This Tournament Goes to Eleven
Geography (subject packet)
Written by: Charles Meigs
Tossups
1. An American Bank of America employee named Jesse Bogdanoff once was named court
jester in this country, and the current leader of this country was a member of an English
jazz combo called the Straight Bananas. 18-year-old Edith Delgado slammed into a Ford
Explorer in Menlo Park killing two relatives of that leader, and the Liahona Mormon school was
founded in this country in 1948. The Ha’apai and Vava’u groups are among the atolls in this
nation, while Eua Island is across from the island on which the nation’s capital lies. FTP, name
this island nation, the only hereditary monarchy in the South Pacific, with capital at Nuku’alofa.
ANSWER: Tonga
2. In one region in this country with its center at Khasab, the locals speak a dialect known
as Kumzari, which has hints of Portuguese. This country is home to the ruins of Ubar, and
the Barr al-Hickman Peninsula lies across from its island of Masirah. The tomb of ‘Ayyub, or
Job, is supposedly located near this country’s port city of Salalah, in the Dhofar region which
saw a Marxist insurrection in the seventies. Other notable cities include Sur and Nizwa, and this
country’s sexually ambiguous Sultan Qaboos Ibn Sa’id rules from the capital city of Muscat.
FTP, name this Persian Gulf country.
ANSWER: Oman (or) ‘Uman
3. The Capilla de Yurrita in this city is architecturally unorthodox in that it features onion
domes, atypical for this predominantly Catholic city. The Parque Central houses a palace
built by dictator Jorge Ubico. This city’s University of Francisco Marroquin houses the
important Popol Vuh Museum and Pandora’s Box is the city’s most popular gay bar. The
suburb of La Aurora houses the city’s airport, and popular excursions from this city include the
cities of Panajachel (pah-nah-hah-chel), Chichicastenango, and the former capital of this city’s
country, Antigua. FTP, name this large Central American city, the capital of a country bordered
by Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, and Honduras.
ANSWER: Guatemala City
4. The town of Nakfa in this country was the scene of intense fighting and is memorialized
in the name of this nation’s currency. Important archaeological sites include the city of
Qohaito (COE-HIGH-TOE), which was a stop on the way to the port city of Adulis, also
located in this country. The island of Dahlak Kebir in this country was once home to an Israeli
airstrip, and Assab is the secondary port of this country. The main port lies on the islands of
Taulud and Batse, and the capital is famous for art deco structures such as the Cinema (chee-naymah) Imperio. FTP, name this country whose largest cities include Keren, Massawa, and the
capital Asmara, whose independence in 1993 made Ethiopia a landlocked country.
ANSWER: Eritrea
5. The namesake of this island was an ambassador to Pope Leo X and famously brought
back the rhinoceros which inspired Dürer’s woodcut Rhinoceros. Named the Isles of
Refreshment by colonist Jonathan Lambert of Massachusetts, this group includes the
Nightingale Islands and Inaccessible Island. Augustus Earle, the artist aboard the HMS
Beagle, painted these islands, and Lewis Carroll’s brother, the Reverend Charles Dodgson
served as chaplain on these islands. In 1961, the occupants were forced to flee to an air
force base in Southampton, and the islands’ capital was named after Prince Alfred, Duke of
Edinburgh. A dependency of St. Helena, FTP, name this South Atlantic British colony whose
272 residents share eight surnames, named after a Portuguese explorer.
ANSWER: Tristan da Cunha (koon-yah)
6. The Battle of Largs, a city on this body of water, was a victory for King Magnus III of
Man and King Haakon IV of Norway over Alexander III. The Isles of Bute and Great and
Little Cumbrae are in its upper part, and Kilbrannnan Sound separates the Isle of Arran,
located in this body of water, from the mainland. After winning at Largs, Magnus’ army
moved towards Loch Long and Loch Lomond, and along its course as a river, it passes
through Motherwell and Renfrew. Bounded on the west by the Argyll peninsula, the main city on
this river features the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, the Tolbooth Clock Tower, and its Templeton’s
Carpet Factory is reminiscent of the Doge’s Palace in Venice. FTP, name this river and firth
home to the patron city of St. Mungo, Glasgow, and which gives its name to the horse mascots of
the Anheuser-Busch company.
