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Geography: Geography

1. On which continent is Brazil?
2. On which continent is China located?
3. On which continent is Switzerland located?
4. On which continent is Congo located?
5. The Apricot spirit "Barack" comes from what country?
6. In which part of Africa is Swahili mainly spoken?
7. In which months is winter in the southern hemisphere?
8. In which county is England's most western point?
9. With which country is Greenland politically associated?
10. Name the active volcanos in the Mediteranean area
11. Name at least 4 German islands in the North Sea?
12. Why are icebergs dangerous?
13. What constitutes the Apennine peninsula?
14. What is so unique about Pauliberg im Burgenland?
15. What is an epicenter?
16. What is a foehn?
17. What is a seismograph?
18. What is a fata morgana?
19. What is a fjord?
20. What can you see from Siberia across the Beringstrait?
21. What is called "The Golden Gate"?
22. Which two broad streets encircle the innercity of Vienna?
23. What bridge was built in 1937 in San Francisco?
24. What spa city in Switzerland, Germany and Austria share the same name?
25. What countries border the Bodensee (Lake Constance)?
26. What is the official language of Ecudor?
27. What countries make up the ABC countires?
28. What American city was almost totally destroyed by an earhquake in 1906?
29. What is the circumference of the earth along the equator?
30. What is the diameter of the Earth at the equator?
31. What part of America is called the "American Riviera"?
32. Which scientist first proposed the therory that continents move and were originally pieces of one continent?
33. What geological era was between the Quaternary and the Cretaceous?
34. What area constitutes Anatolia/
35. What is Europe's largest inland port?
36. Which is the largest continent?
37. What is the shortest ferry route between England and France?
38. What country produces the most uranium?
39. What is the only country to be pictured on it's national flag?
40. Who was the first to circumnavigate the globe?
41. What are the names of the three ice ages in North Germany?
42. What are the names of the four ice ages in the Alps?
43. Name the 5 continents
44. What are the big stone blocks called that are located northwest of Salisbury?
45. What is the name of the native Australians?
46. What is the name of the Chinese quarter in London?
47. What is the bohemian side of town in New York called?
48. What is the name of the northernmost federal state of Germany?
49. What is the name of the southern tip of Tierra del Fuego?
50. What is the Asian district in Istanbul called?
51. What is the most popular park in London called?
52. What is the part of Paris called where you find the famous Caberets?
53. What is the name of the most western place in England?
54. What is the name of the capital of the state of New York?
55. What is the name of the rain that is the main factor in forest dieback?
56. What is the action called when rock is worn away by wind, water and ice?
57. What do you call the side of a ship that is away from the wind?
58. What do you call the weather side of a ship?
59. What do you call the liquid that comes out of a volcano?
60. What do you call a hot water spring that shoots water into the air?
61. What do you call the area of the ocean that is 3500-400 meters deep?
62. What do you call the funnel-shaped opening of a volcano or the result of a bomb explosion?
63. What do you call the funnel-shaped water-filled depressions of volcanic origin?
64. How many lines of latitude are there and what is the distance between them?
65. How many official languages are there in Switzerland?
66. What is the former name of Sri Lanka?
67. Where is the only amber mine on Earth?
68. Where is the Cape of Good Hope?
69. Where is Cap Verde?
70. Where does the most ice of the world exist?
71. Where is Rolandseck?
72. Where is the Sandwichland?
73. Where would you find Convent Garden?
74. Where is the Elb tunnel?
75. Where is the Quirinal?
76. Where is the Blue Grotto?
77. Where is the Ivory Coast?
78. Where is Schorfheide?
79. Where is the Latin Quarter?
80. Where is Kurische Haff?
81. Where is Bretagne?
82. Where did the Etruscan live?
83. Where did the Inkas live?
84. Where is Angola?
85. Where is Burma?
86. Where is the most important maritime trade place of Asia?
87. Where is the prime meridian?
88. Where is the Spreewald?
89. Where is the lowest place in Asia?
90. Where is Honduras located?
91. Where is Labrador?
92. Where is Tanzania?
93. To what Beduin clan does Jordanian King Hussein belong?
94. Patagonia belongs to which countries?

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Geography: Buildings

1. For whom was the Taj Mahal built?
2. In which suburb of Kairo are the ancient Egyptian pyramids?
3. Name the 3 column styles of Greek architecture?
4. Who painted the mural in the concert room in Sanssouci Palace?
5. When was the Chunnel opened to traffic?
6. When was the Gothard Tunnel opened to traffic?
7. When was the Elb Tunnel opened to traffic?
8. What is the landmark of Paris?
9. What is the longest wall of the world?
10. What is a mausoleum?
11. What is a monumental tomb?
12. What is a Stoa?
13. What is an arcade?
14. What stands in the harbour entrance of New York?
15. In what archetectual style is the Strassburg Munster?
16. Which part of the Vatican is named after Pope Sixtus IV?
17. What famous castle is located near Füssen?
18. What material was used to build the Taj Mahal?
19. What are the seven wonders of the ancient world?
20. Which wonder of the world you can see in Gizeh?
21. Who had the palace of Versailles bulit?
22. Who was responsible for the decorative style of the concert room in Sanssoucci Palace?
23. What is the name of Price Eugen's summer palace?
24. What is the name of the Cathedral in Vienna (it's landmark)?
25. What is the name of the palace of the royal family in London?
26. What is the height of the Eiffel Tower in Paris?
27. How high is the West Berlin radio tower?
28. How long is the Simplon Tunnel?
29. What is the name of the amphitheatre in Rome?
30. What is the name of the building in Rome that until 1308 was the residence of the Pope and is now a museum?
31. What is the name of the building that is the seat of the Russian government and is surrounded by a wall and many towers?
32. What do you call the semicircular projection of a building with a vaulted ceiling?
33. What do you call the superior part of a column?
34. Name the public park with a ferrris wheel that is a landmark in Vienna?
35. Name the east Asian tower-shaped temple with roofs at the division of each of several stories
36. What do you call the arches that are on pillars or columns?
37. What do you call a building with a 8-sided floor plan?
38. What do you call a house with a wooden framework where the spaces are bricked in?
39. Where are the largest palace grounds in Europe?
40. Where is the Michel?
41. Where is the Wailing Wall?
42. Where is the Rialto Bridge located?
43. What was the original purpose of the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

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Geography: Mountains

1. Capetown lies at the foot of what mountain?
2. Andorra is in which mountains?
3. Kilimanjaro (about 6000 meters high) is located in which country?
4. By what other name is the second highest mountain, Mount Godwin Austen known?
5. What is the western-most state in Austria?
6. What is the highest mountain in the Schwäbian Alb?
7. What is the highest mountain in the Harz?
8. What is the highest mountain in the Black Forest?
9. What is the highest mountain in the Valais Alps?
10. What is the highest mountain in Europe?
11. What is the highest volcano in Europe?
12. The greater St. Bernhard Pass connects which two valleys?
13. The lesser St. Bernhard Pass connects which two valleys?
14. The St. Gotthard Pass connects which two valleys?
15. What width do the alps reach?
16. How long is the tunnel that goes through Europe's highest mountain?
17. Which African mountain consists of 3 volcanoes that are always covered with snow?
18. What mountain chain forms the boundary between Europe and Asia?
19. Name the mountains between the Gulf of Biscay and the golf of Lyon?
20. What is the highest mountain in Africa?
21. What is the name of the highest mountain in the Antarctic?
22. What is the name of the highest mountain in Germany?
23. Name the highest peak in the Alps
24. How high is the highest mountain on earth?
25. What is the name of the mountains between Germany and the Czech Republic?
26. Where are the Dolomites?
27. Where is the Aletsch Glacier?
28. Where is the largest glacier in the Alps?
29. Where is Mount Elbert?
30. Where is the Popocatepetl?
31. The Fichtelberg and the Keilberg belong to which mountains?
32. The Schneekoppe belongs to which mountains?
33. Salzburg lies between which two mountains?
34. The Eifel lies between which rivers?

