190201. |
Geography: Miami, Florida, is the most southerly major city in the continental United States, sitting about two degrees north of the --------------------
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Geography: ---------- is home to the world's most remote weather station. Its Eureka weather station is 600 miles from the North Pole.
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Geography: Canada is the second-largest country in the world after ----------. Nearly 90 percent of the Canada's population is concentrated within 161 km of the United States/Canada border.
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Geography: -------------, Illinois was nicknamed the Windy City because of the excessive local bragging that accompanied the Columbian Exhibition of 1893. ----------- has actually been rated as only the 16th breeziest city in America.
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Geography: Colorado's capital of ---------- is the largest metro city in a 600-mile radius - an area almost the size of Europe.
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Geography: ------------------ in southern California is the lowest point in the United States at 282 feet below sea level. The highest point in the contiguous 48 states is also in California: Mount Whitney, which is 14,491 feet above sea level.
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Geography: --------- has the nation's largest city park system, with more than 200 parks within city limits and 20,000 acres of parks in the nearby mountains - an area larger than all of Manhattan Island.
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190208. |
Geography: ------------- in Wyoming, the world-famous, nearly vertical monolith rises 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River. Known by several northern plains tribes as Bears Lodge, it is a sacred site of worship for many American Indians. Scientists are still undecided as to what exactly caused the natural wonder, although they agree that it is the remnant of an ancient volcanic feature.
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Geography: During the nineteenth century, Michigan was a key stop on the Underground Railroad, and many runaway slaves decided to make their homes there. Currently, 14 percent of Michigan's population is --------------------
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190210. |
Geography: Monaco is so small, it covers about 350 acres. Fifty-five Monacos could fit inside the city of Paris. The diminutive principality still attracts the elite. The capital city of ------------- still maintains some royal rituals. Tourists flock to see the Palace's regal "changing of the guard". Monaco is also a popular tax haven for the wealthy.
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Geography: -------------- is the second smallest country in the world and the principality has four distinct divisions. (1.) La Condamine, the business district. (2.) The Casino or Monte Carlo. (3.) Monaco-Ville which is on a rocky promontory and (4.) Fontvieille.
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190212. |
Geography: --------- sits on the southern coast of France, near the border with Italy, and covers 0.73 square miles (approximately 1/2 the size of New York's Central Park).
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190213. |
Geography: ---------- was admitted to the U.N. in May 1993, making it the smallest country represented there.
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190214. |
Geography: -------------- is the largest French-speaking city in the Western Hemisphere.
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190215. |
Geography: More than two-thirds of Earth's land surface lies north of the -------------
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190216. |
Geography: Mount Carmel is one of Chicago's finest graveyards, and is the oldest Catholic cemetery in the western part of the Archdiocese of Chicago. The vast majority of persons buried here are Italian. There are more than 400 private Italian family mausoleums in Mount Carmel, more than any other cemetery in the area. The most popular attraction is the Bishops' mausoleum, which received over 50,000 visitors in the two months following the death of Cardinal Bernardin in October 1996. But to many, Mount Carmel is equally famous for the graves of Chicago's notorious gangsters of the 1920s - including the infamous -----------------
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190217. |
Geography: --------------, in Russia, is the largest city north of the Arctic Circle.
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190218. |
Geography: Myanmar was known as ------------- until 1989.
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190219. |
Geography: Each tour through Natural Bridge Caverns in ------------ covers 3/4 mile. An average tour guide will walk almost 560 miles in one year.
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190220. |
Geography: ------------------- is the only Central American country not bordering the Caribbean Sea.
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190221. |
Geography: --------------- use wooden "eyeglasses" with narrow slits for eyepieces to protect their eyes from glare reflected by ice and snow.
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190222. |
Geography: Filled with water, gas, electric, telephone, cable, steam, and sewer lines, ------------- is the most dense underground site in the United States.
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190223. |
Geography: -------------- has the greatest number of islands in the world: 179,584.
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190224. |
Geography: ------------ averages the greatest number of shark attacks annually - an average of 13.
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190225. |
Geography: Florida is not the southernmost state in the United States. ----------- is farther south.
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190226. |
Geography: The largest U.S. state is home to the 4,215-square-mile Katmai National Monument, the largest of all other United States national parks and monuments in size. Glacier Bay National Monument, also in Alaska, ranks second with 3,554 square miles, and ------------------------- is third with 3,472. Katmai (pronounced "cat-my") is about four-fifths as large as Connecticut, and more than twice the size of Delaware.
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190227. |
Geography: Myrtle Beach, ------------------ has the most mini-golf courses per area in the U.S. At last count, there were 47 in a 60 mile radius.
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190228. |
Geography: Nature's totem, the awe-inspiring, 325-foot spire of Chimney Rock in -----------, informed Pony Express riders and frontiersmen they had crossed the American plains and that mountains lay ahead.
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190229. |
Geography: The majestic eastern slopes of Table Mountain in ---------------- create the home of the world-renowned Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. The gardens are dedicated to the preservation of the indigenous plants of South Africa. More than 6,000 different species of plant are grown here, including ancient cycads and many species of erica, pelargoniums, ferns, and rare succulents.
