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|---|---|
| Native peoples in this country worship Baiame, a sky father and creator god who is depicted in cave paintings at Milbrodale. Divine paths across this country are known as song- lines. Native people from this country believed the world was created during Dreamtime by the Rainbow Serpent. For ten points, name this country whose indigenous people venerate Uluru in this country's Outback. | Commonwealth of Australia |
| The northwestern regions of this country were once administered as the "Tai Federation" and include the Da River, which flows into the Sông Hồng. The southern regions of this country, including its Central Highlands, were conquered after this country gained independence from China. This country, whose Ca Mau peninsula is crisscrossed by numerous canals, has its heartland around the Red River. For ten points, name this country which controls the Mekong Delta. | Socialist Republic of Vietnam (or Cong Hoa Xa Hoi Chu Nghia Viet Nam) |
| Restricted access to one of these facilities named Grasberg has made Puncak Jaya more difficult to access, and one of these facilities named Naica in Mexico is famed for its massive gypsum crystals. Thirty-three workers were trapped below one of these facilities in Chile in 2010, and one of these facilities in South Africa extends over 12,000 feet below the ground. For ten points, name these facilities where raw minerals are excavated from the earth. | Mines (accept Grasberg mine; accept Naica mine; accept San Jose mine; accept Mponeng gold mine; accept Gold mine; accept Copper mine before "Naica" is mentioned) |
| This river's source is a "pot" near the town of Dowra, and this river meets the major Slighe Mhór [[SHLEE-MOHR]] route at the ruined monastery of Clonmacnoise. A namesake airport at the mouth of this river was home to the first US border preclearance facility, and this river passes through Lough [[LUFF]] Derg and Lough Allen. Limerick is the largest city on this river, which separates Connacht from Munster and Leinster. For ten points, name this longest river of Ireland. | River Shannon (or Abhainn na Sionainne; accept in either order) |
| This polity's flag, with seven rainbow stripes on a white background, was investigated under an "anti-gay propaganda law" in 2013. The Chita Republic delivered a defeat to the White Army at the Battle of Volochayevka in this polity, governed from Birobidzhan. The creation of this polity between Khabarovsk Krai and China surprised the Komzet committee. The world's only place to include Yiddish as an official language, for ten points, what is this Zionist alternative to Israel in Siberia? | Jewish Autonomous Oblast (or JAO) |
| This highway travels between the ghost towns of Crystal Springs and Warm Springs in Lincoln and Nye counties. This highway was officially dedicated in the town of Rachel to coincide with the release of Independence Day, and this highway includes a sign that says "Speed Limit Warp 7." The Little A'Le'Inn [[ay-lee-IN]] can be visited along, for ten points, what Nevada highway, noted for its proximity to Area 51, named for alleged visitors from UFOs? | Extraterrestrial Highway (accept Nevada State Route 375) |
| This river's tributaries include the Atbara and Kagera rivers, the latter's source still being disputed between Rwanda and Burundi. On this river's other end, it has two mouths at Damietta and Rosetta on opposite ends of a fertile desert delta. Lakes along this river's course include Lake Albert, Lake Tana, and the Kagera's mouth, Lake Victoria. For ten points, name this river that flows from Uganda, through the Sudans, and finally empties into the Mediterranean in Egypt. | Nile River (or an-Nil [[ahn-NEEL]]) |
| Blagoveshchensk [[blah-goh-vesh-CHENSK]] and Heihe [[HAI-huh]] form an urban area along this border which was partly created through the treaties of Aigun and Tarbagatai. This border's small, western portion is located on the Altai Mountains, and its larger eastern portion is formed mainly by the Amur River. For ten points, name this border which is split into two portions by Mongolia, between the world's largest country and its most populous country. | Russia-China Border (accept Sino or Russo in place of China or Russia; accept in either order) |
| This country is Africa's sole country to not have received Chinese investment, and the Lebombo Mountains form the eastern border of this country whose currency, called the lilangeni [[lee-long-EN-ee]], is pegged to the rand. This country's Ludzidzini Royal Village is the home of its House of Dlamini, jointly headed by a "Lion" king and "she-elephant," making it Africa's only absolute monarchy. For ten points, name this country between Mozambique and South Africa. | Kingdom of Eswatini (or Umbuso weSwatini; accept Swaziland) |
| The Black Suspension Bridge crosses this river, used by mules on the Kaibab Trail, and Moab and Grand Junction are cities along this river. This river's tributary of the San Juan River flows past Four Corners and forms the northern border of the Navajo Reservation, having originated from this river at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, centered on Lake Powell. For ten points, name this river that flows into the Gulf of California and includes the Hoover Dam. | Colorado River |
