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Quiz: Geography

Round 1at the Old Pequliar on August 12, 2008
Average score: 7.18/10 (11 teams)

1) Three lakes within Seattle city limits lie north of the Montlake Cut. Name two of them for one point.
2) What two European countries recently engaged in armed conflict over the territory of South Ossetia?
3) What country contains the westernmost point in continental Europe?
4) Bharat and Aryadesa are alternate names for what country?
5) What Canadian city lies across the Detroit River from Detroit?
6) The Cook Strait, also known as Raukawa, separates the two largest islands in what country?
7) The vast majority of Yellowstone National Park lies within what state?
8) Electric City, the Weather Capital of the World, and the Sweetest Place on Earth are nicknames for three cities in what state?
9) Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste all share land borders with what island nation?
10) What’s the second-highest mountain in Washington?

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Quiz: The Devil

1) What band had a top 10 hit in the US with the song “Devil Inside”?
2) Devil’s Tower National Monument, the famous landmark from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, is located in what state?
3) What 2006 film was based on a 2003 novel by Lauren Weisburger?
4) The Vertigo comics series Lucifer was a spinoff of what earlier series created by Neil Gaiman?
5) What’s the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world?
6) The Rolling Stones song “Sympathy for the Devil” debuted on what album?
7) In the story “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” what name does the devil use?
8) What’s the name of the devil who makes a deal with the title character in Goethe’s Faust?
9) What household gadget was introduced by Royal Appliance Manufacturing in 1984?
10) Who referred to George W. Bush as “the devil” in a speech before the UN General Assembly?
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Quiz: Geography

1) Which US state comes last alphabetically?
2) Who has had the most square miles of the earth’s surface named after him or her?
3) What’s the popular name for the intersection at Broadway and Seventh Avenue in New York City?
4) The community of White Center in unincorporated King County is being considered for annexation by Seattle as well as what other city?
5) As of 2005, which city had the busiest Amtrak station west of the Mississippi? (most passenger traffic to and from)
6) Which of these is longest: the second-longest river in Africa, the second-longest river in Asia, the second-longest river in North America, or the second-longest river in South America?
7) What’s the official state religion of Bhutan?
8) The US was the first country to detonate a nuclear weapon. The Soviet Union was second. Which country was third?
9) What state capital, named for a US president, is the city with the greatest number of Flickr users per capita?
10) If you’re at the spot exactly opposite Seattle on a globe, what ocean are you in?
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Geography

Used Jan 9, 2007, at the Old Pequliar.

  1. What’s the tallest peak in the Olympic Mountains?
  2. What strait connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean?
  3. What country is Mount Kilimanjaro in?
  4. What word meaning “mapmaking” combines the Greek words for “map” and “write”?
  5. Colorado has the highest average elevation in the US. What state has the highest average elevation east of the Mississippi?
  6. Name one of the two Mexican states that borders Arizona.
  7. Name two of the three US states that contain parts of Yellowstone National Park.
  8. What’s the largest city by population in the UTC -6 time zone, a.k.a. Central Time?
  9. In 2005, what Asian city surpassed Singapore as the busiest port in the world, measured by total shipping tonnage? (shipping tonnage = total mass of cargo transported though the port)
  10. Within Seattle city limits, Washington State Route 522 is known as what street?

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