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Geography Questions on Jeopardy! #7

Can you answer these geography questions which were featured on Jeopardy!?
DO NOT start your answer with "What is" or "The"
Episodes: 22-25
Year: 1984
Quiz by Ian9876
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Last updated: August 22, 2023
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ISLANDS
South Sea island synonymous with atomic-sized blasts & atom-sized swimsuits
Bikini
Only New York City borough not on an island
Bronx
Campobello Island, FDR's summer home, is in this country
Canada
U.S. STATES
Only state bordering on 4 of the 5 Great Lakes
Michigan
HISTORY
Convicts were first British settlers on this island-continent
Australia
In 1918, Communists moved Russian capital from Petrograd back to this city
Moscow
LAKES & RIVERS
The Aswan Dam now prevents this river’s annual flooding
Nile River
“Colorful” river that’s title of a John Wayne film
Red River
River the Indians called “the Father of Waters”
Mississippi River
N.Y. lakes said to resemble parts of a hand
Finger Lakes
It’s the largest lake remaining from prehistoric Lake Bonneville
Great Salt Lake
FORMER CAPITALS
Until Brasilia was carved from the wilderness, this was Brazil’s capital
Rio de Janeiro
Many think that Istanbul, the former capital, is still seat of state
Ankara
Under the British, Calcutta was its capital
India
The Nationalists ruled it from Nanking
China
In the Middle Ages its seat of state was Krakow
Poland
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