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Geography by Letter - T

Guess these geographical answers that start with the letter T.
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First submittedApril 26, 2013
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Average score75.0%
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Biggest city in Canada
Toronto
Biggest city in Japan
Tokyo
London's river
Thames
Title for the emperor of Russia
Tsar
"Don't mess" with this U.S. state
Texas
Rome's river
Tiber
Capital of Iran
Tehran
Language of the Philippines
Tagalog
Korean martial art
Taekwondo
Mexican liquor made from agave
Tequila
London square and location
of Nelson's column
Trafalgar
Himalayan region annexed by
China in 1950
Tibet
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Answer
Major lake high in the Andes
Titicaca
Term for a coniferous, sub-arctic forest
Taiga
Treeless Arctic or Alpine grassland
Tundra
Island just south of mainland Australia
Tasmania
Polynesian island visited by the HMS Bounty
Tahiti
Region of Italy. Florence is its capital
Tuscany
Probably India's most famous landmark
Taj Mahal
River that flows into a larger river
Tributary
Country where Mt. Kilimanjaro is located
Tanzania
Host of the 2006 Winter Olympics
Turin
Fundamentalist group that
rules Afghanistan
Taliban
Chinese religion that follows
the teachings of Laozi
Taoism
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Level 46
Apr 27, 2013
Tsar can also be spelled "Tzar"
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Level 57
Feb 5, 2014
I believe it's either a Tsar or a Czar. I'm pretty sure it's only Ts or Cz. I don't think Tz or Cs are correct. Since it's a quiz where everything starts with T, that leaves Tsar as the only answer.
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Level 22
Jul 17, 2016
Not often I see educated jetpunkers donna! :)
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Level 37
Aug 25, 2017
Here we go again. it is TSAR and CZAR. Do you do this merely to start an argument or discussion or are you really that ignorant?
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Level 66
Mar 22, 2019
Divantilya, a correct and clear answer was given immediately above yours, three years before yours. Your response adds nothing but nastiness; why did you post it?
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Level 60
Jul 22, 2020
Well, to be fair, technically the only correct spelling is the original cyrilic: царь. Everything else is just a transscription to latin on top of a translation to english, so I personaly don't se much of a difference between Tzar and Tsar.
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Level 75
Oct 16, 2015
In Russian, it's цар, and ц = ts. No z's to be seen here, folks.
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Level 82
Oct 5, 2016
The word entered English long before people started caring about precise transliteration of Russian
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Level 66
Mar 22, 2019
Tsar' comes from Tsezar', or Ceaser. It seems likely that the z in Czar comes from some older transliteration that attempted to convey the older title.
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Level 52
Feb 27, 2020
That is Bulgarian spelling you show right here. In Russian, it is царь. Theoretically, it still should be transliterated into English as tsar, but with English spelling being notoriously inconsistent... Still, officially, after Peter the Great title for Russian Emperor was Император, Imperator, so - Emperor.
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Level 41
Mar 19, 2021
Car
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Level 92
Jul 10, 2013
I think the Bounty also stopped at Tubuai/Tupua'i.
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Level 71
Apr 8, 2016
Collect a lollypop on your way out......
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Level 58
Feb 5, 2014
Arrrgghh it took me until 2 seconds to go before I finally got the korean martial arts spelling right!!!
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Level 30
Feb 5, 2014
Yeah, I never ended up getting it right; some additional spellings would be helpful!
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Level 56
Jul 17, 2016
I'm confused. How else would you spell it?
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Level 66
Jul 17, 2016
"taekwAndo"
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Level 84
Jul 18, 2016
"Rex-kwando"
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Level 50
Feb 19, 2017
I was trying to spell is tai kwon do..... :(
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Level 19
Feb 9, 2014
Kilimanjaro is not only in Tanzania. It's also in Kenya.
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Level 19
Feb 9, 2014
But whatever I still got it right
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Level 30
Feb 22, 2014
Kilimanjaro is solely in Tanzania and can be seen from Kenya
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Level 51
Jul 13, 2014
And Kenya doesn't start with "t"....
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Level 67
Jul 15, 2014
I got a little stuck on "Don't mess with Texas", but got 100% with 3:42 left.
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Level 70
Apr 15, 2019
Wait, is this you messing with Texas saying you couldn't remember "don't mess with Texas"? That might even more dangerous than disparaging Whataburger.
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Level 18
Dec 14, 2014
I think that many Americans (and others) thought that the Taj Mahal is spelled tajma hall
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Level 51
Jul 27, 2015
I surely hope not. lol That never would have occurred to me.
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Level 92
Oct 6, 2015
Why would you think that?
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Level 77
Jul 17, 2016
Not in a million years.
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Level 84
Jul 18, 2016
Uhh, no. 92% have gotten it right!
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Level 68
Apr 5, 2017
Sad.
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Level 68
Jun 6, 2017
Spacing doesn't natter though so it would be accepted
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Level 59
Oct 20, 2017
You’d get the answer anyway
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Level 45
May 4, 2018
I know no one that thinks that's the spelling...
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Level 63
Aug 9, 2021
Strange comment. I'm American and I've never known anyone who thinks it's spelled like that.
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Level 78
Jul 3, 2015
TZAR! ...
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Level 75
Dec 24, 2016
...is not an acceptable spelling. Tsar or Czar.
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Level 66
Dec 15, 2021
I feel like I've seen "Csar," though.
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Level 90
Oct 7, 2015
Can you accept more misspellings (such as "kwan" for the middle word) in the Korea question?
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Level 72
Oct 7, 2015
Lots of non-geographical answers in this geography quiz, don't you think? Tequila, taekwondo, tsar, taj mahal, taliban...
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Level 95
Nov 7, 2015
The academic study of geography is quite a bit broader than just locations on a map. Climate, crops, culture, people, language, religion, etc are all included. Pretty much anything that is interesting or unique about any given location falls into the category.
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Level 79
Jun 14, 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_geography

