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Question for July 1: July 1. What country is longest east to
west? North to south?
Answer: Russia is longest east to west; Chile longest north to south
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Question for July 2: Five seas lie north of Russia. Name them,
from West to East.
Answer: White Sea, Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, East Siberian Sea
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Question for July 3: Which island group includes the island of
Ibiza, and what country is it part of?
Answer: The Balearic Islands; Spain
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Question for July 4: By what names are the parliaments of
Norway and Iceland known?
Answer: Norway -- the Storting; Iceland -- the Althing
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Question for July 5: In what city are the Spanish Steps? Why
are they called "Spanish"?
Answer: Rome; they start up from the Piazza di Spagna.
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Question for July 6: What is the only U.S. state flag to have a
Union Jack?
Answer: Hawai'i
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Question for July 7: What three countries have the highest
percentage of practicing Hundus?
Answer: Nepal, India, Mauritius
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Question for July 8: Germany borders nine countries. Name
them.
Answer: Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium,
Luxembourg, The Netherlands
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Question for July 9: What three countires had the most victims
of the Dec 26 Tsunami in 2004?
Answer: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India
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Question for July 10: After what person are the Americas named;
why?
Answer: Amerigo Vespucci; his accounts of his "discoveries" led mapmaker Martin
Waldseemuller to name the new continent after Vespucci
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Question for July 11: The Charles Bridge crosses the Vlatava
(Moldau) River in what city?
Answer: Prague
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Question for July 12: Five Shakespeare plays contain place names. Which
plays?
Answer: Timon of Athens, The Merchant of Venice, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry
Wives of Windsor, and Pericles Prince of Tyre (of which about half is attributed to
Shakespeare)
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Question for JUly 13: It's the second-most-widely-spoken
language in the world, but it's not an official language of the UN. What
language?
Answer: Hindi
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Question for July 14: Which is the only one of the great oceans
from which you cannot sail directly into a Russian port?
Answer: The Indian Ocean. Russia has ports on the Pacific, Arctic, and Atlantic (via
the Baltic).
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Question for July 15: The Old City in Jerusalem is divided into
what four parts?
Answer: Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Armenian
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Question for July 16: Name the five largest islands in the
world.
Answer: Greenland, New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar, Baffin Island
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Question for July 17: What African coastal country became
land-locked upon the creation of independent Eritrea in 1993?
Answer: Ethiopia
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Question for July 18: If a Frencophone speaks French, what does a Lusophone
speak?
Answer: Portuguese
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Question for July 19: What are the three largest countries in Africa by
area?
Answer: Algeria, Congo (Kinshasa), Sudan
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Question for July 20: Tivoli is the second oldest amusement
park in the world. Where is it? What park is older?
Answer: Copenhagen. Dyrehavsbakken, about 15 km away, opened in the 1500's.
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Question for July 21: What country has the lowest high point?
The highest low point?
Answer: Maldives has a high point at only 2.3 meters; Lesotho has a low point at 1400
meters
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Question for July 22: Gatun Lake is a reservoir that assists
the operation of what human creation?
Answer: The Panama Canal
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Question for July 23: Originally called Van Dieman's Land, what
was this small southern land mass later renamed?
Answer: Tasmania
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Question for July 24: What group of islands in the South Atlantic is known
as "the most remote inhabited place on Earth"?
Answer: Tristan da Cunha, 2816 km from the nearest land
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Question for July 25: Name the four main islands of Japan
Answer: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu
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Question for July 26: Chesapeake Bay is separated from the
Atlantic by a peninsula with all or parts of 3 states. Name them.
Answer: The Delmarva Peninsula: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia
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Question for July 27: What country is completely surrounded by
Senegal (except for a small bit of Atlantic Ocean)?
Answer: The Gambia
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Question for July 28: Which self-governing British Crown
Dependency has a flag that features three bent human legs?
Answer: The Isle of Man
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Question for July 29: Two separate waterways -- one in Canada
responsible for submerging 10 villages, and one in Massachusetts that
submerged 4 villages. Name the waterways?
Answer: The St Lawrence Seaway; The Quabbin Reservoir
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Question for July 30: What is the world's most densely populated
country?
