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| How deep is the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the oceans? |
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| Which territories defense is the responsibility of the UK? |
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Bermuda
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| Which country leads the world in the number of total telephone lines? |
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| What is North America's second largest transit system? |
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| What is the world's second most populous island in the world (following Java)? |
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Which state was not part of the Northwest Territory? Iowa
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| Which city sits on Vancouver Island? |
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| Lake Baikal is in which country and what is it? |
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Southern Siberia in Russia (world's deepest lake) (largest freshwater lake by volume) |
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| What is the world's highest waterfall and where is it? |
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| Which countries border the Arabic Sea? |
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[image] India · [image] Iran · [image] Sri Lanka · [image] Maldives · [image] Oman · [image] Pakistan · [image] Somalia · [image] Yemen |
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| Aqaba, Jordan is adjacent to which city? |
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| In April 1998 the Shroud of Turin went on display at the cathedral in the city of Turin. This Italian city is located on what major river? |
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| The Chicago River flows across northeastern Illinois from which lake? |
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| Baffin Bay and Davis Strait separate Baffin Island, in Canada, from which other island? |
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| In order to generate hydroelectric power, one of the world's largest artificial lakes was created in Ghana in 1965. Name this body of water. |
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| The Red River of the North forms the boundary between North Dakota and what state? |
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| Mahogany and rosewood are valuable timber trees that grow in what kind of climate? |
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| The Chaco, a semiarid plain that is home mostly to cattle ranchers, makes up most of the western half of what landlocked country in South America? |
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| Which people historically were involved with desert trading routes? |
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| Brazzaville stands directly across from what other capital city? |
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| Lake Gatun, an artificial lake that constitutes part of the Panama canal system, was created when damming with what river? |
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| A country in Central America that gained its independence from UK in 1981 is home to the first jaguar preserve. Name this country. |
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| What state produces macadamia nuts? |
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| The maritsa river flows through an important agricultural region in a country that borders Greece and Romania. Name this counrty. |
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| Which continent includes the Atlas Mountains and the Kalahari desert? |
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| Geographe Bay, a popular vacation spot, is located about 150 miles (240 kilometers) south of which city? |
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| What is the term for the part of a map that explains the meaning of symbols used on the map? |
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| The brooks range in alaska acts as a divide for waters flowing north into the Arctic Ocean and south. Into which river that flows across the state into the Bering Sea? |
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| Which term best discribes farming practiced by people who raise only enough crops to feed their families? |
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| The people of which ancient civilization are credited with building the most extensive network of paved roads? |
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What town located at the junction of the Potomac and Shenadoah Rivers was the site of an 1859 raid on a US armory just before the outbreak of the civil war? |
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| Prince rupert's land is a historic region that made up much of which present-day country in the Western Hemisphere? |
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Which of these cities is located farther south? Bucharest Kiev Minsk |
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| What mountain range runs from the St. Lawrence Gulf in Canada to the state of Alabama? |
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| How many states border Canada? |
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| What states border Mexico? |
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| California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas |
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| What is the capital of washington? |
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| Where is the Yucatan Pennisula? |
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| What continents does the Pacific Ocean touch? |
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| North America South America Antarctica Australia Asia Europe |
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What continents does the Atlantic ocean touch? |
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| Africa, Europe, Antarctica, North America, South America |
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| What is the capital of Michigan? |
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| What four states meet at a common corner? |
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| Utah Arizona New Mexico Colorado |
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Central American Countries are....... |
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Guatemala El Salvador Belize Nicaragua Costa Rica Panama |
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| Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, and Bulgaria |
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| Which North American river connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean? |
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| The Yamal Peninsula, which lies north of the Arctic Circle, holds what may be the largest natural gas reserves in the world. This peninsula is part of what country? |
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| What Latin American capital city was built on the site of the Aztec Empire's capital, Tenochtitlán? |
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| Which of these is a violent wind that blows across Siberia? |
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