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| What is the capital of Germany | Berlin
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| What is another name for the Beer Festival | October Fest
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| How many people attend the Beer Festival | 5 million
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| What is another name for the black forest | the region of Boveria
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| What is in the region of Boveria | Castles
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| There are river boat tours along this river (HINT: it goes through Germany) | Rhine River
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| What is the capital of Belgium | Brussels
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| Brussels is home to what of Europe's | EC (Economic Community)
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| What is the currency of most of European nations | The euros
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| 1 euro is equal to what in USD | $1.32 of USD is equal to it
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| Where does the famous chocolate come from in Europe | Belgium, Belgium Chocolate
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| What is Amsterdam the capital of | The netherlands
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| what is the nickname of the netherlands | holand
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| what is the ethnicity of the netherlands | Dutch
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| What capital city is dug of of canals | Amsterdam
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| What creates energy in the Netherlands | Windmills
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| What is the famous flower in the Netherlands | Tulip
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| What is the famous cheese in the Netherlands | Gouda
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| What two things are legal in the capital city of the Netherlands | Prostitution and Marijuana
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| What is the Capital of England | London
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| Where are Big Ben, Parliment, and the London Tower located | London, England
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| Who was the Prime Minister (P.M.) | was Gordon Howard now is David Cameron
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| What four countries make up the United Kingdom | England, Scotland, Whales, and Northern Ireland
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| Paris is the capital of what country | France
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| What is the nickname of Paris | City of Love/Romance
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| The capital city is known as what | the Fashion Capital
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| What is the Wine Region | Bordeaux (champagne Region)
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| Who said "My God, It taste like Stars" | Dom Perigone when he created champagne
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| What is Switzerland's capital | Bern
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| What are some Swiss Army Products | Knifes, Watches, and Clocks
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| What are the famous falls in Switzerland | The Rhine Falls
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| What is the native song in Switzerland | Yoodle
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| What are some Swiss foods | Cheese, Foundough, and Chococlate
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| Where do people do Alpine Skiing | The Alps, the Matterhorn, Zermaic
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| What is Europe's most famous Art Museum | Louvre
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| What country has the smallest population | Iceland
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| What is the capital of Austria | Vienna
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| Austria is home to what type of music | Classical
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| Austria is home to what famous composers | Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart
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| Austria is home to what famous choir | The Vienna Boys Choir
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| What famous movie was filmed in Austria | The Sound of Music
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| What is the capital of Italy | Rome
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| Rome is the center of the ancient what | Roman Empire
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| St. Peter's Basilica is located in Rome, but where | Vatican City
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| The Current Pope is who | Pope Bennidict the 16th
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| The wine country is what in Italy | Tuscany
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| What is Italy's Capital of art and the renaissance | Florance
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| Athens is the capital of what country | Greece
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| What is the black and white of Greece | black sand, and white houses
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| What is the nickname of Greece | The Playground of the gods
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| What are some foods from greece | Boliakvac, dairy, olive oil, red wine, grapes, and feta
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| What is the capital of Turkey | Istanbul is the capital
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| Turkey is the land bridge connecting what two countries | Europe and Asia
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| What is the ancient capital of Constantinople now | Istanbul
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| What two religious worlds are in Turkey | Islam and Christanity
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| What is the capital of Whales | Cardiff
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| What is the capital of Northern Ireland | Belfast
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| What is the capital of the Republic of Ireland | Dublin
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| What two languages are spoken in Ireland other than English | Celtic and Gaelic
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| What is vegetation in the majority of Europe | The Deciduous Forest
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| What side of the road do the people in England drive on | the left
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| What is the biggest country (land area) in Europe | Russia
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| What is the I.R.A. | The Ireland Republic Army
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| What did the I.R.A. want to do | 1) unify the two irelands
2) help the irish catholics in Northern Ireland
3)Get the United Kingdom out of the country
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| What is the largest land locked sea in Europe | The Caspian Sea
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| What is the capital of Scotland | Edinburgh
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| What does the Chunnel go under (body of water) | Dover Straits
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| What is the capital of Poland | Warsaw
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| What is the capital of Iceland | Reykjavik