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Geography: Rivers

1. On which river lies Madrid?
2. On what river lies Antwerp?
3. On what river lies Varanasi?
4. On what river lies Wroclaw?
5. On what river lies Florence?
6. On what river lies Graz?
7. On what river lies Leningrad?
8. On what river lies Lisbon?
9. On what river lies New Orleans?
10. On what river lies Rome?
11. On what river lies San Louis?
12. On what river lies Ulm?
13. On what river lies Vienna?
14. On what river lies Aswan?
15. On what river lies Basel?
16. On what river lies Berlin?
17. On what river lies Berne?
18. On what river lies Bordeaux?
19. On what river lies Rome?
20. On what river lies Dresden?
21. On what river lies Geneva?
22. On what river lies Hamburg?
23. On what river lies Innsbruck?
24. On what river lies Cairo?
25. On what river lies London?
26. On what river lies Salzburg?
27. On what river lies Stettin?
28. Belgrade lies between which two rivers?
29. The Donau flows between which countries?
30. Through which countries does the river Elbe flow?
31. Into which river does the Lake Constance flow?
32. What river drains the Chemsee?
33. What river drains the Starnberger Lake?
34. The Volga flows into which body of water?
35. Which river is the largest in South America?
36. Which river is the longest in North America?
37. How far below sea level is the Dead Sea located?
38. Which is the largest river in France?
39. Name the longest Swiss tributary of the Rhein
40. Which tributary empties into the Donau near Deggendorf?
41. Which tributary empties into the Donau near Passau?
42. The source of which river is near Schwenningen and is a tributary of the Rhein?
43. Which river originates in the Black Forest and flows east?
44. Which river flows through the Grand Canyon (USA)?
45. Which river empties into the Golf of Lyon?
46. The Victoria Falls are located on what river?
47. What two rivers form the source of the Donau?
48. What is the second longest river in China?
49. What is the longest river of the world?
50. What is the longest river of Germany?
51. What is the name of the food according to Greek myth bestows immortality to the Gods?
52. Euphrates and the Tigris join to form what river?
53. What is a dry river bed called in Middleast deserts?
54. Where is the Yellow River?
55. Where does the Elbe empty into the sea?
56. Where is the Aconcagua?
57. Where is Illimani?

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Geography: Lakes

1. In what country lies the Lago Maggiore?
2. In which country is the Vierwaldstätter Lake?
3. Lake Erie empties into what river?
4. Lake Ontario empties into what river?
5. Name the largest lake in Kärten
6. Name the four lakes in Kärten
7. What is the largest lake in the Italian Alps?
8. Which is the largest lake in Bavaria?
9. Name Earth's largest lake with no outlet
10. How big is the Bodensee (Lake Constance)?
11. What is the second largest lake of the world?

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Geography: Geology

1. Bauxite is named for what?
2. Are Garnets precious stones?
3. What do you call weathering?
4. What is lapis lazuli?
5. What is amber?
6. What is pumice?
7. What is the hardest mineral?
8. What is an aquamarine?
9. What is an atoll?
10. What is an intaglio?
11. What is a cameo?
12. What is a solitare?
13. What is gneiss?
14. What is kaolin?
15. What is garnet?
16. What are dolines?
17. What are tufas?
18. How do icebergs come from?
19. Where do igneous rocks come from?
20. What are moraines?
21. What are dripstones that hang down?
22. What are dripstones that are formed standing up?
23. How is pumice formed?
24. How is peat formed?
25. What is the liquid rock called in the Earth?
26. What do you call the glowing liquid rock that flows out of a volcano?
27. What do you call the mineralized remains or impressions of living things from prehistoric times?
28. How many karats does the "Star of India" weigh?
29. Where do you find the "Koh-i-noor"?
30. Where in Italy do you find pure white marble?
31. What are diamonds made of?
32. Where does amber come from?
33. For what is bauxite necessary?

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Geography: Islands

1. The capital Apia is on what island?
2. The island Krim is known for what drink?
3. Name at least two German islands in the East Sea
4. Name at least four German islands in the North Sea
5. Name at least 2 channel islands between England and France
6. Funafuti is the capital of what island?
7. Which is the biggest Greek island?
8. Where is the largest island of the world?
9. Where is the second largest island of the world?
10. Where is the 2nd largest island of the world?
11. Which is the second largest island of Italy?
12. What is an atoll?
13. What island is closely associated with the Mafia?
14. What countries make up the Iberian peninsula?
15. What Mediterranean island is divided into a Greek area and a Turkish area?
16. What is the name of the peninsula in the northern part of the Red Sea?
17. Which is the second largest island in Mediterranean?
18. What is the name of the northernmost North Friesian island in Germany?
19. What are the names of the five Norman islands in the English Channel?
20. How many islands are there in Microesia?
21. Newfoundland belongs to which country?
22. The island Reunion in the Indian Ocean belongs to which country?
23. Elba belongs to which country?
24. To which country do the Azores belong?
25. To which country does Bornholm belong?
26. Mahe belongs to which island group?

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Geography: Switzerland-Austria

1. The capital city Altdorf is in which canton?
2. Name the federal state in Austria with the most forests
3. Name the four Swiss cantons that formed the first confederation
4. When was the canton Aargau established?
5. Why is August 1 the Swiss national holiday?
6. What is the southernmost canton of Switzerland?
7. Name the famous Swiss hunter from the village of Bürglen
8. Which canton in Switzerland is the most heavily populated?
9. Which Swiss canton has a steer's head in it's crest?
10. Which canton surrounds the canton Appenzell?
11. Which Swiss canton stretches from the Vierwaldstätter Lake to the St. Gothard Pass?
12. What is the name of the capital of Upper Austria?

