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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

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Canada

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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The promotional slogan of this territory is “Where America’s Day Begins”

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Guam

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Paulistas live in a large city in this large South American country

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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

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Greenwich, England

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| At about 175 miles, it’s Europe’s westernmost landlocked country

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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

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Israel

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Channel that’s between the 2 land masses the Romans called “The Pillars of Hercules”

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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

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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

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Corsica

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Hobart is the capital city of this island state of Australia

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Tasmania

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Oman & Iran lie on opposite sides of this strait

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Strait of Hormuz

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Israel’s northernmost region; Jesus spent most of his life there

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Galilee

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$500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This continent’s Polyus Nedostupnosti, the pole of inaccessibility, is Guinness’ coldest place

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Antarctica

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Russians call this sea between Asia & Europe Chernoye More

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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

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Australia

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This longest river on the Iberian Peninsula is also known as the Tajo

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the Tagus

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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Other than Antarctica, the 2 continents without a landlocked country

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Australia & North America

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Libya’s Gulf of Sidra is the southernmost point of this huge sea

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Mediterranean Sea

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Bhopal is the capital of this country’s Madhya Pradesh state

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India

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Like the city of Bern, the Bernese Alps are in this country

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Switzerland

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| James Bay, in Ontario & Quebec, is the southern arm of this larger bay

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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

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Somalia

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$3000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This mountain range separates Spain & France

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the Pyrenees

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| You can get to this northwesternmost African nation by crossing the Strait of Gibraltar

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Morocco

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Administrative units in this country include Giza, Aswan & Suez

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Egypt

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This part of the United Kingdom is called “Cymru” in its native language

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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

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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.

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Cairo

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This “great” Canadian lake lies on the Arctic Circle

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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

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Atacama

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$1700 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This sea provides most of Turkey’s northern border

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Black Sea

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Antipodes & Auckland Islands are part of this Southern Hemisphere nation

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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

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Danube

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Each year over 50,000 pilgrims climb to the summit of this Japanese volcano

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Mount Fuji

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Principality that calls itself Cymru, it juts westward from England into the Irish Sea

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Wales

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country’s Krishna & Godavari rivers lie on the Deccan plateau

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India

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The largest state in Venezuela is named for this man, the country’s liberator

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Simon Bolivar

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Among its political divisions are Powys, Cardiff & Swansea

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Wales

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Loch Ness & Loch Lochy form much of this country’s Caledonian Canal

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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

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Mediterranean Sea

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In ancient times, this “mother” river of Russia was known as the Rha

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Volga

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$500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Avarua is the capital of these Pacific islands, which were named for an English captain

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the Cook Islands

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Finland’s northernmost point lies at its border with this country

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Norway

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Venice is known as the “Queen Of” this sea

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Adriatic

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1897 Swiss climber Mattias Zurbriggen became the first to scale this Argentinian peak

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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

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Tegucigalpa

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| After entering Holland, this river divides into 3 branches: the Waal, the Lek & the Ijssel

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Rhine

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Lebanese capital is connected by highway to Baghdad & Damascus

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Beirut

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| About 65% of the Philippines’ total land area is divided between Luzon & this island

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Mindanao

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This lake in Banff National Park was named for Queen Victoria’s fourth daughter

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Lake Louise

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Until this peak was scaled in 1953, Annapurna was the highest mountain climbed

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Everest

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Large aboriginal populations live in this country’s states of Queensland & New South Wales

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Australia

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Easter Island lies about 2,300 miles from this country that governs it

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Chile

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$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| A retirement city in Florida, or a retired capital of Russia

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St. Petersburg

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Irrawaddy River flows about 1,300 miles before emptying into this bay

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Bay of Bengal

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This longest river on Earth flows into the Mediterranean Sea

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the Nile

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In Australia, this city is second only to Sydney in population

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Melbourne

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country’s 2nd-highest peak is Mt. Tasman on South Island

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New Zealand

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Bandar-E Khomeini, Iran & Manama, Bahrain are chief ports on this gulf

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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

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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

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Copenhagen

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country’s Cancun resort lies on a barrier island once inhabited by Maya Indians

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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

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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

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Congo

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This large island forms an autonomous region of Italy along with smaller islands, like Pantelleria

