Cymru, it juts westward from England into the Irish Sea
Wales
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country's Krishna & Godavari rivers lie on the Deccan plateau
India
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The largest state in Venezuela is named for this man, the country's liberator
Simon Bolivar
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Among its political divisions are Powys, Cardiff & Swansea
Wales
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Loch Ness & Loch Lochy form much of this country's Caledonian Canal
Scotland
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| At its widest north-south point, this large sea stretches 1,000 miles from Libya in Africa to Croatia in Europe
Mediterranean Sea
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In ancient times, this "mother" river of Russia was known as the Rha
Volga
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Avarua is the capital of these Pacific islands, which were named for an English captain
the Cook Islands
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Finland's northernmost point lies at its border with this country
Norway
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Venice is known as the "Queen Of" this sea
Adriatic
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1897 Swiss climber Mattias Zurbriggen became the first to scale this Argentinian peak
Mount Aconcagua
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Honduran capital is one of the few capitals in the world without a railroad
Tegucigalpa
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| After entering Holland, this river divides into 3 branches: the Waal, the Lek & the Ijssel
Rhine
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Lebanese capital is connected by highway to Baghdad & Damascus
Beirut
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| About 65% of the Philippines' total land area is divided between Luzon & this island
Mindanao
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This lake in Banff National Park was named for Queen Victoria's fourth daughter
Lake Louise
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Until this peak was scaled in 1953, Annapurna was the highest mountain climbed
Everest
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Large aboriginal populations live in this country's states of Queensland & New South Wales
Australia
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Easter Island lies about 2,300 miles from this country that governs it
Chile
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| A retirement city in Florida, or a retired capital of Russia
St. Petersburg
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Irrawaddy River flows about 1,300 miles before emptying into this bay
Bay of Bengal
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This longest river on Earth flows into the Mediterranean Sea
the Nile
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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In Australia, this city is second only to Sydney in population
Melbourne
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country's 2nd-highest peak is Mt. Tasman on South Island
New Zealand
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Bandar-E Khomeini, Iran & Manama, Bahrain are chief ports on this gulf
the Persian Gulf
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Asia's longest river, it's called "China's fortune" because of its fertile soil & economic importance
the Yangtze
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Rue de Rivoli is in Paris & the Gardens of Tivoli are in this Danish capital
Copenhagen
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country's Cancun resort lies on a barrier island once inhabited by Maya Indians
Mexico
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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Lusatian Mountains, in the western Sudeten range, form part of the border between these 2 countries
Germany & the Czech Republic
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| There used to be 2 countries with this name; now there's only 1 & its capital is Brazzaville
Congo
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This large island forms an autonomous region of Italy along with smaller islands, like Pantelleria
Sicily
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the easternmost of Canada's three prairie provinces
Manitoba
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$5000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| 763-foot Mount Royal stands in the center of this Canadian city
Montreal
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Bordered by Syria & Israel, this small country is only 135 miles long & 35 miles wide
Lebanon
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Peru's highest peaks, Huascaran & Yerupaja, lie in this range
Andes
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of this South American city's most popular beaches are Copacabana & Ipanema
Rio de Janeiro
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Gilbertese, a Micronesian language, is widely spoken in Kiribati, an island country in this ocean
Pacific
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Lagos, Ibadan & Ogbomosho are the largest cities of this West African nation
Nigeria
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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The gulf of Venezuela, bordering Venezuela & Colombia, is an inlet of this sea
the Caribbean
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Cinca River in northeastern Spain rises in these mountains
Pyrenees
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Country that's larger than U.S. but smaller than Canada
(People's Republic of) China
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Birnbaum's Travel Guide calls this volcano the terror & pride of Naples
Mount Vesuvius
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In Arabic this British territory on Spain's southern coast is called Gebel-al-Tarik (Hill of Tarik)
Gibraltar
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Foveaux Strait separates Stewart Island from this country's South Island
New Zealand
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$1500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| 1 of Denmark's 2 overseas regions
Faroe Islands & Greenland
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Have a family get-together in the Indian Ocean on this French island which was once known as Bourbon Island
Reunion
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This European country's highest point is Vaalserberg which rises 1,053 feet near Maastricht
The Netherlands
