1. After a cruise ship carrying sick passengers docked in Gibraltar in November 2003, the border crossing to a European country was closed. Name this country.
2. Antwerp, home to Europe’s first stock exchange, is located in the northern part of which country?
3. Which city, in the southwestern corner of Ohio, is the birthplace of William Howard Taft?
4. Which of these is home to a parliament known as the Knesset – Jakarta, Jerusalem or Johannesburg?
5. A large inland delta in northern Botswana is the most important wetland in southern Africa for barn swallows and other land birds. Name this delta.
6. Which European country withdrew from the Warsaw Pact in 1968 and formed closer political ties with China during the 1960s and 1970s?
7. Alkmaar, a town famous for its cheese market, is located on a canal with access to the Waddenzee. Alkmaar is in which country?
8. Which country lies farther north – Chad or Botswana?
9. Name the item that does not belong, and say what the other items have in common: Cocos, Juan de Fuca, Mediterranean, Nazca, Philippine.
10. Which present-day country, located on a strait between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, was once a French protectorate called Somaliland?
ANSWERS: 1. Spain 2. Belgium 3. Cincinnati 4. Jerusalem
5. Okavango Delta 6. Albania
7. Netherlands 8. Chad
9. Mediterranean: the others are tectonic plates 10. Djibouti
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