Nazca Lines
🙂 You’re correct! The Nazca Lines were etched between 500 BCE and 500 CE.
Lima Lines
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Huaca Pucllana
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Machu Picchu
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Cordillera Blanca
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In which country have some of Pablo Escobar’s hippos escaped?
Colombia
Venezuela
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Mexico
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Ecuador
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Brazil
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As of 2017, which of these was not in the top ten list of countries with the highest income per capita?
Canada
🙂 You’re correct! Canada was ranked 16th that year in gross national income per capita.
Switzerland
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Norway
No, Norway was number 2.
Qatar
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Iceland
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Denmark
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Luxembourg
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Can you determine which language is shown below?
German
🙂 You’re correct!
Spanish
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Norwegian
No…
Dutch
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Russian
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Which language is this?
Swedish
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German
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Danish
No…
Dutch
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Finnish
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Which language is shown?
Chinese (Simplified)
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Japanese
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Vietnamese
No…
Korean
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Russian
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Can you figure out which language is heard in the audio?
Swedish
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Mandarin
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Russian
No…
Portuguese
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German
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What language is being spoken in this audio clip?
Spanish
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French
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Italian
No…
Portuguese
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German
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Can you tell what this language is?
French
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Spanish
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Finnish
No…
Italian
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Romanian
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Which of the following languages is heard in this audio?
Russian
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Swedish
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Finnish
No…
Bulgarian
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Spanish
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What language is spoken in this audio clip?
German
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Swedish
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Danish
No…getting close…
Chinese
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Russian
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Alibaba and Tencent are (as of 2018) giant tech companies based in which country?
China
🙂 You’re right! Chinese companies’ share of the largest tech companies in the world continues to grow.
United Kingdom
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Syria
Nope, you may be thinking of the book One Thousand and One Nights.
Japan
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Korea
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Which European city is the historical capital of Bohemia?
Prague
🙂 You’re right! Prague is now the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic (Czechia).
Vienna
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Salzburg
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Dresden
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Krakow
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Israel captured the West Bank from which country in the Six-Day War in 1967?
Jordan
Syria
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Egypt
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Lebanon
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Saudi Arabia
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Which country had the smallest population when its football team competed in the World Cup final?
Uruguay
🙂 You’re right! Uruguay was the smallest, and Croatia was the second-smallest so far.
Croatia
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Argentina
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Iceland
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Hungary
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Which country’s football team won the World Cup in 1934, 1938, 1982, and 2006?
Italy
🙂 You’re right! Here’s a history of World Cup championships.
Germany
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Brazil
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France
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Uruguay
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What is the capital city of Australia?
Canberra
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Sydney
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Melbourne
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Perth
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Brisbane
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Yiddish, when written, uses characters from which language?
Hebrew
🙂 You’re right! Yiddish is the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews.
Greek
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Latin
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Persian
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Sanskrit
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In what year did the USSR dissolve?
1991
🙂 Correct! The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on December 26, 1991.
1989
Too early! Though the Berlin Wall did fall that year.
1992
No… Try again! Too late…
2001
incorrect
1999
Nope
What is the capital of the country of Latvia?
Riga
🙂 Correct!
Tallinn
Oops!
Vilnius
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Warsaw
incorrect
Helsinki
Nope
Which country’s submission won the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest?
Israel
🙂 Correct! The winning song was “Toy” by Netta.
Austria
Oops!
Sweden
No… They’ve won enough times. 😉
Cyprus
Not this year.
Hungary
Nope, but they did have the sole heavy metal song in the finals!
What port city in southeastern North Carolina was the birthplace of Michael Jordan, the great National Basketball Association (NBA) player?
Wilmington
🙂 Correct!
Charleston
Oops, wrong city and state!
Savannah
No, wrong city and state.
Raleigh
No..
Norfolk
Wrong city and state.
What is the most common surname in most US states?
Smith
🙂 Correct! Smith, Williams, and Johnson are common in many states.
Jones
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Lee
No, but it is common in Hawaii.
Garcia
Garcia is one of the more common surnames in the southwestern US. In fact, California’s top 3 surnames are all Latino in origin.
Miller
Miller is common in several states, but not most states.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands consists of the Netherlands, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and which other country?
Aruba
🙂 Correct! Aruba is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Bermuda
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The Bahamas
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Anguilla
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Barbados
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In which West Virginia town did abolitionist John Brown initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal?
Harper’s Ferry
🙂 You’re right! Of interest is that Frederick Douglass declined to join the raid at Harper’s Ferry.
Charleston
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Beckley
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Morgantown
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Huntington
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