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Saints on Earth
100
The center of the nation's film industry, this city is also the capital of India's Maharashtra state.
What is Mumbai?
100
The Gum department store in this capital was where Soviet higher-ups got to shop for luxury apparel.
What is Moscow?
100
This religious building in Touba, Senegal, has room for more than 7,000 worshippers:
What is a mosque?
100
Locals call this kingdom Kongeriket Norge.
What is Norway?
100
From 1815 to 1821 Napoleon had a lot of time to sit right there & think about what he'd done on this island 1,200 miles off Africa.
What is Saint Helena?
200
At about 1 million square miles, this "stan" is the largest landlocked country in the world.
What is Kazakhstan?
200
Iceland's 3,000-square-mile Vatnajokull is Europe's largest of these--subject to change, as it's receding fast.
What is a glacier?
200
This capital's mummy-rich antiquities museum dates back to 1902.
What is Cairo?
200
Morocco's official languages are Tamazight and __________.
What is Arabic?
200
Ponce de Leon took a very early Florida vacation in 1513 & claimed land for Spain near what is now this city.
What is St. Augustine?
300
Part of the Old Palace of the Malla kings, the Taleju Temple is found in this capital of Nepal.
What is Kathmandu?
300
Roman baths once highlighted this Paris locale that got its name due to the language spoken there until about 1789.
What is the Latin Quarter?
300
One of the highest on the continent, the Maletsunyane Falls tumble 630 feet in this nation surrounded by South Africa:
What is Lesotho?
300
It borders Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay & the south Atlantic.
What is Argentina?
300
The name of this largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands means "holy cross" & holy cross! The average temp there is 82!
What is Saint Croix?
400
The Filipino language is a standardized variety of this language.
What is Tagalog?
400
Most of this largest European alpine lake belongs to the Swiss, the rest to France, the view--to everyone.
What is Lake Geneva?
400
Kunta Kinte, a former slave trading post named after a "Roots" character is in this West African river.
What is the Gambia River?
400
It's Australia's most populous state.
What is New South Wales?
400
This river flows into the gulf of the same name, northeast out of Lake Ontario.
What is the Saint Lawrence River?
500
16-foot stingrays can be found in the waters of this 2,700-mile-long Indochinese river.
What is the Mekong?
500
It's quite lovely along this river that flows through Porto, Portugal:
What is the Douro?
500
This successor organization to the Organization of African Unity has its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
What is the African Union?
500
In 1991 Moldova broke away from the USSR, which had seized it from this country in World War II.
What is Romania?
500
The 3,792-foot peak that forms much of this, Nevis' partner, is the pleasantly named Mount Misery.
What is Saint Kitts?