ANSWER: Firth of Clyde or Clyde River
7. The Moorish Science Temple of America, an offshoot of Islam that has its own Koran
and was the religion into which Antwaan Randle El was born, holds that the second Mecca
is located in this state. The town of Plano in this state was the site from which the Saint’s
Herald was published, and Hancock and McDonough counties in this state are home to
descendants of the Icarians, a utopian group inspired by the Frenchman Etienne Cabet. Among
its so-called seven wonders are Rend Lake, Allerton Park, Starved Rock State Park, and the
Bahai House of Worship in Wilmette. The William Emery House is an example of Walter Burley
Griffin’s work in this state, and the Unity Temple is an example of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work
in Oak Park. Atlanta in this state is home to a grain elevator museum, and Cairo (kay-roe) is this
state’s southernmost city. FTP, name this city home to Rock Island, Moline, Rockford, Peoria,
and Chicago
ANSWER: Illinois
8. Murgab and Khorog are two major cities in this country’s most notable mountain range,
and the ruins of Penjikent are the supposed birthplace of the preeminent poet Rudaki.
Istaravshan, formerly known as Cyropol by Alexander the Great, is the home to Mug
Teppe, famously stormed by Alexander the Great. Yaghnobi, the descendant of Sogdian, is
still spoken in this country’s Zarafshan Mountains, and the ancient city of Khojand is the home
to the current tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin. The Fedchenko Glacier lies near this country’s
Ismail Samani peak, and its capital’s name translates as “Monday.” Home to the Pamir
Mountains and peaks formerly named for Communism, Lenin, and Stalin, FTP, name this
Central Asian Republic with capital at Dushanbe.
ANSWER: Tajikistan
9. This site’s most famous temple was built to enshrine a copy of the sacred tooth of the
Buddha kept in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The Bupaya structure here may be the oldest, and after
the building of the Ananda temple, its architects were supposedly executed to keep its
uniqueness. The most famous temple here contains a statue of Thagyamin, representing
Indra, and was completed under King Kyanzittha. His predecessor, Anawrahta had been led to
Buddhism with the help of Shin Arahan, and the 201 foot tall Thatbyinnyu Temple is named for
the omniscience of the Buddha. The gilded Shwezigon Pagoda is the most famous structure in,
FTP, which Burmese cultural center which fell to the Mongols in 1287, whose name is also the
oxymoronic last name of Cubs outfielder Angel (pronounced as in English, not Spanish).
ANSWER: Bagan or Pagan
10. The Banya Bashi mosque is in the center of the city and this city’s large Tsar
Osvoboditel Boulevard is often called the “yellow-brick” road. The National
Archaeological Museum holds the Vulchitrun treasure and is located in the former Buyuk
Camii (JAH-MEE). The Orlov Most leads to the monument to the Soviet Army, and one
can also find the Mausoleum of Alexander Battemberg, the first leader of this city’s country
after its liberation. William Gladstone is honored as the namesake of a street in this city, as he
pointed out atrocities here, but the city’s most famous structure is the 1920’s green-domed
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, built to remember the contribution of Russia to this country’s
struggle for independence. FTP, name this city in Western Bulgaria, its capital.
ANSWER: Sofi(j)a
11. The Cyrus Jacobs-Uberuaga House in this city is home to the U.S.’s first Ikastola, and
one can buy abarkak, gerriko, and txapelas (chah-pelas) from the Basque Museum located
inside that house. Its parks include Barber Park, located in the southeast of this town, and
Julia Davis Park. One can walk from Lucky Peak Dam to the east of the town along its
Greenbelt path. Located in the Treasure Valley, suburbs of this city include Eagle, Caldwell, and
Nampa. Named from the French word for “woods,” FTP, identify this capital city of Idaho.