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Geography: Countries

1. The Vorarlberg borders what countries?
2. For which colony was Helgoland exchanged?
3. Capital of Russia?
4. Capital of Bolivia?
5. Capital of Columbia?
6. Capital of Liechtenstein?
7. Capital of Nigeria?
8. Capital of Sweden?
9. Capital of Uruguay?
10. Capital of Venezuela?
11. Capital of Ethiopia?
12. Capital of Costa Rica?
13. Capital of Norway?
14. Capital of Switzerland?
15. Capital of England?
16. Capital of Portugal?
17. In what federal state is Chemnitz located?
18. In what federal state of America is the rocket base Cape Canaveral?
19. In what federal state of America is Nashville located?
20. In what federal state of America is Olympia located?
21. in what federal state of America is Phoenix located?
22. In what federal state of America is Santa Fe located?
23. in what country you can find seaweed on the menu?
24. In what country is Copenhagen?
25. In what country is Aden located?
26. In what city you can find the Taj Mahal?
27. In how many and what districts was the state Saxony divided into in the GDR?
28. Is Holland considered to be all of the Netherlands or not, or which part of the Netherlands is called Holland?
29. Is the Alsace right of left of the Rhine?
30. After whom is the Country Bolivia named?
31. Name all the countries in Europe
32. Name the most populous country of the world
33. Name the southernmost federal state of Austria?
34. Name the smallest state in Central America?
35. What is Africa's geograhical size?
36. Name the 5 largest countries of the world according to size
37. In which country is Caracas the capital?
38. In which country is Sofia the capital?
39. By which country was Iceland ruled before it became independent?
40. When did Gabun become independent?
41. What is the country with the most forests in Europe?
42. What is the biggest canton in Switzerland?
43. What is Krakatoa?
44. What is the second biggest state of the USA?
45. What is the capital of Ethiopia?
46. What is the capital of Bhutan?
47. What is the capital of Burma (Myanmar)?
48. Who are the Flemish?
49. What are the main economic sectors in San Marino?
50. Which former Mexican provence became the 31st state of America?
51. What country and German states border Brandenburg?
52. What two world languages are spoken in Canada?
53. What is the official language in Brazil?
54. What German states belonged to the German Democratic Republic (formerly East Germany)?
55. Which region of France is named after the Normans?
56. Which colonial powers prevoiously held Cameroon?
57. Which countries are in the Iberian penninsula?
58. How far do the Alps reach?
59. What dialect is spoken in parts of the Elsass?
60. Which countries belong to the Benelux countries?
61. What time is it in London when the sekt corks pop on New Year's Eve in Austria?
62. Which two population groups are there in Belgium?
63. The construction of what caused the temple of Abu Simbel to be relocated?
64. Which is the smallest continent?
65. What country in 1994 had the highest per capita divorce rate?
66. Which is the biggest state according to size in the USA?
67. What is the Easternmost State in the USA?
68. Which country on the Gold Coast produces the most Cocao?
69. Which country has the second largest population of the world?
70. Whose former colony was Benin?
71. What is the former protectorate Njassaland in Africa called today?
72. What is the northernmost state of the USA?
73. What is the capital of Alaska?
74. What is the capital of Argentina?
75. What is the capital of Ireland?
76. What is the capital of Libya?
77. What is the capital of Romania?
78. What is the capital of Senegal?
79. What is the name of Rhodesia today?
80. How long does the winter last in Greenland?
81. What is the official language in Burma?
82. What is the name of the British colony in the south of Spain?
83. What do we call the native American "raw meat eaters"?
84. What we call the language of the Jews that has developed in Eastern Europe over time?
85. What was the former name of Sri Lanka?
86. Where are you if Markka is on the hotel bill?
87. Where do the people of Tuareg prefer to live?
88. Where is the "Geldloch"?
89. Where is the Cape of Good Hope?
90. Where is the "Blue Grotto"?
91. Where is the region of Champagne?
92. Where is the Cote d'Ivoire? (Ivory Coast)
93. Where is Queensland?
94. Where is Reykjavik?
95. Where is Rhodesia?
96. Where you are if you would need to pay the bill in the restaurant with Forint?
97. What people do speak the language "Inuit"?
98. Where does the country code plate "A" come from?
99. Where does the country code plate "BG" come from?
100. Where does the country code plate "DK" come from?
101. Where does the country code plate "FL" come from?
102. Where does the country code plate "NL" come from?
103. To which country do the regions of Gutland and Ösling belong?
104. To which country does Alsace belong?
105. To which country does Cairo belong?
106. To which country did Alaska originally belong?
107. To which countries does Lapland belong?
108. The Virgin Islands belong to which two countries?
109. The Ivory Coast belonged to which colonial power?

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Geography: Seas

1. On which ocean lies Casa Blanca?
2. On what sea lies Odessa?
3. On what sea lies the city of Shanghai?
4. On what sea lies the city of Trieste?
5. On what sea lies the city of Vladivostock?
6. On what sea lies the city of Alexandria?
7. On what ocean lies the city of Bergen?
8. On what sea lies the city of Dublin?
9. On what ocean lies the city of Halifax?
10. On which sea lies the city of Helsinki?
11. On what sea lies the city of Liverpool?
12. On what sea lies the city of Marseilles?
13. On what ocean lies the city of Montevideo?
14. On what sea lies the city of Naples?
15. On what sea lies the city of Ostend?
16. On what sea lies the city of Palermo?
17. On which ocean lies the city of Rio de Janeiro?
18. On what ocean lies the city of San Francisco?
19. On which sea lies the city of San Sebastian?
20. On what sea lies the city of Scheveningen?
21. On what sea lies the city of Tanger?
22. On what sea lies the city of Malmö?
23. On what sea lies the city of Istanbul?
24. In what sea does the Elbe flow?
25. In what ocean does the Loire flow?
26. In what sea the Oder flows?
27. In what sea does the Rhone flow?
28. In what sea does the river Weser flow?
29. Name the factors that create ocean currents
30. Of the three largest oceans, which is the smallest?
31. What is a lagoon?
32. The Suez Canal connects which two bodies of water?
33. Which ocean is the biggest one?
34. Which ocean has the highest salt content?
35. What is the name of the deepest pont in the Caribean Sea?
36. What is the name of the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean?
37. What is the name of the sea between Greece and Asia Minor?
38. The region of the ocean up to 200 meters deep is called?
39. The strait between Asia and Europe is called?
40. The strait between the Black Sea and the Marmara Sea is called?
41. What is the name of the southern tip of South America where seafarers don't like to go?
42. The bodies of water that connect the Baltic Sea and the North Sea are called? (not the canal)
43. Where are the Dardanelles?
44. Where is the Cape of Good Hope?
45. Where is the Tyrrhenain Sea?
46. Where is the Adriatic?
47. Where is the Bering Strait and after whom is it named?

