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ARTISTS: Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder
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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.
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Geo Quiz takes us out to sea. If you travel clockwise around the Baltic Sea, you can visit any of the Baltic countries: Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Germany, and finally Denmark. Download MP3
Today’s Geo Quiz links North, Central, and South America. We want to tell you about a mountain biker named Jacob Thomson and his two friends who’ve just finished a long journey. We began in Prudhoe Bay Alaska. And just recently finished in Ushuaia, Argentina…
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Just how much life can you find in an ecosystem of one cubic foot? That is the question photographer David Liittschwager set out to answer when photographed a range of different environments on land and in water, in tropical climes and temperate regions and began to chart the living organisms. Download MP3 (Photo: ©2010 David Liittschwager/National Geographic)
The Geo Quiz kicks off with an Olympic update. There’s lots of snow at Whistler where the downhill ski events will be held. But there’s still no snow at all in the forecast for Cypress Mountain. Russia’s President jokingly offered to deliver some extra snow – all the way from Russia. President Medvedev says there’s plenty in the Russian resort that will host the next Winter Games in 2014. And where would that be?
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For today’s Geo Quiz, we’re heading to the furthest reaches of the world’s biggest forest… in search of a lost city. The Amazon rainforest covers almost a billion and a half acres of South America. The forest is dense and inhospitable to humans and anthropologists long thought only small, simple societies lived there. But rumors have persisted for centuries of long-lost great civilizations, deep in the Amazon. The World’s Marina Giovannelli reports. Download MP3 (photo: Sanna Saunaluoma)The Rickshaw Capital of the world figures in today’s Geo Quiz. The city we’re looking for lies on the banks of the Buriganga River. Its population of 13 million makes it the largest city in Bangladesh.
The Sandwalk is your first clue for today’s Geo Quiz. The Sandwalk is a walking path where Charles Darwin used to stroll…
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For many years Liberia was mostly infamous for its brutal civil war but now surfing fans are discovering the beaches of the West African nation. In the Geo Quiz we’re looking for Liberia’s surfing capital, New York Times’ Diplomatic Correspondent Helene Cooper grew up in Liberia and knows where to find it. Download MP3
Let’s go on a “magical tour to Avatar’s floating mountain”. That’s exactly what a city in China’s Hunan province is promoting on its website. And that’s where you come in: we want you to name this Chinese city.
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For today’s Geo Quiz we were looking for Australia’s southern-most state where today Australia Day celebrations kicked off with great food and traditional games.Download MP3We travel back in Olympic history for today’s Geo Quiz. We’re looking for the name of the resort where the Winter Olympics took place 50 years ago.
Arachnophobes may want to take a pass on today’s Geo Quiz. Beware of the funnel web spider. One poisonous bite from its fangs, that’s right fangs and you could be a goner in 2 hours.
“The first symptoms are tingling around the mouth, and tongue swelling, and then your nose will be running, your eyes will be running.”
You get the picture. These deadly spiders are showing up in greater numbers this year…due to unseasonably humid weather.
Where? We thought you might like to know. It’s a major coastal city in the southern hemisphere. It’s surrounded by the Blue Mountains to the west, and the blue Pacific to the east.
And it’s just next door to the salt-marshes and mangrove woodlands of the Royal National Park. That should clue you into the fact that we’re talking about an Australian city in New South Wales.
And the city where these Funnel Web spiders are turning up is Sydney, the answer to our quiz.
“Within about 4 days we had 40 and now we’ve got probably about a couple hundred we’ve never seen so many come in so quickly.”
Mary Rayner is general manager at the Australian Reptile Park.
“The Australian Reptile Park is the sole supplier of funnel web and snake venom in Australia so we’ve set up drop off points
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Maybe you recognise the song called Falling Slowly by The Swell Season it won an Oscar 2 years ago – and its your first clue to today’s Geo Quiz.
There are at least two answers to today’s Geo Quiz. We’re looking for the name of a waterway in southwest Asia. It’s the one that separates Iran from Saudi Arabia. Problem is there’s no perfect agreement on what to call it…
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