Triangle on a map - means Mountain
Great Sandy Dessert, Great Dividing Range - Australia
Argentina's language is Spanish
Charles Bridge - longest bridge built in Middle Ages in Europe
El Paso is named because it's a ford across what Texas river
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is w/ Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Paris-Dakar's rally's traditional finishing point is Dakar
2ND GAME
Shanghai is China's largest city by population
Lines of latitude are lines that run parallel to the equator
Half of St. Martin is French and the other Caribbean
Colombia and Panama - The Darien Gap is an undeveloped break in the Pan-American highway
Baroque - Palace of Versailles is an example of this architecture
Paris, Texas - 60 ft high w/ a red Cowboy hat
Maui - 1992, 30,000 Hawaiians petitioned to change the name of Maui to Gilligan's Island
3RD GAME
Amazon River - The Rio Negro, Jurua River and Madeira River.. some of the 1000 tributaries of a major river
Astha - world's 1 billionth person
Russia - Trans-Siberian Railroad
Indian Ocean - Zambezi River in Africa flows into Indian Ocean
Argentina and Chile - Patagonia traverses into these two South American countries
Martinique - Mt Pele is in Martinique
Nova Scotia does not border the United States
4TH GAME
Australia celebrates Xmas in Summer
Brazil - only Portuguese speaking country in the Americas
Mount Olympus is highest peak in Greece
Copper named after Cyprus where it was mined in Roman Era
Prince Orange - Heir Apparent to the Dutch Throne
Amsterdam's symbol is "xxx", three crosses
Islamabad capital of Pakistan along w/ Rawalpindi, makes up its 3rd largest metro area
5TH GAME
Pacific Ocean - Largest body of water on Earth
Mascara, once capital of Turkish province of West Algeria
New Zealand has Stewart Island, its 3rd largest island
Wyoming has Yellowstone Park, 1st nat'l park established in the United States
Saudi Arabia population is 29 million
Russia has Lake Baikal
Uganda until 1962 has the capital of Entebbe
6TH GAME
Yukon runs through the center of Alaska and shares its name w/ a territory of Canada
A baguette
John Donne is an island in the Irish Sea and so is Isle of Man
Gypsies
Isle of Man
Minnesota has International Falls which is Icebox of the Nation
Strassbourg is NOT in Germany
7TH GAME
New Zealand has Maori
Arabian Peninsula has Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Sana'a, Muscat
Wales has a "Red Dragon Flag" includes a red dragon called Y Ddraig Goch
China has the world's biggest crashing bore, a tidal bore in the Qiantang River at Hangzhou Bay
Aral Sea is in Kazakhstan
Lesotho's Flag has a hat
Italian forces invaded Ethiopia in 1935 and annexed the country the following year, but their unwelcomed stay was relatively short-lived, as the World War II Allied powers liberated the country in 1941.
Anglo-Zulu War (1879, in Southern Africa)
The British defeat of Zulu King Cetshwayo’s forces marked the end of an era of powerful Zulu kings. It also resulted in the Zulu kingdom being incorporated into British colonial holdings, eventually as part of the province of Natal, which later became the modern-day South African province of KwaZulu-Natal.
The Sotho peoples’ victory over the Cape Colony is one of the few examples in Southern African history of black Africans’ winning a conflict with colonial powers in the 19th century. It’s also the reason why the country of Lesotho is surrounded by the country of South Africa, rather than being a part of it: because Basutoland (as Lesotho was then known) remained independent of the Cape Colony, it was not included when that colony and three others formed the Union of South Africa in 1910.
South African War (1899–1902, in Southern Africa)
-It was the largest and most costly war that the British fought during the 19th century.
-It provided a preview of the type of warfare that would come to characterize World War I.
-It was a war fought between two groups of white peoples—the British and the Dutch-descended Boers—in a subcontinent with a largely black African population that both sides generally sought to exclude from the fighting, although black Africans were certainly negatively impacted by the conflict.
-The two annexed Boer Republics would, with the British colonies of Cape and Natal, later form the Union of South Africa in 1910, the forerunner of today’s Republic of South Africa.
8TH QUIZ
Patagonia is a large region in South America shared by Chile and Argentina
Spanish and Portuguese as you know, is spoken in Latin America
Indonesia has Krakatoa vo
West Bengal
Istanbul both in Europe and Asia
Himalayas = House of Snow
Dar el Bayda
West Bengal is an Indian State renamed Porschim Bongo
Himalayas = "the House of Snow" in Sanskrit
Casablanca is called Dar el Bayda in Morocco
9th quiz
Argentina - gets her name from the Latin word for Silver
Channel Tunnel connects UK and France, it's 50 km long
Lemur only real one native to Madagascar in "Madagascar" movie
Niagara River tumbles over Niagara Falls
Uruguay
Cote D’Ivoire - doesn't border Central African Republic
10th Quiz
Great Barrier Reef - Pacific Ocean
Africa's highest peak is Mount Kilimanjaro
United Arab Emirates has The World Islands, a collection of 300 artificial islands off its coast.. as luxury accomodations
The Sunshine State - The US State of Florida and the Australian state of Queensland share this nickname
Manila
Carnaby
Pacific Ocean - you can find Great Barrier Reef in it
Manila is the largest city on the island of Luzon
When Archery became an Olympic sport in the 1972 games, it was held in Munich
11th Quiz
Australia largest country that starts w/ A
Sri Lanka, tear drop of India
Himalayas, 19 of the 25 highest peaks are here
Macedonia, Southern most of the former Yugoslavian Republics
Saint Malo, most visited city in Brittany which has highest ratio of sea food restaurants in Europe
Polynesia, island region in Oceania
Orange River, longest river in South Africa
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