Geo Quiz
Spain’s public art gallery
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Spain’s 4th largest city is on our Geo Quiz radar today. This city is the capital of the southern region of Andalusia. And just outside the old city center, there’s a neighborhood called Polígono San Pablo. The neighborhood’s just been transformed into a public art gallery of sorts. Download MP3>>>Audio slideshow: See some of the artists in action
Cows to Kazakhstan
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A couple hundred head of cattle boarded a jumbo jet out of Fargo, ND on a 22 hour flight. You can only imagine the scene when the captain turned off the seatbelt light. No seriously, the shipment is part of an agricultural deal to send a couple thousand hardy cows to Kazakhstan. For the Geo Quiz we ask, where did they land? Download MP3Malaysian capital
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Today’s Geo Quiz takes us to Malaysia. We’re looking for that country’s capital city. It boasts many cultural attractions. One of them is the Petronas Philharmonic concert hall where a world-class orchestra performs near the city’s famous high-rise towers. Download MP3Message in a bottle
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For this Geo Quiz, follow the ocean blue. The warm ocean we know as the Gulf Stream originates near the southern tip of Florida. It heads north up along the US coastline and up past Newfoundland. There, it’s called the North Atlantic Drift, because it sweeps across the Atlantic.
About a year ago, some high schoolers in Melbourne Florida focused on the the Gulf Stream for their marine science project. They wrote messages in bottles and tossed them into the Atlantic. A year later, some of the bottles washed up far from Florida.
The question is where? One turned up 37-hundred miles away near a small fishing village on the west coast of Ireland. County Clare to be more precise. Now see if you can pinpoint the peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic there where the bottle washed up. Download MP3
La Feria de Los Moles
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We’re on the mole beat for our Geo Quiz. There will be plenty of this traditional Mexican sauce to go around this weekend at a special event in Los Angeles. It’s called La Feria de Los Moles. And it’s organized by immigrant communities from the two Mexican states most associated with mole – Puebla and Oaxaca. So where in LA is this festival happenning? Download MP3
Lost Vivaldi concerto found
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You’ll never guess where some long lost music by one of the world’s best-known composers just turned up? That’s the question in the Geo Quiz. Download MP3English soccer club
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In the Geo Quiz we’re looking for the home-town of one of the most famous sports teams in the world. No, not the Yankees, not even the Red Sox – although the Sox are involved in this story. Their owner, John Henry, is making a play for an English soccer club. Where is this team from? Download MP3Chinese silk in northern Europe
Art treasures figure in today’s Geo Quiz. An exhibit caught our eye: it’s called “100 percent Silk.” There are shimmering dresses and lavish wall tapestries, some thousands of years old. It’s all on loan from China’s National Silk Museum. Where in northern Europe can you see this exibit at the moment?
African weightlifting champ
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Competition at the Commonwealth Games finally got underway today in Delhi, India and that’s the starting point for our Geo Quiz as well. The first Gold went to a 17-year old weightlifter representing a West African country we want you to name. Download MP3Home of the Oktoberfest
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Germans have lots to celebrate this weekend: not only is this the climactic weekend of Oktoberfest. The country’s also celebrating the 20th anniversary of reunification. There’ll be festivities nationwide, but most of the drinking will stay in the beer-halls in and around this southern city… Download MP3Slapstick Geo Quiz
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Laurel And Hardy were huge back in the 1930′s and 40′s. Their slapstick was a hit throughout the US and Europe. Ollie, the wide one, was born in Georgia. And Stan, the skinny one, was born in ?? For the Geo Quiz, name the county in Northwest England. Download MP3The Abraham Path
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For the Geo Quiz we want you to help map out the Abraham Path. This path for travelers winds through the Middle East. It links up ancient regions, said to have been traveled by the biblical Abraham. It begins in the Turkish village of Harran. Download MP3World Equestrian Games
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The World Equestrian Games are underway and for the Geo Quiz we want to know where. They are being held outside of Europe for the first time in a place that’s known simply as horse country. Download MP3French fries with mayonnaise
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A new video pokes fun at the small European country which is the focus of our Geo Quiz today. It has problems, some serious, some not so serious. But at least all of its citizens agree that the national dish is french fries with mayonnaise. Clark Boyd has more. Download MP3Watch the video>>>
Parting the Red Sea
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The crossing of the Red Sea in the biblical story of the Exodus has long made theologians and archeologists wonder, where could the legendary event have taken place? In the Geo Quiz, Carl Drews is trying to shed some light on the issue but he’s not a biblical scholar. He’s a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder Colorado. Marco Werman talks with him. Download MP3
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