Geography

1) Like, oh my god! What valley is home to the original “Valley Girls”?
2) If you sink to the bottom of Diamantina Deep, you’ve reached the deepest point in which ocean?
3) In 1846, the US got the lands that would become the Oregon Territory by signing the Oregon Treaty with which foreign power?
4) Two 20th-century vice presidents belonged to the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, rather than the Democratic Party, which means they were from what state?
5) The easternmost point in the US territories is on the island of St. Croix, part of what territory?
6) What Mediterranean port city is the capital of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia?
7) What Midwest city has hosted the most national political conventions — 11 times for the Democrats, 14 for the Republicans?
8) What’s the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia?
9) What river starts in Yellowstone National Park and ends up as the Columbia’s largest tributary?
10) Light Rail construction in South Seattle has torn up pavement and made life hell for small businesses along what north-south arterial?

Answers:

1) San Fernando Valley
2) the Indian Ocean
3) United Kingdom
4) Minnesota
5) US Virgin Islands
6) Barcelona
7) Chicago
8) Laos
9) Snake River
10) Martin Luther King Jr. Way