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A) Its capital is Baku
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Azerbaijan
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A) The highest mountain in the Americas
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Aconcagua
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B) Famous gate monument in Berlin
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Brandenburg
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B) Strait connecting Istanbul to the Black Sea
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Bosphorus
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C) Roman rival during the Punic Wars
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Carthage
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C) Area of central Turkey with domed rock formations and hot air balloons
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Cappadocia
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D) German for Germany
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Deutschland
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D) Deadly Allied beach attack on German occupied Normandy on June 6, 1944
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D Day
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E) Vast, remote swampland across much of southern Florida
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Everglades
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E) Small island near Italy where Napoleon was exiled to in 1814
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Elba
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F) The financial capital of Germany
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Frankfurt
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F) This man wrote the Star Spangled Banner during the bombing of Baltimore in 1814
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Francis Scott Key
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G) Considered the deadliest Civil War battle but a turning point for Union forces
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Gettysburg
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G) Western Ireland port city on the river Corrib
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Galway
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H) Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps during the 2nd Punic War
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Hannibal
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H) Greek name for Greece
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Hellas
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I) "Capital" of the Scottish Highlands
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Inverness
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I) Name for the peninsula of Spain and Portugal
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Iberia
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J) Bob Marley and Usain Bolt hail from this Caribbean island
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Jamaica
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J) English king who signed the Magna Carta in 1215 to appease rebellious barons
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John
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K) Language derived from the Empire of the same name in ancient Cambodia and SE Asia
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Khmer
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K) Oblast of Russia sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania
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Kaliningrad
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L) Famous Parisian museum housing some of the worlds most prized art
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Louvre
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L) British ship sunk by a German u-boat on its way to Liverpool in 1915
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Lusitania
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M) Italian Renaissance painter of the Sistine Chapel and Creation of Adam
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Michelangelo
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M) Ancient civilization in modern day Yucatan, Mexico and parts of Central America
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Mayans
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N) French emperor who was defeated at Waterloo in 1815 and exiled
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Napoleon
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N) Famous 19th century castle on a hilltop in southern Germany
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Neuschwanstein
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O) Florida city home to Disney World
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Orlando
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O) Capital of Aruba
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Oranjestad
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P) These two connected buildings mark the highest point in Kuala Lumpur
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Petronas Towers
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P) Aka the "Steel city" of the US
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Pittsburgh
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Q) Ancient Iranian city, site of the Fatima Masumeh shrine
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Qom
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Q) The patron God of Aztec priesthood
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Quetzalcoatl
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R) Religious movement that originated in Jamaica in the 1930s, once followed by Bob Marley
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Rastafarianism
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R) This monument in South Dakota is a carving of 4 presidential faces on the side of a mountain
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Rushmore
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S) River that runs through Paris
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Seine
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S) Brigham Young led his Mormon followers to establish this capital city in Utah
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Salt Lake City
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T) The Aztecs had their capital here, now present day Mexico City
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Tenochtitlan
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T) The biggest city in Canada
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Toronto
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U) Massive sandstone rock in remote central Australia
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Uluru
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U) Current native name of Barrow, Alaska
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Utqiagvik
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V) Micro-nation inside Rome, home to the Pope
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Vatican City
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V) Massive waterfall complex on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border
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Victoria Falls
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W) Capital of the USA
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Washington DC
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W) Anglican church in London, famous for Royal coronations of over 40 British monarchs
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Westminster Abbey
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X) Chinese city where thousands of Terracotta warriors of Emperor Shi Huangdi were unearthed
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Xian
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X) Mongol Kublai Khan had his empire at this capital
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Xanadu
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Y) Crimean city of the 1945 Allied conference of WW2
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Yalta
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Y) Longest river in China
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Yangtze
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Z) Tropical archipelago off the coast of Tanzania
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Zanzibar
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Z) Remote province of the southern Netherlands near the border with Belgium
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Zeeland
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Two nitpicks:
1. Mayan usually refers to languages; in most contexts it is more appropriate to use the term Maya
2. Rasta is a fairy common abbreviation for Rastafarianism so I think you should also make Rasta a possible type-in for that question