Answer: Monaco (46,000 per sq mile); next is Singapore (19,500 per sq mile)
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Question for July 31: Which four US states call themselves Commonwealths
instead of States?
Answer: Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia
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Question for Aug 1: Nullarbor Plain -- where is it, and what is it
lacking?
Answer: South Australia; it lacks trees.
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Question for Aug 2: There are 6 very small sovereign states in Europe;
name them.
Answer: Country (Sq. Km.): Andorra (468), Liechtenstein (160), Malta (316), Monaco
(2), San Marino (61), Vatican City (.44)
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Question for Aug 3: How many locks does the Suez Canal have?
Answer: None
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Question for Aug 4: "The Girl from Ipanema" lived in what city?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro
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Question for Aug 5: What capital city has the highest elevation above
sea level?
Answer: La Paz, the admin capital of Bolivia, is at 11,975 feet; Quito, the capital of
Ecuador, is at 9350 feet.
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Question for Aug 6: Magyars are the people of which country? What about
Uyghurs?
Answer: Magyars are people of Hungary; Uyghurs are found in the Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region of China
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Question for Aug 7: Lebanon became independent in 1943. From which
country?
Answer: Although the mandate ended in 1941, France maintained authority until 1943.
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Question for Aug 8: The Boston Mountains are mostly located in which US
state?
Answer: Arkansas
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Question for Aug 9: Where is the Mosquito Coast?
Answer: The East Coast of Nicaragua, and a bit of the Honduran coast
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Question for Aug 10: A conference established today's zero degree line
of longitude. Where was the conference held, and when?
Answer: Washington, DC 1884
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Question for Aug 11: Svalbard, and its main island Spitsbergen, are part
of what nation?
Answer: Norway
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Question for Aug 12: The US has two island areas that are known as
Commonwealths. Name them.
Answer: Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico
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Question for Aug 13: Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, is located on
which island?
Answer: Baffin Island
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Question for Aug 14: There are many Cushitic languages. Spoken where?
Name one or more of them.
Answer: Cushitic languages, in the Horn of Africa, include Somali, Oromo, Sidamo, Hadia,
Kambata, and Afar
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Question for Aug 15: What is the official political and administrative
capital of Cote D'Ivoire?
Answer: Yamoussoukro
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Question for Aug 16: Prior to Independence, East Timor was part of which
country?
Answer: Indonesia
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Question for Aug 17: The Ratak and Ralik Islands are part of the
Marshall Islands; what do their names mean?
Answer: Ratak, Sunrise, is to the East, and Ralik, Sunset, is to the West.
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Question for Aug 18: What are the largest and smallest Brazilian states,
by population?
Answer: Sao Paulo, 42 Million; Roraima, 470,000
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Question for Aug 19: Gabon's capital was named when slaves bound for
Brazil were freed by the French in 1848. Name the city.
Answer: Libreville
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Question for Aug 20: What countries does Bhutan border?
Answer: India and China/Tibet
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Question for Aug 21: On which sea will you find Kaliningrad?
Answer: The Baltic Sea
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Question for Aug 22: Jakarta is located on which Indonesian island?
Answer: Java
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Question for Aug 23: Locate these "echo" cities -- Bella Bella, Pago
Pago, Wagga Wagga, and Walla Walla
Answer: Bella Bella, BC, Canada; Pago Pago, American Samoa; Wagga Wagga, NSW,
Australia; Walla Walla, Washingto
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Question for Aug 24: In which mountain range will you find the nation of
San Marino?
Answer: Apennines
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Question for Aug 25: After Everest and K2, what's the third tallest
mountain in the world?
Answer: Kanchenjunga
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Question for Aug 26: The city of Vancouver does not sit on Vancouver
Island; what major city does?
Answer: Victoria
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Question for Aug 27: What countries lead the world in per-capita
cigarette consumption?
Answer: Serbia (nearly 3000 per year), followed by Bulgaria, Greece, Russia, and
Moldova.
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Question for Aug 28: What countries lead the world in per-capita beer
consumption?