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Sicily

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the easternmost of Canada’s three prairie provinces

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Manitoba

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$5000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| 763-foot Mount Royal stands in the center of this Canadian city

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Montreal

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Bordered by Syria & Israel, this small country is only 135 miles long & 35 miles wide

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Lebanon

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Peru’s highest peaks, Huascaran & Yerupaja, lie in this range

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Andes

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of this South American city’s most popular beaches are Copacabana & Ipanema

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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

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Pacific

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Lagos, Ibadan & Ogbomosho are the largest cities of this West African nation

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Nigeria

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The gulf of Venezuela, bordering Venezuela & Colombia, is an inlet of this sea

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the Caribbean

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$300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Cinca River in northeastern Spain rises in these mountains

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Pyrenees

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Country that’s larger than U.S. but smaller than Canada

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(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

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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)

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Gibraltar

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$300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Foveaux Strait separates Stewart Island from this country’s South Island

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New Zealand

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$1500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| 1 of Denmark’s 2 overseas regions

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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

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Reunion

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This European country’s highest point is Vaalserberg which rises 1,053 feet near Maastricht

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The Netherlands

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Brocken is the highest peak in this German mountain range known for its canaries

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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

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France

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| From Burundi to the Mediterranean, this longest river flows through 35 degrees of latitude

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the Nile

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This European island nation’s largest lake is Thingvallavatn in the southwest

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Iceland

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Several currents flow through this ocean, including the Brazil Current & the Labrador Current

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Atlantic Ocean

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s Africa’s highest mount that shares its name with a country

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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

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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

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Tagus

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This “saintly” island of Napoleon’s death was named for Constantine the Great’s mother

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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

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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

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El Salvador

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Turkish mountain was first climbed in modern times in 1829, long after Noah

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Mount Ararat

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118
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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

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Nigeria

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This small Newfoundland city is a major air traffic control center for north Atlantic flights

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Gander

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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Hokkaido is one of this country’s main islands

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Japan

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121
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Cardigan Bay indents the coastline of this United Kingdom principality

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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

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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”

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Antwerp

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| English towns include Stratford-on-Avon, Stoke-on-Trent & Henley-on- this river

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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

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the Thar Desert

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126
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| More than 80% of Algeria is covered by this desert

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Sahara

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127
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This small island nation in the North Atlantic has more than 100 volcanoes

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Iceland

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128
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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

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Caspian Sea

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129
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The 4-mile-wide Perekop Isthmus connects the Ukranian mainland with this peninsula

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Crimean Peninsula

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130
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the only Central American country that does not border the Caribbean

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El Salvador

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131
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Gwynedd & Clwyd are the northernmost counties in this country, part of the United Kingdom

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Wales

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$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This narrow lake, part of Scotland’s Caledonian Canal, is home to a famous monster

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Loch Ness

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133
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This capital city is situated in the Judean Hills

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Jerusalem

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134
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Capital of Malaysia, it was once a Chinese tin-mining camp

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Kuala Lumpur

135
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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

A

Africa

136
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$3300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of the 3 countries of the world that begin with the letter “J”

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(2 of) Jordan, Jamaica, & Japan

137
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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

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Suriname and Guyana

138
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Bayern is the German name of this German state known for its beer

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Bavaria

139
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Marne joins this river at Paris

A

Seine

140
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Of this country’s hundreds of islands, Crete & Euboea are the 2 largest

A

Greece

141
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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

A

Falkland (or Malvinas) Islands

142
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Enver Hoxha ruled this Balkan country from 1944 until his death in 1985

A

Albania

143
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The central part of this Australian capital is divided into 2 sections by Lake Burley Griffin

A

Canberra

144
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Russia’s Lena River lies within this large, cold eastern region of the country

A

Siberia

145
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Under British rule, this small country that’s surrounded by South Africa was known as Basutoland

A

Lesotho

146
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country’s Chatham Islands are inhabited primarily by Maoris

A

New Zealand

147
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| You’ll find San Marino, one of the world’s smallest countries, in these mountains

A

Apennines

148
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Corfu is the most northerly of this country’s 7 main Ionian islands

