Statistics for Geography Questions on Jeopardy! #7

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Category	Hint	Answer	% Correct
U.S. STATES	Only state bordering on 4 of the 5 Great Lakes	Michigan	96%
	In 1918, Communists moved Russian capital from Petrograd back to this city	Moscow	94%
FORMER CAPITALS	Until Brasilia was carved from the wilderness, this was Brazil’s capital	Rio de Janeiro	94%
HISTORY	Convicts were first British settlers on this island-continent	Australia	92%
	Many think that Istanbul, the former capital, is still seat of state	Ankara	88%
ISLANDS	South Sea island synonymous with atomic-sized blasts & atom-sized swimsuits	Bikini	88%
	Only New York City borough not on an island	Bronx	88%
	Under the British, Calcutta was its capital	India	88%
LAKES & RIVERS	The Aswan Dam now prevents this river’s annual flooding	Nile River	84%
	In the Middle Ages its seat of state was Krakow	Poland	82%
	The Nationalists ruled it from Nanking	China	78%
	River the Indians called “the Father of Waters”	Mississippi River	75%
	N.Y. lakes said to resemble parts of a hand	Finger Lakes	61%
	Campobello Island, FDR's summer home, is in this country	Canada	53%
	“Colorful” river that’s title of a John Wayne film	Red River	51%
	It’s the largest lake remaining from prehistoric Lake Bonneville	Great Salt Lake	33%