Berlin, Germany; Bristol, Virginia; Fukuoka, Japan; Hollywood, California; Indianapolis, Indiana; London, England; Munich, Germany; San Francisco, California; Stockholm, Sweden
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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?
Average score (20 teams): 7.35 Continue reading
Amsterdam
Barcelona
Houston, TX
Oslo
Paris
Pittsburgh, PA
Santa Fe, NM
St. Petersburg, FL
Need a hint? Try adding Stockbridge, Massachusetts to the list.
What do these cities have in common?
Anaheim, CA
Baldwin Park, CA
Columbus, OH
Greenville, NC
Miami, FL
San Bernardino, CA
San Diego, CA
Wichita, KS
1) The combined area of all Wal-Marts in the world is approximately equal to the area of which of these islands: Manhattan, Maui, Nantucket, or Vancouver Island?
2) Name one of the two states that border a record 8 other states.
3) Paris is the most populous French-speaking city in the world. What’s the second-largest?
4) What present-day country is home to most of the territory of the ancient Etruscan civilization?
5) Multiple choice: which of these distances is the longest: Moscow, Idaho to Moscow, Russia; San Juan Island to San Juan, Puerto Rico; Sun City, AZ to Sun City, South Africa; or Toledo, OH, to Toledo Spain?
6) What Pacific Ocean country is the most linguistically diverse in the world, home to over 820 languages?
7) Angola, East Timor, Macau, and Mozambique are all former colonies of what European country?
8) What country has the world’s second-largest sheep population, but is the world’s largest exporter of wool?
9) What’s the largest city located within the Mojave Desert?
10) What building was the tallest in Seattle for 48 years, from its construction to when the Space Needle was built?
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?
1) What U.S. city shares a border with Tijuana, Mexico?
2) Six states make up New England. Name five of them.
3) What German city, home of BMW, was selected as the most livable in the world by Monocle magazine?
4) The area known as Kurdistan includes small parts of Syria and Armenia, plus large parts of three other countries. Name two of those countries.
5) What US state first applied for admission to the union in 1849 under the name Deseret?
6) Sure, Patagonia is a clothing company, but it’s also a region of South America covering parts of two countries. Name one of them.
7) The Erie Canal connects Lake Erie to what river in New York?
8) The world’s largest producers of silver are Mexico and what South American country, which has produced silver for European consumption since the 1500s?
9) There’s a Moxy Fruvous song that claims the US’s lowest highest point is in Delaware, but they’re wrong. Which state actually has that distinction, peaking at a mere 345 feet above sea level?
10) The Golden Shield Project is a government-sponsored effort to control all Internet traffic into and out of what country?
Average score, 17 teams: 7.47
1) If you list all United Nations member states in alphabetical order, which one comes first?
2) Which is the most populous province in Canada?
3) Four states have capital cities named after US presidents. Name three of those states.
4) By population, what’s the largest country in the world with a majority Muslim population?
5) What country has unsuccessfully petitioned to join the United Nations every year since 1991?
6) Islam’s two holiest sites are in Saudi Arabia. Which Middle East country is home to Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site?
7) The Ganges River flows from India into the Bay of Bengal through what country?
8) In 1827, René Caillié earned a 10,000 Franc prize from the Société de Géographie when he became the first non-Muslim to visit and return from what city in Mali?
9) What country, located south of the equator, is the world’s largest exporter of beef?
10) In 1975, what city was renamed Ho Chi Minh City?
Average score (21 teams): 6.95
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
1) Metro Transit is to King County as Community Transit is to what?
2) What state has been the nation’s leading producer of milk since 1993?
3) In 1282, which neighboring country was the first future member of the UK to be conquered by England: Ireland, Scotland, or Wales?
4) What two countries occupy the vast majority of the Iberian Peninsula?
5) If you flew to the busiest airport in the country named after someone who’s still alive, what state would you be in in?
6) If you want to visit the site of the Battle of Waterloo, what country do you need to visit?
7) What country, the most populous member of the European Union, also contains its geographic center?
8) Four Asian countries belong to La Francophonie, a group of countries whose culture, language, and history have been influenced by France. Name two of them.
9) Iraq called it their 19th province. What do we call it?
10) Which Seattle neighborhood is named after a chief of the Nisqually tribe who was hanged for murder in 1858 but exonerated by a Historical Court of Inquiry in 2004?
Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on Sept. 4, 2007.