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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) 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?

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