A

Greece

149
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Cristoforo Colombo Int’l Airport serves this city, Italy’s busiest port

A

Genoa

150
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Magellan visited this archipelago in 1520 & gave it a Spanish name meaning “Land of Fire”

A

Tierra del Fuego

151
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| At 16,800 feet, Vinson Massif is the highest point on this continent

A

Antarctica

152
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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the only island whose territory makes up parts of 3 different independent nations

A

Borneo (Malaysia, Indonesia & Brunei)

153
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This continent’s Guiana Highlands, which consist of open grasslands & tropical forests, are thinly populated

A

South America

154
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In the Middle Ages, these 2 seas were the center of trade between Hanseatic League ports

A

the Baltic Sea & the North Sea

155
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Panama Canal connects these 2 oceans

A

the Pacific and Atlantic

156
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Of Alberta, Saskatchewan, or Manitoba, the 1 Canadian Prairie Province that is not landlocked

A

Manitoba

157
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Victoria Peak is the highest point in this Central American country

A

Belize

158
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Melbourne is in the Australian state named for this woman, a friend of Viscount Melbourne

A

Queen Victoria

159
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Red Sea is considered an arm of this ocean

A

Indian Ocean

160
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| 75 times the size of Belgium, the former Belgian Congo is now known by this name

A

Zaire

161
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands, is located on this island

A

St. Thomas

162
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This sea between the Dardanelles & the Bosporus was once called Propontis

A

Sea of Marmara

163
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Gulf of Bothnia & the Gulf of Finland are both extensions of this sea

A

the Baltic

164
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country’s Lake Balaton, just southwest of Budapest, is central Europe’s largest lake

A

Hungary

165
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| A popular Caribbean destination is the paired island groups of Turks & this

A

Caicos

166
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| There’s a museum dedicated to this author of “The Red and the Black” in Grenoble, his birthplace

A

Stendhal

167
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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

A

the Labrador Peninsula

168
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Kerch Strait connects the Sea of Azov & this larger sea

A

Black Sea

169
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Ticino is this country’s southernmost canton

A

Switzerland

170
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Nastapoka & Hopewell, islands of Canada’s Northwest Territories, hug the eastern shore of this bay

A

Hudson Bay

171
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This capital city lies on the broad & shallow plain formed by the Moskva River & tributaries

A

Moscow

172
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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

A

Macau

173
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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

A

Komodo

174
Q

$1200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| A national monument in Cork, the second city of this country, honors the Rebellion of 1798

A

Ireland

175
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| King Jigme Singye Wangchuck rules this Himalayan country between India & Tibet

A

Bhutan

176
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Israeli town of Eilat is located at the head of this gulf

A

Gulf of Aqaba

177
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The only Southeast Asian country with any part lying south of the Equator

A

Indonesia

178
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This European grand duchy has 2 distinct land regions: the Ardennes & the Bon Pays

A

Luxembourg

179
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The European part of Turkey lies entirely on this peninsula

A

Balkan Peninsula

180
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The lowest land point on Earth is the shore of this body of water

A

Dead Sea

181
Q

$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

A

Bolivia

182
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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

A

Argentina

183
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This capital is located at the head of ship navigation on the Seine River

A

Paris

184
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Al-Jaza’ir isn’t a TV network but the Arabic name for this capital city in north Africa

A

Algiers

185
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Baltic country’s major cities include Kaunas, Klaipeda & Vilnius

A

Lithuania

186
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Papua New Guinea is just off this country’s Cape York Peninsula

A

Australia

187
Q

$1200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Krk Island, the northernmost island in the Mediterranean, lies in this arm of the sea next to the Balkans

A

the Adriatic

188
Q

$2100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| La Guajira Peninsula is shared by Colombia & this neighbor to the east

A

Venezuela

189
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Dongfang, China, on Hainan Island, & northern Vietnam’s Haiphong lie on this gulf

A

Gulf of Tonkin

190
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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

A

the MacKenzie River

191
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This city became the capital of the Saud dynasty in the early 1800s

A

Riyadh

192
Q

$8000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| At the beginning of World War I, this was the only independent nation in West Africa

A

Liberia

193
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country is named after the town of Oporto

A

Portugal

194
Q

$500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Uzbekistan shares the inland Aral Sea with this neighboring “Stan” to the north

A

Kazakhstan

195
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Arhus is the largest city on this Danish peninsula

A

Jutland

196
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Great Karroo & the Little Karroo are dry tablelands in this African country’s Cape Mountains region

A

South Africa

197
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In Korean this South Korean capital’s name means “capital”

A

Seoul

198
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The first recorded eruption of this Sicilian volcano occurred in about 1500 B.C.

