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| This river flows past Hopetown, where the Eureka Diamond was discovered. The Augrabies Falls are located on this river, which receives water from the Fish River. The Vaal is the largest tributary of this river, which flows through Upington in Northern Cape and has a drainage basin that covers most of Lesotho [[leh-SOO-too]]. Bordering the endorheic Kalahari Basin, for ten points, what river flows through South Africa, forming its Namibian boundary? | Orange River (or Oranjerivier; or isAngqu; or Gariep River; or Groote River; or Senqu River) |
| People in this province, which controls Simeulue [[sim-uh-LOO-eh]] Island, speak the most common Chamic language. The eponymous capital of this province is the closest major city to the Nicobar Islands. This province on the western side of the Strait of Malacca was devastated by the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004 and is Indonesia's only province that practices Sharia Law. For ten points, name this province on Sumatra's northernmost tip. | Aceh [[AH-chay]] Province |
| This strait's narrowest point is located near Cape Palascìa [[pah-LAH-shah]]. In 2004, a ship that tried to cross this strait sank just off the coast of the Karaburun Peninsula, while another ship carrying refugees sank in this strait in 1997 en route from Vlorë [[VLOH-ruh]] to Apulia. The Via Egnatia, which began at Durres, crossed this straight to Brindisi, which then connected to the Appian Way. For ten points, name this strait between Italy and Albania. | Strait of Otranto |
| This country's African community is ceremonially led by King Julio Pinedo and is known for its Saya Music in the Yungas Region. Uncontacted peoples of this country include the Toromona of the Beni Department and the Ayoreo of Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park. Che Guevara was assassinated in this country's city of La Higuera in the Santa Cruz Department. For ten points, name this country, formerly led by Evo Morales, who came from this country's indigenous Aymara people. | Plurinational State of Bolivia (accept Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia) |
| One facility with this name is located on the apex of the Palm Jumeirah, while another one contains a "Royal Towers" complex, whose two halves are bridged by a skybridge. That same facility with this name, connected to New Providence via a causeway, contains the Aquaventure theme park, home to the Mayan Temple Slides. Located on Paradise Island in the Bahamas is a resort with the name of, for ten points, what mythological lost Greek city? | Atlantis (accept Atlantis Paradise Island; accept Atlantis, The Palm) |
| This person completed the Child of the Sun project for Florida Southern College and designed the never-built Broadacre City. This person's plans for redeveloping Pig Island to Edena in the Tigris were ended by the July Revolution. This person designed a never-built "oasis" consisting of glass canopies for the Arizona State Capitol. For ten points, name this prolific American planner and architect whose works include New York's Guggenheim Museum and the private Fallingwater in Southwestern Pennsylvania. | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| This island was originally known as Watling's Island, named for a British buccaneer. Guanahani was the native Lucayan name of this island, originally thought to be Cat Island, fifty miles to the west. It isn't in the Turks and Caicos, but Cockburn Town is the main settlement of this island, the closest part of the Caribbean to Bermuda. For ten points, what Bahamian island is believed to be the place where Christopher Columbus first saw the New World? | San Salvador Island (or Guanahani) |
| The world's largest sailing race takes place in this city's neighborhood of Barcola, which also includes Miramare Castle, a residence of Maximilian I. This city at the center of the "Julian March" was formerly protected as a UN "free city" with Koper and has been the epicenter of protests against a COVID "Green Pass." Lying at the Iron Curtain's southern end was, for ten points, what Italian port on the northeastern-most part of the Adriatic? | Trieste (accept Trst) |
| This river, which has its source in Tula Oblast, flows past the city of Voronezh. This river and the Kuban River Basin are locations at which Balachka is spoken by Cossacks who settled around this river. The Luhansk People's Republic is mostly located in this river's watershed, and Rostov is the largest city on this river. Providing an oceanic link to the Caspian Sea through a canal that connects it with Volgograd, for ten points, what is this Russian river? | Don River |
