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Our daily geography puzzler.
Geo Quiz
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Our daily geography puzzler.
Geo answer
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Producer Mariana Schroeder sent us an audio postcard from Jamaica — the answer to our Geo Quiz. She stopped in for lunch at roadside stand manned by a 26-year-old cook named Omar. His specialty is Jerk.
Geo Quiz
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Our daily geography puzzler.
Central Asia
We’re looking for the smallest nation in Central Asia, about 3,400 miles south west for today’s Geo Quiz destination. Like many of its neighbors, Afghanistan being one, this place has challenging terrain. More than ninety percent of it is mountainous…
Geo Quiz and answer
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Today’s Geo Quiz deals with a tussle over the new Tube map in London. The city’s latest map of the London Underground excludes an image of the Thames River, and that’s ruffled some feathers. We asked you to name some other cities where the local subway map leaves out a major river. The cities we were looking for are Berlin, Madrid, Osaka, Bilbao, Beijing, Stockholm, Valencia, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Chicago. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Mark Ovenden, author of Transit Maps of the World.
Raptorex discovered
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For today’s Geo Quiz we’re searching for a Raptorex. You wouldn’t want to run into this creature called the Raptorex. It has powerful jaws, and strong legs suited for running down its prey. Don’t worry its a dinosaur that lived 125 million years ago. We speak with Paul Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago. (Illustration: Todd Marshall)Geo Quiz
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Our daily geography puzzler.
Geo answer
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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Paul Sereno, a palaeontologist at the University of Chicago, about a newly discovered dinosaur that scientists think may be a smaller and earlier version of the giant Tyrannosaurus rex. A fossilized skeleton of “raptorex” was found in Inner Mongolia — the answer to our Geo Quiz.
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