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100
This place is not taught to be a continent in South Korean schools
What is Antarctica?
100
This 2005 Atlantic hurricane was the costliest in the history of the USA.
What is hurricane Katrina?
100
In 1953, this New Zealander, along with Tenzing Norgay of Nepal, was the first person to stand on the summit of Mt. Everest.
Who was Sir Edmund Hillary?
100
More than 800 languages are spoken in this Asian country.
What is India?
100
The potato came from this South American county.
What is Peru?
200
This city was a famous trading nexus in pre colonial Africa.
What is Timbouctou?
200
This natural phenomenon, which occured on Boxing Day 2004, was originally referred to as a "seismic sea wave" by scientists.
What is a tsunami?
200
This famous Norwegian explorer built the ship Kon Tiki, and and sailed againt the wind from South America to the South Seas, trying to prove that Polynesia had been inhabited by South Americans.
Who was Thor Heyerdahl?
200
This is the language that the Hollywood actor, and Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzzeneger spoke in his childhood.
What is German?
200
Chocolate originally came from this Central/North American country.
What is Mexico?
300
Christopher Colombus landed on this Bahamian Island in 1492
What is San Salvador?
300
The people of Pompei were covered by ash from this event.
What is a volcanic eruption?
300
This man was not Spanish, but Italian. He sailed to the New World working for the Spanish queen, Isabella.
Who was Christopher Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo in Italian)?
300
This language is widely spoken in Latin America.
What is Spanish?
300
In Indonesia, a long time ago, people caught stealing this fruit sometimes had their hands cut off.
What is the mango?
400
These islands sit astride the equator, but because of cold waters coming from Antarctica, penguins live here.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
400
During September of 2002, nearly 900 millimeters of rain fell on Gangneung, in Gangwon Province, causing billions of won worth of damage to property as well as loss of life.
What was Typhoon Rusa?
400
This man was stabbed and killed by natives in the Philippines after being the first navigator to succesfully circumnavigate the globe.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan (Fernandao de Magalhaes in Portuguese)?
400
This language is widely spoken in North Africa, West Africa, and on many tropical islands around the world.
What is French?
400
Along with corn and squash, this legume formed one third of the trilogy of the Meso-American diet.
What are beans?
500
This country gained its independence from Portugal in 1975, and Indonesia in 2002.
What is East Timor?
500
This is the largest volcanic eruption of recorded history. After this volcano exploded in Indonesia in the early 19th century, so much ash was ejected into the atmosphere that the world's climate was changed, and in 1816 the world experienced "the year without a summer."
What is the Mt. Tambora eruption?
500
This Korean is the first person in the world to achieve the Adventure Grand Slam of mountaineering, having climbed 14 mountains over 8,000 meters, claimed the Seven Summits, and traveled under human power to the South and North Poles.
Who is Park Young-Seok?
500
This language, spoken in parts of northern Spain and southwestern France, is unusual in that it isn't related to any other language.
What is Basque?
500
This was introduced to Korea several hundred years ago by the Japanese. The Japanese got this from the Portuguese.
What is the chili pepper?
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