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Geo-Jeopardy!
Game 1
Capitals Planets in Olympic
of Europe the News Games
Rock Art
Famous
Volcanoes
Cows
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Paris
What is the capital of France?
Lisbon
What is the capital of Portugal?
Cardiff
What is the capital of Wales?
Bucharest
What is the capital of Romania?
Ljubljana
What is the capital of Slovenia?
This planet is currently being
explored by the Rovers.
What is Mars?
This planet has been in
news following the arrival of
the Cassini spacecraft in its
orbit.
What is Saturn?
This planet hit the headlines
in 1994 when Comet
Schumacher-Levy hit it.
What is Jupiter?
This planet made a big
splash on 11 February
1999, when it moved into
its usual place as the
second-outermost planet
of the Solar System.
What is Neptune?
Earlier this year this planet
performed one of its
twice-in-130-years transits
across the Sun.
What is Venus?
The first Olympic Games in
776 BC were held to honour
this god.
Who was Zeus?
Two of the three US cities
that have hosted the
summer Olympic Games
What are St. Louis,
Los Angeles
and Atlanta?
This sand-in-your-toes
sport made its debut at the
1996 Atlanta Olympics.
What is beach volleyball?
Three of the five events that are
part of the Modern Pentathlon
at the Olympics.
What are cross-country running,
swimming, pistol-shooting,
fencing and horseback-racing?
The English translation of the
three-word motto of the
Olympic Games,
Citius, Altius, Fortius.
What is swifter, higher, stronger?
The painting of this horse must
postdate the introduction of
horses to this continent in 1788.
What is Australia?
Carvings like this
one in Kejimkujik,
Nova Scotia, are
referred to by this
term.
What are petroglyhs?
An Upper
Paleolithic cave
painting from
France illustrates
the immense
antlers of this
extinct member of
the deer family.
What is the Irish elk?
The earliest rock art from this
desert indicates climate was
much wetter in the hunter
period of Tasilli.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Rock art painted with egg
albumen or blood can be dated
with the technique that
measures racemisation or
decay of these compounds in
proteins.
What are amino acids?
This American volcano erupted
in 1980, spreading an ash
cloud over much of the United
States and southern Canada.
What is Mount St. Helens?
This famous Italian volcano
is the source of the term
Plinian, meaning a highvelocity, high-column,
explosive eruption.
What is Vesuvius?
This Japanese volcano
last erupted in 1707.
What is Fuji?
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This Martian volcano is
thought to be the highest
and largest volcano in the
Solar System
What is Olympus Mons?
This volcanic island made
its appearance in 1963 and
is named after the owner of
fire in Norse mythology.
What is Surtsey
The number of stomachs
possessed by a cow.
What is four?
The breed of cattle with
the highest percentage of
butterfat and protein,
named after one of the
English Channel Islands.
What is the Jersey?
The cow’s switch is on this part
of her anatomy
What is her tail?
An average Holstein
produces 52 pounds
of this daily.
What is milk?
The Holstein-Frisian breed
of cow originated in the
north of this country.
What is the Netherlands?