Answer: Czech Republic (132 litres per person), followed by Germany, Austria, Ireland,
Australia
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Question for Aug 29: What countries lead the world in per-capita beef
consumption?
Answer: US (120 kg per person), followed by Kuwait, Australia, Bahamas, Luxembourg
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Question for Aug 30: Four African capitals -- Freetown, Conakry,
Lome, Bamako. Name the countries.
Answer: Sierra Leone, Guinea, Togo, Mali
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Question for Aug 31: What countries lead the world in prevalence of
HIV/AIDS
Answer: Swaziland (26.1%), followed by Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, Namibia
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Question for Sep 1: Two countries have the letter X in their names; what
are they?
Answer: Luxembourg, Mexico
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Question for Sep 2: What is the official European language of Angola?
Answer: Portuguese
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Question for Sep 3: Canada's $1 coin is called the Loonie because it
features a Loon; waht is the $2 coin called?
Answer: Toonie
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Question for Sep 4: One US state does not observe Summer time, and one
does not observe standard time. Which?
Answer: Arizona does not observe Daylight time; Hawai'i is always on Summer time and
never switches to Standard time
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Question for Sep 5: What famous statue is found atop Mount Corcovado?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer
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Question for Sep 6: The administrative center of the Orkney Islands is
at Kirkwall, found on what island?
Answer: The island called Mainland
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Question for Sep 7: What is the capital of the Falkland Islands?
Port Stanley
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Question for Sep 8: MOre than 2000 trains a day pass through Britain's
busiest rail station. Name it.
Answer: Clapham Junction
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Question for Sep 9: What is the latitude of the Arctic Circle?
Answer: 66 degrees, 33 minutes, 44 seconds north
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Question for Sep 10: What is the name given to the Spanish coast north
of Barcelona?
Answer: Costa Brava
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Question for Sep 11: St Paul's Shipwreck is a public holiday in which
country?
Answer: Malta
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Question for Sep 12: What airlines are the flag carriers of Serbia, Bhutan,
and Portugal?
Answer: Serbia - JAT; Bhutan - Druk; Portugal - TAP
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Question for Sep 13: LAM, LAN, and LAO are the flag carriers of what
countries?:
Answer: LAM = Mozambique; LAN = Chile; LAO = Laos
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Question for Sep 14: Dhivehi Raajje is the local name for what island
nation?
Answer: The Maldives
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Question for Sep 15: What color are the stars on the flag of China?
Answer: Yellow
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Question for Sep 16: "Isle of Beauty, Isle of Splendor" is the national
anthem of which country?
Answer: Dominica
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Question for Sep 17: T/F The highest winds ever recorded in the US were
on Mt McKinley.
Answer: False. Mt McKinley (Denali), 200 MPH; Mt Washington, NH, 231 MPH
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Question for Sep 18: Within 1000 miles, what is the length of the
Equator?
Answer: 24,901.55 miles
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Question for Sep 19: Name the BENELUX countries, also sometimes called
the low countries.
Answer: Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg
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Question for Sep 20: What city is located at the confluence of the
Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers?
Answer: Philadelphia
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Question for Sep 21: What city is found at the confluence of the Hudson
and Mohawk Rivers?
Answer: Albany
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Question for Sep 22: Name the highest and lowest points in Asia.
Answer: Mt Everest, 29,028 feet; Dead Sea, 1312 below sea level
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Question for Sep 23: Name the four constituent parts (Principalities) of the
UK, and their capitals.
Answer: England (London), Wales (Cardiff), Scotland (Edinburgh), N. Ireland (Belfast).
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Question for Sep 24: Name the 2 landlocked countries of South America.
Answer: Bolivia and Paraguay
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Question for Sep 25: Of the 12 most-widely-spoken languages in the
world, 7 are languages of Asian countries. Name the languages.
Answer: Mandarin, Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, Russian, Japanese, Bahassa
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Question for Sep 26: After 1991, Former Yugoslavia dissolved and has
since become 7 countries. Name them.
Answer: Croatia 1991, Slovenia 1991, Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992, Serbia and
Montenegro 1992, (Montenegro 2006, Serbia 2006), Macedonia 1993, Kosovo 2008
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Question for Sep 27: The English Channel is called by what name in
France?