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Brocken is the highest peak in this German mountain range known for its canaries
Hartz Mountains
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| While most of Lake Geneva is in Switzerland, its southern shore lies in this country
France
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| From Burundi to the Mediterranean, this longest river flows through 35 degrees of latitude
the Nile
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This European island nation's largest lake is Thingvallavatn in the southwest
Iceland
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Several currents flow through this ocean, including the Brazil Current & the Labrador Current
Atlantic Ocean
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It's Africa's highest mount that shares its name with a country
Kenya
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| If you flew directly from the capital of Turkey to the capital of Ukraine, you'd have to cross this sea
the Black Sea
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This river is only navigable for about 80 miles, from Lisbon to Abrantes, Portugal
Tagus
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This "saintly" island of Napoleon's death was named for Constantine the Great's mother
St. Helena
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Productive farmland in this European country lies in the polders, land reclaimed from the sea
The Netherlands (Holland)
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Although it's Central America's smallest country in area, it's in the top 3 by population
El Salvador
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Turkish mountain was first climbed in modern times in 1829, long after Noah
Mount Ararat
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1991, after years of construction, the new city of Abuja replaced Lagos as this country's capital
Nigeria
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This small Newfoundland city is a major air traffic control center for north Atlantic flights
Gander
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Hokkaido is one of this country's main islands
Japan
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Cardigan Bay indents the coastline of this United Kingdom principality
Wales
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| At one point, this largest island in the world is only about 10 miles from Canada
Greenland
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$5200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this large port city on Western Europe's Schelde River literally means "at the wharf"
Antwerp
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| English towns include Stratford-on-Avon, Stoke-on-Trent & Henley-on- this river
Thames
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Indus River provides the western border of this desert also known as the Great Indian Desert
the Thar Desert
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| More than 80% of Algeria is covered by this desert
Sahara
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This small island nation in the North Atlantic has more than 100 volcanoes
Iceland
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The lowest point in Iran is 92 feet below sea level at the shore of this body of water on its northern border
Caspian Sea
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The 4-mile-wide Perekop Isthmus connects the Ukranian mainland with this peninsula
Crimean Peninsula
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the only Central American country that does not border the Caribbean
El Salvador
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Gwynedd & Clwyd are the northernmost counties in this country, part of the United Kingdom
Wales
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This narrow lake, part of Scotland's Caledonian Canal, is home to a famous monster
Loch Ness
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This capital city is situated in the Judean Hills
Jerusalem
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Capital of Malaysia, it was once a Chinese tin-mining camp
Kuala Lumpur
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Atlantic & Indian Oceans are separated by a line from Antarctica to Cape Agulhas on this continent
Africa
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$3300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of the 3 countries of the world that begin with the letter "J"
(2 of) Jordan, Jamaica, & Japan
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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| These 2 current South American countries gained their independence in the 20th century, one in the '60s and one in the '70s
Suriname and Guyana
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Bayern is the German name of this German state known for its beer
Bavaria
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Marne joins this river at Paris
Seine
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Of this country's hundreds of islands, Crete & Euboea are the 2 largest
Greece
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This island group also claimed by Argentina was named by the British for a treasurer of the British navy
Falkland (or Malvinas) Islands
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Enver Hoxha ruled this Balkan country from 1944 until his death in 1985
Albania
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The central part of this Australian capital is divided into 2 sections by Lake Burley Griffin
Canberra
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Russia's Lena River lies within this large, cold eastern region of the country
Siberia
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Under British rule, this small country that's surrounded by South Africa was known as Basutoland
Lesotho
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country's Chatham Islands are inhabited primarily by Maoris
New Zealand
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| You'll find San Marino, one of the world's smallest countries, in these mountains
Apennines
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Corfu is the most northerly of this country's 7 main Ionian islands
Greece
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Cristoforo Colombo Int'l Airport serves this city, Italy's busiest port
Genoa
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Magellan visited this archipelago in 1520 & gave it a Spanish name meaning "Land of Fire"
Tierra del Fuego
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| At 16,800 feet, Vinson Massif is the highest point on this continent
Antarctica
