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Geography

16-April-08 / James Callan

Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on Feb. 5, 2008
Average score: 3.78/10 (too hard!), 9 teams playing

1) Two cities have been among the 10 largest in America every census from 1790 to 2000. Name them both.
2) The Mackinac Bridge connects the cities of St. Ignace and Mackinaw City in what state?
3) What’s the only part of Arizona that observes Daylight Saving Time?
4) What city on the Black Sea is the largest port in Ukraine?
5) What national capital straddles the Han River?
6) What country launched Operation August Storm on August 8, 1945, invading Manchukuo?
7) It’s part of the Arab League and the Francophonie, but one African country does not belong to the African Union. Which one?
8) According to the 2007 Global Peace Index, what European kingdom is the most peaceful nation in the world?
9) What’s the most populous city in New England?
10) What Seattle suburb was founded as the town of East Seattle in 1904, but renamed itself in 1924 after an early settler?

Quiz: Geography

26-September-07 / James Callan

1) Four of the San Juan Islands are regularly served by the Washington State Ferry system out of Anacortes. Name two of them.
2) Which Seattle neighborhood shares its name with a famously wealthy Boston neighborhood?
3) In which of these states is the capital not the same as its most populous city? Arizona, Nebraska, Ohio, or Wyoming
4) Between April and October in 1980, 125,000 refugees nicknamed Marielitos arrived in the United States from what country?
5) If you take the name of a particular Seattle neighborhood and add the name of a common mineral to the front of it, you end up with what state capital?
6) The Hoh Rain Forest is located within what national park?
7) Oregon is one of two US states where you’re not allowed to pump your own gas. What’s the other one?
8) What southeast Asian island is also known as Formosa?
9) Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire, was located on the site of what present-day capital city?
10) This year, the annual King County Fair was held in July in what city?

Average score: 6.9

Quiz: Shot on Location

27-June-07 / James Callan

I’ll name a TV series, you tell me where it’s set. For example, for Frasier, the answer is Seattle.

1) Magnum, P.I.
2) Charmed
3) Alice
4) The Bob Newhart Show
5) Matlock
6) Nip/Tuck
7) Murphy Brown
8) The Wire
9) The Office (US version)
10) Ally McBeal
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