Answer: La Manche (The Sleeve)
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Question for Sep 28: In Japan, the sea between Japan and Korea is called
The Sea of Japan. What is it called in Korea?
Answer: Tong Hae, The Eastern Sea
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Question for Sep 29: Which country has the longest life expectancy?
Answer: WHO and the UN say Japan; the CIA says Monaco
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Question for Sep 30: What is the only Central American country from
which you can not swim in the Atlantic?
Answer: El Salvador
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Question for Oct 1: What continent is located at latitude 90 degrees
south?
Answer: Antarctica
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Question for Oct 2: Name the capital of Canada. Name Canada's Prime
Minister.
Answer: Ottawa; Stephen Harper
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Question for Oct 3: Three countries touch both the Atlantic and the
Mediterranean. Name them.
Answer: France, Spain, Morocco
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Question for Oct 4: Which of the five Great Lakes lies entirely within
the US, and does not touch Canada?
Answer: Lake Michigan
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Question for Oct 5: What is the only place where an American Flag flies
24 hours a day, is never raised or lowered, and is never saluted?
Answer: The Moon
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Question for Oct 6: What five US states are part of the Pacific Ring of
Fire?
Answer: California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawai'i
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Question for Oct 7: At one place in the US, four states share a common
border point. Name the states.
Answer: Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico
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Question for Oct 8: What is -40 Celsius expressed as degrees Fahrenheit?
Answer: Oct 8: -40 Celsius and -40 Fahrenheit are equal; it's the only temperature for
which this is true.
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Question for Oct 9: Name a place in North America where the official
currency is the Euro.
Answer: St Pierre and Miquelon, French islands off the coast of Newfoundland.
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Question for Oct 10: The original 13 US colonies became the first 13
states in the Union; what states were 14th, 15th, and 16th?
Answer: Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee
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Question for Oct 11: What city is found at the confluence of the
Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers?
Answer: Pittsburgh
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Question for Oct 12: Where, and when, was the first celebration of
Columbus's landing in the Americas?
Answer: Oct 12, 1792, in New York City
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Question for Oct 13: Name the 4 national capitals found on the Danube
River.
Answer: Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrade
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Question for Oct 14: What is the name of Hong Kong's underground transit
system?
Answer: MTR (Mass Transit Railway)
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Question for Oct 15: In 1984, the Republic of Upper Volta (capital
Ouagadougou) was renamed what?
Answer: Burkina Faso
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Question for Oct 16: Name the city for each airport -- Soekarno-Hatta;
Baiyun; Barajas; Changi
Answer: Jakarta, Guangzhou, Madrid, Singapore
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Question for Oct 17: What is the population of Greenland (to the closest
1000 or 10,000)?
Answer: Population of Greenland is 57,000
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Question for Oct 18: The Prime Meridian runs through three continents;
name them.
Answer: Europe, Africa, Antarctica
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Question for Oct 19: What territory's capital, once called Agana, is now
called Hagatna?
Answer: Guam
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Question for Oct 20: The Cooke Islands: name 1) the nation's capital and
2) the largest island.
Answer: Capital: Avarua; Largest Island: Rarotonga
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Question for Oct 21: Road Town is the capital of which island territory?
Answer: The British Virgin Islands
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Question for Oct 22: What is the world's tallest mountain, if measured
from base to summit?
Answer: Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, is 33,100' from its sea floor base to its summit.
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Question for Oct 23: Former Czechoslovakia became the Czech Republic and
Slovakia. Name the capitals.
Answer: Prague and Bratislava
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Question for Oct 24: What lake is often called the highest navigable
lake in the world?
Answer: Lake Titicaca, on the Peru/Bolivia border, at 12,507 feet
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Question for Oct 25: What US state capitals have the fewest letters? The
most?
Answer: Dover (DE) and Salem (OR) are shortest; Jefferson City (MO) is longest.
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Question for Oct 26: Among US cities with the highest population, three
begin with SAN. Name them.
Answer: San Antonio (1.382 M), San Diego (1.338 M), San Jose (0.982 M). San Francisco
is number 14.
