Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on Sept. 2, 2008
Average score: 7.77/10 (11 teams)

1) Which Seattle suburb claims to be “ahead of the curve”?
2) What popular nickname for Santa Clara Valley comes from a series of articles written for Electronic News in 1971?
3) If you’re visiting the formerly Hindu, now-Buddhist temple of Angkor Wat, what country are you in?
4) What river starts in Lake Tanganyika and flows through the Lualaba River and the Livingstone Falls before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean?
5) What territory separated from the Northwest Territories in 1999 to become the newest and largest Canadian territory?
6) The Queen City of the Ozarks, the BBQ Capital of the World, and the Gateway to the West are all nicknames for cities in what state?
7) The Mozambique Channel separates continental Africa from what nation?
8) The Anatolian peninsula makes up most of the area of what country?
9) Türkmenbaşy, Rasht, Baku, and Atyrau are all port cities on what body of water?
10) The Sioux City metropolitan area (such as it is) covers part of three states. Name two of those states for half a point, all three for the full point.

Answers:

1) Renton
2) Silicon Valley
3) Cambodia
4) Congo
5) Nunavut
6) Missouri (Springfield, Kansas City, St. Louis)
7) Madagascar
8) Turkey
9) Caspian Sea
10) Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota