This week’s questions are the winning questions from the national Bee, starting with the winning question from 1996.
1. Name the European co-principality whose heads of state are the president of France and the bishop of Urgel.
2. Asia’s most densely populated country has about 3 million people and an area of less than 250 square miles. Name this country.
3. More than 80 million people live in the European Union’s most populous member country. Name this country.
4.The condition characterized by unusually cold ocean temperatures in the equatorial region of the eastern Pacific Ocean is known by what Spanish name?
5. Name two of the three largest sections of Denmark, which include its mainland peninsula and two largest islands.
6. Below the equilibrium line of glaciers there is a region of melting, evaporation and sublimation. Name this zone.
7. Lop Nur, a marshy depression at the east end of the Tarim Basin, is a nuclear test site for which country?
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ANSWERS
1. Andorra 2. Singapore 3. Germany 4. La Niña 5. Jutland, Sjaelland, Fyn 6. Zone of ablation 7. China