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Question for Oct 27: Name the three Canadian Provinces, and three
territories, that do not touch the US.
Answer: PEI, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia; Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut
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Question for Oct 28: What US state capitals are the first and last,
alphabetically?
Answer: Albany, Trenton
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Question for Oct 29: Name the islands 00 miles north of Scotland, under
the sovereignty of Denmark.
Answer: Faroe Islands
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Question for Oct 30: What UN member states are first and last,
alphabetically?
Answer: Afghanistan, Zimbabwe
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Question for Oct 31: Name three nations that begin with the letter "J"
in their English names.
Answer: Jamaica, Japan, Jordan
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Question for Nov 1: What are the three highest US state capitals (each
one mile or higher)?
Answer: Santa Fe, NM (7260'); Cheyenne, WY (6062'); Denver, CO (5280')
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Question for Nov 2: Name the autonomous region of Somalia that declared
independence in 1988; its capital?
Answer: Somaliland; Hargeisa
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Question for Nov 3: What is the tallest US mountain EAST of the
Mississippi? In what state is it found?
Answer: 6,684-foot Mount Mitchell, in North Carolina
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Question for Nov 4: The names of only 2 US state capital cities contain
the entire name of the state. Which ones?
Answer: Oklahoma City and Indianapolis
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Question for Nov 5: In which modern countries will you find
Transylvania? Bohemia?
Answer: Romania; Czech Republic
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Question for Nov 6: Three US states are spelled with only 4 letters.
Which ones?
Answer: Iowa, Ohio, Utah; two states USE 4 letters but are longer -- Mississippi and
Hawai'i
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Question for Nov 7: What is the name of the one river which is Lake
Tahoe's only outlet?:
Answer: The Truckee River
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Question for Nov 8: The Canary Islands were NOT named after any kind of
bird. What animal are they named after?
Answer: Dogs
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Question for Nov 9: What US city has the nickname "The Largest City in
the Largest State"?
Answer: Anchorage, Alaska
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Question for Nov 10: The spelling of which two US states contains the
letter X?
Answer: Texas, New Mexico
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Question for Nov 11: What are the capitals of Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Croatia, and Serbia?
Answer: Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Belgrade
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Question for Nov 12: When California became a state on 9 Sept 1850, what
was its nearest neighboring state?
Answer: Texas
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Question for Nov 13: The island of Bali is part of what country?
Answer: Indonesia
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Question for Nov 14: In Manhattan, going from 3rd to 5th Ave., you cross
three Avenues that are not numbered. Name them.
Answer: After 3rd Ave come Lexington, Park, and then Madison Ave, then 5th
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Question for Nov 15: Eight US states have capitals that are spelled as
two words. Name them.
Answer: Baton Rouge, Carson City, Des Moines, Jefferson City, Little Rock, Oklahoma
City, Santa Fe, St Paul
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Question for Nov 16: What form of poem is generally considered to have been
named after a city and county in Ireland?
Answer: Limerick
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Question for Nov 17: What country is located on both the Atlantic and
Indian Oceans?
Answer: South Africa
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Question for Nov 18: Name the 8 US states that begin with the letter
"M".
Answer: Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri,
Montana
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Question for Nov 19: What is the geographical term for a narrow strip of
land joinging two larger areas?
Answer: An Isthmus
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Question for Nov 20: At the Equinox, what US-governed island first sees
sunrise?
Answer: Wake Island
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Question for Nov 21: What is the world's southernmost capital city?
Answer: Wellington, NZ
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Question for Nov 22: Where is the world's southernmost ATM?
Answer: McMurdo Station, Antarctica
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Question for Nov 23: What city is sometimes called "The Gibraltar of
North America"?
Answer: Quebec City, with its fortress-like walls
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Question for Nov 24: What is the only US state whose shape has no
straight lines?
Answer: Hawai'i
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Question for Nov 25: What city began in 1690 with the arrival of the
British, who settled on the Hooghly River?
Answer: Kolkata (Calcutta)
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Question for Nov 26: Name the three Montana towns that have populations
over 50,000.
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