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Geography: Cities

1. On which dam is the Gedächtniskirche in Berlin located?
2. On what ocean lies the city of Casa Bianca?
3. On which Japanese cities have atomic bombs been dropped?
4. On how many hills has Rome been built?
5. From what English City do the Beatles come from?
6. Badapest is made up of 2 parts. Which part is on which side of the Danube?
7. The White House is the residence by the American Presidents. In which state is it located?
8. In what American federal state is Chicago located?
9. In what federal state is Aachen located?
10. In what country is Canberra located?
11. in what country is Dublin located?
12. In what country is Helsinki located?
13. In what country is Cairo located?
14. In what country is Lhasa located?
15. In what country is Nanking located?
16. In what country is Ottawa located?
17. In what country is Paris located?
18. In what country is Reykjavik located?
19. In what country is Sofia located?
20. In what country is Tokyo located?
21. In what country is Baghdad located?
22. In which European city is NATO headquarters located?
23. In what European city you can find the "Arc de Triomphe"?
24. In what European city is the oldest European university situated?
25. In what Italian city can you find the Colosseum?
26. In which city can you find a street named "The great freedom"?
27. In what city you can find "Grachten"?
28. In what city can you find the town´s landmark "Atomium"?
29. In what city can you land on an airport called "Orly"?
30. In what city can you find the Hundertwasserhaus?
31. In which city do the buildings by Otto Wagner decorate the train stations?
32. In which city did the Medici mainly live?
33. The International Police Commission was founded in 1923 in what city?
34. In which city was the Empress Elisabeth of Austria murdered?
35. The oldest university in South America is in what capital city?
36. After which Italian city is a popular spaghetti sauce named?
37. Name the capitals of Denmark, Poland, Spain, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Netherlands
38. Name the northernmost town of the world?
39. Since when is Berne the capital of Switzerland?
40. Tiflis is the capital of...?
41. The 32 meter Statue of Christ "Corcovado" is a landmark of which Brazilian city?
42. What is the landmark of New York?
43. What is the coat of arms of Rome?
44. What is the biggest city of Africa?
45. What is the biggest city of Saudi Arabia?
46. What is the capital of Brittany?
47. What is the capital of the region Tuscany?
48. What is the capital of Bolivia?
49. What is the capital of Carinthia?
50. What is the capital of Sri Lanka?
51. What is the capital of Vorarlberg?
52. Which city is at the highest elevation of the world and is a seat of government but not its capital?
53. The seat of the Dutch Royal Family is in what city?
54. What German city became popular for the Pied Piper?
55. Which Gaulic and later Roman island settlement was called "Lutetia" and is today a capital?
56. Which Italian city in the 16th century was the most important in violin manufacturing?
57. Which Japanese city was hit by the second atomic bomb?
58. What Austrian city had a "Pied Piper" like Hamelin?
59. What city started as a Dutch colony named New Amsterdam?
60. What is the capital of Germany?
61. What is the capital of France?
62. Which city replaced Rio de Janeiro in 1960 as capital of Brazil?
63. Which city is also known as Elbflorenz?
64. Which city was conquered with the help of a wooden horse?
65. After the split-up of Czechoslovakia, which city became the capital of Slovakia?
66. What harbor lies at the mouth of the Seine?
67. Which quarter of London is well-known for its expensive shopping streets?
68. What building is famous for the largest swinging bells?
69. Which people founded the city of Karthago?
70. What is the artist quarter of Paris called, where the Sacre Coeur stands?
71. What is the business quarter of London called?
72. What is the longest river of Europe called?
73. Name the part of London that lends it's name to the prime meridian
74. What is the name of the palace of the British royal family that is located in London?
75. What is the name of Bavarias capital and the 3rd largest German city?
76. What is the name of the capital of the principality of Lichtenstein?
77. What is the capital of Botswana?
78. What is the capital of the Republic of Malta?
79. What is the capital of Portugal?
80. What is the capital of Zambia?
81. What is the capital of Spain?
82. What is the name of the Italian city where boats are the most used form of transportation?
83. What is the most exclusive shopping street in Vienna called?
84. How is Constantinople called today?
85. What was the name of the capital of Pakistan between 1959 and 1965?
86. Volgograd was previously called?
87. What was the name of Tokyo before it became capital of Japan?
88. What is the capital of Belarus?
89. What is the name of the amphitheatre in Rome?
90. How many floors does the Empire State Building have?
91. Where is "Oetzi" now?
92. Where is the Champs-Elysees?
93. Where is the story of the "Pied-Piper" performed?
94. The eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway ends where?
95. Where is Brooklyn?
96. Where is the Kurfürstendamm?
97. Where is Red Square?
98. Where is the famous Kärntner street?
99. Where is Carnaby Street?
100. Where are the city ruins of Angkor?
101. Where is the town of Einsiedeln?
102. Where is the town of Ajaccio?
103. Where the city of Mekka?
104. Where is the well-known leaning tower?
105. Where is the Eiffel Tower?
106. Where is the Prater?
107. Where is Sugar Loaf?
108. Where is the Statue of Liberty?
109. Where is the Golden Gate Bridge?
110. Where is the Liebfrauenkirche (Liebfrauen church)?
111. Where does Kaiserschmarrn originally come from?
112. To which country does Copenhagen belong?

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Sports & Hobbies: Sports-Hobbies

