1. Approximately 40 percent of the total population of what country resides in its capital city, Montevideo?
2. In what present-day country can you find the city of Tripoli, which was an important economic center called Oea at the time of the rivalry between Carthage and the Roman Empire?
3. Colombo, located near the Kelani River on the Indian Ocean, has an artificial harbor and is a major financial center of what country?
4. In the late 19th century, the Austro-Hungarian Empire introduced electric street lighting to Sarajevo. Name the present-day country where you can find this city that hosted the Winter Olympics in 1984.
5. San Pedro de Macorís, home to many professional baseball players, is the third-largest city in what country located on the eastern half of the island of Hispaniola?
6. Arabic is the official language of Algeria, but many people still speak the language of the European country from which Algeria gained independence in 1962. Name this country.
7. Liverpool, home to the Beatles and one of the 2008 European Capitals of Culture, lies on the River Mersey in which of the four primary political units of the United Kingdom?
8. Burial tombs are considered sacred by the Malagasy peoples, who believe ancestral spirits continue to be involved in daily life, in what sparsely populated African country?
9. Name the largest non-Arab minority in Iraq, who mostly live in the north of the country, are of Indo-European origin, and predominantly practice Sunni Islam.
10. In Portugal, the largest community of foreigners and guest workers migrated from what South American country that was once a Portuguese colony?
ANSWERS: 1. Uruguay 2. Libya 3. Sri Lanka 4. Bosnia and Herzegovina 5. Dominican Republic 6. France 7. England 8. Madagascar 9. Kurds 10. Brazil National Geographic Bee, National Geographic Society
