| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| F) The financial capital of Germany | Frankfurt | 93%
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| J) Bob Marley and Usain Bolt hail from this Caribbean island | Jamaica | 91%
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| T) The biggest city in Canada | Toronto | 91%
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| A) Its capital is Baku | Azerbaijan | 90%
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| V) Micro-nation inside Rome, home to the Pope | Vatican City | 90%
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| D) German for Germany | Deutschland | 89%
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| L) Famous Parisian museum housing some of the worldsmost prized art | Louvre | 89%
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| N) French emperor who was defeated at Waterloo in 1815and exiled | Napoleon | 89%
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| I) Name for the peninsula of Spain and Portugal | Iberia | 88%
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| S) River that runs through Paris | Seine | 87%
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| W) Capital of the USA | Washington DC | 87%
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| M) Italian Renaissance painter of the Sistine Chapel and Creation of Adam | Michelangelo | 84%
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| O) Florida city home to Disney World | Orlando | 84%
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| E) Vast, remote swampland across much of southern Florida | Everglades | 79%
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| S) Brigham Young led his Mormon followers to establish thiscapital city in Utah | Salt Lake City | 79%
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| R) This monument in South Dakota is a carving of 4 presidentialfaces on the side of a mountain | Rushmore | 77%
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| B) Famous gate monument in Berlin | Brandenburg | 76%
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| D) Deadly Allied beach attack on German occupied Normandy on June 6, 1944 | D Day | 76%
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| J) English king who signed the Magna Carta in 1215to appease rebellious barons | John | 74%
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| H) Carthaginian general who crossed the Alpsduring the 2nd Punic War | Hannibal | 73%
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| E) Small island near Italy where Napoleonwas exiled to in 1814 | Elba | 71%
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| G) Considered the deadliest Civil War battlebut a turning point for Union forces | Gettysburg | 71%
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| U) Massive sandstone rock in remote central Australia | Uluru | 71%
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| I) "Capital" of the Scottish Highlands | Inverness | 67%
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| W) Anglican church in London, famous for Royal coronations ofover 40 British monarchs | Westminster Abbey | 66%
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| Y) Longest river in China | Yangtze | 65%
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| B) Strait connecting Istanbul to theBlack Sea | Bosphorus | 63%
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| Z) Tropical archipelago off the coast of Tanzania | Zanzibar | 61%
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| K) Language derived from the Empire of the same namein ancient Cambodia and SE Asia | Khmer | 60%
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| C) Roman rival during the Punic Wars | Carthage | 59%
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| V) Massive waterfall complex on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border | Victoria Falls | 59%
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| P) Aka the "Steel city" of the US | Pittsburgh | 57%
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| K) Oblast of Russia sandwiched between Poland andLithuania | Kaliningrad | 56%
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| Y) Crimean city of the 1945 Allied conference of WW2 | Yalta | 56%
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| X) Chinese city where thousands of Terracotta warriors of EmperorShi Huangdi were unearthed | Xian | 54%
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| P) These two connected buildings mark the highest point inKuala Lumpur | Petronas Towers | 52%
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| G) Western Ireland port city on the river Corrib | Galway | 46%
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| H) Greek name for Greece | Hellas | 44%
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| A) The highest mountain inthe Americas | Aconcagua | 43%
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| Z) Remote province of the southern Netherlands near the border with Belgium | Zeeland | 43%
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| L) British ship sunk by a German u-boat on its way to Liverpool in 1915 | Lusitania | 40%
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| X) Mongol Kublai Khan had his empire at this capital | Xanadu | 38%
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| R) Religious movement that originated in Jamaica in the 1930s,once followed by Bob Marley | Rastafarianism | 35%
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| N) Famous 19th century castle on a hilltop in southern Germany | Neuschwanstein | 34%
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| C) Area of central Turkey with domed rockformations and hot air balloons | Cappadocia | 33%
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| T) The Aztecs had their capital here, now present day Mexico City | Tenochtitlan | 30%
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| F) This man wrote the Star Spangled Bannerduring the bombing of Baltimore in 1814 | Francis Scott Key | 28%
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| Q) Ancient Iranian city, site of the Fatima Masumeh shrine | Qom | 27%
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| O) Capital of Aruba | Oranjestad | 21%
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| M) Ancient civilization in modern day Yucatan, Mexico andparts of Central America | Mayans | 20%
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| Q) The patron God of Aztec priesthood | Quetzalcoatl | 12%
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| U) Current native name of Barrow, Alaska | Utqiagvik | 4%
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