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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the only island whose territory makes up parts of 3 different independent nations
Borneo (Malaysia, Indonesia & Brunei)
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This continent's Guiana Highlands, which consist of open grasslands & tropical forests, are thinly populated
South America
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In the Middle Ages, these 2 seas were the center of trade between Hanseatic League ports
the Baltic Sea & the North Sea
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Panama Canal connects these 2 oceans
the Pacific and Atlantic
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Of Alberta, Saskatchewan, or Manitoba, the 1 Canadian Prairie Province that is not landlocked
Manitoba
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Victoria Peak is the highest point in this Central American country
Belize
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Melbourne is in the Australian state named for this woman, a friend of Viscount Melbourne
Queen Victoria
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Red Sea is considered an arm of this ocean
Indian Ocean
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| 75 times the size of Belgium, the former Belgian Congo is now known by this name
Zaire
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands, is located on this island
St. Thomas
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This sea between the Dardanelles & the Bosporus was once called Propontis
Sea of Marmara
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Gulf of Bothnia & the Gulf of Finland are both extensions of this sea
the Baltic
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country's Lake Balaton, just southwest of Budapest, is central Europe's largest lake
Hungary
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| A popular Caribbean destination is the paired island groups of Turks & this
Caicos
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| There’s a museum dedicated to this author of “The Red and the Black” in Grenoble, his birthplace
Stendhal
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Though Canada's Newfoundland province is named for the island, most of it is on this peninsula
the Labrador Peninsula
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Kerch Strait connects the Sea of Azov & this larger sea
Black Sea
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Ticino is this country's southernmost canton
Switzerland
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Nastapoka & Hopewell, islands of Canada's Northwest Territories, hug the eastern shore of this bay
Hudson Bay
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This capital city lies on the broad & shallow plain formed by the Moskva River & tributaries
Moscow
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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Heads of state Jiang Zemin & Jorge Sampaio were on hand when this territory changed hands in Dec. 1999
Macau
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Since 1980 most of this Indonesian island known for its giant monitor lizards has been a national park
Komodo
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| A national monument in Cork, the second city of this country, honors the Rebellion of 1798
Ireland
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| King Jigme Singye Wangchuck rules this Himalayan country between India & Tibet
Bhutan
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Israeli town of Eilat is located at the head of this gulf
Gulf of Aqaba
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The only Southeast Asian country with any part lying south of the Equator
Indonesia
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This European grand duchy has 2 distinct land regions: the Ardennes & the Bon Pays
Luxembourg
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The European part of Turkey lies entirely on this peninsula
Balkan Peninsula
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The lowest land point on Earth is the shore of this body of water
Dead Sea
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Part of this South American country's city of La Paz lies in a canyon carved by the La Paz River
Bolivia
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Casa Rosada, residence of this country's president, stands on the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires
Argentina
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This capital is located at the head of ship navigation on the Seine River
Paris
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Al-Jaza'ir isn't a TV network but the Arabic name for this capital city in north Africa
Algiers
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Baltic country's major cities include Kaunas, Klaipeda & Vilnius
Lithuania
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Papua New Guinea is just off this country's Cape York Peninsula
Australia
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Krk Island, the northernmost island in the Mediterranean, lies in this arm of the sea next to the Balkans
the Adriatic
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$2100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| La Guajira Peninsula is shared by Colombia & this neighbor to the east
Venezuela
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Dongfang, China, on Hainan Island, & northern Vietnam's Haiphong lie on this gulf
Gulf of Tonkin
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Named for an explorer (not the brothers, eh?), this longest river in Canada empties into the Beaufort Sea
the MacKenzie River
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This city became the capital of the Saud dynasty in the early 1800s
Riyadh
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$8000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| At the beginning of World War I, this was the only independent nation in West Africa
Liberia
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country is named after the town of Oporto
Portugal
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Uzbekistan shares the inland Aral Sea with this neighboring "Stan" to the north
Kazakhstan
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Arhus is the largest city on this Danish peninsula
Jutland
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Great Karroo & the Little Karroo are dry tablelands in this African country's Cape Mountains region
South Africa
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In Korean this South Korean capital's name means "capital"
Seoul
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The first recorded eruption of this Sicilian volcano occurred in about 1500 B.C.
