CANADA
This region's northernmost portion contains the Torngat Mountains, where a weather station known as "Kurt" established the only armed German presence in the Americas during World War Two. This region's town Happy Valley-Goose Bay is located on the Churchill River, which contains the world's second-largest manmade lake, the Smallwood Reservoir. For the point, what is this region in Canada that forms a province with Newfoundland?
Labrador (accept Newfoundland and Labrador)
On Perdido Key, southwest of this city, an annual festival has contestants throw a dead mullet between state lines. This city contains an obelisk dedicated to William Dudley Chipley, a man who orchestrated the construction of a railroad that stretched 160 miles west to the Apalachicola River at the town of Chattahoochee. The country seat of Escambia County is, for the point, what westernmost city in the panhandle of Florida?
Pensacola
This state's Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Station produces five percent of its country's energy. This state, which is home to the archaeological sites Tres Zapotes, has its capital at Xalapa [[hah-LAH-pah]], and this state controls the east side of Pico de Orizaba. Upon landing in what is now Mexico, Hernán Cortés founded, for the point, what Mexican state whose namesake city has the prefix "Heroica"?
Veracruz (or Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de la Llave; accept Heroica Veracruz)
This territory is home to the non-profit Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park. This territory's endemic animal species include the Blue iguana. This territory was originally named Las Tortugas, and geologically, this territory is an extension of the Sierra Maestra range of Cuba. Sharing its name with a species of crocodilian, for the point, what is this British dependency in the Caribbean, known for being a tax haven?
Cayman Islands (accept Caymans)
This first trading port of African enslaved persons in the Americas was formerly known as Mauritsstad and is the site of Kahal Zur Israel, the first synagogue in the Americas. This capital of Pernambuco administers Fernando de Noronha and is known for its Frevo style of dance. The easternmost city to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup was, for the point, what Brazilian city whose name translates to "reef"?
Recife [[ruh-SEE-fee]] (be lenient on pronunciation)
This province's McArthur River uranium mine is the world's largest. Lloydminster and Moose Jaw are cities in this province that doesn't observe Daylight Savings Time and which has completely rectangular borders. Reindeer and Athabasca are both lakes in this province that borders North Dakota and the Northwest Territories. Regina [[ree-JY-nah]] is the capital of, for the point, what province bordering Manitoba, home to Saskatoon?
Saskatchewan
This peninsula's southernmost point is Cape Charles, and this peninsula's main commercial center is Sailsbury. Rehoboth Beach and Ocean City are resorts on this peninsula whose city of Lewes is connected to Cape May via ferry, and the Chincoteague ponies lives on this peninsula's offshore island of Assateague. Located on the east of Chesapeake Bay, the city of Dover lies on, for the point, what peninsula whose name is a portmanteau of three states?
Delmarva Peninsula
A marker to this feature is found in the town of Ruisui, and the highest point on this feature is Yu Shan. By international agreement, traveling the length of this feature is needed for a round-the-world aviation speed record. This feature reaches its westernmost terrestrial point at Baja California, and the sun lies directly overhead to viewers on this line during the June solstice. For the point, what is this line, named for the crab constellation in the Northern hemisphere?
Tropic of Cancer (accept Northern Tropic before "Northern" is mentioned; do not accept or prompt on "Tropic of Capricorn")
This bay's Cayo Piedra was allegedly the site of a private island equipped with a yacht gifted by Leonid Brezhnev, and this bay's Playa Girón wsa the landing site of an invasion by Brigade 2506, a CIA-trained military group led by Pepe San Román. This bay, to the east of the Zapata Peninsula, is part of Matanzas Province and is also known as the Bahía de los Cochinos. For the point, name this Cuban bay, the site of a failed 1961 invasion.
Bay of Pigs (accept Bahía de los Cochinos before mentioned; accept Bay of Pigs Invasion)
This city, home to Del Rosario University, is home to a historic quarter known as La Candelaria. This former capital of the viceroyalty of New Granada is the world's highest capital lying north of the equator. One museum in this city contains the world's largest collection of gold artifacts, and this city is served by El Dorado Airport. For the point, name this capital of Colombia.
Bogotá Distrito Capital (accept Bogotá D.C.)
This province's town Prince George is nicknamed its "inland capital," and the Hecate [[HEK-it]] Strait separates it from the Haida Gwaii [[GWY]] archipelago. North America's largest ski area is this province's Whistler-Blackcomb resort. Containing the source of the Columbia River, for the point, what is this province governed from Victoria on Vancouver Island?
British Columbia (or BC)
This island's FDR Boardwalk stretches from Fort Wadsworth to New Dorp. Todt Hill is the highest point of this island and the entire Atlantic Coastal Plain. Synonymous with Richmond County, this island receives the busiest ferry route in the U.S. at St. George Terminal, and this island is connected to Brooklyn via the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. For the point, name this southernmost borough of New York City.
Staten Island (accept Richmond County before mentioned)
Volcanoes named Concepción [[kohn-sep-see-OHN]] and Maderas make up this country's largest island, Ometepe [[oh-meh-TEP-eh]]. Major ports in this country include Puerto Cabezas [[kah-BEH-sahs]], Bluefields, and Corinto. With its northern neighbor, this country contains the Mosquito Coast. This country's namesake lake and the San Juan River were once considered potential locations for what became the Panama Canal. For the point, name this largest country of the Central American isthmus.