| This country contains the world's second-hottest lake, aptly named Boiling Lake and located in Morne Trois Pitons National Park. Sites around this country honor its first female prime minister, Eugenia Charles. Morne Diablotins [[dee-ah-bloh-TAHN]] is the highest point in this country, which has been nicknamed the "Nature Island of the Caribbean." The sisserou parrot is found only in this country and appears on its national flag, the only national flag other than Nicaragua to display the color purple. For ten points, name this island country, governed from Roseau. | Commonwealth of Dominica |
| Dominica's second-largest town has this name, which is shared with a Naval Shipyard in Maine where a treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War was signed. | Portsmouth (accept Treaty of Portsmouth) |
| This site's modern name translates to "Mound of the Dead Man," and it is located south of the city of Larkana. Sculptures called Priest-King and Dancing Girl have been discovered at this site whose Pashupati seal may have been an early depiction of Shiva, initially housed in the Lahore Museum. This ancient city is renowned for its similarity in urban planning with the city of Harappa. For ten points, name this ancient city in Pakistan, a hub of the Indus Valley Civilization. | Mohenjo-daro |
| Mohenjo-daro is located in this one of the four Pakistani provinces, the second- largest by population and home to Hyderabad and Karachi. | Sindh |
| This region with a portmanteau name is the site of the hill of Savur-Mohyla, which contained an obelisk built to honor Soviet victory that was destroyed by fighting in Shakhtarsk Raion. This region's namesake river contains the Sviatohirsk Lavra monastery in the Holy Mountains, depicted on a note of the hryvnia currency. This region became an early hub of industrialization in Eastern Europe due to its coal reserves, and the Euromaidan protests triggered unrest in this region on the Sea of Azov. Mariupol is a port located in, for ten points, what region of far-eastern Ukraine? | Donbass (prompt on "Donets Basin" or "Donets Coal Basin"; prompt on "Donets River") |
| The region of Donbas borders this oblast, led from a namesake city which is the second-largest in Ukraine and has been described as the "Stalingrad of the 21st Century" due to the deadliness of its battles during the Russian Invasion. | Kharkiv Oblast |
| This region's cities, such as Forli and Cesena, follow what was formerly a namesake "way" that terminated in Rimini. This region's city of Parma is known for its prosciutto ham and namesake cheese, and a commune named Sant'Agata in this region's capital contains Lamborghini headquarters. Ferrari is also headquartered in Modena, south of the Po River in this region which borders Tuscany and San Marino. For ten points, name this Central Italian region governed from Bologna. | Emilia-Romagna (accept Emilia, Via Aemilia, or Aemilian Way before "Lamborghini" is mentioned) |
| This city in Emilia-Romagna, connected to the Adriatic by the Candiano Canal, was the capital of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century and is known for its eight "Early Christian Monuments" including the Mausoleum of Theodoric. | Ravenna |
| This body of water contains the two small islands of Elobey Grande and Elobey Chico, which lie at the mouth of the Mitémélé River. A country that shares its name with this body of water contains the small island of Corisco, the Portuguese word for "lightning." This body of water extends from Cape Lopez to Cape Palmas, and its coastline includes the Bight of Benin and the Bight of Bonny. This body of water shares its name with countries governed from Conakry and Bissau. For ten points, name this gulf on Africa's West Coast. | Gulf of Guinea |
| This capital city on the Gulf of Guinea is located in the Dahomey Gap and contains the Togo National Museum. | Lomé |
| In this state, a monolith of a lion and a miniature of Durga can be found at the Shore Temple. A group of cave temples known as mandapa viharas are one of the Monuments of a Mahabalipuram [[mah-hah-bah-lee-POO-rahm]] in this state built by the Pallava Dynasty. A large vimana tower can be found at the Brihadiswara Temple in this state which was constructed by a naval empire that built many lasting stone and bronze monuments. That empire, the Chola, was largely made up of members of this state’s namesake ethnicity. For ten points, name this state of India containing Chennai. | Tamil Nadu (accept TN; prompt on "Tamil") |
| Tamil Nadu is separated from the Jaffna District of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka by this strait which is named for an 18th century English governor of Madras. | Palk Strait (accept Robert Palk) |
