| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| English neolithic structure near the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire | Stonehenge | 98%
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| Ancient Greco-Roman city once home to the world's largest library | Alexandria | 96%
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| Capital of Madagascar, known by the French as "Tana" for short | Antananarivo | 85%
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| City at the epicenter of the British Industrial Revolution | Birmingham | 85%
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| New Zealand city which suffered a devastating earthquake in 2011 | Christchurch | 85%
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| U.S. state home to Boston and Harvard University | Massachusetts | 83%
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| Australia's northernmost continental point, Cape York, lies in this state | Queensland | 83%
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| British territory that merged with Zanzibar to become Tanzania | Tanganyika | 82%
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| Largest country to declare its independence from the United States | Philippines | 81%
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| Southernmost ex-Soviet country, formerly led by President Niyazov | Turkmenistan | 81%
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| South African metropolis nicknamed "The City of Gold" | Johannesburg | 80%
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| Canada's flattest and most rectangular province | Saskatchewan | 79%
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| Major river whose source lies in Minnesota's Lake Itasca | Mississippi | 75%
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| U.S. state wherein the Declaration of Independence was ratified | Pennsylvania | 75%
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| Capital of the Byzantine Empire from 395 to 1453 A.D. | Constantinople | 73%
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| Portuguese colony which became a one-party Marxist state in 1975 | Mozambique | 72%
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| Canadian island associated with Leif Eriksen | Newfoundland | 69%
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| Most populous Mexican city named for a historic Spanish one | Guadalajara | 67%
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| Capital of the country formerly known as French Upper Volta | Ouagadougou | 66%
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| Russian metropolis named for Catherine the Great | Yekaterinburg | 63%
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| English county associated with a savory condiment of the same name | Worcestershire | 60%
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| European capital bombed twice by the U.K. during the Napoleonic Wars | Copenhagen | 59%
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| Paris is divided into twenty of these; roughly translates to "district" | Arrondissement | 55%
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| Largest Colombian city on the Caribbean coast | Barranquilla | 54%
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| Sea situated between the islands of Corsica and Sardinia, and Italy | Tyrrhenian | 53%
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| Small country whose name means "bright stone" in English | Liechtenstein | 50%
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| Northernmost English county; home to Newcastle-upon-Tyne | Northumberland | 50%
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| North Atlantic bay to the west of the Delmarva Peninsula | Chesapeake | 48%
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| Historic region in the Carpathian Basin with a Latin name | Transylvania | 44%
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| Primary residence and private plantation of Thomas Jefferson | Monticello | 40%
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| West Midlands city home to Molineux Stadium | Wolverhampton | 40%
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| Indian state home to Mumbai and Nagpur, among other large cities | Maharashtra | 35%
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| The only African capital city to be named after an Italian | Brazzaville | 34%
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| Russian city known for a meteor famously landing nearby in 2013 | Chelyabinsk | 32%
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| Capital city and historic trade stop from Beijing to Kyakhta (now Russia) | Ulaanbaatar | 32%
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| Large Ukranian city named for one of Europe's great rivers (pre-2014 name) | Dnipropetrovsk | 31%
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| Massive lake/estuary immediately north of New Orleans | Pontchartrain | 30%
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| Earth's third tallest mountain, lying on the border of India and Nepal | Kangchenjunga | 29%
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| The River Yenisei runs through this large Siberian metropolis | Krasnoyarsk | 26%
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| Densely populated city and state in Central Mexico | Aguascalientes | 25%
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| Southern Indiana city on the Ohio River; known as "Jeff" by locals | Jeffersonville | 22%
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| River forming the southern half of the Georgia-Alabama border | Chattahoochee | 19%
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| Austria's tallest mountain and the highest peak of the East Alps | Grossglockner | 16%
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| Largest Brazilian city that lies mostly on an island | Florianópolis | 15%
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| Most populated city on Britain's Nene River | Peterborough | 15%
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| German Ruhr valley city and host of the annual Ruhrfestspiele | Recklinghausen | 9%
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| Closest major city to Lake Balaton; former capital of the Kingdom of Hungary | Székesfehérvár | 9%
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| Fifth largest river in the U.S. by discharge; lies entirely within Louisiana | Atchafalaya | 8%
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| U.S. peninsula/island connected to Martha's Vineyard by a sandbank | Chappaquiddick | 7%
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| The remotest point of land from any sea is in this desert | Gurbantünggüt | 1%
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