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This city contains the mouth of the Mystic River at its oldest neighborhood, Charlestown, which is the site of the Bunker Hill Memorial. This city includes suburbs such as Brookline and Wellesley. Fenway Park, the baseball stadium of the Red Sox, is located in, for the point, what capital city of Massachusetts? | Boston |
This city is where St. Olaf's Church was established after the Danish victory at the Battle of Lyndanisse, when it was known as Reval. This city, famed for its Laulupidu [[low- lah-PEE-doo]] Song Festival, is the northernmost capital of the three countries often referred to as the Baltic States. For the point, name this capital city of Estonia. | Tallinn |
Some convert to this religion in a process known as Ghar Wapsi. Shaktism and Shaivism are major denominations of this religion, whose members congregate at the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage. This religion is practiced by the majority of Bali's population. Using holy texts often written in Sanskrit, for the point, what is the predominant religion of India? | Hinduism (accept Sanātana Dharma) |
This body of water's Tamu Massif is possibly the world's largest volcano, and its also contains the Emperor seamount chain. This body of water's northwestern boundary is formed by the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, and it contains islands such as Bora-Bora. The International Date Line passes through, for the point, what largest ocean? | Pacific Ocean |
This country's port of Pevek contains the Akademik Lomonosov, a floating nuclear power plant off the coast of Chukotka. This country recently seized control of Zaporizhzhia [[[zah-pohr-REEZ-jah]], Europe's largest nuclear power plant, and it controls a successful plant named for its former city of Leningrad. For the point, name this country with the world's largest nuclear weapon arsenal, governed from Moscow. | Russia (or Russian Federation) |
This city's main thoroughfare is Ouellette Avenue, and it includes French-speaking suburbs like Tecumseh and LaSalle. Bernie Sanders visited this city with a group of diabetics to advocate for lower insulin costs in 2019. Connected via the Ambassador Bridge to its northern neighbor, the busiest Canadian border crossing is, for the point, what Canadian city across from Detroit? | Windsor |
An attempt to eliminate members of this ethnic group in the Ituri Rainforest was called Effacer le tableau [[tah-BLOW]]. The Twa are a subset of this group, who were theorized by Noémie [[NOH-em-ee]] Becker to have developed a key characteristic due to low ultraviolet light beneath rainforest canopies. For the point, name this African people group named for their short stature. | Pygmy People (or Central African Foragers) |
This city’s Paghman District includes a recreation of the Arc de Triomphe. A river that shares its name with this city rises in the Sanglākh Range and is a principal right-bank tributary of the Indus River. The invading Soviets assassinated President Hafizullah Amin in this city’s Tajbeg Palace during a 1979 invasion. For the point, name this capital city of Afghanistan. | Kabul |