Loaded Questions 1/19/23 - Geography
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Happy Thursday, everyone! Been a fun week of trying to catch up on sleep, but luckily I don’t know of any puzzlehunts this weekend, so come on Friday! We’ve got 11 geography questions today, please enjoy, and I hope you learn something new! If you need more questions in your life, I hope you’ll consider subscribing to receive 55 more questions a week.
1. What Catalonian county is the namesake of the Bishop that serves as a co-leader of Andorra?
2. After Chihuahua, Sonora, and Coahuila, what state of Mexico is the 4th-largest state in Mexico and the largest that doesn't border the US?
3. Lake Baikal is drained by what river? Meaning "Cleft", the region of Siberia is heavily associated with land known by this name.
4. Sukhumi is the capital of what partially recognized state?
5. The International Bureau of Weights and Measures is headquartered in what Parisian suburb, which also hosted Interpol until they moved in 1989 to Lyon?
6. What city in the Indian state of Haryana is also called "Land of the Bhagavad Gita", as the Mahabharata is mainly set during a war in this location?
7. Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil contain parts of what semiarid sparsely populated lowland that names a 1930s war?
8. What name is given to the rectangular bay and estuary in East Anglia, located on the east coast of England, where Norfolk meets Lincolnshire?
9. Lynn Canal in Alaska and Budd Inlet in Washington are the endpoints of what 1000 mile waterway?
10. What animal is the namesake of the slot canyon near Page, Arizona, made with sandstone of spiral rock arches?
11. From a Greenlandic word, what name given to a mountain that protrudes from an ice field was also a winning word at the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee?
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1. What Catalonian county is the namesake of the Bishop that serves as a co-leader of Andorra?
Urgell
2. After Chihuahua, Sonora, and Coahuila, what state of Mexico is the 4th-largest state in Mexico and the largest that doesn't border the US?
Durango
3. Lake Baikal is drained by what river? Meaning "Cleft", the region of Siberia is heavily associated with land known by this name.
Angara
4. Sukhumi is the capital of what partially recognized state?
Abkhazia
5. The International Bureau of Weights and Measures is headquartered in what Parisian suburb, which also hosted Interpol until they moved in 1989 to Lyon?
Saint-Cloud
6. What city in the Indian state of Haryana is also called "Land of the Bhagavad Gita", as the Mahabharata is mainly set during a war in this location?
Kurukshetra
7. Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil contain parts of what semiarid sparsely populated lowland that names a 1930s war?
Gran Chaco
8. What name is given to the rectangular bay and estuary in East Anglia, located on the east coast of England, where Norfolk meets Lincolnshire?
The Wash
9. Lynn Canal in Alaska and Budd Inlet in Washington are the endpoints of what 1000 mile waterway?
Inside Passage
10. What animal is the namesake of the slot canyon near Page, Arizona, made with sandstone of spiral rock arches?
Antelope Canyon
11. From a Greenlandic word, what name given to a mountain that protrudes from an ice field was also a winning word at the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee?
Nunatak