ANSWER: Boise
12. This river gave its name to the Roman province of Baetica, and Abd-ar-Rahman III
moved his capital city to Madinat az-Zahra from a city on this river. Coming from the
Arabic for “big valley,” one city on this river is home to a mosque which once contained an
arm bone of the Prophet Muhammad, and is next to the Courtyard of the Oranges. Yusuf
Yaqub Al-Mansour, the Almohad ruler, ordered the construction of a minaret now known as La
Giralda in one city on this river, and that city has an Alcazar built for Pedro the Cruel that is
exemplary of mudejar style. FTP, name this fourth-longest river of Spain, home to the cities of
Cordoba and Seville.
ANSWER: Guadalquivir
13. Cox’s Bazar in this country is a district famous for its beaches. Its eastern border is for
a while formed by the Tulianpui and this country’s most impressive archaeological site is
the Somapuri Vihara, located at Paharpur. The Treaty of Yandaboo ended the King of
Ava’s interference in a certain princely state in which Sylhet, now a city in this country after
a referendum, was a part of, Assam. For eight months in 1971, this country’s capital was at
Mujibnagar, and other important cities include Rajshahi and Khulna. A group is trying to
establish “Jhumma Land” in the hills outside of Chittagong. FTP, name this country formerly
called East Pakistan, with capital at Dhaka.
ANSWER: Bangladesh
14. The film “The Man Who Saves the World” had settings in this region and the Mos
Eisley Cantina from Star Wars, and is generally referred to as that country’s Star Wars,
while tourist guides dubiously claim that this region’s village of Selime was a setting for
Star Wars. The village of Haji Bektash in this region is the central pilgrimage site for the
Alevi faith. The Melendiz river cuts the Ihlara Valley in this region, which is the site of
several medieval churches. This region also features “Love Valley,” named for its penis-like
rock formations. Kaymakli and Derinkuyu are two famous underground cities where Christians
escaped persecution, while this region’s tourist center of Goreme features several churches and
the Republic of Turkey’s foremost UFO museum. FTP, name this region of central Turkey,
famous for its cave houses, and for being the source of a certain John who worked with Justinian.
ANSWER: Cappadocia or Kappadokya
15. Alexander McCall Smith, the writer of the The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, about
Botswanan lady detective Precious Ramotswe, accidentally ran a bordello in this country’s
city of Manzini. In 2001, in an effort to prevent AIDS in his country, the leader of this country
forbade women from wearing pants, and a crisis in this nation occurred when 15,000 topless
women were sent scampering after a hailstorm interrupted a reed-dance devoted to their leader.
The capital of this country is located in the Hhohho district, along with the city of Piggs Peak.
Lobamba is the residence of the Great Sea-Elephant or Queen Mother of this country, and King
Sobhuza (so-booze-uh) II, he of the 100 wives, administrated this country from the capital of
Mbabane (buh-bahn-ay). FTP, name this country sandwiched between South Africa and
Mozambique.
ANSWER: Swaziland
16. Romance tours to this country invite prospective Chip Bealls to enjoy Sigulda castle or
the beach town of Jurmala with the woman of your dreams. When they were known as
Windau (vin-dow) and Libau, two cities in this country were the main centers from which
Tobago and Gambia were colonized by Duke Jacob Kettler. Bauska and Jelgava (yell-gahva)
were important towns in the Duchy of Semigalia, while the capital city of this country was
known as Dorpat during its Hanseatic days. Soviet apartment suburbs on the capital’s borders
include Zolitude (tsolitude) and Purvciems, and the Daugava river links the cities of Daugavpils
(dow-gav-pils), and the main capital vaunted for its old town, which lies on a namesake Gulf.
Bordered by Estonia, Lithuania, and Russia, FTP, name this Baltic state.
ANSWER: Latvia
17. The Investigator Strait and the Backstairs Passage separate an island on which
Flinders-Chase National Park is located from the mainland of this state. The Yorke
Peninsula lies to the east of the Spencer Gulf, and the northern town of Coober Pedy in this
state is home to a grass-free golf course. The Flinders Ranges lie between Lake Frome and Lake
Torrens, and this state’s capital is located on Gulf St. Vincent. Mt. Gambier lies in the southern
part of this state, and it’s also home to Kangaroo Island. Home to the mouth of the Murray River
and Lake Eyre, the Great Australian Bight can be found in the western part of this state. FTP,
name this Australian state with capital at Adelaide, which borders Victoria, New South Wales,
Queensland, Northern Territory, and Western Australia.
