Geo Quiz
Smuggling Pizza Ingredients Into Canada
For our Geo Quiz we’re trying to track down some pizza rustlers, some cheese pizza rustlers. Police in Southern Ontario are investigating an unusual criminal case that involves some local pizzerias.
Brazil’s Traffic Jams: A Daily Headache
The BBC ‘s Paulo Cabral is in the Brazilian city known for nightmarish traffic jams on the roads and in the sky. Traffic gridlock is getting worse as more and more Brazilians drive. One option available to some commuters: take a helicopter to work.
Hatfields And McCoys Shoot It Up In Transylvania
The series “Hatfields & McCoys,” based on one of the most famous blood feuds in American history, was filmed in Transylvania.
Eggs In Short Supply, Prices Rising
There’s a national shortage of eggs in the country that is the world’s biggest consumer of eggs (350 per person per year). It’s causing prices to rise, and chefs are having to get creative says Patricia Jinich, host of the popular cooking program Pati’s Mexican Table.
Remembering The Russian Lada Classic
The last Lada Classic has rolled out of an assembly plant in a Russian city in the western Urals. The Russian carmaker AvtoVAZ has phased out the popular sedan modeled after the Italian Fiat. The Lada dates back to the Soviet era and like many, Russian American Andre Lukatsky remembers teh Lada Classic fondly.
Poland Discovers 17th Century Looted Art in River
A once sunken treasure emerges in our Geo Quiz. A drought in Central Europe has caused Poland’s longest river to recede near Warsaw, exposing tons of long lost stonework and marble. It was looted from Polish palaces and castles centuries ago during a 1655 Swedish invasion, and ended up at the bottom of the river when the barge hauling it to the port of Gdansk sank.
Extending the Appalachian Trail to Both Sides of the Atlantic
We’re looking for the name of a very long hiking trail for our Geo Quiz, more than 10,000 miles miles long. The trail is a horseshoe-shaped trail that roughly wraps around the North Atlantic Ocean. The path follows along some mountain ranges that share a common geology.
A Long Winter’s Trek Across Antarctica
A team led by British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has announced to do six month ice trek begin from the Russian Antarctic base of Novolazarevskaya, and cross 2,000 miles via the South Pole to McMurdo Station, the US polar research base that looks out toward the Ross Sea. Can you name this partially frozen southern sea that wraps around this coastline of Antarctica?
Euro Vegas! Coming Soon to Spain
Will six casinos, 12 hotels, and three golf courses be a winning formula to get the local economy back on track? Or will Euro Vegas bring in a wave of corruption and prostitution? The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from Alcorcon, Spain.
New Monkey Species Found in Central Africa
The answer to today’s Geo Quiz is the Lomami Forest, an African lowland rainforest in the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) where a new species of monkey called Lesula has been discovered. Conservation biologist John Hart with the Lukuru Wildlife Research Project talks about the discovery.
German Court Ruling May Aid Ailing Euro
Germany’s Constitutional Court handed down a decision Wednesday which may help save Europe’s embattled single currency, the euro. But is it too little, too late?
Homeless Tour Guides Lead Tourists Around Prague
A tourism organization in Prague has come up with a new spin on the usual walking tour of the city. Pragulic, a combination of Prague and the Czech word for “streets” employs homeless people living in the capital as guides.
Swimming in Amsterdam’s Canals for a Good Cause
We just want you to name one of Amsterdam’s main canals. It’s one of the widest. The Emperor’s Canal is named after a Holy Roman Emperor. It served as the finish line for Sunday’s Amsterdam City Swim. Can you name it?
Sampling Sweden’s Traditional Surströmming
Surströmming is herring that’s put into barrels until the point it almost starts to rot, and it smells terribly but the taste is pretty special.
The Far Out Destination of Voyager
We’re looking out well beyond the reach of Earth’s gravity to a place the Voyager space probes are traveling through at the moment.
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