
For the Geo Quiz, we’re looking for the name of the observatory, or the country where it’s located, that has taken a new panoramic image of the distant universe.
For the Geo Quiz, we would like you to name three Muslim nations that have traditionally excluded women from their teams, but may be sending at least one female athlete to the London Olympics.
We are looking for an African city along the Somalia’s long Indian Ocean coastline. It is home to Somalia’s national theatre, a place well-known for drama, music and dance.
Prince Koloni is a young musician and former gold-boat runner who plays both traditional aleke music and roots reggae.
Maud is a famous three masted ship named after Norway’s Queen Maud. Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen sailed the ship during his expeditions to reach the North Pole.
A BBC documentary called the “Frozen Planet,” features something called underwater ‘brinicles’. These seawater icicles are so cold, they are deadly to touch. Producer Kathryn Jeffs describes how the team filmed underwater icicles nicknamed “brinicles of death” because they instantly freeze and kill marine life that comes into contact.
Archaeologists in eastern Kazakhstan have found spectacular gold pieces and animal figures that offer clues to the life of nomadic people who wandered the region centuries ago.
Art researchers in Italy have been peeking through cracks in a 16th century fresco and now say they may have discovered traces of long-lost mural by Leonardo da Vinci.
A 47-year-old Bosnian Muslim is making a 3,600 miles pilgrimage from Bosnia to Mecca on foot. Each year millions of Muslims make the annual pilgrimage to the Saudi city for the Hajj.
For the Geo Quiz, we are looking for tiny island in the middle of the vast South Atlantic Ocean that was once used as a refugee camp for slaves.
We are looking for a water body where the Andaman Islands are located. It is here that visitors travel to catch a glimpse of the indigenous islanders, known as Jarawa.
German scholars have discovered a trove of 500 long-lost fairy tales that feature a cast of characters including a turnip princess, a talking bear and a prince who resembles a dung beetle.
Marco Werman talks with the Wall Street Journal’s Charles Levinson, who covered the Second International Afghan Ski Challenge Championship this past weekend.
The city that we are looking for in the Geo Quiz today has gone through many transformations in its long history and part of what it is today was shaped by the Levantines.
Dragon blood trees and wild pomegranates figure in the Geo Quiz. Their bark produces a resin that has been sought after for centuries.