1. Who lost his world championship title to Boris Spasski?
2. Where do you find Bandilleros, Espadas and Capeadors?
3. In which game is the ball not round?
4. In which sport is the playing field 152.5 cm?
5. In which water sport are there no competions for men?
6. In which sport does a caddy accompany the player?
7. To what number does the referee count to declare a pin?
8. With what is Stefan Edberg famous?
9. In which sport are the Klitschko brothers famous?
10. Two Olympic winter games have taken place in which Swiss winter sport location?
11. Since the founding of the IOC, in which years were there no summer games?
12. In which sport is the O'Brien technique used?
13. In which sport must you swim 3.8 km, ride a bike 180 km and run a marathon?
14. In which city did the 1960 summer Olympics take place?
15. Name the first 5 sites of the summer Olympics after the 2nd world war
16. When and where did the first Olympic games take place in modern times?
17. When was the international Olympic committee established?
18. When were the Olympic games first mentioned historically?
19. In which sport did Henry Maske participate?
20. What is a triathlon?
21. What is a "knock out" in boxing?
22. What is the name of the most important tennis-tourney of the year?
23. What is a "batter" in baseball?
24. What is a Fosbury Flop?
25. What is a "pitcher" in baseball?
26. What is a velodrome?
27. What has happened when one gets a fracture?
28. What is Polo?
29. What is a clinch in boxing?
30. What do the 5 rings of the Olympic flag symbolize?
31. What is measured before a sled race?
32. Which disciplines make up the modern pentathalon?
33. Which disciplines make up a decathlon?
34. What color is the frame of an ice hockey goal?
35. Which female skier was the 1979 Alpine Worldcup holder?
36. What sport is Martin Schmidt known for?
37. Which weapons are used in fencing?
38. Which Belgian cyclist won the Spanish circuit in 1973?
39. Which (Austrian) racecar driver won the Formula 1 races in 1975,1977 and 1984?
40. Which ball is small, white and smooth?
41. Which ball is not round?
42. Which driver won in 1975 and 1977 the Formaula 1 world championship driving for Ferrari?
43. Which player won the US Masters in Augusta in 1993?
44. Which Italian racecar driver built his own company for racecars in 1943?
45. Which team sport is considered the fastest in the world?
46. Which bicycle racer won the Giro d'Italia 1972-1974?
47. Which bicycle racer won the Tour de France 5 times after 1969?
48. Which racecar driver won the Formula 1 world championship in 1997?
49. Since 1984, which sportsman has won 9 Olympic medals?
50. Who is the only sportman to have won both summer and winter Olympic gold medals?
51. Which tennis player was the youngest to win at Wimbelton?
52. Which US basketball player resigned in 1991, after becoming HIV positive?
53. Which big international sporting event was held for the first time in July 1930?
54. Which country invented the Olympic Games?
55. What downhill ski race has as it's prize a gold leaf wooden chamois?
56. What flying object comes back to the thrower?
57. Who won in 1988 together with Steffi Graf the women's- doubles at Wimbelton?
58. Who won the Four Hills Ski Jump tournament in 1984, 1985 and 1991?
59. Who wears the most padding in ice hockey?
60. Who started the Modern Olympics in 1894?
61. Who established in 1983 a new world record in 400 meter hurdles?
62. Who was the first boxer to regain his lost world championship title?
63. Who became world champion in giant slalom in 1985?
64. What do you call the bike used in open terrain?
65. Who is the most famous tennis player from the Netherlands?
66. What is the most watched wrestling sport in Japan called?
67. What is the name of the Norwegen figure skater who won 3 gold Olympic medals, was world champion 10 times and created the first ice show?
68. What is the name of the sport in which one must 'jerk' as well as 'clean'?
69. What is the difference in elevation for down hill ski races?
70. How high are the hurdles and how wide is the water jump in a steeplechase?
71. How long is a marathon race?
72. How long is a Rugby Game played?
73. What is name of the term for the windward side of a ship?
74. What is the name of the serve in tennis whereby the opponent never touches the ball?
75. What is the name of a car without roof?
76. What is the name of the court game where the players hit a 6-7 cm ball with an oval racket held on the forearm or in the fist against a wall?
77. What are the narrow, closed boats of Eskimos?
78. What do you call the ball used in an ice hockey game?
79. The motion a ski jumper must use when he lands is called?
80. What is the name of the Olympic Games for disabled people?
81. The exercise in which one uses controlled breathing and specific body positions is called?
82. What we call a 42 km footrace?
83. How many times did Johnny Weismüller who later played "Tarzan" win Olympic gold medals?
84. How many times did Martina Navratilova win the Singles at Wimbelton?
85. How high is the highest diving board?
86. How much sail area did a 1988 Olympic Flying Dutchman have?
87. How much sail area did a 1988 Olympic Tornado Catamaran have?
88. How many players does a fistball team have?
89. How many players are needed in Rugby?
90. How many tenpins are setup in bowling?
91. How many apparatus are used in rhythmic gymnastics?
92. How many cue balls do you need for carambole?
93. How many Kyu levels can Judo students achieve during their training?
94. How many metres long is an Olympic swimming pool?
95. How many minutes is a hockey-halftime?
96. What is the maximum number of golf clubs a player may use in a tournament?
97. How many seconds must a weight lifter securely hold the weights with stretched-out arms?
98. How many gates must a giant slalom have at minimum?
99. What is the name of a sailing competition?
100. Where do you find "doubles"?
101. Where do you find a joker?
102. Where is the headquarters of the UEFA?
103. Where do toreros fight?
104. Where is "off-sides" said?
105. Where does "dolphin style" play a role?
106. Where and when did the first wiinter Olympic games take place?
107. Where were the Olympic gmaes held in 1960, 1972, and 1980?
108. How can you recognize how strong a judo fighter is?

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Sport & Hobby: Football

1. With which club did Franz Beckenbauer play his last Bundes league game?
2. For which country did Pele play?
3. Who played against the German soccer team in the final match in 1954?
4. Who played against the German soccer team in the final match in 1966?
5. Who played against the German soccer team in the final match in 1990?
6. How often does the World Soccer Championship take place?
7. In what country did the World Soccer championship take place in 1970?
8. In what year did Italy become the world champion in soccer?
9. What is a mixture of soccer, riding and golf?
10. Name the 5 World Cup soccer teams that also won outside of their own countries?
11. The German Soccer League has existed since when?
12. When was Sepp Maier goalie for the German National Soccer team?
13. What must a soccer player do to get a "hat trick"?
14. Which position did Gerd Müller have?
15. Which position did Karl-Heinz Rumennige have?
16. What is the diameter of the starting mid-field circle in soccer?
17. Who is seen as the German record national player?
18. Who distributes cards in soccer?
19. Who became soccer player of the year in 1964 and 1960?
20. Who became best soccer player of the year 1986?
21. Who became World soccer player in 1990 and 1991?
22. What is the width of a soccer goal?
23. The two most important European soccer competitions are called?
24. What are the long sides of a soccer field called?
25. What is the name of the soccer player known as the "Dutch Soccer Emperor"?
26. What is the title of the film starring Franz Beckenbauer?
27. The top edge of a soccer goal is called?
28. What is a forceful kick of the ball called in soccer?
29. What are over-zealous soccer fans who often drink too much alcohol and partake in brawls called?
30. On a soccer team, how many players are there and what are their positions?
31. How many teams participate in the final round of the World Cup?
32. How many teams participate in the main round of the DFB Cup?
33. Where did the European Soccer Championship take place in 2000?
34. Where did the World Soccer Championship take place in 2006?
35. What country hosted the last World Cup of the last century?
36. Where and when was the first national soccer association in Germany founded?

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Sport & Hobby: Hobby

1. In which body of water can you find the eel?
2. What does an eel eat?
3. When and where was the first postage stamp issued?
4. When was the first Mercedes built?
5. When was the Daimler Motor Company founded?
6. What are fossils?
7. Which car brand builds the luxury model "Silver Ghost"?
8. Which auto brand has a lightning bolt on the radiator grill?
9. What was the engine output of the first built Mercedes?
10. Which animal supplies the basics of our honey?
11. What is the name of the part of a car that sits on the chassis?
12. What is the name of a sail boat with 2 hulls?
13. What is the name of the auto part that transmits power to the rear axle?
14. Name the part of a gasoline engine where air and fuel are mixed
15. The collection and study of postage stamps is called?
16. How many cards does a skat deck have?
17. To how many flowers must bees fly to make 1 kilo honey?

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Sport & Hobby: card-board-games

1. With how many cards do you play canasta?
2. What is a gambit?
3. What does remi mean?
4. What is baccara?
5. What is a croupier?
6. What is a jeton?
7. What is lotto?
8. What is "Go"?
9. What is Halma?
10. What is Patience?
11. What is preference?
12. What is rouge or noir?
13. What is roulette?
14. What is skat?
15. What is whist?
16. What kind of game is "Aggravation"?
17. What is the game called where a ball on a turning disc plays an important role?
18. How many cards you need to play bridge?
19. How many cards does a tarocchi game have?
20. How many tokens does Mäh Jong have?
21. How many tokens do chequers have?
22. Where were playing cards invented?
23. Where did the game Poker originate?