ANSWER: South Australia
18. It’s not St. Petersburg, but this city has a Winter Palace built by an architect of
Nicholas II that features relics of a previous religious leader, Zanabazar. As Urga, it was
conquered by Baron Ungern von Sternberg in February of 1921, and this city’s main square
features a statue with a tablet with a soyombo and the mausoleum of a man once known as
Damdin Sukh, a mausoleum reminiscent of Lenin’s in Moscow. The National Stadium houses
the annual Naadam festival in this city, once ruled by the Bogd Khaan. FTP, name this city
renamed “red hero” in honor of Sukhbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.
ANSWER: Ulaanbaatar or Ulan Bator (prompt on Urga, Orgoo, Kulun, or Khuree)
19. The Malaspina Strait separates Texada Island, located in this body of water, from the
mainland, and other islands include Lasqueti, Cortes, and Quadra, and one can travel via
Discovery Passage and Johnstone Strait to reach the Pacific Ocean. Bowser and Comox are
minor ports on this body of water, and Campbell River and Powell River are larger cities on
this body of water. Point Roberts is an exclave of Washington on this body of water, and large
cities on it include Nanaimo and Richmond. The site of the mouth of the Fraser River, FTP,
name this strait on which Vancouver lies, which separates mainland British Columbia from
Vancouver Island and which shares its name with a country whose capital is Tbilisi.
ANSWER: Strait of Georgia
20. A city on this country’s eastern border was known as Puerto Flor de Lis until 1957,
after which it was named after the country’s dictator. That city is home to the Mosque of
the Prophet Muhammad, and the town of Filadelfia in this country’s Boquerón province is
home to a large German Mennonite community, which got Orlando Penner elected as the
first Mennonite member of this country’s parliament on the Beloved Homeland ticket.
Pozo Colorado is the capital city of a department named for a noted boundary arbiter, and
its southern boundary with Argentina is marked by the Parana River. The towns of Concepcion
and Ciudad del Este are located in this country, as well as the capital city, which was occupied
from 1870-1876 by Brazilian troops after Francisco Solano López’s failure. FTP, name this
country with capital at Asunción.
ANSWER: Paraguay
Bonuses
1. Answer the following questions about Ryan Westbrook’s favorite kind of strippers: Aouzou
(ow-zoo) Strippers! Stuff about Chad and Libya FTPE.
[10] This capital city of Chad was known as Fort Lamy back in the good-old days of French
colonization. Popular things until 2006 to do in this city include getting drive-by bitch-slapped
by President Idriss Deby’s late son, Brahim.
ANSWER: N’Djamena
[10] This ancient city and home to Septimius Severus is on the Mediterranean coast, near the city
of Al-Khums and 100 miles east of Tripoli.
ANSWER: Leptis Magna or Lepcis Magna
[10] The city of Aouzou proper is located in this mountain range of northern Chad that is famous
for its ancient cave paintings.
ANSWER: Tibesti
2. In Turkish, this country’s name can be used as an adjective meaning “rough-shod streets,” and
two mosques in Shkoder and Bajram-e-Curri (buy-rahm) are involved in a relic dispute as to
whether strands of Wesley Matthews’ hair or the last shreds of his dignity are more important in
Islam. FTPE:
[10] Name this country whose important ports include Durres (dur-ruhs) and Vlora, and which
shares its modern name with a historical name for Daghestan.
ANSWER: Albania or Shqiperia
[10] Gjirokaster (Gyear-o-kast-ur), the birthplace of Enver Hoxha (HOE-JAH), is a central city
in this region, which on the Greek side has its capital at Ioannina. This region was home to the
hilarious Principality of Pindo, ruled by Alcibiades I as a WW2-era fascist state.
ANSWER: Epirus
[10] The town of Pogradec (poe-grah-dets) is located on this lake, named for a Macedonian city,
where in 1019 a Macedonian archbishopric was established.