A

Mount Etna

199
Q

$1300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| City in which you can see the following view: [Sugarloaf Mountain]

A

Rio de Janeiro

200
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Al Lisan Peninsula separates this saltiest body of water on Earth into northern & southern basins

A

the Dead Sea

201
Q

$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The world’s highest city of over 1 million people sits at about 12,000 feet in these mountains

A

the Andes

202
Q

$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

A

Egypt

203
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| An island called the Calf of Man lies southwest of the Isle of Man in this sea

A

Irish Sea

204
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In the 1850s, Empress Eugenie helped popularize Biarritz, a town on this bay, as a fashionable resort

A

Bay of Biscay

205
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This sea in the North Atlantic is delineated only by the plants that float on its surface

A

the Sargasso Sea

206
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| With a population of more than 190 million, Uttar Pradesh is this country’s largest state

A

India

207
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Hispaniola is an island comprised of Haiti & this other nation

A

the Dominican Republic

208
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Before Europeans named Mt. Cook in this country, the Maori called it Aorangi, or “cloud piercer”

A

New Zealand

209
Q

$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the northernmost mountain in the world over 20,000 feet in elevation

A

Mt. McKinley (Denali)

210
Q

$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

A

Lake Baikal

211
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| A 7-mile tunnel through Mont Blanc connects Chamonix, France to this country

A

Italy

212
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The King George VI falls drop 1,600 feet in this small South American country

A

Guyana

213
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Puerto Varas is in Chile & Puerto Vallarta is in this country

A

Mexico

214
Q

$1600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Yes, we have piranhas in the Parana, the river that flows into this Uruguayan-Argentine estuary

A

the Rio de la Plata

215
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Sherpas & gurkhas lurka in Pokhara in this country

A

Nepal

216
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Pest is this European country’s most popular county

A

Hungary

217
Q

$1500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Cabinda, an area of this former Portuguese colony, is separated from the rest of it by Zaire

A

Angola

218
Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| To evade French defenders, the Germans attacked France through this country in both World Wars

A

Belgium

219
Q

$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

A

Vietnam

220
Q

$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

A

Cape of Good Hope

221
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Part of the Northwest Passage, the Davis Strait separates Canada’s Baffin Island from this Danish one

A

Greenland

222
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Once Portugal’s colony, this country is separated from Madagascar by a channel of the same name

A

Mozambique

223
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Chinese canal begins at Beijing & ends 1,100 miles later at the port of Hangzhou

A

the Grand Canal

224
Q

$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

A

Toledo

225
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Khitans, who founded the Liao dynasty in 907, called this capital city Nanking

A

Peking (or Beijing)

226
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1943 this Mexican volcano grew from a small depression to 1,000 ft. in height

A

Paricutin

227
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| You must remember this is the most populous city in Morocco, but Rabat is the capital

A

Casablanca

228
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Kuwait’s largest island, Bubiyan, lies in this gulf

A

Persian Gulf

229
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| South America’s Cape Horn was named for the city of Hoorn in this country

A

Holland/The Netherlands

230
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Denmark Strait is located between Iceland & this Danish possession

A

Greenland

231
Q

$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This former British colony, which gained independence in 1960, is the most populous country in Africa

A

Nigeria

232
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The world’s largest deposit of sodium nitrate is found in the Atacama Desert in this country

A

Chile

233
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945 near Alamogordo in this state

A

New Mexico

234
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Though Bornholm is a Danish island, it’s much closer to this Scandinavian country than to Denmark

A

Sweden

235
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Venezuelan river empties into the Atlantic Ocean near Trinidad

A

the Orinoco

236
Q

$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The land closest to zero longitude, zero latitude & zero altitude, Cape Three Points is found on this continent