| Attractions in this city include the Hofburg Museum, the Albertina, and St. Stephen's Cathedral. A 1683 battle named for this city was where the Holy Roman Empire stopped the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. This capital played host to a meeting that helped decide the fate of post-Napoleonic Europe, and the Romans originally founded this city on the Danube River. For ten points, name this European city, the host of a "Congress" in 1814 and the capital of Austria. | Vienna (accept Battle of Vienna; accept Congress of Vienna) |
| This building in the center of Vienna was the imperial palace of the Habsburgs and the seat of the emperors of Austria, and today this building is the official residence of the president of Austria. | Hofburg |
| This peninsula's town of Princess Anne includes the Teackle Mansion and the Manokin River. One of the first settlements on this peninsula was located in Lewes, which is located in the Cape Region. Many tourists flock to a maritime museum in this peninsula's town of Saint Michaels. The "Nation's Summer Capital" is a nickname given to Rehoboth [[re- HOH-buth]] Beach on this peninsula, whose major resort towns include Ocean City on Fenwick Island. For ten points, name this U.S. East Coast peninsula, bordered by the Chesapeake Bay, whose name is a combination of three states. | Delmarva Peninsula |
| This city is the largest on the Delmarva Peninsula by population. This seat of Kent County is located on the St. Jones River and houses the Air Mobility Command Museum. | Dover |
| Louisiana city whose flag includes three yellow fleurs-de-lis [[LEE]]on a white background with a red and blue horizontal stripe. | New Orleans |
| Missouri city with a blue fleur-de-lis at the confluence of three wavy blue lines on a red background. | St. Louis |
| Movement for which the flag of Washington, D.C. has become a symbol. | DC Statehood Movement (accept descriptive answers involving DC becoming a state) |
| "Crossroads of America" whose flag has four symbolic white stripes radiating from the center on a background of blue. | Indianapolis |
| Color which combines with blue and white on the New York City flag, referring to the historical Dutch flag. | Orange |
| Kansas city whose flag includes a circle containing a Native American symbol on a red and white background. | Wichita |
| City flag with a red trapezoid on the left and three white bridges that run over this state capital's namesake river on a dark blue background. | Des Moines (accept Des Moines River) |
| Idaho city whose "Mountains Left" flag replaced the "Proud to Be" trademarked flag, voted the worst in the US in 2004. | Pocatello |
| Country in which Istanbul is the most populous city. | Republic of Turkey (or Turkey Cumhuriyeti) |
| Major straight between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara on which it lies. | Bosporus Strait (or Bosphorus Strait) |
| Mosque that was formerly the spiritual center of the Eastern Orthodox Church. | Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque |
| Colorful mosque built by and officially named for Sultan Ahmed I. | Blue Mosque |
| Palace whose name means "cannon gate," the primary residence of Ottoman sultans. | Topkapı Palace |
| Natural estuary that separates Old Istanbul from Galata. | Golden Horn |
| "Grand Avenue" that runs from the Galata neighborhood to Taksim Square. | İstiklal Avenue (or Independence Avenue; or Grand Avenue of Pera) |
| Secondary airport, named after an adopted child of Atatürk who was the world's first female fighter pilot. | Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen [[GOHK-chen]] International Airport (or SAW) |
| Peninsular state bordering the U.S. that contains Tijuana and Mexicali. | Baja California (do not accept or prompt on "Baja California Sur") |
| Largest state by area whose city of Juárez is across the Rio Grande from El Paso. | Chihuahua |
| Southern state known for its unique regional cuisine and Zapotec ruins. | Oaxaca de Juarez [[wah-HAH-kah deh HWAH-rez]] |
| 3rd-most populous state, with its capital at Guadalajara, the most-populous outside of greater Mexico City. | Jalisco |
| State on the Gulf of Mexico whose namesake largest city was founded by Hernán Cortés. | Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave |
| Small, mountainous state known for its San Marcos Fair and named for its hot springs. | Aguascalientes |
| State that was a historic center of silver mining and contains the preserved colonial city of San Miguel de Allende [[ah-YEN-deh]]. | Guanajuato [[gwah-nah-HWAH-toh]] |
| Southernmost state of Mexico on the Pacific Ocean that contains the Mayan ruins of Palenque [[pah-LEHN-keh]]. | Chiapas |
| A palace in this city called El Badi had most of its valuable materials stripped away after the decline of the Saadian dynasty. Many orange juice stalls and snake charmers sell in this city's Jemaa el-Fnaa. The Dar al-Hana and Dar al-Bayda are housed in this city's Agdal Gardens, (+) which are a popular destination alongside the Menara Gardens. Ali ibn Yusuf, who constructed its Kasbah, built many red walls in this city, giving it the nickname "Ochre (*) City." For ten points, name this city in the Atlas Mountains which joins Fez, Meknes, and Rabat as one of the four imperial cities of Morocco. | Marrakesh (or Marrakech) |
