1. Visitors to Legoland theme parks can explore huge replicas of famous landmarks, including Times Square and the Empire State Building. The real-life versions of these landmarks are located in Manhattan in which city?
2. What is the name of the arid U.S. valley that lies between the Panamint Range and the Amargosa Range?
3. Johnston Atoll, Midway Islands and Wake Island are all Pacific territories of what country?
4. Tula, believed to be the site of the capital of the Toltec civilization, is in what present-day Latin American country that borders the Pacific Ocean?
5. The Dead Sea is seven times saltier than the ocean. The Dead Sea borders which country — Uzbekistan or Israel?
6. The heaviest known hailstone weighed more than seven baseballs. This hailstone was recorded near the Ganges Delta in which country — Laos or Bangladesh?
7. In what south Asian country, where the majority of the people are Hindu, can you find sadhus, religious practitioners who remove themselves from society?
8. What country’s first cathedral was built in A.D. 968 in the city of Pozna, west of present-day Warsaw?
9. The oldest section of Algeria’s most populous city contains a fortress called the Casbah. Name this city.
10. Many ethnic minority groups, including the Kachin, live in remote regions of what country that borders India, Bangladesh and China?
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ANSWERS
1. New York City 2. Death Valley 3. United States 4. Mexico 5. Israel 6. Bangladesh 7. India 8. Poland 9. Algiers 10. Myanmar (Also acceptable: Burma)
