1) What country is the world’s leading producer of mangoes?
2) The smallest county by area in the continental US, New York County, is better known by what name?
3) What city is the oldest state capital in the US?
4) Which country has recorded South America’s record high and record low temperatures, in Rivadavia and Sarmiento, respectively?
5) Canadians who use the busiest border crossing into the US wind up in what city?
6) Which of these language families has the most native speakers: Germanic, Romance, Semitic, or Balto-Slavic?
7) Hitler established Germany’s Third Reich. By his reckoning, what nation, founded in 800 by Charlemagne, was the First Reich?
8) Upon winning the Spanish-American War, the United States was given sovereignty over two islands and an archipelago. Name two of these territories.
9) What Atlantic island nation is both the most populous and oldest remaining British overseas territory?
10) The American Institute of Architects recently released a list of Americans’ 150 favorite buildings. Two buildings from Seattle made the list. For 1 point each, name them. Hint: there’s no Space Needle to be found.
1) India
2) Manhattan
3) Santa Fe, New Mexico
4) Argentina
5) Detroit, MI (the Ambassador Bridge from Windsor)
6) Romance
7) the Holy Roman Empire
8) Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines
9) Bermuda
10) Seattle Public Library, Safeco Field
(Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on June 26, 2007.)