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Answers for Geography: Geography

1. America
2. Asia
3. Europe
4. Africa
5. Hungary
6. East Africa
7. June, July and August
8. Cornwall
9. Denmark
10. Vesuvius, Aetna
11. Pellworm, Nordstrand, Hallig Hooge, Hallig Langeneß, Sylt, Helgoland, Föhr, Amrum,Wangerooge, Spiekeroog, Langeoog, Norderney, Juist, Borkum, Helgoland sowie die Elbinseln: Wilhelmsburg, Neuwerk, Krautsand, Lühesand, Finkenwerder , Pagensand
12. Because only 1/7 of the total ice protrudes out of the sea.
13. Italy
14. It's the only volcano (dormant) in Austria
15. The area directly over the middle of an earthquake
16. A warm wind that decends from the leeward side of a mountain
17. An instrument that records earthquake shock waves
18. An air reflection
19. A narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes
20. Alaska
21. The entrance to San Francisco Bay
22. Ring Street and Kai Street
23. The Golden Gate Bridge
24. Baden near Zürich, Baden-Baden in the Black Forest and Baden near Vienna
25. Austria, Germany (the states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria), Switzerland
26. Spanish
27. Argentina, Brazil and Chile
28. San Francisco
29. approximately 40075 kilometers
30. about 12756 Km
31. The coast of Florida on the Gulf of Mexico
32. Alfred Wegener, 1912
33. Tertiary
34. Asia Minor
35. Duisberg am Rhein
36. Asia
37. Dover- Calais
38. Canada
39. Cyprus
40. Magellan
41. Elster, Saale und Weichsel
42. Günz, Mindel, Riß und Würm
43. Asia, Africa, Europe, America, Australia
44. Stonehenge
45. Aborigines
46. Limehouse
47. Greenwich Village
48. Schleswig Holstein
49. Cape Horn
50. Skutari
51. Hyde Park
52. Montmarte
53. Lands End
54. Albany
55. Acid Rain
56. Erosion
57. Lee
58. Luff
59. Lava, Magma
60. Geyser
61. Continental Drop-off
62. Crater
63. Maare
64. 90 North, 90 South and they are about 110 kms apart
65. 4
66. Ceylon
67. In Palmnicken (Samland), East Prussia
68. South Africa, south of Capetown
69. In Senegal, it is the westernmost place
70. South pole also called Antarctic
71. On the Rhein near Koblenz
72. In the South Pole region, a British archipelago
73. It's a market place in London
74. In Hamburg between St. Pauli and Steinwerder
75. In Rome
76. On the island of Capri
77. It's a section of the coastline in Guinea, West Africa
78. Northeast Berlin
79. A district in Paris, the student quarter
80. In East Prussia, a lake with a beach
81. A western French penninsula with many harbors
82. Italy
83. Peru
84. In West-Africa (Portuguese colony)
85. Between India and Thailand
86. In Shanghai
87. At 0 degrees longitude (Greenwich, London)
88. In Germany in Saxony
89. In Palestine, the Dead Sea is 394 m under the sea level
90. In Central America
91. Between Hudson Bay and the Atlantic Ocean
92. East Africa
93. Hashemite
94. East Patagonia - Argentina; West Patagonia - Chile

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Answers for Geography: Buildings

1. It's a mausoleum for Emporer Shah Jahan
2. Giza
3. Doric, Ionic and Corinthian
4. Antoine Pesne
5. 1994
6. 1980
7. 1973
8. The Eifel Tower
9. The Chinese Wall (6250km long)
10. A monumental grave
11. A mausoleum
12. A portico in Greek architecture
13. A column supported archway
14. Statue of Liberty
15. Gothic
16. Sistine Chapel
17. Neuschwanstein
18. Marble
19. The Egyptian Pyramids, the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis in Babylon, the Diana tempel in Ephesus, the Zeus in Phidias in Olympia, the Mausoleum inHalikarnassos, the Colossus of Rhodes (Island near Alexandria) and the Lighthouse in Pharao
20. The pyramids
21. King Louis XIV
22. Johann Michael Hoppenhaupt
23. Belvedere
24. St. Stephan's Cathedral
25. Buckingham Palace
26. About 300 metres
27. about 138 meters
28. almost 20 km
29. Colosseum
30. Lateran Palace
31. Kremlin
32. Apse
33. Capital
34. Prater
35. Pagoda
36. Arcades
37. Octagon
38. Half-timbered house
39. Versailles
40. Hamburg
41. in Jerusalem
42. In Venice
43. Bell Tower

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Answers for Geography: Mountains

1. Table Mountain
2. Pyrenees
3. Tanzania
4. K2
5. Vorarlberg
6. Lemberg (1015m)
7. Brocken (1142m)
8. Feldberg (1493m)
9. Dufourspitz (4634m) is also the highest in Switzerland
10. Montblanc (4810m)
11. Mount Etna
12. Rhone and Aosta Valleys
13. Iser and Aosta Valleys
14. Reus and Leventina Valleys
15. Up to 250 km
16. 11.6 km (Mont Blanc Tunnel)
17. Kilimanjaro
18. Ural Mountains
19. Pyrenees
20. Kilimanjaro
21. Mount Vinson
22. Zugspitze
23. Mont Blanc
24. About 8840 m
25. Erz Mountains
26. Alps
27. In the Bernese Alps, Switzerland and is the longest glacier in the alps
28. The Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland, south of the Jungfrau mountain in the Bernese Alps
29. In the Rocky Mountains (USA)
30. Mexico
31. Erz Mountains
32. Riesengebirge
33. Between the Mönchs and Kapuziner Mountains
34. Mosel, Rhein and Ruhr

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Answers for Geography: Rivers

1. On the Marzanares
2. On the Scheide
3. On the Ganges
4. On the Oder
5. On the Arno
6. On the Mur.
7. On the Neva
8. On the Tejo
9. On the Loire
10. On the Tiber
11. On the Mississippi
12. On the Danue
13. On the Danube
14. On the Nile
15. On the Rhine
16. On the Spree and Havel
17. Aare
18. On the Garonne
19. Tiber
20. On the Elbe
21. On the Rhone
22. On the Elbe
23. On the Inn
24. On the Nile
25. On the Thames
26. On the Salzach
27. On the Oder
28. Between the Donau and the Sava
29. Germany, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Rumania and Bulgari
30. Czech Republic, Germany
31. The Rhein
32. Alz
33. Würm
34. Caspian Sea
35. Amazon
36. Mississippi
37. about 390 m
38. Loire (1010km long)
39. Aare (295km)
40. Isar
41. Inn
42. Neckar
43. Donau
44. Colorado River
45. Rhone
46. Zambesi
47. Brigach and the Breg on the eastern edge of the Black Forest
48. Hwangho or Yellow river
49. Nile or Amazon (both round abaout 4100 miles)
50. Rhine or Danube
51. Ambrosia
52. Shatt al Arab
53. Wadi
54. North China
55. Cuxhaven
56. Argentina
57. In Bolivia

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Answers for Geography: Lakes

1. 1/5 in Switzerland, 4/5 in Italy
2. Switzerland
3. Niagra
4. Saint Lawrence
5. Wörther Lake
6. Millstädter, Weißen, Ossiacher and Wörther Lakes
7. Garda Lake
8. Lake Chiemsee
9. Caspian Sea
10. 538.5 square kilometers
11. Lake Victoria

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Answers for Geography: Geology