Republic of Nicaragua (or República de Nicaragua; accept Lake Nicaragua)
This country, home to the Sandy Lane Resort where Jacqueline Kennedy vacationed, also contains the George Washington House, the only place Washington visited outside the US. This country's locals are known as Bajans [[BAY-juns]] and include Rhianna. This country, that displays a trident on its flag, is the easternmost of the Caribbean. For the point, name this country which is governed from Bridgetown.
Barbados
The Churún [[choo-ROON]] River feeds this waterfall that was named for an aviator who crash-landed on it in his monoplane El Rio Caroní. Canaima National Park contains these falls which descend from the top of Auyán-tepui [[ow-YAHN TEP-wee]] in the Gran Sabana region. Legendarily first discovered by Europeans on Walter Raleigh's journey to find El Dorado, for the point, what are these falls in Venezuela, the world's tallest?
Angel Falls (accept Salto Ángel; accept Kerepakupai Vená; accept Parakupá Vená)
This territory contains Nettilling Lake, the world's largest lake on an island, as well as Akimiski Island within James Bay. This territory claims the remote Hans Island, disputed with Denmark, where there is a tradition of leaving either schnapps or whisky to claim sovereignty. This territory borders Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. For the point, name this Canadian territory governed from Iqaluit [[ee-KAL-oo-it]] on Baffin Island, mostly inhabited by the Inuit.
Nunavut
This city's international airport contains the UPS Worldport and has a logo that features a victorious man against the backdrop of a butterfly. The Muhammad Ali International Airport is located in this city that is also home to the "World's Largest Baseball Bat" outside a factory that makes this city's namesake Slugger. For the point, name this city with many sporting connections including the Kentucky Derby
Louisville (accept Louisville Slugger)
This region's namesake reef system includes the Cayos Cochinos in the Bay Islands as well as the Great Blue Hole popularized by Jacques Cousteau. This region includes the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which derives its name from "jaguar mountain," and ruins in this region include Monte Albán, used by the Zapotecs. For the point, name this historic region of Mexico and Central America, the former home of the Aztec civilization
Mesoamerica (accept Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System; do not accept or prompt on specific countries such as "Honduras" or "Mexico")
This country's Brimstone Hill Fortress was considered the "Gibraltar of the Caribbean" and is overlooked by Mount Liamuiga [[LEE-ah-MWEE-gah]], offering views of Sint Eustasias [[yoo-STAY-shuss]]. Alexander Hamilton was born in Charlestown in what is now this country, and its separation from Anguilla in 1983 made it the last country in the Americas to gain independence from Britain. The smallest country in the Americas, for the point, what is this country, governed from Basseterre?
Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (accept Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis; prompt on partial answers)
This city is home to an iconic mosaic-tiled staircase named Escadaria Selarón. The largest city on Guanabara bay, this city's South Zone is home to Copacabana Beach. This city hosts the world's largest Carnival celebration and is overlooked by Corcovado Mountain, home to the Christ the Redeemer statue. For the point, name this city that, after Sao Paulo, is the second-most populous in Brazil.
Rio de Janeiro
One of this city’s nicknames, “The City of a Hundred Steeples,” is derived from its proliferation of churches, including four Roman Catholic basilicas. It is perhaps more appropriate to call this city "la ville aux cent clochers" [[lah VEEL oh SAHNT kloh-SHEH]], because this city’s official language is French. At its founding, this Canadian city was named Ville-Marie but later came to be named for a small mountain in the center of the city. For the point, name this most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec.
Montreal
This museum displays part of the Cape York meteorite, the largest on display in the Northern Hemisphere. Neil deGrasse Tyson has been the director of this museum's Hayden Planetarium since its founding. An equestrian statue of this museum's founder was moved to North Dakota due to its depiction of a Native American man and an African man in subordinate positions. Adjoining Central Park, for the point, what is this New York museum founded by Theodore Roosevelt?
American Museum of Natural History (accept AMNH; prompt on "American" or "Natural History")
This peninsula includes administrative divisions like the Orange Walk District, Peten Department, and Quintana Roo. This peninsula's Chicxulub [[chik-choo-LOOB]] crater was formed from the asteroid that resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs, and its resorts include Tulum and Cancún. Home to Tikal from the Maya Civilization, for the point, what is this Mexican peninsula that juts into the Caribbean Sea?
Yucatán Peninsula (accept Península de Yucatán)
This country's Morne Trois Pitons [[mohrn-twah-pee-TOHN]] National Park contains Boiling Lake, the world's second-largest hot spring. This country, home to the last Kalingo, or Island Carib, population, is one of the two to have purple on its flag, as it displays the sisserou parrot on a green background. Located between Martinique and Guadeloupe and governed from Roseau, for the point, what is this island nation, named by Columbus for the day of the week on which he first saw it?
Commonwealth of Dominica
This mountain is most commonly ascended via the Polish Glacier and is the world's highest that can be climbed without technical mountaineering equipment. The closest other mountain to this mountain that is higher than it is Tirich Mir, at a distance of over 10,000 miles. This mountain is the highest in the Southern Hemisphere and is located near the Chile-Argentina border. For the point, name this highest mountain of South America.
Aconcagua