Mount Etna
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$1300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| City in which you can see the following view: [Sugarloaf Mountain]
Rio de Janeiro
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Al Lisan Peninsula separates this saltiest body of water on Earth into northern & southern basins
the Dead Sea
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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The world's highest city of over 1 million people sits at about 12,000 feet in these mountains
the Andes
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| On 3/21/99 Bertrand Piccard & Brian Jones landed in this country as the first hot-air balloonists to circle the Earth
Egypt
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| An island called the Calf of Man lies southwest of the Isle of Man in this sea
Irish Sea
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In the 1850s, Empress Eugenie helped popularize Biarritz, a town on this bay, as a fashionable resort
Bay of Biscay
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This sea in the North Atlantic is delineated only by the plants that float on its surface
the Sargasso Sea
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| With a population of more than 190 million, Uttar Pradesh is this country's largest state
India
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Hispaniola is an island comprised of Haiti & this other nation
the Dominican Republic
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Before Europeans named Mt. Cook in this country, the Maori called it Aorangi, or "cloud piercer"
New Zealand
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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the northernmost mountain in the world over 20,000 feet in elevation
Mt. McKinley (Denali)
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The surface of this lake in Siberia is about 1,490 ft. above sea level, the bottom over 5,300 ft. below
Lake Baikal
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| A 7-mile tunnel through Mont Blanc connects Chamonix, France to this country
Italy
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The King George VI falls drop 1,600 feet in this small South American country
Guyana
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Puerto Varas is in Chile & Puerto Vallarta is in this country
Mexico
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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Yes, we have piranhas in the Parana, the river that flows into this Uruguayan-Argentine estuary
the Rio de la Plata
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Sherpas & gurkhas lurka in Pokhara in this country
Nepal
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Pest is this European country's most popular county
Hungary
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$1500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Cabinda, an area of this former Portuguese colony, is separated from the rest of it by Zaire
Angola
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| To evade French defenders, the Germans attacked France through this country in both World Wars
Belgium
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| A controversial war was fought by the U.S. in the '60s & '70s in this country once divided into north & south halves
Vietnam
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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| One story says this point was so named becuase it was a positive sign of a sea route from Europe to India
Cape of Good Hope
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Part of the Northwest Passage, the Davis Strait separates Canada's Baffin Island from this Danish one
Greenland
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Once Portugal's colony, this country is separated from Madagascar by a channel of the same name
Mozambique
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Chinese canal begins at Beijing & ends 1,100 miles later at the port of Hangzhou
the Grand Canal
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| You can enter this European city via the Puerta de Bisagra & its U.S. namesake via Exit 64 on the Ohio Turnpike
Toledo
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Khitans, who founded the Liao dynasty in 907, called this capital city Nanking
Peking (or Beijing)
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1943 this Mexican volcano grew from a small depression to 1,000 ft. in height
Paricutin
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| You must remember this is the most populous city in Morocco, but Rabat is the capital
Casablanca
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Kuwait's largest island, Bubiyan, lies in this gulf
Persian Gulf
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| South America's Cape Horn was named for the city of Hoorn in this country
Holland/The Netherlands
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Denmark Strait is located between Iceland & this Danish possession
Greenland
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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This former British colony, which gained independence in 1960, is the most populous country in Africa
Nigeria
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The world's largest deposit of sodium nitrate is found in the Atacama Desert in this country
Chile
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945 near Alamogordo in this state
New Mexico
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Though Bornholm is a Danish island, it's much closer to this Scandinavian country than to Denmark
Sweden
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Venezuelan river empties into the Atlantic Ocean near Trinidad
the Orinoco
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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The land closest to zero longitude, zero latitude & zero altitude, Cape Three Points is found on this continent
Africa
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the country where you'll find Cape Nordkyn, the northernmost point on the European mainland
Norway
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Lutzelburg is an old name for the capital of this grand duchy
Luxembourg
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The famous spa town of Baden-Baden lies in this "dark" wooded region of Germany
Black Forest
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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Of the 4 largest Asian countries in area, it's the only one that borders the other 3
China
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Continent with the most square miles of dry desert
Africa