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190230. |
Geography: -------------- was the U.S. Confederacy's largest city.
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190231. |
Geography: The majestic --------------, popular honeymoon site for newlyweds located in both New York Ontario, was named after the Mohawk Indian word meaning "thunder of waters".
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190232. |
Geography: -------------------- has 570 miles of shoreline.
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190233. |
Geography: The Monegasque - natives of ---------------- - constitute only about 16 percent of the nation's population.
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190234. |
Geography: Nicknamed the "Soft Coral Capital of the World" by underwater explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau, the ---------- islands offer some of the best scuba diving in the world. It offers a comprehensive range of dive locations. Spectacular hard and soft corals, caves, and grottoes, are home to amazingly diverse aquatic life that includes species such as sharks, tuna, turtles, and fish of all sizes and colors.
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190235. |
Geography: The most densely populated state in the United States is ---------------
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190236. |
Geography: Of the 3,000 islands of the Bahama chain in the ------------, only 20 are inhabited.
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190237. |
Geography: The most famous natural landmark in ------------------ is the Giant's Causeway. Comprised of approximately 37,000 dark basalt columns packed together, they were formed when a volcanic eruption spewed molten basalt out 55 million years ago. As the basalt cooled, these unique polygonal structures were formed. Most of the columns of the Giant's Causeway form a six-sided honeycomb pattern. Some have as many as ten sides and measure about 12 inches across and up to forty feet in length.
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190238. |
Geography: Of the twenty-five highest mountains on Earth, nineteen are in the --------------
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190239. |
Geography: The muskellunge, a fierce fighting fish that can weigh in at around 70 pounds, is the official state fish of -------------------
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190240. |
Geography: Old Faithful, the jewel of --------------------------- in Calistoga, California, is not as dependable as it used to be. Because of vandalism and age-old geological shifts, the world's largest geyser is slowly losing its reputation for erupting like clockwork. In 1970, the average time between eruptions of the 126-year-old geyser was 66 minutes. The average today is about once every 77 minutes, or 18 times a day instead of 21. The geyser's power hasn't diminished, however.
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Geography: For those who are eager to peek inside Europe's only active volcano, a shuttle takes tourists close to the top of Mount Vesuvius. After that, it is a thirty-minute hike to the lip of the crater. Mount Vesuvius erupted about seventy-nine years after Christ. The flourishing city of ---------- was obliterated, buried under a thirty-foot wave of hot mud and volcanic ash. The lunar-like top of the volcano stands at a dizzying 4,000 feet.
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190242. |
Geography: Formally called Kiritimati, -------------------- in the Indian Ocean is 52 square miles.
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190243. |
Geography: Four states have active volcanoes: Washington, ---------------, Alaska, and Hawaii, whose Mauna Loa is the world's largest active volcano.
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190244. |
Geography: ------------- itself was formed by the activity of undersea volcanoes.
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Geography: ------------- is the largest Western European country. Its area is slightly less than twice the size of Colorado.
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Geography: From the 1830s to 1960s, the Lehigh River in eastern -------------, was owned by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., making it the only privately owned river in the United States.
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190247. |
Geography: Grasshopper Glacier in ----------- was named for the grasshoppers that can still be seen frozen in the ice.
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Geography: -------------- is the world's oldest black republic. The major religion there is voodoo.
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Geography: ----------- has 150 recognized ecosystems.
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190250. |
Geography: Hell's Canyon on the Snake River is deeper than the ---------------
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190251. |
Geography: The ----------- is the world's oldest desert, and the only desert inhabited by elephant, rhino, giraffe, and lion.
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Geography: On an average day in the mid 1990s, more than 13,000 people trekked to the ------------- in Arizona. Because of the wear and tear on the natural wonder's fragile environment, tourism is now being limited, as are sight-seeing helicopters and motor vehicles in the national park.
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Geography: The nation of --------------- covers approximately the same land area as the state of Wisconsin. Yet it ranks eighth in population among all the world's countries.
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Geography: On March 27, 1964, North America's strongest recorded earthquake, with a moment magnitude of 9.2, rocked central --------------
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190255. |
Geography: Each year ----------- has approximately 5,000 earthquakes, including 1,000 that measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale.
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Geography: Of the ten strongest earthquakes ever recorded in the world, three have occurred in ------------
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190257. |
Geography: The nation of ---------------, located in the Atlantic Ocean 450 miles west of the western tip of Africa, has no minerals except salt and pozzolana.
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190258. |
Geography: The nation of -------------- has an AK-47 assault rifle on its flag.
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Geography: One of the deadliest diseases in the world is Japanese River Fever, with a mortality rate of more than 50 percent. It is found only near rivers in certain areas of Japan, China, Korea, Burma, and --------------
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Geography: The ----------------- is the lowest country in the world. It is estimated that 40 percent of the land is below sea level.
