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Belfast - Each community uses murals as propaganda tools, reminding the locals about outrages and violence from the other side.In which city does a wall called the Peace Line separate a Catholic neighborhood called Falls Road from a Protestant district called Shankhill?

       a. London
       b. Belfast
       c. Toronto
       d. Melbourne


Pennsylvania - An N is missing. Mind you, that was a commonly accepted spelling at the time.How the locals must be embarrassed. What word is misspelled on the Liberty Bell, as well as, in the Constitution?

       a. Pittsburgh
       b. Philadelphia
       c. Pennsylvania
       d. Massachusetts


Guinea - Rises in the price of gold meant that the guinea could be worth as much as 30 shillings.What former French African colony shares its name with a former British coin worth 21 shillings?

       a. Shilling
       b. Guinea
       c. Dahomey
       d. Mali


Michigan - Lake Ontario is the odd one out.What US state borders four of the five Great Lakes?

       a. Indiana
       b. Ohio
       c. Michigan
       d. Ontario


Hamburger - They are called Beefeaters.Based on their popular nickname, the British Yeomen of the Guard would most enjoy which of these meals?

       a. Baby back ribs
       b. Hamburger
       c. Chicken breast
       d. Fish and chips


Florida - Moonstone is mostly made up of orthoclase, #6 on the Mohs scale.Although no moonstone is found in this state, it has been the state gem since 1970. What state is it?

       a. Texas
       b. Florida
       c. Alaska
       d. California


Lake Superior - However, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are technically a single body of water, which would be bigger than Superior.The Caspian Sea is the world's largest lake. However, if you discount it because it is saltwater, what lake becomes #1?

       a. Lake Superior
       b. Lake Victoria
       c. Lake Tanganyika
       d. Lake Baikal


Monaco - The order is Monaco, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tuvalu, Jordan, Nauru, Congo (Kinshasa), Slovenia, Togo, Iraq and Belgium.What country has the world's shortest coastline?

       a. San Marino
       b. Antigua
       c. Monaco
       d. Fiji


Monaco and Indonesia - Monaco is the world's second-smallest country and has the world's shortest coastline. Indonesia, on the other hand, is the 15th biggest country, has the second longest coastline and has the fourth largest population.Flip Poland's flag and you have the identical flag, aside from their proportions, of what two countries?

       a. Great Britain and Jamaica
       b. Monaco and Indonesia
       c. Italy and France
       d. Canada and Sweden


Kentucky - The drink is named for the county, to which whisky makers fled after the Pennsylvania Whisky Rebellion.Just as the Bourbon kings ruled France from Paris, Paris is the seat of Bourbon County in what state?

       a. Tennessee
       b. Kentucky
       c. West Virginia
       d. Louisiana


Chile - It comes closest thanks to its Magallanes province.Excluding the bits of Antarctic territory, they have claimed for themselves, what country comes closest to the South Pole?

       a. South Africa
       b. Chile
       c. Australia
       d. New Zealand


Ecuador - It is also the country's business capital.Guayaquil is the largest city and main port of what country?

       a. Indonesia
       b. Ecuador
       c. Dominican Republic
       d. Chile


New Zealand - In the 1970s, the Maori created a political party called Mana Motuhaka o Aotearoa.What group of islands is known to the indigenous Polynesians as Aotearoa, meaning "the land of the long white clouds"?

       a. New Zealand
       b. Fiji
       c. Tahiti
       d. Hawaii


The Liberty Bell - The inscription, 'Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof', was meant to protest slavery.On what US landmark would you find an inscription from Leviticus 25.10?

       a. The Lincoln Memorial
       b. The Statue of Liberty
       c. The Liberty Bell
       d. Supreme Court Building


Idaho - He claimed that it was a Shoshone word for 'gem of the mountains'.What word did mining lobbyist George Willing totally make up and propose that Congress use for the area around Pike's Peak?

       a. Idaho
       b. Arizona
       c. Dakota
       d. Alaska



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