1. Which of these cities was known as Philadelphia in ancient times?

2. Which country was formerly known as Gold Coast?

3. Svithiod is the ancient name of which country?

4. What country has the most wild bears?

5. Where was the greatest difference between annual high and low temperatures recorded?

6. What was the name of the supercontinent of 200 million years ago?

7. In which country were bananas first grown?

8. Where is the world’s highest annual average rainfall?

9. Where, as of 2009, did the world’s heaviest annual rainfall on record fall?

10. On which continent did our upright-walking ancestors originate?

11. What lies between the Pillars of Hercules?

12. Which country’s name is derived from a phrase in Arabic meaning “land of the blacks”?

13. Where was the first zoo in the United States opened?

14. Which modern Russian city was formerly known as Petrograd and Leningrad?

15. Yalta, the 1945 meeting place of the three chief Allied leaders (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin), is located in what country?

16. Where would one most likely find people living in yurts?

17. Where are the Chiltern Hills?

18. Which city dominates Italy’s automotive industry?

19. In what city is Rock Creek Park located?

20. Which is the southernmost city in the world?

21. Which city was named for Zionist leader Theodor Herzl’s novel Altneuland, which was translated as the "Hill of Spring"?

22. Which is Russia’s largest seaport?

23. Which of these cities is known as the “Lion City”?

24. Where are the cities of Novosibirsk, Omsk, and Krasnoyarsk located?

25. What is the only place in the world where Angostura Bitters are produced?

26. Which city’s name comes from the Spanish word for “many fish”?

27. The Tate galleries house art in which country?

28. Which city is located in the Ṣirāt Mountains?

29. Where are the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee?

30. Which city’s name is said to mean “little fort”?