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190261. |
Geography: Only one Canadian province borders at least one Great Lake: ---------
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190262. |
Geography: The northernmost U.S. state capital is ----------------
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190263. |
Geography: Panama, because of a bend in the isthmus, is the only place in the world where one can see the sun rise on the Pacific Ocean and set on the --------------
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190264. |
Geography: ------------------- includes the islands of New Britain and New Ireland.
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190265. |
Geography: ------------------- has the largest rural population in the United States.
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190266. |
Geography: If the ----------- River were stretched across the United States, it would run just about from New York to Los Angeles.
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190267. |
Geography: In 1507, the first globular map was published showing the Western Hemisphere. It was printed at St. Die in the Vosges Mountains of Alsac, and it was the first map to use the term -----------
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190268. |
Geography: In 1932, Porto Rico was renamed --------------
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190269. |
Geography: The official state musical instrument in South Dakota is the -------------
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190270. |
Geography: The old Roman province of Lusitania is now called ------------. Some parts of Lusitania are also found in Spain.
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190271. |
Geography: ------------ is the world's largest producer of cork. The country has regulations protecting cork trees dating back to 1320. During the 1920s and 1930s, it became illegal to cut down the trees other than for essential thinning and removal of older non-producing trees.
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190272. |
Geography: The only three countries in the world whose names begin with "Z" are Zambia, Ziare and ----------, all in Africa.
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190273. |
Geography: Reykjavik, --------------- is likely the cleanest capital city in the world.
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190274. |
Geography: The Oregon Trail (1840-1860), the route used during the westward migrations of the United States, started in ------------- and ended in Oregon and was about 2,000 miles long.
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190275. |
Geography: The peacock is the national bird of ---------
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190276. |
Geography: The Philippines is an archipelago of 7,107 islands in the ----------------
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190277. |
Geography: --------------- is the first and last city in the world to operate cable cars. Almost 100 other cities around the world have had cable cars, but all have discontinued use. The cable cars began operation on August 2, 1873. Designed by London born engineer Andrew Hallidie, the cable cars are controlled by a subterranean loop that travels at a constant 9.5 miles per hour.
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190278. |
Geography: San Francisco was the birthplace of the ------------ in 1945. After a brief stop at Lake Success, New York, it was moved to New York City because many European nations believed San Francisco was too far to travel.
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190279. |
Geography: Savannah, ---------------- was founded in 1733 as a haven for British debtors.
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Geography: Gore is also known as the Brown Trout Capital of the World and New Zealand's -----------
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190281. |
Geography: In the country of ------------------, the basic monetary unit is the tala.
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190282. |
Geography: In the world's oceans, there are: 58 species of sea grasses; less than 1,000 species of cephalopods (squids, octopi, and pearly nautiluses); 1,000 species of sea anemones; 1,500 species of brown algae; 7,000 species of echinoderms (starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, and sea lilies); 13,000 species of fishes; and 50,000 species of --------------
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190283. |
Geography: --------------------- account for more than half of the world's total production of peanuts. The United States grows about 10 percent of the world's peanut crop, mainly in such southern states as Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
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190284. |
Geography: ------------ is one-quarter the size of the state of Maine.
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190285. |
Geography: The roadrunner is the official bird of -------------
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190286. |
Geography: The Salto Alto (Angel Falls) in -------------- is the highest waterfall known. It is more than twenty times higher than Niagara.
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190287. |
Geography: Sometimes land boundaries are not uniform. ------------ and the Netherlands have an underground boundary that differs from the surface boundary shown on maps. In 1950, the two countries agreed to move the underground boundary so as not to divide coal mines between the two countries.
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190288. |
Geography: The seven natural wonders of the world are suggested to be Mount Everest in Nepal/Tibet; Victoria Falls in Zambia/Zimbabwe; Grand Canyon in Arizona; ------------------ in Australia; the Northern Lights; Paricutin volcano in Mexico; and Rio de Janeiro Harbor in Brazil.
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190289. |
Geography: ----------------- has two official national anthems.
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190290. |
Geography: The small island of ------------ in the Caribbean, off the coast between Cancun and Playa del Carmen, has long been known as a diver's paradise. Its clear water hosts the second-largest reef in the world.
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190291. |
Geography: ----------- was called the "Gateway to the West" in the 1800s because it served as a starting place for wagon train departures.
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190292. |
Geography: The smallest island with country status is ---------- in Polynesia, at just 1.75 square miles (4.53 sq km).
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190293. |
Geography: Strangeray Springs cattle station in ----------------- is the largest ranch in the world. It's area, 30,029 square kilometers, and is only slightly smaller than the European country of Belgium.
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190294. |
Geography: The smallest U.S. state in area, west of the Mississippi River, is -------------
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190295. |
Geography: --------- is the largest country in Africa. It has a population greater than 28,100,000.
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190296. |
Geography: The ------------ is actually a desert environment, averaging about the same amount of monthly rainfall as the Sahara Desert.
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190297. |
Geography: Taiwan was known formerly as -----------------
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190298. |
Geography: The standard single oar used by gondoliers in ------------ is 14 feet long.
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190299. |
Geography: --------------- has 254 counties. Alaska, which is more than twice as large, hasn't any.
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190300. |
Geography: ------------ means "land of the free."
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