| Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1998 | More than 80 million people live in the European Union's most populous member country. Name this country. | Germany | 94%
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| 1993 | Tagalog is one of the three main native languages of which island country in Asia? | Philippines | 92%
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| 1997 | Asia's most densely populated country has about three million people and an area of less than 250 square miles (400 km²). Name this country. | Singapore | 88%
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| 1990 | Mount Erebus is a volcano on which continent? | Antarctica | 87%
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| 2003 | Goa, a state in southwestern India, was a possession of which country until 1961? | Portugal | 87%
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| 1995 | Pashto and Dari are the official languages of which mountainous, landlocked country in southwestern Asia? | Afghanistan | 85%
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| 1996 | Name the European co-principality whose heads of state are the President of France and the Bishop of Urgell. | Andorra | 77%
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| 2004 | Peshawar, a city in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, has had strategic importance for centuries because of its location near what historic pass? | Khyber Pass | 71%
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| 2018 | Lebanon has a population most similar to which South American country? | Paraguay | 71%
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| 1994 | The Tagus River roughly divides which European country into two agricultural regions, grain and potatoes in the north, and grapes in the south? | Portugal | 71%
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| 1999 | The condition characterized by unusually cold ocean temperature in the equatorial region of the eastern Pacific Ocean is known by what Spanish name? | La Niña | 67%
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| 2009 | Timis County shares its name with a tributary of the Danube and is located in the western part of which European country? | Romania | 65%
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| 2002 | Lop Nur, a marshy depression at the east end of the Tarim Basin, is a nuclear test site for which country? | China | 60%
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| 1992 | Many coastal countries have established so-called EEZs—areas extending 200 nautical miles (370 km) from shore over which countries have sovereign rights for resource exploration. What do the initials EEZ stand for? | Exclusive Economic Zone | 58%
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| 2015 | Mariupol, at the mouth of the Kalmius River, is a port city on which sea, an arm of the Black Sea? | Sea of Azov | 54%
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| 2008 | The urban area of Cochabamba has been in the news recently due to protests over the privatization of the municipal water supply and regional autonomy issues. Cochabamba is the third-largest conurbation in what country? | Bolivia | 48%
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| 2000 | Name two of the three largest sections of Denmark, which include its mainland peninsula and two largest islands. | Jutland, Sjælland, Fyn | 42%
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| 2013 | Because Earth bulges at the equator, the point that is farthest from Earth's center is the summit of a peak in Ecuador. Name this peak. | Chimborazo | 38%
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| 2014 | Oyala, a planned city in the rainforest 65 miles (105 km) east of Bata is being built as a future capital for which country? | Equatorial Guinea | 37%
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| 1991 | What type of landform is commonly associated with orographic precipitation? | Mountain | 37%
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| 2007 | A city that is divided by a river of the same name was the imperial capital of Vietnam for more than a century. Name this city, which is still an important cultural center. | Huế | 31%
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| 2010 | The largest city in northern Haiti was renamed following Haiti's independence from France. What is the present-day name of this city? | Cap-Haïtien | 27%
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| 2016 | A new marine sanctuary will protect sharks and other wildlife around Isla Wolf in what archipelago in the Pacific Ocean? | Galapagos | 21%
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| 2012 | Name the Bavarian city situated on the Danube River that was a legislative seat of the Holy Roman Empire from 1663 to 1806. | Regensburg | 21%
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| 2019 | One-third of Norway’s northernmost county is in what plateau? | Finnmark | 17%
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| 1989 | Name the flat intermontane area located at an elevation of about 10,000 feet (3,050 m) in the central Andes. | Altiplano | 15%
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| 2017 | What large mountain system that stretches more than 1,200 miles (1,900 km) separates the Taklimakan Desert from the Tibetan Plateau? | Kunlun Mountains | 13%
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| 2006 | Name the mountains that extend across much of Wales, from the Irish Sea to the Bristol Channel. | Cambrian | 10%
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| 2001 | Below the equilibrium line of glaciers there is a region of melting, evaporation, and sublimation. Name this zone. | Zone of Ablation | 10%
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| 2011 | Thousands of mountain climbers and trekkers rely on Sherpas to aid their ascent of Mount Everest. The southern part of Mount Everest is located in which Nepalese national park? | Sagarmatha | 8%
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| 2005 | Lake Gatún, an artificial lake that constitutes part of the Panama Canal system, was created by damming which river? | Chagres | 6%
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