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this waterfall on the Brazil-Argentina border comes from a Guarani word for "great water"
Iguazu Falls
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Algerian port's old city is dominated by the Casbah
Algiers
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Cape Agulhas near the Cape of Good Hope is this continent's southernmost point
Africa
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Colorado River provides much of the border between this country's Baja California Norte & Sonora
Mexico
246
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The westernmost of Canada's prairie provinces, it's bordered on the west by British Columbia
Alberta
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Hooghly, a tributary of this river, passes through Calcutta on its way to the Bay of Bengal
Ganges
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of Africa on the monitor.) Extending farther north than any other country in Africa, Tunisia is only about a hundred miles from this European island
Sicily
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Tatar Strait separates Sakhalin Island & Siberia in this country
Russia
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| With less than 10% of the world's population, this continent creates more than 1/3 of its manufactures
North America
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$1700 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Neman River, Lithuania's longest, begins in Belarus & empties into this sea
Baltic Sea
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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the only body of water with shores on the continents of Asia, Africa & Europe
Mediterranean Sea
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| A world famous orchid garden is located in the city of Medellin in this country
Colombia
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Lake Hula is not in Hawaii but just west of the Golan Heights in this country
Israel
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| More American Indians live in this country on South America's Pacific coast than any other
Peru
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Important mining centers in this range include Leadville, Colorado & Kimberley, British Columbia
Rocky Mountains
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Kangaroo Island is the 3rd largest offshore island of this country
Australia
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The highest airport in the world is Lhasa Airport in this country
TIbet
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the lowest, flattest & smallest continent
Australia
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Thar Desert occupies a part of Pakistan & much of this country's Haryana & Rajasthan states
India
261
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The city of Tangier lies at the western end of this strait
Strait of Gibraltar
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Less than 5,000 square miles in area, The Gambia is the smallest independent mainland country on this continent
Africa
263
$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Luzon Strait separates Taiwan from this country to the south
the Philippines
264
$1500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Norway's 2nd-largest city; it was once known as Bjorgvin, or "hill pasture"
Bergen
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Located in a disputed region, India's northernmost state is Jammu & this
Kashmir
266
$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Little Belt is a strait that separates the island of Fyn from this Danish peninsula
Jutland Peninsula
267
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Potala, the former palace of the Dalai Lama, is a landmark of this Tibetan city
Lhasa
268
$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The 2 northern extensions of the Red Sea are the Gulf of Aqaba & this gulf
Gulf of Suez
269
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Mekong River provides transportation for this landlocked Indochinese nation
Laos
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Lying on the east bank of the Nile, Tahrir Square is the center of this capital's downtown
Cairo
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This port, Japan's second largest city, is only 20 miles from Tokyo
Yokohama
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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1976 Manila replaced Quezon City as the official capital of this country
Philippines
273
$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Ionian Sea & the Tyrrhenian Sea are parts of this larger sea
the Mediterranean Sea
274
$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The southernmost glacier in Europe, the Calderone, is in this country's Apennine mountains
Italy
275
$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| 1 of the 2 Central American countries with only 1 sea coast
Belize & El Salvador
276
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This river is navigable from Basel, Switzerland to its mouth at the North Sea
the Rhine
277
$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Just north of Khartoum, Sudan, these 2 "colorful" rivers combine to form the Nile
the Blue Nile & the White Nile
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Canada is a federation of 2 territories & this many provinces
10
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Frederiction, the capital of this Canadian province, is named for a son of King George III
New Brunswick
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Denmark's highest point, Yding Skovhoj, rises only 568 feet on this peninsula
Jutland
281
$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Kamchatka Peninsula separates the Sea of Okhotsk from this sea named for a Dane
the Bering Sea
282
$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| A German valley renowned for its coal deposits is named for this tributary of the Rhine
Ruhr
283
$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It's the only mainland country in the Western Hemisphere that borders only one country
Canada
284
$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In ancient times this city in Campania was called Neapolis
Naples
285
$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This island is home to most of Indonesia's major citites, including Jakarta
Java
286
$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Once the seat of the Holy Roman Empire, it's now the capital of Austria
Vienna
287
$500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The ancient poets of India called this longest river of Pakistan "King River"
Indus
288
