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Geography

1) Which US state has the longest freshwater coastline?
2) What’s the only country that presently includes Afrikaans as one of its official languages?
3) Washington State’s borders include two rivers — the Columbia, to the south, and what other river to the east?
4) What heavily Baptist Gulf Coast state has the lowest rate of cremation in the US?
5) Isla De La Juventud is the second-largest island in what Caribbean nation?
6) What country is divided into thirteen peripheries, including Thessaly, Attica, and Epirus?
7) On February 17, the Republic of Kosovo declared independence from Serbia. The new nation borders three other countries. Name one of them.
8) What lake, the largest in Africa, is the source of the White Nile rivier?
9) The Moscow Canal connects the Moskva River to what other river?
10) Which Puget Sound city took its name from an earlier name of Mount Rainier?

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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?

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