ANSWER: Lake Ohrid
3. Jerry Vinokurov: vagabond IHOP critic at large in the South Seas. FTPE:
[10] Jerry really wanted to savor the blueberry pancakes he ordered at the Oecussi exclave IHOP
franchise in this country led by Xanana (shah-nah-nah) Gusmao, but he’d drunk enough that his
projectile vomit caused a cholera epidemic as far away as Kupang.
ANSWER: Timor Leste or East Timor
[10] Jerry’s poor choice of sambal-flavored pancakes had him hurling from Makassar in this
island’s south to Manado in this island’s north on a namesake sea, which separates this island
from Mindanao. Natives believe that the Gulf of Tomini near this island is so polluted with Jerry
rage that anyone who touches it will spend the rest of his life shouting obscenities at minor
Boston streets.
ANSWER: Sulawesi or Celebes
[10] Jerry’s trip to this northernmost Solomon island, named for a French explorer, which has
attempted to secede numerous times from Papua New Guinea, stunned the residents of Arawa
when from his hairy chest did emerge a hundred nipples vomiting pancake mix.
ANSWER: Bougainville
4. After his critically acclaimed porn debut as a horny Sherpa guide in the Pamirs two years ago,
Dwight Wynne has made several memorable performances. FTPE:
[10] Dwight Wynne made love to a series of hookers in a Stepanakert Intourist hotel and bravely
participated in the first man-on-land mine scene in Agdam (ah-dahm) in the film Digging in the
Mountainous Black Garden, set in this disputed territory.
ANSWER: Nagorno-Karabagh or Yuxari Karabagh or Artsakh
[10] A bomb on the adult theater circuit, Dwight Wynne boldly tried the Polish Transverse
Glacier route to ravage his partner on this highest mountain in South America.
ANSWER: Mount Aconcagua
[10] In a sci-fi movie set in the Middle East after an Iranian nuclear attack, Dwight uses his
radioactively-enhanced instrument to facilitate the travel of Djiboutian refugees to the Yemeni
island of Perim, across this narrow straight where the Gulf of Aden meets the Red Sea.
ANSWER: Bab al-Mandab
5. FTPE, honor Jordan Boyd-Graber’s recent victory in the 2007 Flavorade Chugging
Competition and name these rivers in Arkansas.
[10] This river makes up part of the Texas-Arkansas border, as well as the Oklahoma-Texas
border, and smartly avoids Texarkana by about 20 miles.
ANSWER: Red River
[10] This river flows through such exciting places as Arkadelphia, Camden, and Hot Springs
before entering Louisiana and progressing to Monroe where it runs crimson with the blood of
destitute ‘Bama fans.
ANSWER: Ouachita (wach-tah) River
[10] Exciting cities like Helena, Crumrod, and Arkansas City lie along this river, whose
tributaries include the White.
ANSWER: Mississippi River
6. Ray Luo has just written the perfect tossup on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, but there are
backwards parts of China that don’t know about it yet. What is he to do? FTPE:
[10] Ray wants to learn how to write his tossup in the pictographic Naxi (nah-shuh) language, so
he figures there’s no place better to go than this province, the source of the Salween and Red
Rivers, with capital at Kunming.
ANSWER: Yunnan
[10] Ray Luo wants to add a little bit of spice to his tossup, so he goes and checks out the lingo
of this capital of Sichuan province.
ANSWER: Chengdu
[10] Ray sits in his rickshaw in the town of Heihe and looks across this river to the town of
Blagoveshchensk, wondering how much it would cost to call Jerry Vinokurov and get him to
translate the tossup into Russian.
ANSWER: Amur River (or) Heilongjiang
7. We know Chris Ray loves Candy. But does he love Kandy, Sri Lanka? FTPE, answer these
questions about Chris’ possible favorite country.
[10] It’s rumored that Ed Cohn once found a piece of notepaper on which Josh Hill had drawn
himself anthropomorphizing into a Tamil Tiger seeking to capture this northern city in Sri
Lanka, captured by the government in 1995 and made thereafter into an exclave surrounded by
LTTE-held land.