| Cheboygan [[shi-BOY-ghen]] is the base of these straits' namesake icebreakers, which travel above the Enbridge Line Five. Saint Ignace is located north of these straits and west of a namesake vacation island which is home to the Grand Hotel and bans motor vehicles. These straits hydrologically connect the two portions of the world's largest freshwater lake, Michigan-Huron. For ten points, name these straits that separate Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas. | Straits of Mackinac [[mah-kih-NAW]] (accept USCGC Mackinac; accept Mackinac Island) |
| British governor William Young names an island in this group belonging to Saint George Parish. Calivigny [[kah-lih-VIN-yee]] Island is one of several privately owned islands in this group, which also includes Petit Mustique, where a prominent real estate scam occurred. Canouan and Union Island are included in the Southern chain of this group, whose island of Bequia means "island of the clouds" in Arawak. A dependency of Grenada called Carriacou is one of the most-populous islands in this group, which form a country with an island that contains Kingstown. For ten points, name these islands paired with Saint Vincent. | The Grenadines (accept Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) |
| Whalers often flock to an uninhabited island with this name, preceded by "Petit," in the Grenadines. Another island with this name was the birthplace and early childhood home of Alexander Hamilton. | Nevis (accept Petit Nevis) |
| A mining accident on this archipelago's town of Ny-Ålesund [[nee-OH-leh-sund]], the world's northernmost functional civilian settlement, led to the 1963 Kings Bay Affair, which doomed the government of Einar Gerhardsen. This archipelago, discovered by Willem Barents in an attempt to find the Northeast Passage, is located between Franz Josef Land and Greenland. Housing a global seed vault for use in case of global disaster, for ten points, what is this far northern archipelago administered by Norway? | Svalbard (accept Spitsbergen) |
| The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is located in this de facto capital of Svalbard, the northernmost city in the world with a population of more than 1000. | Longyearbyen (accept Longyear City) |
| This enclave was developed as part of the Buran Program and is being replaced by Vostochny. The first successful ICBM launch was from this facility, and other launches from this site led to the mass death of wildlife over 2000 miles northeast in Sakha. This facility, located north of the Syr Darya, launched the Sputnik and Vostok expeditions. For ten points, name this Russian cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. | Baikonur Cosmodrome |
| The Vostochny Cosmodrome will be in what Russian far eastern oblast, named for a river whose tributaries include the Shilka and Zeya? | Amur Oblast (accept Amur River) |
| This is the world's most densely populated desert, and large cities located here include Bikaner and Jaisalmer. This desert lies near the Aravalli Hills and extends into Haryana state. The Rajput Empire was centered in this desert, and a "Pink City" located in this desert is the state capital of Jaipur. For ten points, name this desert which is primarily located in India's Rajasthan state. | Thar Desert (or Great Indian Desert) |
| The portion of the Thar Desert that extends into Pakistan is known as the Cholistan Desert and is found in this most-populous Pakistani province. | Punjab |
| A national park named for this feature includes the Pumice Desert and a "parasitic cone" called Mount Scott. According to one story, this feature was created when the Klamath gods Skell and Llao clashed. A natural rock pillar in this body of water that resembles a ghostly vessel during heavy fog is named Phantom Ship. A wooden stump floating in this body for over a century is called the Old Man of the Lake. This home of Wizard Island was created by the collapse of a volcano. For ten points, name this deepest lake in the U.S., located in Oregon. | Crater Lake (or Giiwas) |
| Crater Lake as formed from the collapse of what Klamath County volcano that violently erupted 7700 years ago? | Mount Mazama (also accept Giiwas if it has not been said already) |
| This city's Kandt House Museum offers panoramic views of its namesake mountain in the Nyarugenge District, as well as exhibits on its country's Volcanoes National Park. The Inema Arts Center is the main center for arts in this city, which contains Kimironko Market. The remains of over 250,000 people are interred at a genocide memorial in this city constructed five years after a 1994 event. Fighting between the Hutus and Tutsis was centered in, for ten points, what capital of Rwanda? | Kigali (accept Mount Kigali) |
| Kigali is often ranked against Nairobi and this other capital city as East Africa's best city to live in. This capital is the home of the Wakaliwood film studio and Makerere University. | Kampala |
