1. A famous ancient city ranks as one of the chief sources of Western civilization because its citizens produced masterworks in art and architecture, drama and philosophy. Name this city, located east of the Isthmus of Corinth.
2. Named for its victorious founder in 332 B.C. and built at the western edge of a large delta, one of the greatest cities of the ancient world was home to the Great Library. Name this city.
3. While conquering much of the Iberian Peninsula, the Moors from northern Africa captured a city due west of the island of Majorca in the year 714. Name this city.
4. A present-day capital was a base for piracy against European ships for hundreds of years and a North African headquarters for the Allies in World War II. Name this city.
5. Before it was devastated by civil war in the 1970s and 1980s, a city on the Mediterranean Sea was known for its beauty and luxury and was sometimes referred to as “the Paris of the Middle East.” Name this city.
6. A transportation and communications center in the eastern Mediterranean was created in 1950 from an old city and its more modern suburb. Name this city, targeted by Iraqi missiles during the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
7. An important port west of the Gulf of Sidra is the capital of a country that is mostly desert. Name this city.
8. The chief city of Catalonia is famed as a vibrant cultural center in the western Mediterranean. Name this city.
9. Chulym, an endangered language with fewer than 20 fluent speakers, is still spoken along a river with the same name that flows through the Tomsk oblast in what large country?
10. Silbo, a code language whistled across the hilly terrain of a North Atlantic island group, became required learning in schools in order to save it from extinction. Silbo can be heard on the island of Gomera, administered by what country?
ANSWERS: 1. Athens 2. Alexandria 3. Valencia 4. Algiers 5. Beirut 6. Tel Aviv-Yafo (Also acceptable: Tel Aviv) 7. Tripoli 8. Barcelona 9. Russia 10. Spain
National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