ANSWER: Jaffna or Yazhpanam
[10] A group of islands between India and Sri Lanka and a mountain that is a site of pilgrimage
are named after this guy, who may have hung out with some chick in Dilmun, or Bahrain, or
something like that.
ANSWER: Adam
[10] Dambulla is noted for having one of these. Another is in Kalmykia and the best known one
is in Amritsar and is sometimes called Harmandar Sahib.
ANSWER: golden temples
8. Mike Bentley refuses to eat the cuisine of any country that hasn’t been invaded by Israel.
Name these places where Mike Bentley can happily feast to the merry sounds of Katyusha fire.
[10] Mike loves drinking giardia-laced tapped water at this Crusader castle in western Syria,
which was captured in 1271 by Baybars from the Knights of St. John.
ANSWER: Krak des Chevaliers or Qala’at al-Hisn
[10] Mike cherishes downing some good ol’ “Canadian food” at Dairy Queen in Sur, which is
the modern name for this city once home to a noted Crusades chronicler and site of a noted
causeway building incident, famed for its purple dye.
ANSWER: Tyre
[10] Mike eats hunks of burning bush in seconds while hobnobbing with the monks at the
Monastery named for this saint condemned to death in a breaking wheel near Mount Sinai. A
Russian ruler of this name built palaces at Tsarkoye Selo near Petersburg.
ANSWER: St. Catherine of Alexandria (don’t accept Catherine of Siena)
9. Refuse to go to Israel and make the ultimate aaliyah to She’ol with Jonathan Magin. Answer
these questions about Liberia, FTPE.
[10] This capital city was named in 1976 after it decided to hold a plebiscite between factions
divided by loyalties to New York Knicks legends. Part of the city seceded and DeBusscheria
became Liberia’s second largest city.
ANSWER: Monrovia
[10] Apparently, “bli” must mean city in Liberia, judging by hilarious city names like Lemuel
Reevesbli, but the hilarious Bong Town and Harper are in this province, named by settlers
wistful for places like Glen Burnie and Glenelg.
ANSWER: Maryland
[10] If you took the Zo Creek to Gray Charlie Town, past Gbada Number Two and Gbedin Rice
Station, you’d end up in this country, home to the cities of Kankan, Kindia, and the Fouta
Djallon highlands.
ANSWER: Guinea
10. FTPE, name these cities in Iran where Dan Passner can finally deny the Holocaust in peace.
[10] This city was famous as the capital under the Safavids and as a pet project of Abbas I, and
its Naqsh-e Jahan Square contains the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque and the Imam Mosque.
ANSWER: Esfahan
[10] Passner recounts how Auschwitz was the world’s longest cricket match over a bowl of
pastani in this capital of Fars province, home to the tombs of Sadi and Hafez and a base for
traveling to Persepolis. It's also the namesake of a wine popular in Australia.
ANSWER: Shiraz
[10] This city’s bizarre Amir Chakmakh complex stands out, and its Zoroastrian Towers of
Silence are a popular place for young Iranian males to get high. This city’s name is a common
element in Persian names, such as the last Sassanid emperor.
ANSWER: Yazd
11. Jason Mueller hasn’t had a date in over seven years and he’s looking to buy a wife, but he
can only afford an Uzbek. Help him make small talk with his new wife by answering these
questions, FTPE:
[10] The Savitsky Museum is a great place for art banned during the Soviet period and is located
in Nukus in this backwater province of Uzbekistan.
ANSWER: Karakalpakstan
[10] This cultural capital of the country is famous for the Registan and the Bibi-Khanym
Mosque, devoted to Tamerlane’s Chinese wife. Less notable is the Mabel Yang Pile of Camel
Dung, built by the Timurid ruler Eric I Mukherjee to memorialize his slut ex-girlfriend.
ANSWER: Samarkand
[10] The fishing boats marooned in the desert at Moynaq are testament to the ecological
devastation experienced by this body of water Uzbekistan shares with Kazakhstan.