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| What is the capital of Denmark | Copenhagen
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| What is the capital of Finland | Helsinki
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| What is the capital of Liechtenstein | Vaduz
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| What is the capital of Luxembourg | Luxembourg
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| What is the capital of Malta | Valletta
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| What is the capital of Monaco | Monaco
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| What is the capital of Norway | Oslo
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| What is the capital of Portugal | Lisbon
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| What is the capital of Spain | Madrid
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| What is the capital of Sweden | Stockholm
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| What is the capital of the Vatican City | Vatican City
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| What is the Scandinavian Peninsula | Norway, Sweden, and Finland
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| What river travels west to east in Europe | The Danube River
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| What mountain range in located in Italy | Apennies
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| What mountain range boarders the north of Italy | the Alps
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| What Sea is to the right of Italy | Adratic Sea
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| What sea is to the right of Greece | The Aegean Sea
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| What mountains are the boarder between Spain and France | the Pyrenees
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| What is between Spain and Africa | The Strait of Gibralter
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| What is apart of the british isles | The republic ireland, and the United KIngdom
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| What sea is located south of the scandinavian peninsula | the Baltic Sea
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| What Sea is located to the right of the British Isles | the north sea
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| What sea is between Iceland and Norway | The norwegian sea
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| What sea is beneath Italy and Greece but to the north of Africa | The mediterranean sea
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| What Ocean is to the left of ireland | the atlantic ocean
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| what ocean is to the north of norway | artic sea
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| What is the largest city in Western Europe | London, England
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| What are the four major languages spoken in W. Europe | Finno-Ogric, Romance, Germanic Slavis, and Celtic
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| How any countries speak english | 32
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| What are the most popular climate regions | Marine West Coast, Mediterranen, and Humid Continental
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| These are three hints of what country: The canals of Venice, the glory that was rome, and vatican city (home to the pope) | Italy
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| The olympic games began in what country around 776 B.C. | Athens, Greece
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| What is the center of the Roman Catholic Church and is also the worlds least populated nation with 1,000 people | Vatican City (not capital)
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| What mountain range separates Asia and Europe | The Urals
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| What is Eurasia | The countries that are apart of both Asia and Europe
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| What is the largest and most inportant river in western europe | Rhine River
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| Who is Sinn Fein | the political arm of the IRA
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| What are the problems in Ireland | English Protestants (part of the UK) and Irish Catholics (the Republic of Ireland)
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| Who are the bogsiders | The Catholics in Northern Ireland, there were forced to live in the bogs and weren't given rights to get jobs, and make any money
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| What happened in 1960 | The Catholic and IRA took to the streets demanding for civil rights
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| What is the river that goes through Dublin and carries all the way to the Atlantic Ocean | The Shannon River
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| How many people live in the Republic of Ireland | 3.6 million
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| How many people live in Northern Ireland | 1.6 million
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| What happened in 1922 | the UK came in to take over Northern Ireland
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| What is the Chunnel | an underwater tunnel, goes from England to France, it is 31-miles long
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| what are moors | broad, treeless rolling plants
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| what are bogs | areas of wet, spongy ground
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| what is a glen | a narrow valley
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| Scotland and England have been politically tied for how long | almost 300 years
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| scotland occupies how much of the land in the UK | nearly 1/3
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| What two physical features separate England and Scotland | Cheviot Hills and the Tweed River
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| What are the three regions that divide Scotland | the highlands, the central lowlands, and the southern Uplands
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| what are the highlands | large, high plateau, and many lakes
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| what are the central lowlands | 75% of population is located here, huge shipping center
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| what are the southern uplands | closest to england boarder, sheep-raising region
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| What is Heather and what color is it | it is eurasian shrub that grows purple flowers
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| What were the terms of the Act of Union of 1707, and How are the Scots and English different | both retain their own cultures, and schtoland kept its own laws-economic rights and education
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| What separates the republic of ireland and whales | St. George's Channel
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| What are the group of islands north of scotland | orkney islands and the shetland islands
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| what islands are located in the english channel | the channel islands
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| what is fertile | ABLE TO PRODUCE ABUNDANT CROPS
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| what is an estuary | a flooded valley at the wide mouth of a river
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| what is ore | ROCKY MATERIAL CONTAINING A VALUABLE MINERAL
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