$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The base of this Sicilian volcano is about 100 miles in circumference
Mount Etna
289
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| At 7,339 feet, Mount Orohena on this island is the highest point in the Society Islands
Tahiti
290
$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The westernmost of Canada's prairie provinces, it produces most of the country's crude oil & natural gas
Alberta
291
$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Belgian capital constitutes 1 of the country's 3 administrative regions
Brussels
292
$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Much of Scotland's Caledonian Canal is formed by Loch Lochy & this other "monstrous" loch
Loch Ness
293
$500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The hot water heating of this northern European capital is drawn directly from underground springs
Reykjavik, Iceland
294
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Croat capital was formerly Yugoslavia's second largest city
Zagreb
295
$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In its native language, this heavily forested European country is known as Suomi
Finland
296
$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Nuuk is the oldest Danish settlement on this island; it's also the capital
Greenland
297
$500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This port city is West Germany's leading industrial center
Hamburg
298
$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Paraguay River divides Paraguay into 2 major regions: Occidental Paraguay & this
Oriental Paraguay
299
$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Kuril Islands separate the Sea of Okhotsk from this ocean
Pacific
300
$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Republic of China is also known by this name, which is that of its main island
Taiwan
301
$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The administrative capital of South Africa was the capital of the former province of Transvaal
Pretoria
302
$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Callao, the port of Lima, handles about 3/4 of this country's imports
Peru
303
$300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Natives of this largest island call it Kalaallit Nunaat
Greenland
304
$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Soc Trang & Can Tho are in the south of this Asian nation
Vietnam
305
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| A daily hydrofoil crosses the Rio de la Plata from Buenos Aires to Colonia in this country
Uruguay
306
$300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| City that stands on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec people
Mexico City
307
$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Nippon is the native name for this country
Japan
308
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This gulf between Sweden & Finland is the largest arm of the Baltic Sea
Gulf of Bothnia
309
$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Germany has Worms & this country that borders Germany has a district called Wormerveer
The Netherlands (Holland)
310
$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| If you're out in this European mountain range you may find the Inn Valley
the Alps
311
$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Argentina declared its independence from this country in 1816
Spain
312
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This pass through the Swiss Alps has a 10-mile motor vehicle tunnel, one of the world's largest
St. Gotthard Pass
313
$500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| If Italy's boot kicked backwards, it would hit this country whose capital is Tirane
Albania
314
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Blue & White Niles meet at this city where Gen. "Chinese" Gordon met death
Khartoum
315
$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| You can view the Jungfrau Peak from the main street of this town between the Brienz & Thun Lakes
Interlaken, Switzerland
316
$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Abingdon, Windsor, Gravesend & Southend-On-Sea are on this European river
Thames
317
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Located on the Horn of Africa, this country is that continent's easternmost extension
Somalia
318
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Asia's 2 smallest mainland nations are Qatar at 4,473 square miles & this country west of Syria at 4,015 square miles
Lebanon
319
$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| An autopiste, or superhighway, connects this Venezuelan capital with the port of La Guaira
Caracas
320
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In Ireland, Muckross Lake, Upper Lake & Lower Lake are collectively known as "The Lakes of" this
Killarney
321
$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country contains South America's highest & lowest points
Argentina
322
$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Africa's northernmost country, it was once site of ancient Carthaginian empire
Tunisia
323
$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This canal's official opening was on July 12,1920
the Panama Canal
324
$1600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This emirate NW of the United Arab Emirates is on a peninsula jutting 100 miles northward into the Persian Gulf
Qatar
325
$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Surtsey, a volcanic island of this country, was named for Surtur, a mythical god of fire
Iceland
326
$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Tha main part of Cairo lies on 2 islands & the East Bank of this river
the Nile
327
$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country's 26 states include Para, Pernambuco & Amazonas
Brazil
328
$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Cape Town in this country lies on Table Bay
South Africa
329
$1500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this smallest South American country can be spelled with or without an e
Suriname
330
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1879 the British improved the road through this, the most famous pass in the Safed Koh range
the Khyber Pass
331
$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This city, the Soviet Union's second largest, was founded at the mouth of the Neva River in 1703
Leningrad
332
$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Sea of Galilee is just a broad basin of this river
The River Jordan
333
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| A "great" pass & a "little" pass in the Alps are named for this saint
St. Bernard (the patron saint of mountain climbing)
334
$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country's highest peak, 7,828' high Mount Maglic, is located about 50 miles southeast of Sarajevo
Bosnia