1) What is the largest city in the US that doesn’t observe daylight saving time?
2) According to the CIA World Factbook (and other sources we could track down), which of these groups has the smallest total population: Hindus in America, Christians in China, Muslims in Israel, or Mormons in Utah?
3) What’s the largest city in the US that takes its name from a Native American language?
4) What city is known as Krung Thep in the native language of its population?
5) The Walloon Region is part of which European country?
6) What African country produces more tea than any country outside of Asia?
7) According Seattle’s Consumer Affairs Unit, what Rainier Valley neighborhood has the city’s longest wait for a taxi?
8) The Continental Divide runs through four US states. Name three of them.
9) “Speleology” is the scientific study of what geographic feature?
10) Among the many things that border Seattle are three incorporated cities. Name two of them.
1) Phoenix, Arizona
2) Muslims in Israel (1,028,268) — then Mormons in Utah (1,393,497), Hindus in America (1,478,670), Christians in China (39,655,557),
3) Chicago (Algonquian for “onion field”)
4) Bangkok
5) Belgium
6) Kenya
7) Rainier Beach
8) Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico
9) caves
10) Renton, Shoreline, and Tukwila
Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on May 29, 2007.