ANSWER: Aral Sea (or) Tenghizi (or) Aral’skoye More
12. Answer these questions about Brittany, FTPE:
[10] This island at the mouth of the Couesnon (coo-ay-non) River is sometimes connected to the
mainland by a land bridge and is famous for its picturesque abbey church and old town, and is
named for the archangel who with his angels "fought against the dragon" in Revelation 12:7.
ANSWER: Mont-St. Michel
[10] This village in Brittany is home to one of the most extensive collections of menhirs (menhir), or fancily-named stones in the world. Its name is similar to an Egyptian temple complex.
ANSWER: Carnac
[10] This large city on the Bay of Biscay, known as Naoned (nah-oh-ned) in Breton, is home to
Place Royale, Place de Bouffay, the isle de Versailles, and a red-light district known popularly as
the Quay of Buttocks. A notable 1598 document was issued from here.
ANSWER: Nantes
13. Hey, Charlie Dees has a Bosnian girlfriend! Did you know Charlie Dees had a Bosnian
girlfriend? Answer these questions about Herzegovina, FTPE.
[10] This central city of Herzegovina is best known for its Ottoman-era bridge, Stari Most, that
was destroyed in 1993, and its bickering over whether or not a statue of Bruce Lee should be
erected.
ANSWER: Mostar
[10] The coastal city of Neum (nay-oom) lies on a few miles of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s only
coastline and effectively splits off this Croatian city, known as Ragusa in the Middle Ages and
for its Franjo (FRAHN-YO) Tudjman Bridge and historic Old City, from the rest of Croatia.
ANSWER: Dubrovnik
[10] While we’re talking about Herzegovina, Charlie Dees is dressed up as an Ustaše (oo-stahshay) officer talking to his Bosniak GIRLFRIEND about how he was a top ten individual scorer
at HSNCT in a rave in this city whose Latin Bridge crosses the Mljacka River.
ANSWER: Sarajevo
14. Brazzaville and Kinshasa, what a metaphor for the Luna Brothers. FTPE, name these things
about other butt-ugly twin cities.
[10] The Sino-Korea Friendship Bridge crosses the Yalu River and connects the stark Chinese
town of Dandong with this even starker border town on the North Korean side.
ANSWER: Sinuiju
[10] Mexicali sits across the border from this city in Imperial County, California. According to
Wikipedia, it’s better known as a Tucson, Arizona, rock band, but, like Mexicali, it does have a
humorous portmanteau name.
ANSWER: Calexico
[10] Cross the Mekong from Savannakhet, located in this country, and you’ll reach the
thoroughly ignoble Mukdahan. Other cities in this country include Luangprabang.
ANSWER: Laos
15. FTPE, be an Adam Kemezisesque good person and grant Rom Masrour permission to visit
these Michigan locations.
[10] Rom wants to go fishing in New Baltimore, so he’ll need to ask permission to visit this lake
on which the cities of Grosse Pointe and Tecumseh lie.
ANSWER: Lake St. Clair
[10] Rom isn’t sure whom to ask about getting permission to visit this sleazy Canadian city full
of casinos east of Detroit that was featured in Bowling for Columbine.
ANSWER: Windsor
[10] Rom might want to ask Ray Luo for permission to visit this city, as he knows the town’s
mechanic well from an unexpected stopover at ACF Nationals. Its namesake river flows through
Bay City into its namesake bay.
ANSWER: Saginaw
16. David Farris’ first attempt to read a map led to a costly mistake: our northern neighbor was
not the long-awaited ethnic homeland of the Dravidian Kannada (pronounced like the country)
speaking people, and stars like Bindaas, Hani Hani, and Vijay Raghavendra were nowhere to be
found. FTPE:
A. A confused Farris ended up buying a $900 plane ticket this French possession off the coast of
Canada, the only European possession left on the North American continent, named for its two
main islands.
ANSWER: Saint Pierre and Miquelon (do not accept just one)
B. St. Pierre is very close to the Burin Peninsula of this Canadian province. Amazingly, Farris
chased a squirrel the 16 miles over the small stretch of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to this province.
