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?
Tag: yellowstone
Used Jan 9, 2007, at the Old Pequliar.
- What’s the tallest peak in the Olympic Mountains?
- What strait connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean?
- What country is Mount Kilimanjaro in?
- What word meaning “mapmaking” combines the Greek words for “map” and “write”?
- Colorado has the highest average elevation in the US. What state has the highest average elevation east of the Mississippi?
- Name one of the two Mexican states that borders Arizona.
- Name two of the three US states that contain parts of Yellowstone National Park.
- What’s the largest city by population in the UTC -6 time zone, a.k.a. Central Time?
- 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)
- Within Seattle city limits, Washington State Route 522 is known as what street?