1. Les-Baux-de Provence in southern France
2. Yes, semi-precious
3. The destruction of the Earth's surface through mechanical or chemical processes
4. It is a blue precious gem stone belonging to the felspar group
5. Fossilized resin
6. A volcanic glass full of cavities and very light in weight
7. Diamond
8. A light green gemstone
9. A low, annular coral island
10. A engraving depressed below the surface so that an impression from the design yields an image in relief
11. A gem carved in relief
12. A setting with a single diamond
13. A kind of rock like granite
14. A clay used to make china
15. A semi-precious stone
16. Funnel-shaped depressions in a limestone region
17. A porous rock formed as a deposit from springs or streams
18. Pieces of glaciers that fall into the ocean
19. Magma ejected from volcanos that harden on the surface
20. Rock and gravel at the foot of a glacier
21. Stalacites
22. Stalagmites
23. Volcanic gas froths up the lava
24. Partly decayed plant material found in layers in marshy areas
25. Magma
26. Lava
27. Fossils
28. 563.35 Karats
29. English crown jewels
30. Carrara in Tuscany
31. Pure carbon
32. Fossilized resin of conifers
33. Aluminium production

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Answers for Geography: Islands

1. Upolu (belongs to Western Samoa)
2. Wine and Krimsekt
3. Usedom, Fehmarn, Rügen, Poel (reached via Damm)
4. Helgoland, Bornholm etc.
5. Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, Herm
6. Tuvalu near Australia
7. Crete
8. Greenland
9. Puerto Rico
10. New Guinea
11. Sardinia
12. A coral reef around an island
13. Sicily
14. Portugal, Spanien, Andorra, Gibraltar
15. Cyprus
16. Sinai
17. Sardinia
18. Sylt
19. Jersey, Guernsey, Herm, Sark und Alderney
20. 607
21. Canada
22. France
23. Italy
24. Portugal
25. Denmark
26. Seychelles

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Answers for Geography: Switzerland-Austria

1. Uri
2. Steiermark
3. Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Luzern
4. 1803
5. In rememberance of the formation of the founding 3-canton-federation in August 1291
6. Ticino
7. William Tell
8. Zürich
9. Uri
10. St. Gallen
11. Uri
12. Linz

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Answers for Geography: Countries

1. Germany, Liechtenstein and Switzerland
2. Zanzibar
3. Moscow
4. La Paz
5. Bogota
6. Vaduz
7. Lagos
8. Stockholm
9. Montevideo
10. Caracas
11. Addis Abeba
12. San Jose
13. Oslo
14. Berne
15. London
16. Lisbon
17. Saxony
18. Florida
19. Tennessee
20. Washington
21. Arizona
22. New Mexico
23. Japan
24. Denmark
25. Seaport in Yemen
26. Agra (in north of India)
27. In 3 districts: Dresden, Karl-Marx-Stadt and Leipzig
28. Only the western part of the Netherlands is actually called Holland
29. Left
30. Simon Bolivar, liberator of northern South-America from the Spanish authority
31. Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, England, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemberg,France, Spain,Portugal, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria,Italy, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, San Marino, Monaco, Turkey, Andorra, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia
32. China
33. Carinthia
34. El Salvador
35. 8000 km from North to South, 7600 km from East to West and 30 Mio m²
36. Russia, Canada, USA, China, Brazil
37. Venezuela
38. Bulgaria
39. Denmark
40. 1960
41. Finland
42. Graubünden
43. Island volcano in the Sundra Strait
44. Texas
45. Addis Abeba
46. Thimbu
47. Rangoon
48. The Flemish speaking people of Northern Belgium
49. Tourism and the sale of stamps
50. California
51. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Poland
52. English and mainly French in Quebec
53. Portuguese
54. Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen, as well as East-Berlin
55. Normandy
56. Germany, France and England
57. Spain, Portugal and England (Gibraltar)
58. Around 1200 km
59. Alemannisch
60. Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg
61. 11:00 p.m.
62. The Flemish in the North and the French speaking Walloons in the south
63. Aswan High Dam
64. Australia 7.68m²
65. USA
66. Alaska
67. Alaska is the most eastern and most western
68. Ghana
69. India
70. French colony
71. Malawi
72. Alaska
73. Juneau
74. Buenos Aires
75. Dublin
76. Tripolis
77. Bucharest
78. Dakar
79. Zimbabwe
80. 9 months
81. Burmese
82. Gibraltar
83. Eskimos
84. Yiddish
85. Ceylon
86. Finland
87. In the dessert
88. A cave in Austria
89. South end of Africa
90. Capri
91. East of Paris in Northern France. Popular for it's wine-growing district where Champagner is made
92. in West Africa
93. In the north east of Australia (federal state)
94. Iceland
95. In South Africa (British colony)
96. Hungary
97. Eskimos
98. Austria
99. Bulgaria
100. Denmark
101. Liechtenstein
102. The Netherlands
103. Luxemburg
104. France
105. Egypt
106. Russia, in 1867 the USA bought Alaska
107. Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia
108. England and the USA
109. France

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Answers for Geography: Seas

1. On the Atlantic Ocean
2. On the Black Sea
3. Chinese Sea
4. On the Adriatic Sea
5. Sea of Japan
6. Mediterranean
7. On the Atlantic Ocean
8. Irish Sea
9. Atlantic Ocean
10. The Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea)
11. Irish Sea
12. Mediterranean (Golfe de Lion)
13. On the Atlantic Ocean
14. Tyrrhenian Sea
15. North Sea
16. Tyrrhenian Sea
17. Atlantic Ocean
18. Pacific Ocean
19. Atlantic Ocean (Golf of Biscay)
20. North Sea
21. Strait of Gibraltar
22. Öresund strait
23. Bosphorus
24. North Sea
25. Atlantic Ocean
26. Baltic Sea
27. Mediterranean
28. North Sea
29. Wind, temperature changes and variations in salinity
30. Indian Ocean (about 74 square km)
31. An inlet almost completely cut off from the ocean
32. Mediterranean and the Red Sea
33. Pacific Ocean
34. Dead Sea
35. Cayman Trench with 7680 meters deep
36. Mariana Trench with a depth of 10924 meters
37. Aegean
38. Continental Shelf
39. Bosporus
40. Bosporus
41. Cape Horn
42. Kattegat and the Skagerrak
43. The strait between the Marmara Sea and the Aegean Sea
44. South Africa
45. In the Mediterranean between Italy, Corsica and Sicily
46. Northern Mediterranean between the Balkans and the Appinine Peninsula
47. The strait between Alaska and Siberia and named for Vitus Jonassen Bering 1680-1741.

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Answers for Geography: Cities

