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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)
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Download MP3The 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
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We’re still looking for a city in China’s mountainous Hunan province. The answer to our geo quiz is Zhangjiajie. Locals claim their rocky mountains look just like the floating mountains in the movie Avatar, so they’ve officially renamed one Hallelujah Mountain.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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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 [...]
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.
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For today’s Geo Quiz, we’re talking beer: A labor dispute in the Flemish region of Belgium is affecting the world’s largest brewery. Union workers in the city we’re looking for are upset by a plan by “Anheuser-Busch – InBev” to cut jobs.
For today’s Geo Quiz it’s a question of whether to light up or butt out. We want to know which Nordic country is getting tough on smokers.