A

Africa

237
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the country where you’ll find Cape Nordkyn, the northernmost point on the European mainland

A

Norway

238
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Lutzelburg is an old name for the capital of this grand duchy

A

Luxembourg

239
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The famous spa town of Baden-Baden lies in this “dark” wooded region of Germany

A

Black Forest

240
Q

$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Of the 4 largest Asian countries in area, it’s the only one that borders the other 3

A

China

241
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Continent with the most square miles of dry desert

A

Africa

242
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this waterfall on the Brazil-Argentina border comes from a Guarani word for “great water”

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Iguazu Falls

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Algerian port’s old city is dominated by the Casbah

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Algiers

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Cape Agulhas near the Cape of Good Hope is this continent’s southernmost point

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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

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Mexico

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The westernmost of Canada’s prairie provinces, it’s bordered on the west by British Columbia

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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

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Ganges

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of Africa on the monitor.</a>) Extending farther north than any other country in Africa, <a>Tunisia</a> is only about a hundred miles from <a>this</a> European island

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Sicily

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Tatar Strait separates Sakhalin Island & Siberia in this country

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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

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North America

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$1700 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Neman River, Lithuania’s longest, begins in Belarus & empties into this sea

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Peru

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Important mining centers in this range include Leadville, Colorado & Kimberley, British Columbia

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Rocky Mountains

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$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Kangaroo Island is the 3rd largest offshore island of this country

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Australia

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The highest airport in the world is Lhasa Airport in this country

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TIbet

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$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the lowest, flattest & smallest continent

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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

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India

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The city of Tangier lies at the western end of this strait

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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

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Africa

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Luzon Strait separates Taiwan from this country to the south

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the Philippines

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$1500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Norway’s 2nd-largest city; it was once known as Bjorgvin, or “hill pasture”

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Bergen

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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Located in a disputed region, India’s northernmost state is Jammu & this

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Kashmir

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Little Belt is a strait that separates the island of Fyn from this Danish peninsula

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Jutland Peninsula

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Potala, the former palace of the Dalai Lama, is a landmark of this Tibetan city

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Lhasa

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The 2 northern extensions of the Red Sea are the Gulf of Aqaba & this gulf

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Gulf of Suez

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Mekong River provides transportation for this landlocked Indochinese nation

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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

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Cairo

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This port, Japan’s second largest city, is only 20 miles from Tokyo

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Yokohama

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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1976 Manila replaced Quezon City as the official capital of this country

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Philippines

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Ionian Sea & the Tyrrhenian Sea are parts of this larger sea

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the Mediterranean Sea

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The southernmost glacier in Europe, the Calderone, is in this country’s Apennine mountains

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Italy

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| 1 of the 2 Central American countries with only 1 sea coast

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Belize & El Salvador

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This river is navigable from Basel, Switzerland to its mouth at the North Sea

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the Rhine

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Just north of Khartoum, Sudan, these 2 “colorful” rivers combine to form the Nile

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the Blue Nile & the White Nile

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Canada is a federation of 2 territories & this many provinces

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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

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New Brunswick

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Denmark’s highest point, Yding Skovhoj, rises only 568 feet on this peninsula

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Jutland

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Kamchatka Peninsula separates the Sea of Okhotsk from this sea named for a Dane

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the Bering Sea

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| A German valley renowned for its coal deposits is named for this tributary of the Rhine

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Ruhr

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$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the only mainland country in the Western Hemisphere that borders only one country

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Canada

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In ancient times this city in Campania was called Neapolis

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Naples

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This island is home to most of Indonesia’s major citites, including Jakarta

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Java

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Once the seat of the Holy Roman Empire, it’s now the capital of Austria

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Vienna

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$500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The ancient poets of India called this longest river of Pakistan “King River”

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Indus

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The base of this Sicilian volcano is about 100 miles in circumference

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Mount Etna

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| At 7,339 feet, Mount Orohena on this island is the highest point in the Society Islands

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Tahiti

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Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The westernmost of Canada’s prairie provinces, it produces most of the country’s crude oil & natural gas

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Alberta

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Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Belgian capital constitutes 1 of the country’s 3 administrative regions

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Brussels

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Much of Scotland’s Caledonian Canal is formed by Loch Lochy & this other “monstrous” loch

