Geo Quiz | PRI's The World - Part 60

The World’s GEO QUIZ

Today’s Geo Texting game winners (Yakutsk):

Temperance in Fruitridge CA

Scott in Cherokee, CA

Shawn in Tampa, FL

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How do I play? Text the keyword GEOQUIZ to 69866 from your mobile phone. Instructions will follow via text. You will need to reply with your name and zip code to enter. Once you have signed up, you will receive a quiz every Wednesday. We expect to add other days fairly shortly. Simply tune-in to the show to see if you got the correct answer. Answers will also be sent via text later and posted on The World’s website at theworld.org/geoquiz.We will select three people who answered the quiz correctly and mention your first name and city during the broadcast and post here on theworld.org

What are the terms and conditions? By signing up for the Geo Quiz texting game, you are subscribing to receive text alerts from Public Radio International (PRI) and The World. The Geo Quiz is free, but message and data rates from your mobile carrier may apply. You may opt-out any time by replying STOP to a text message from PRI or The World, or by sending a request to theworld@pri.org. You must include the mobile phone number you want opted out.

Who can I contact to get more information? For more information about the Geo Quiz texting game and its guidelines email theworld@pri.org. The World’s Geo Quiz tests your knowledge of world geography, and introduces you to fascinating people and places around the globe. Produced by The World’s David Leveille. Geo Quiz Podcast on iTunes Geo Quiz Podcast via RSS

Geo Quiz theme music:

SONG TITLE: Diaraby

ARTISTS:Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder

CD TITLE: Talking Timbuktu

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Geo Quiz

Annual ceremony

By The World ⋅ August 6, 2009 ⋅ One comment ⋅

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We board a trolley in the city we are looking for in today’s Geo Quiz. We’ll cross two rivers. And we’ll pass a shopping street that you could easily mistake for New York or Los Angeles…

Smaller seas

By The World ⋅ August 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

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Now from Pakistan — head 50 degrees due west for today’s Geo Quiz. That should land you somewhere in or near the Mediterranean Sea. Now you could say the Mediterranean isn’t just one big body of water.

Rowing

By The World ⋅ August 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

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Today’s Geo Quiz: There are several ways to travel from Australia over to the African island nation of Mauritius. The shortest way is to cross an ocean and that’s the ocean we want you to name. A direct flight from Perth in Western Australia to Mauritius covers more than 3,000 miles of water…

Mozart concerto

By The World ⋅ August 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

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Mozart’s brilliant career flashed by pretty quickly. He lived only till the age of 35 but he managed to compose more than 600 symphonies, concertos and piano works. He even shows up in today’s Geo Quiz. We’re looking for Mozart’s place of birth today.

Geo Quiz

By The World ⋅ July 31, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

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Our daily geography quiz.

Traveling circuses

By The World ⋅ July 31, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

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The circus is coming! … to today’s Geo Quiz. Things will be a little different the next time the circus comes to town. That holds true at least in the South American country we’re looking for today.

Geo Answer

By The World ⋅ July 31, 2009 ⋅ One comment ⋅

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The answer to today’s Geo Quiz is Bolivia. Bolivia has a tough new national law that bans all animals, wild and domestic, in traveling circuses. Anchor Katy Clark speaks with animal rights campaigner (Animal Defenders International) Alexandra Cardenas about how Bolivia’s moving to prevent mistreatment and abuse of circus animals.

Signs of Climate Change on the Northwest Passage

By The World ⋅ July 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

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A sea at the top of the world figures in today’s Geo Quiz. We’re tracking a Canadian sailor who’s heading through the Northwest Passage. An ice free route across the northern reaches of Canada opened up a few years ago for the first time in memory.

Venetian merchant

By The World ⋅ July 29, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

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New York City bookstore owner David Del Vecchio came up with today’s Geo Quiz. And not surprisingly, his puzzler is a literary one.

A refreshing swim

By The World ⋅ July 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

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We’re taking a refreshing swim for today’s Geo Quiz. The place we want you to name is no muddy swimming hole, though. It’s a sports complex in Rome, Italy — where the World Swimming Championships are underway. Athletes are competing all this week in swimming, synchronized swimming, diving, and don’t forget water polo.

Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”

By The World ⋅ July 27, 2009 ⋅ One comment ⋅

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Download MP3 Today’s Geo Quiz — is something right out of a fairy tale. Getting sued is bad enough. But imagine being sued for having a statue of the Little Mermaid! That’s just what’s making local newspaper front page headlines in a town in south west Michigan…

Forest fires

By The World ⋅ July 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

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Today’s Geo Quiz focuses on a very serious news story. Forest fires are raging in British Columbia. One of them — known as the Terrace Mountain fire — is proving to be a huge challenge for Canadian firefighters. It’s been spreading since last Saturday…and now covers nearly 10,000 acres.

Lonesome George

By The World ⋅ July 23, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments ⋅

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We’re tracking a rare creature named George for today’s Geo Quiz. Lonesome George is not your average tortoise. He’s a giant saddleback tortoise of the Galapagos Islands and he’s getting up in his years. We’re looking for the name of the Ecuadorian island where George comes from.

Southwestern Taiwan

By The World ⋅ July 22, 2009 ⋅ One comment ⋅

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A port city in southwestern Taiwan is on our radar for today’s Geo Quiz. It’s the most crowded and the second largest city in Taiwan…

Hundred Years’ War

By The World ⋅ July 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

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Rewind nearly 600 years for today’s Geo Quiz. Our quiz takes us to the scene of a turning point in the Hundred Years’ War between the English and the French. The year was 1415.