| This city, which gives its name to the last age of the Cretaceous Period, has its central plaza at Vrijthof [[VRY-toff]] Square, and a namesake 1843 treaty clarified issues from the 1839 Treaty of London. Another treaty signed in this city was later amended by treaties in Amsterdam, (+) Nice, and Lisbon. This capital of Limburg shares an airport with Aachen and is located on the Meuse [[MYUHS]] (*) River. For ten points, name this city in the extreme Southern Netherlands, where the European Union was founded | Maastricht (accept Maastrichtian Age; accept Treaty of Maastricht; accept Maastricht Treaty) |
| One of these features stretches to the industrial town of Odda and is located in Vestland county. Along a "King of" these features are the stave churches of Kaupanger and Urnes, and that example of these features takes its name from the nearby district of Sogn. Hardanger (+) is one of these features, whose outlets sometimes form rocky islands called skerries. Hanging valleys are common along these features, which are formed when a glacier cuts a U-shaped (*) valley by abrasion of surrounding bedrock. For ten points, name these narrow inlets commonly found in Norway. | Fjords (accept Sørfjorden; accept Songnedfjorden; accept King of the Fjords; accept Hardangerfjord; prompt on "Inlets" and similar answers before mentioned) |
| This region contains the spoken Tungusic language of Xibe [[SHEE-beh]] and hosted many nuclear tests at Lop Nur. K2 is the highest peak of this region, located in the Karakoram Range, the namesake of a highway that terminates in its city of Kashgar, a former Silk Road (+) trading center in the Tarim Basin. Urumqi [[oor-OOM-kee]] is the capital of this region often claimed as East Turkestan. (*) For ten points, name this Chinese region, home to the Uyghur [[WEE-guhr]] people. | Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (accept XUAR; prompt on "Uygur Autonomous Region"; accept Chinese Turkestan or East (ern) Turkestan before mentioned) |
| This territory's capital is situated near its highest point, Crocus Hill, as well as the generically named villages of North Side and The Quarter. Cays in this territory include Sombrero, Little Scrub, and Prickly Pear. Wallblake House is a historic plantation house in this territory, (+) whose capital is The Valley. This territory, in the northern Leeward Islands, lies directly north of Saint Martin. (*) For ten points, name this British Overseas Territory, named for the Latin word for "eel." | Anguilla |
| The capital of a territory governed by this country is traversed by Victor Schœlcher Road and is named Gustavia. Mexico and this country disputed the sovereignty of Clipperton Island. A city whose name translates to "low land" is the capital of a territory governed by this country, (+) whose islands include Marie-Galante and whose residents speak Antillean Creole. Mount Pelée is located on a territory of this country north of Saint Lucia, whose airport is named for (*) Aimé Césaire. For ten points, name this country that controls the territories of Guadeloupe and Martinique. | France (or French Republic; or République française) |
| This country’s most important religious site is the Wat Suthat, which sits behind an enormous swing set. This country’s northern city of Chiang Mai was originally founded as the capital of the Lan Na empire. The impoverished Isan region of this country sits on the Khorat (+) Plateau. Much of the historic portion of this country’s capital is located on Rattanakosin Island in the Chap Phraya River. This country’s Andaman Sea coast contains the island of (*) Phuket [[POO-KET]]. For ten points, name this Southeast Asian country whose capital is Bangkok. | Kingdom of Thailand (or Ratcha Anachak Thai; or Prathet Thai; accept Siam) |
| Water taxis carry visitors up and down a canal in this city's Bricktown neighborhood, and this city contains the Devon Energy Center. This city's airport contains the word "World" in its name, despite having no scheduled international flights, and is named after Will (+) Rogers. One building in this city was built on top of a giant petroleum field in 1917 and finally received its planned dome in 2002. (*) For ten points, name this Great Plains city, the location of a 1995 bombing and the capital of the Sooner State. | Oklahoma City |
| This material is used in traditional Chinese medicine to purge toxins, and Robert Mugabe was accused of selling this material to China in exchange for weapons. The pursuit of this material led to a 2006 mass slaughter in Chad's (+) Zakouma National Park, and this material is known as "morse" when harvested from walruses. Abidjan is the largest city on the namesake (*) "coast" of this material. For ten points, name this material found in the tusks of pachyderms. | Ivory (accept Ivory Coast) |
| Volcanoes in this U.S. state include Mauna Loa and this state's highest peak, Mauna Kea. | Hawai'i |