USA
"The Villages", located in this state, is America's largest community for seniors. The seniors on this Zoom call, though, live down the road outside Orlando.
What is Florida?
This country's capital was completed in 1960, almost 140 years after the declaration of independence from Portugal. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer, this city replaced Rio de Janeiro as the capital of Brazil.
What is Brasilia?
This country's four-year-long departure from the European Union, popularly known as Brexit, concluded at the dawn of the new year.
What is the United Kingdom?
Israel and Palestine have both claimed this ancient holy city as their capital since the British left in 1948.
What is Jerusalem?
Frank Sinatra covered a Tom Jobim song about a girl from this famous Rio neighborhood.
What is Ipanema?
Lake Union, Lake Washington, and the Puget Sound surround this city in the Pacific Northwest, perhaps most well known for its iconic Space Needle.
What is Seattle?
Julius Caesar took over the Senate in this city, which sits upon the Tiber River. The Colosseum survives to this day in this eternal capital of Italy.
What is Rome?
The 2020 Olympics, rescheduled to this summer because of the pandemic, will be held in this capital city of Japan.
What is Tokyo?
The 2001 blockbuster war movie Black Hawk Down, based on a 1993 battle, was set in Mogadishu, the capital of this East African country.
What is Somalia?
This the name of both Brazil's largest city and the state it houses, a situation not unlike New York in the United States.
What is Sao Paulo?
Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa are two of the most prominent geographical features on this island, which shares its name with the state that houses it. A member of our family recently moved onto the volcanic slopes of this Pacific paradise.
What is the Big Island of Hawaii?
The British colonial administration completed this capital less than 20 years before independence was achieved in 1947. Gandhi won freedom for India in this New city.
What is New Delhi?
2021 marks the 8th year of the ongoing civil war in this Arab country, a former French colony sandwiched between Iraq and Lebanon.
What is Syria?
The Dalai Lama is exiled from this territory, which claims independence from China.
What is Tibet?
This is the biggest city in the Amazon rainforest.
What is Manaus?
This is the only American city from which Canada is reached by driving south. Home to automakers GM and Ford, this city is alternately called "Motor City" and is the largest city in Michigan.
What is Detroit?
The pyramids sit in the modern-day suburbs of this Arab capital, which was designed by France as a "Paris on the Nile". The Arab Spring's single largest protest happened in Tahrir Square, the center of this Egyptian capital city.
What is Cairo?
The military overthrew the government last week in this Southeast Asian country. Its two names reflect its complicated ethnic and colonial past.
What is Burma or Myanmar?
China, Vietnam, and the Philippines all claim this southern sea, a major shipping route with strategic significance.
What is the South China Sea?
Brazil's Federal District was carved out of this Brazilian state, today home to our family ranch.
What is Goias?
This is the furthest place to which an American can fly and still be on a domestic flight. Residents of this US territory in the South Pacific are not US citizens, the only residents of any American territory without the privilege. This territory was formed after an 1899 treaty split its islands with Germany; the former German colony is today known as Samoa.
What is American Samoa?
This is the capital of the first country to recognize the US, in a 1777 Treaty of Friendship. Though Casablanca is not its capital, Morocco's seat of government is just up the road in this coastal suburb.
What is Rabat?
The government of this Caribbean island country announced yesterday that it would end its control of the economy, a substantial shift away from communism in this Spanish-speaking nation with a capital named Havana.
What is Cuba?
This European country was the first to declare independence from the Soviet Union in 1988. Its capital Tallinn sits on the Baltic Sea.
What is Estonia?
This South American country was a State of Brazil until 1828.
What is Uruguay?