1. Kurfürstendamm
2. Atlantic Ocean
3. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
4. Seven
5. Liverpool
6. Buda is on the right and Pest is on the left bank of the Danube
7. Washington
8. Illinois
9. Nordrhein-Westfalen, near the border to the Netherlands and Belgium
10. Australia
11. Ireland
12. Finland
13. Egypt
14. Tibet
15. China
16. Canada
17. France
18. Iceland
19. Bulgaria
20. Japan
21. Iraq
22. Brussels
23. Paris
24. Bologna (Italy) The Uni was founded in 1119
25. Rome
26. Hamburg
27. Amsterdam
28. Brussels
29. Paris
30. Vienna
31. Vienna
32. Florence
33. Vienna
34. Geneva
35. Lima (founded in 1551)
36. Bologna
37. Copenhagen, Warsaw, Madrid, Prag, Bern, Amsterdam
38. Hammerfest
39. 1848
40. Georgia
41. Rio de Janeiro
42. The Statue of Liberty
43. Romulus and Remus and the wolf
44. Cairo
45. Riad
46. Rennes
47. Florence
48. Sucre, but the seat of government is in La Paz
49. Klagenfurt
50. Colombo
51. Bregenz
52. La Paz in Bolivia, lays 3600 -4000 m high
53. Den Haag
54. Hamelin
55. Paris, the island is called "Ile de la Cite"
56. Cremona
57. Nagasaki
58. Korneuburg
59. New York
60. Berlin
61. Paris
62. Brasilia
63. Dresden
64. Troy
65. Bratislava
66. Le Harve
67. Knightsbridge
68. The cathedral in Colonge
69. Phoenicians (Carthaginians)
70. Montmartre
71. City
72. Wolga
73. Greenwich
74. Buckingham Palace
75. Munich
76. Vaduz
77. Gaborone
78. Valletta
79. Lissabon
80. Lusaka
81. Madrid
82. Venice
83. Kärtner Strasse
84. Istanbul
85. Rawalpindi
86. Stalingrad
87. Edo
88. Minsk
89. Colosseum
90. 102
91. Bozen
92. Paris
93. In Hamelin
94. Vladivostok
95. In New York (district)
96. In Berlin
97. In Moscow
98. Vienna
99. London
100. Cambodia
101. Switzerland
102. Capital of Corsica
103. Saudi Arabia
104. Pisa
105. Paris
106. Vienna
107. Rio de Janeiro
108. New York
109. San Francisco
110. Munich
111. Vienna
112. Denmark

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Answers for Sports & Hobbies: Sports-Hobbies

1. Bobby Fischer
2. Bull Fights
3. American Football
4. Table Tennis
5. Synchronized swimming
6. Golf
7. Three
8. Tennis, as a Wimbleton winner
9. Boxing
10. St. Moritz
11. 1916, 1940, and 1944
12. Shot-put
13. Super Triathalon
14. Rome
15. 1948 - London, 1952 - Helsinki, 1956 - Melbourne, 1960 - Rome, 1964 - Tokyo
16. 1896 in Athens
17. 1894
18. 776 b.c.
19. Boxing
20. Running, swimming, bicycling
21. A sucessful hit to your opponent, who can not get up after 10 seconds
22. Wimbledon
23. The player who is on the hitting team who uses a bat to hit the ball into the playing field
24. In highjump, a style of going over the bar sideways with the head leading
25. The player on the defending team who throws the ball to the batter
26. A cycling track
27. A broken bone
28. A ball game played on horseback, in the water or on bicycles
29. To hold an opponent at close quarters with one or both arms
30. The five continents
31. The temperature of the runners
32. Jumping, running, wrestling, throwing the discus and hurling the spear or javelin
33. 100m sprint, 110m hurdles, 400m run, 1500m run, broadjump, shot put, discus, javelin, high jump and pole vault
34. Red
35. Annemarie Moser-Pröll
36. Ski jumping
37. Foil, epee, and saber
38. Edddy Merckx
39. Niki Lauda
40. Table tennis ball
41. Badmitton shuttlecock
42. Nikki Lauda
43. Bernhard Langer
44. Enzo Ferrari
45. Ice hockey
46. Eddy Merckx
47. Eddy Merckx (69, 70, 71, 72, 74)
48. Jacques Vileneuve
49. Carl Lewis
50. Edward Eagan
51. Boris Becker
52. Earvin "Magic" Johnson
53. Soccer
54. Greece
55. Hahnenkamm Race
56. Boomerang
57. Gabriela Sabatini
58. Jens Weissflog
59. The goalie
60. Pierre de Coubertin
61. Edwin Moses
62. Floyd Patterson
63. Markus Wasmaier
64. Mountain bikes
65. Richard Krajicek
66. Sumo wrestling
67. Sonja Henie
68. Weight lifting
69. For men it is about 1000 meters over 3 km and for women it is about 700 meters over 2.5 km
70. 91 cm high hurdles and 3.66 m water jump
71. 42, 195 km
72. Two times 40 minutes
73. Luff
74. Ace
75. Cabriolet (Convertible)
76. Pelota
77. Kayak
78. Puck
79. Telemark
80. Paralympic Games
81. Yoga
82. Marathon
83. 5 times
84. 9 times
85. 10 m
86. 16 square meters
87. 21.8 square meters
88. 5
89. 30 players
90. 10
91. 5
92. 3
93. 5 (yellow, orange, green, blue and brown)
94. 50 metres
95. 35 minutes
96. 14
97. two
98. 30
99. Regatta
100. In tennis
101. In card games
102. Bern
103. In the arena
104. In soccer
105. in swimming
106. 1924 in Charmonix
107. 1960-Rome, 1972-München, 1980-Moskow under a western countries boycott
108. At his belt

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Answers for Sport & Hobby: Football

1. HSV
2. Brazil
3. Hungary
4. England
5. Argentina
6. Every 4 years
7. Mexico
8. 1934
9. Polo
10. Uruguay, Brasil, Argentina, Italy, Germany
11. Since 1963
12. 1966-1979
13. Make 3 goals in a hockey game
14. Striker
15. Striker
16. 9.15 meters
17. Lothar Matthäus with 150 matches
18. The referees
19. Uwe Seeler
20. Diego Armando Maradona
21. Lothar Matthäus
22. 7,32 m
23. Champions League and UEFA Cup
24. Side lines
25. Johan Kruiff
26. Libero
27. Crossbar
28. Hammer or Hammer-kick
29. Hooligans
30. 5 strikers, 3 mid-fielders. 2 defenders and 1 goalie
31. 32
32. 64 (36 professional teams and 28 amateur teams)
33. The Netherlands and Belgium
34. Germany
35. France
36. Leipzig, 28 January 1900

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Answers for Sport & Hobby: Hobby

1. The eel can live in fresh or salt water, in lakes or rivers. They go to the ocean to spawn.
2. Small vertebrates (fishes, frogs)
3. In England in 1840. In Germany in the former Bavarian kingdom in 1849.
4. 1901
5. 1890
6. Petrified animals and plants
7. Rolls Royce
8. Opel
9. 4 Cylinder, 35 PS and could go 72 km/h
10. Bee
11. Car Body
12. Catamaran
13. Drive shaft
14. Carburetor
15. Philately
16. 32 cards
17. About 3 million

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Answers for Sport & Hobby: card-board-games

1. With two packages of rummy cards with 4 jokers (108 cards)
2. A chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position.
3. A draw (especially at chess)
4. A card gamble with 2 whist players
5. The assistant of the banker of a gaming house
6. A token
7. A gamble with number tables
8. A Japanese board game with 2 x 181 tokens
9. A board game for 2-4 players where they try to occupy the opposite corner of the board with their game pieces
10. A card puzzle for one player (some also for two)
11. A card-game for 3 people
12. A gamble that is played with 6 whist players (312 cards)
13. A gamble with a bullet on a rotating mark covered with black and red numbers
14. A German card-game for 3 people
15. A card-game with 52 cards (2 -4 players)
16. A board game using dice for 2-6 persons
17. Roulett
18. 52
19. 78
20. 144
21. 24 (2 players with each 12 tokens)
22. Supposedly in China
23. It is a game of chance from America

Please note: all answers without guarantee

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