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Mystery Question
100
This mountain range forms the backbone of the boot-shaped Italian Peninsula.
What is the Apennines?
100
Finland, Hungary, and this other country are the only 3 countries in Europe to have a Uralic language as an official language.
What is Estonia?
100
The port city of Le Havre, historically part of the region of Normandy, can be found in which country?
What is France?
100
This strait connects the Coral and Arafura Seas and separates New Guinea from the Cape York Peninsula.
What is the Torres Strait?
100
O Canada! The Ottawa River is a tributary of which other river?
What is the St. Lawrence River?
200
This island contains the Crocker Range, which has Mount Kinabalu, its highest point.
What is Borneo?
200
Name two of the four official languages of Singapore.
What are English, Mandarin, Tamil, and Malay.
200
The 3 regions of Libya are Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, and what other region whose largest city is Al-Sabha?
What is the Fezzan?
200
This strait separates Tierra del Fuego from mainland Patagonia.
What is the Strait of Magellan?
200
The Isle of Man is located in this sea.
What is the Irish Sea?
300
The Khyber Pass, which served as one of the few gateways into the Indian Subcontinent, is located in which mountain range whose highest mountains include Tirich Mir and Nowshak?
What is the Hindu Kush Mountains?
300
These people were the first people to inhabit Japan, and now live on the island of Hokkaido and the Kuril Islands?
What are the Ainu?
300
The region of Transnistria, home to a large population of Russians, is a breakaway state in which European country?
What is Moldova?
300
The Strait of Tartary separates this island from mainland Eurasia?
What is Sakhalin?
300
The Garagabozkol Lagoon is in this country which borders both Iran and Kazakhstan.
What is Turkmenistan?
400
The Mitumba Mountains parallel this lake that borders only one national capital city, Bujumbura.
What is Lake Tanganyika?
400
The Mandinka people form the largest ethnic group in which country whose largest city is Serrekunda?
What is Gambia?
400
Wroclaw is an important city of this coal mining region on the border of Poland and Slovakia.
What is Silesia?
400
This channel separates Denmark from Norway.
What is the Skagerrak?
400
Ghana is to cedi as Thailand is to what?
What is baht?
500
Margherita Peak, located on Mount Stanley, is the highest point in both Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This mountain is the highest peak in which mountain range that contains the Virunga National Park?
What are the Rwenzori Mountains?
500
This language was the main language of the ancient Aztecs and is now spoken by 1.5 million people in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
What is Nahuatl?
500
The Abyei Area is disputed between these two countries. The Dinka is the largest ethnic group in the southern one of these two.
What are Sudan and South Sudan?
500
Bangka and Belitung are islands in this strait, which separates Borneo and Sumatra?
What is the Karimata Strait?
500
Port-Gentil, located on the Cape Lopez Peninsula, is the 2nd largest city in this country.
What is Gabon?