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DDG Trivia Places 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What two cities are connected by the busiest international airline route? | London and Paris. |
| What Spanish port city was founded by Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca? | Barcelona. |
| What Bengal nation lost 300,000 people to a cyclone and a tidal wave in 1970? | Bangladesh. |
| What desert has an area larger than the continental U.S.? | The Sahara. |
| What river was designated the U.S.-Mexican border in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? | The Rio Grande. |
| What city's garbage collectors are honored by a street called Avenue of the Strongest? | New York City's. |
| What wonder of the ancient world did Babylonians refer to as the "House of the Foundations of Heaven and Earth"? | The Tower of Babel. |
| What country was Berlin part of when it passed one million in population? | Prussia. |
| What's Rome's Piazza San Pietro known as in English? | St. Peter's Square. |
| What West African nation's name means "lion mountain"? | Sierra Leone's. |
| What U.S. state would you be in if you made the short trip from Citronelle to Tangerine? | Florida. |
| What state is home to a huge hunk of granite called The Dan Blocker Memorial Head? | Texas. |
| What's the world's second largest archipelago, after Indonesia? | The Philippines. |
| What's Canada's largest inland sea? | Hudson Bay. |
| What nation has had a monarchy the longest? | Japan. |
| What Great Lake state are you stuck in if your car has broken down in Hell? | Michigan. |
| What Italian city is considered "the fashion captial of the world"? | Milan. |
| What British town got its name from its proximity to the Cam River? | Cambridge. |
| What western state answers Pamplona's Running of the Bulls with its own annual Running of the Shieep? | Montana. |
| What's the southernmost country in Central America? | Panama. |
| What ocean are the Maldives in? | The Indian Ocean. |
| What two countries lay claim to the name Maclean? | Scotland and Ireland. |
| What body of water is approximately nine times saltier than ocean water? | The Dead Sea. |
| What U.S. state's official fish is the humuhumunukunukuapuaa? | Hawaii's |
| What island country is visited by the most cruise ships? | The Bahamas. |
| What capital has a name meaning "city of Islam"? | Islamabad. |
| What two U.S. states are readily accessible from a border town called Moark? | Missouri and Arkansas. |
| What did Puritans dub "Rogues Island"? | Rhode Island. |
| What Alpine country's women got the right to vote in 1971? | Switzerland's. |
| What U.S. state legislated the pronunciation of its name in 1881, to accent the first and third syllables and quiet the final "s"? | Arkansas. |
| What U.S. state do Knickerbockers knock around in? | New York. |
| Which is further south - the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Horn or Cape Catastrophe? | Cape Horn. |
| What 120,000-square-mile African desert is almost completely covered by woods and grass? | The Kalahari. |
| What country managed to reduce its vodka consumption from 2.6 billion liters in 1984 to just 1.6 billion in 1990? | The Soviet Union. |
| What city did Sigmund Freud call home? | Vienna. |
| What bay do Royal Bengal tigers most often swim in? | The Bay of Bengal. |
| What Asian nation was not invaded by enemy forces between 1275 and 1944? | Japan. |
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