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Straight Up Trivia #2: Largest Countries

Second in a series of themed trivia quizzes. Answer these questions about the largest countries in the world. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area and links from there. Quizzes in this series: 1, 2, 3, 4
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Russia is the largest country in the world. For centuries the leader of Russia was called a tsar, named after the ruler of what great power?
Roman Empire
The first European settlement in Canada is believed to be at L'Anse aux Meadows. What seafaring group created this short-lived settlement?
Vikings
Hohhot is the capital of what autonomous region of China? Its name means Blue City in the local language, which is not a dialect of Chinese.
Inner Mongolia
According to legend, likely apocryphal, the song "The World Turned Upside Down" was played after the surrender of the British Army in what final battle of the American Revolution?
Yorktown
Brazilian superstar Ronaldo has the second most goals scored in World Cup history. What German has the most, a total of 16, one more than Ronaldo?
Miroslav Klose
What name did Abel Tasman give to Australia, basing the name on his homeland?
New Holland
Although Rajasthan is the largest Indian state by area, what is the largest Indian state by population?
Uttar Pradesh
The name Argentina derives from the Italian word, and ultimately the Latin word, for what element?
Silver
The Kazakh language is part of what family of languages, which consists of more than 30 documented languages throughout much of Asia and parts of Europe?
Turkic
The national animal of Algeria is a large-eared species of what predator of the genus Vulpes?
(Fennec) Fox
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