ROUND 2: Geography

Canadian city nicknames


Name the city, given the nickname.


1. City of Champions.

A. Edmonton


2. City of Gardens.

A. Victoria


3. Gateway to the West.

A. Winnipeg


The Interstate highway system

The Interstate highway system in the US is numbered systematically.
One of the rules is that 3-digit numbers are for spur or loop highways 
in an urban area, while numbers with one or two digits are for 
longer-distance routes.  These questions are about highways with
one-or two-digit numbers, and the cities where they meet.

4. The city of Denver is served by three Interstate highways with
   one- or two-digit numbers; each of them either enters the city
   or passes just outside it.  Name any two of the three.

	25, 70, 76

5. Same question for Atlanta.

	20, 75, 85

6. Same question for Boston.

	90, 93, 95

 

Subways, Metros, Undergrounds, U-Bahns, and T-Banas

For each question in this triple, we have taken a recent map of a 
city's subway system (whatever they call it) and removed not 
only all the station labels and other text, but also all geographical 
clues such as shorelines and rivers.  In each case you must name the city.  
Warning, these are diagrammatic maps and none of them is to scale.

7. Map 1.  Each of the little car symbols was beside a station name
   before we erased the names.  Name the city.

	Washington


8. Map 2.  Note that this map has thick and thin lines; on some other
   editions of it, the difference would have been more obvious.  The
   actual subway system is shown by the thin lines, while the thick
   ones show a related service.  Name the city.

	Paris


9. Map 3.  Each of the little wheelchair symbols was beside a station
   name before we erased the names.  Name the city.

	New York


Monasteries

These questions pertain to the handout provided.

10. Pictures #2 and #5 show different views of the same Italian
   monastery, which was founded in 529, and subsequently destroyed 
   and rebuilt four times, most recently following a 1944 World 
   War II battle. Name the monastery.

A. Montecassino


11. The spectacular setting of the monastery in picture #1 should be 
   clue enough. It is situated just off the coast of which country?

A. France


12. The monastery in pictures #3 and #4 is a UNESCO World Heritage
    Site, probably founded in the 7th or 8th century. The first
    picture shows the monks' cells; the second shows their
    precipitous location about 8 miles off the coast of County Kerry,
    Ireland. It's named--at least partly--for the same celestial
    being as the monastery in the previous question. Name it. 

A. Skellig Michael


So you think you're smarter than George W. Bush
 

Given the country, name the president.
 
 
13. Egypt.
 
 	Hosni Mubarak
 
14. Brazil
 
 	Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (accept "Lula")
 
15. South Africa
 
	Thabo Mbeki