ANSWER: Newfoundland and Labrador
C. Newfoundland’s capital, St. John’s, lies on this mythically named peninsula. Farris went to
Cape Race the southeasternmost point of this peninsula, and dumped bottles of Snapple hoping
to singlehandedly destroy the Grand Banks fishing industry. Take that, Newfies.
ANSWER: Avalon Peninsula
17. Wah, my wife left me two hours before the start of this tournament! Hey you, you’re kind of
cute. Are you into anime? How much do you know about the diverse Arizona state highway
system? Impress your way into Carlos Ross’ pants, FTPE.
[10] Heading out from Tempe, I take the 101 to the 202 to the 10 East, and passing east through
Tucson, I can get off at the 83 South and take the 82 to this city. Its namesake region is home to
cities like Puerto Madryn, Trelew, and Rawson, which are vestiges of a notable Welsh settlement
in this part of South America.
ANSWER: Patagonia
[10] Returning to Tempe, I can take the 10 to State Highway 95 to this city where I can ogle
Spring Breakers and cross the five spans of London Bridge yelling “My wife!”
ANSWER: Lake Havasu City
[10] Driving up the 95 and heading on the 40 East, I can get off on US 191 North and take Route
7 into Chinle and this national monument, where I can see the Anasazi ruins of the White House
and Spider Rock before returning home to edit the Wikipedia pages on the roads I’ve just taken.
ANSWER: Canyon de Chelly (shay) National Monument
18. Leo Wolpert’s bout with typhus has given him the strength to follow the Amazon Trail and
recover the cinchona necessary to save the Inca people from a malaria epidemic. Help him get to
Vilcabamba, FTPE:
[10] One of Leo’s first stops is this large city in Para state where the Amazon meets the Tapajos
(tah-pah-zhos). The namesake city in Portugal is the site of Pedro Cabral’s tomb and is home to
an impressive Mannerist cathedral, located 45 miles northeast of Lisbon.
ANSWER: Santarém
[10] Leo gets a little culture by taking in a show at the Teatro Amazonas in this capital of
Amazonas province, where the Rio Negro meets the Amazon.
ANSWER: Manaus
[10] A witch doctor in Leticia, the only port on the Amazon in this country, tries to cure Leo of
his rampant beriberi but finds out that curare isn’t the proper cure for the clap.
ANSWER: Pequeña Colombia
19. Honor JT Thompson’s schlong and name these other places in Southern Africa in which
diverse tropical wildlife is preserved.
[10] This former Bantustan’s capital was briefly Mafeking before switching to Mmabatho. It is
best known for the popular tourist resort and casino Sun City, host of a World’s Strongest Man
competition, where guests enjoy spending their leisure time using the free wireless to post about
how great Jonathan Thompson is on the Venda comparison threads of the South African high
school quizbowl forum.
ANSWER: Bophuthatswana
[10] JT sees students everywhere he goes in this country, as 51% of the population is 19 or
younger. Its notable for Chobe National Park and the Okavango delta, and the Linyanti river
forms part of its northern border with the Caprivi strip.
ANSWER: Botswana
[10] JT used his three years of Division II experience and NAQT geography knowledge to climb
Mt. Stanley, Mt. Speke, and Mt. Baker in this mountain range located on the UgandanCongolese border, dubiously identified as the Mountains of the Moon.
ANSWER: R(u)wenzori Range
20. Yes, Salpi, you are fat. Name these things about the ancestral homeland of Jimmy “The
Fifteen Minute Bandit” Duong’s 272nd greatest conquest, and we don’t mean the soap, FTPE:
[10] The archaeological site of Zvartnots and namesake of Yerevan’s airport lie close to this
religious center of the Armenian people, which is home to the seventh century church of St.
Gayane.
ANSWER: Echmiadzin or Ejmiatsin
[10] Armenia’s city of Gyumri is among the towns formerly named after this historical figure.
Others include Akhalgori, Georgia and Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
ANSWER: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
[10] Akdamar Island in this lake is home to a famous tenth century Armenian church. The
namesake city on the eastern side of this lake is home to these two statues, one of a Bruce
Arthur-like sea creature and a notable breed of cat.
ANSWER: Lake Van