SPELLING "B"
DOUBLE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY
EUROPEAN HISTORY
FROM THE GREEK
STUPID ANSWERS
100

Acute or chronic inflammation of the membrane lining the lungs

What is bronchitis?

100

The Arabic name of this Muslim nation in northwest Africa means "The Western Kingdom"

What is Morocco?

100

Beginning around 697 A.D., it was the title of the leader of the Venetian Republic

What is a doge?

100

It's a list of source materials used in the preparation of a work, like a term paper

What is a bibliography?

100

Papua New Guinea occupies the eastern half of this island

What is New Guinea?

200

This country borders the Congo, Tanzania & of course, Rwanda

What is Burundi?

200

This capital city was founded in 1840 on Lambton Harbour at the extreme south part of the North Island

What is Wellington?

200

1397's Union of Kalmar united Sweden with these 2 other countries

What are Denmark and Norway?

200

The punctuation mark is from the Greek for "limb"; the organ is from the Greek for "large intestine"

What is a colon?

200

The Statue of Liberty towers 305 feet from foundation to torch above this island

What is Liberty Island?

300

Acute form of food poisoning that once claimed as many as 65% of its victims

What is botulism?

300

Fort Peck Dam on this river in Montana provides irrigation & hydroelectric power for much of the region

What is the Missouri River?

300

Charlotte Corday was executed for taking the life of this French Revolutionary leader in his bathtub

Who was Marat?

300

This arch that separates the stage from the auditorium is from the Greek for "before the stage"

What is the proscenium?

300

Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists includes Robbie Robertson of the band called this

What is The Band?

400

Istanbul was once Constantinople & before that, this city founded by the Greeks

What is Byzantium?

400

This Canadian provincial capital lies about halfway between Vancouver & Montreal

What is Winnipeg?

400

This major league was a political & commercial confederacy of European towns from the 13th to the 17th century

What is the Hanseatic League?

400

This term for 2 dissimilar organisms living together in mutualism comes from the Greek for "with" & "life"

What is symbiosis?

400

It's the young of a fish, whether you bake, broil or fry it

What are fry?

500

A Marxist adjective for the middle class

What is the Bourgeois?

500

The longest river originating in this mountain range is the Garonne, which flows northward through France

what are the Pyrenees?

500

2 of the 3 member nations of the Triple Alliance at the beginning of World War I

What are Austria-Hungary, Italy, and/or Germany?

500

This math term for a restricting factor comes from Greek words for "beside" & "measure"

What is a parameter?
500

It's the last name of New Zealand's first Olympic gold medal champion Malcolm

What is Champion?