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Loch Ness

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$500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The hot water heating of this northern European capital is drawn directly from underground springs

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Reykjavik, Iceland

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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This Croat capital was formerly Yugoslavia’s second largest city

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Zagreb

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In its native language, this heavily forested European country is known as Suomi

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Finland

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Nuuk is the oldest Danish settlement on this island; it’s also the capital

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Greenland

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$500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This port city is West Germany’s leading industrial center

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Hamburg

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Paraguay River divides Paraguay into 2 major regions: Occidental Paraguay & this

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Oriental Paraguay

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$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Kuril Islands separate the Sea of Okhotsk from this ocean

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Pacific

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Republic of China is also known by this name, which is that of its main island

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Taiwan

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$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The administrative capital of South Africa was the capital of the former province of Transvaal

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Pretoria

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$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Callao, the port of Lima, handles about 3/4 of this country’s imports

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Peru

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Q

$300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Natives of this largest island call it Kalaallit Nunaat

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Greenland

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$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Soc Trang & Can Tho are in the south of this Asian nation

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Vietnam

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Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| A daily hydrofoil crosses the Rio de la Plata from Buenos Aires to Colonia in this country

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Uruguay

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$300 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| City that stands on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec people

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Mexico City

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Q

$800 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Nippon is the native name for this country

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Japan

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Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This gulf between Sweden & Finland is the largest arm of the Baltic Sea

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Gulf of Bothnia

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Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Germany has Worms & this country that borders Germany has a district called Wormerveer

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The Netherlands (Holland)

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Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| If you’re out in this European mountain range you may find the Inn Valley

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the Alps

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Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Argentina declared its independence from this country in 1816

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Spain

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Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This pass through the Swiss Alps has a 10-mile motor vehicle tunnel, one of the world’s largest

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St. Gotthard Pass

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Q

$500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| If Italy’s boot kicked backwards, it would hit this country whose capital is Tirane

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Albania

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Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Blue & White Niles meet at this city where Gen. “Chinese” Gordon met death

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Khartoum

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Q

$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| You can view the Jungfrau Peak from the main street of this town between the Brienz & Thun Lakes

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Interlaken, Switzerland

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Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Abingdon, Windsor, Gravesend & Southend-On-Sea are on this European river

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Thames

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Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Located on the Horn of Africa, this country is that continent’s easternmost extension

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Somalia

318
Q

$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

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Lebanon

319
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| An autopiste, or superhighway, connects this Venezuelan capital with the port of La Guaira

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Caracas

320
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In Ireland, Muckross Lake, Upper Lake & Lower Lake are collectively known as “The Lakes of” this

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Killarney

321
Q

$None ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country contains South America’s highest & lowest points

A

Argentina

322
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Africa’s northernmost country, it was once site of ancient Carthaginian empire

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Tunisia

323
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This canal’s official opening was on July 12,1920

A

the Panama Canal

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Q

$1600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This emirate NW of the United Arab Emirates is on a peninsula jutting 100 miles northward into the Persian Gulf

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Qatar

325
Q

$600 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Surtsey, a volcanic island of this country, was named for Surtur, a mythical god of fire

A

Iceland

326
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Tha main part of Cairo lies on 2 islands & the East Bank of this river

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the Nile

327
Q

$100 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country’s 26 states include Para, Pernambuco & Amazonas

A

Brazil

328
Q

$200 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| Cape Town in this country lies on Table Bay

A

South Africa

329
Q

$1500 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this smallest South American country can be spelled with or without an e

A

Suriname

330
Q

$2000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1879 the British improved the <a>road</a> through <a>this</a>, the most famous pass in the Safed Koh range

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the Khyber Pass

331
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This city, the Soviet Union’s second largest, was founded at the mouth of the Neva River in 1703

A

Leningrad

332
Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| The Sea of Galilee is just a broad basin of this river

A

The River Jordan

333
Q

$1000 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| A “great” pass & a “little” pass in the Alps are named for this saint

A

St. Bernard (the patron saint of mountain climbing)

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Q

$400 ||| Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ||| This country’s highest peak, 7,828’ high Mount Maglic, is located about 50 miles southeast of Sarajevo

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Bosnia

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