| This city’s Palais des Beaux-Arts [[bohs-AHRT]] houses Napoleon in Imperial Costume by Jacques-Louis David and El Tiempo by Francisco Goya. This city is surrounded by the Deûle [[DUHL]] River, and this city’s highest building, the Town Hall Belfry, is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for being representative of Flemish architecture. For ten points, name this capital of the northernmost region of France, Hauts-de-France. | Lille [[LEEL]] |
| Lille is located in this department, France's most populous department, on the border of Belgium and including the beaches of Dunkirk. | Département du Nord |
| This city is the origin of Chikan, an embroidery style over 400 years old. This city is the original site of Chup Tazia, a Shia Muslim procession, and has the highest population of Shia Muslims in India. This city’s main river, the Gomti, produces rare sea snails known as Gomti Chakra. This city’s name is said to be derived from Lakshmana, brother of Rama and hero of the Ramayana. For ten points, name this capital city of Uttar Pradesh. | Lucknow |
| Lucknow is the traditional capital of this ancient region that was once ruled by Nawabs. | Awadh (accept Awadh Pradesh; accept Nawabs of Awadh; accept Oudh in place of Awadh) |
| State for which Boston is the capital. | Massachusetts (accept MA) |
| Main river of Boston, named for a 17th century English king. | Charles River (accept in either order; accept Charles I) |
| Path marked by red bricks that starts at Boston Common and passes many historic sites. | Freedom Trail |
| Oldest standing church in Boston where two lanterns were hung to say that the British were coming by sea. | Old North Church (or Christ Church in the City of Boston) |
| Major airport that serves Boston, named for a World War One hero. | [General Edward Lawrence] Logan International Airport (or Boston Logan) |
| Megaproject that rerouted the Central Artery of Interstate 93 and is known by a rhyming name. | Big Dig (or Central Artery/Tunnel Project; or CA/T) |
| Peninsula on which Boston is built. | Shawmut Peninsula |
| City of Greater Boston that was the site of a protracted shootout between the Tsarnaev brothers, who committed the Boston Bombings, and police in 2013. | Watertown |
| Country of which it is the capital and largest city. | Portugal (or Portuguese Republic; or República Portuguesa) |
| Main river which runs through Lisbon, the longest in Iberia. | Tagus (or Tejo) |
| Bridge which was built for the 500th anniversary of its namesake's voyage to India. | Vasco da Gama Bridge (or Ponte Vasco da Gama) |
| Castle that overlooks Lisbon and is named for the patron saint of England. | Saint George's Castle (or Castelo de São Jorge) |
| Fortification near the Hieronymites [[hee-“RON”-ih-“mites”]] Monastery that served as a symbolic gate for explorers and merchants. | Belém Tower (or Torre de Belém; or Tower of Saint Vincent; or Torre de São Vicente) |
| Term for glazed ceramic tiles that are often found on buildings and named for their blue color. | Azulejo [[ah-“zoo”-LEH-zhoo]] (be lenient on pronunciation; accept pronunciation as [[ah-“zoo”-LEH-hoh]]) |
| Historical province of Lisbon with a similar name to a Spanish autonomous community formed by the provinces of Badajoz and Caceres. | Estremadura (accept Extremadura) |
| Main square in downtown Lisbon, officially named after a king and overlooked by the Queen Maria II National Theatre. | Rossio (or King Pedro IV Square) |
| Most-populous city, the capital of the Gauteng Province. | Johannesburg (prompt on "Jozi"; prompt on "Joburg"; prompt on “The City of Gold”) |
| Legislative capital which is overlooked by Table Mountain. | Cape Town |
| Executive capital which was the capital of the Boer Transvaal republic. | Pretoria |
| Judicial capital which was the capital of the Orange Free State. | Bloemfontein [[“BLOOM”-fahn-tayn]] (prompt on "Bloem") |
| Township with a name that is a syllabic abbreviation, and was the site of a 1976 anti-apartheid uprising. | Soweto (or South Western Townships; accept Soweto Uprising or Soweto Riots) |
| Third-most populous city, South Africa's largest on the Indian Ocean. | Durban (prompt on "Durbs") |
| Coastal city and tourism hub that changed its official name from Port Elizabeth to its local Xhosa [[KOH-suh]] name in 2021. | Gqeberha [[gik-eh-BEH-kah]] (be lenient on pronunciation and accept phonetic pronunciation) |
| Capital and largest city of the Northern Cape, known for its diamond mines and a siege that occurred during the Second Boer War. | Kimberley (accept Siege of Kimberley) |
| An event called El Huey Atlixcayotl is held each year in this state's city of Atlixco. Landmarks in a city in this state include the 17th-century home La Quinta Luna and the world's largest pyramid by volume. A battle in this state during the Second French intervention (+) led to the creation of Cinco De Mayo. This state, which contains the city of Cholula, is governed from a namesake city that is the (*) fourth-largest in Mexico. For ten points, name this state in East-Central Mexico, known for mole [[MOH-leh]] poblano. | Free and Sovereign State of Puebla (or Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla; accept Battle of Puebla) |
| Dr. Seuss retired in this neighborhood's Mount Soledad, home to a controversial cross. Mitt Romney's home in this neighborhood became an anti-elitist rallying cry in 2012 after it was uncovered that he had attempted to install a car elevator there. The Scripps (+) Institution of Oceanography is part of the southernmost University of California campus in this neighborhood located north of Point Loma. (*) For ten points, name this beach neighborhood of San Diego, which roughly translates to English as "the jewel." | La Jolla [[HOY-ah]] |
| This island's Freshwater River drains into Paterson Inlet, and its Port Pegasus was the rediscovery site of the kākāpō. This non-Scottish island has its largest city at Oban, and its native name, Rakiura, translates as "glowing skies," in reference to the Aurora Australis. (+) This island, separated by the Foveaux [[foh-VOH]] Strait from Invercargill, is the southernmost place inhabited by civilians in the Eastern Hemisphere. (*) For ten points, name this third-largest island of New Zealand, just south of South Island. | Stewart Island (accept Rakiura until mentioned) |
| In a mountain range with this name, Dian Fossey's Karisoke Research Center studies gorillas near Mount Bisoke. A national park with this name reaches its highest point in the Rwenzori Mountains and encompasses part of the Semliki River basin. A mountain range with this name includes the active volcano (+) Mount Nyiragongo [[nee-rah-GOHN-goh]] and is alternatively known as Mufumbiro. More than 300 species native to the Albertine Rift are located in a national park with this name on the border of Uganda and (*) Rwanda. For ten points, give this name of a national park in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. | Virunga (accept Virunga National Park; accept Virunga Mountains) |
| In an area described by this term, the city of Moore was able to increase its building requirements after suffering major damage in 1999 and 2013. The municipalities of Bridge Creek, El Reno, and Red Rock are located in an area described by this term, which titled a 1952 research project to study the (+) namesake events. The 2011 Super Outbreak particularly hit a region described by this term, which sometimes includes Missouri (*) and Arkansas. For ten points, give this term that describes an area of the Central United States particularly prone to violent rotating columns of air. | Tornado Alley (accept Tornado Belt) |
| The Cosigüina Volcano forms a peninsula that guards this gulf, home to the island of El Tigre and administered by Isla Zacate Grande. This gulf's port of La Unión is proposed to be the site of a "Bitcoin City," located east of San Miguel. A proposed canal that would have its Pacific (+) end at this gulf was scrapped due to British presence in the Mosquito Coast, and the Bryan–Chamorro Treaty gave the U.S. a right to a naval base in this gulf, south of Tegucigalpa. (*) For ten points, name this gulf between Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. | Gulf of Fonseca (or Golfo de Fonseca) |
| This island’s south is connected by the Tayabas Isthmus to a peninsula known locally as Bicolandia. This island is home to its country’s least-literate region, the Cagayan Valley, which lies between the Cordilleras and the Sierra Madre mountain ranges. Typhoon Yunya (+) and a volcanic eruption on this island in 1991 destroyed Clark Air Base with waves of wet ash. This home island of Mt. Pinatubo (*) is also home to its country’s largest city, Quezon City. For ten points, name this largest and most populous island in the Philippines. | Luzon |
| This city's iconic, stone Swilcan Bridge connects the Hamilton Grand to the Royal and Ancient Clubhouse. This city in the Fife region contains the ruins of a castle overlooking the North Sea, besieged following the murder of Cardinal David Beaton with John Knox (+) being among the besieged. Excluding Oxford and Cambridge, the world's oldest English-speaking university is located in this city south of Dundee and north of (*) Edinburgh. For ten points, name this Scottish town, known for being the birthplace of golf. | St. Andrews (or Cill Rìmhinn; or Saunt Aundraes) |
| Mount Ellen is tied for third-largest mountain in this state, behind Mount Killington at second. This state’s cities that have a population of less than 10,000 include Vergennes and (+) St. Albans. Until 1953, Rutland Railroad ran a train from New York to Montreal through this state that was named the (*) Green Mountain Flyer. For the points, name this state whose largest city is where you are right now, Burlington. | Vermont |
| Located between the Remutaka Range and the Cook Strait, this second-largest city in New Zealand was named for a British hero of the Battle of Waterloo. | Wellington (accept 1st Duke of Wellington) |