Your Welcome, QM

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Level ∞
Jun 15, 2016
Thanks :)
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Level 70
Jul 22, 2016
You're new here, right?
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Level 72
Oct 15, 2019
Ha ha! I was... Four years later, I'm kind of ashamed of that rookie mistake. ;)
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Level 82
Jul 17, 2016
Thanks to Magic: The Gathering for teaching me Taiga.
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Level 75
Jul 17, 2016
I played it occasionally with my family, but I must have missed that card. Had never heard the term.
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Level 78
Jul 18, 2016
It was one of the mythical double lands from the first editions. The Taiga was a forest and a mountain combined.

BTW, Tundra (also in this test) was a double land too. A plain and an island.

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Level 82
Jul 18, 2016
Lands are a vital component of the game and they're always printing more so I've learned names for all sorts of obscure ecozones.

The five basic lands are Island, Forest, Plains, Swamp, and Mountain.

But then the ten original dual lands, which are the best such lands ever printed in the game and so remain valuable and relevant to this day, were U/B Underground Sea, U/W Tundra, U/R Volcanic Island, U/G Tropical Island, W/B Scrubland, W/R Plateau, W/G Savannah, B/R Badlands, B/G Bayou, and G/R Taiga.

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Level 65
Sep 12, 2019
Thanks to elementary/primary (choose your english word of choice..) school, for teaching me taiga and tundra.
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Level 82
Oct 13, 2019
I remember learning tundra there but not taiga
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Level 60
Jul 22, 2020
Thanks to school for teaching me taiga, but whatever floats your boat.
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Level 82
Sep 21, 2020
I learned about the principle of buoyancy in 3rd grade. I think that's what floats most boats.
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Level 47
Jul 17, 2016
Can you please accept Tasmania spelt with a Z instead of an S
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Level 67
Dec 29, 2016
No. See above.
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Level 58
Feb 16, 2021
If you spell it like that, it becomes a Looney Tunes character...
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Level 60
Jul 17, 2016
I can't believe I almost missed Taekwondo, and I practice it! That's what happens when you spend too much time on a quiz website :P
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Level 37
Dec 14, 2016
To Donna: If your teacher taught you that Tzar, Czar and Csar are all correct, she should have been fired as incompetent. its TSAR

or CZAR. Anyone taking the time to open a dictionary can be so

informed.

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Level 59
Oct 20, 2017
As I said above, plenty of English dictionaries do have tzar (inter alia). Perhaps you ought to take the time and effort to look up in a decent dictionary rather than be snarky.
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Level 37
Jun 18, 2018
Only two English dictionaries (Merriam Webster and Oxford) are considered standard. Any moron can compile a dictionary, that doesn't mean we need to recognize them as credible.
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Level 77
May 6, 2019
Divantilya, how dare you? As a Cambridge man, I must ask you to step outside!
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Level 38
Feb 10, 2017
Suprised the least known is Tiaga..

I would have thought it would be the lake in the andes..

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Level 56
Apr 21, 2020
I'm sure there's one in Siberia. Hence the phrase "Siberian Taiga"
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Level 78
Jan 14, 2021
Every few years, the scrub is torched to encourage new life afterwards. Hence "Taiga Taiga burning bright..."
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Level 56
Jun 30, 2022
Groan
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Level 58
Feb 19, 2017
Taekwando ? not close enough
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Level 51
Feb 19, 2017
Not too bad in that one, 3.45 left first attempt
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Level 66
Mar 6, 2017
Not gonna take Taekwando? Fine...
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Level 44
Jun 3, 2017
I'm surprised only 35% Taiga while 77% got Tundra right. I vaguely remember learning about them at the same time back in high school but I guess other countries might structure their lesson plans differently.
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Level 84
Jun 22, 2017
I don't believe I've ever heard the term "taiga" ever before in my life?
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Level 20
Jan 18, 2019
Same, Tundra and Taiga, always taught together in my country, starting from elementary school :-)
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Level 65
Sep 12, 2019
I was taught both at the same time, but later on taiga hardly got mentioned anymore, while tundra got a mention here and there. Tundra is represented much stronger in my mind, while I know I was taught them simultaneously.
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Level 78
Sep 23, 2021
You learn about 'gold' and 'meitnerium' in the same class, but I still think 'gold' is more well known.
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Level 71
Jun 17, 2017
Like a General Knowledge challenge? try ....http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/120558/mals-general-knowledge-27
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Level 56
May 4, 2018
The heir apparent to a tsar was a tsardine!
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Level 66
Oct 13, 2019
Best comment yet, made me laugh.
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Level 71
Oct 13, 2019
According to "Believe It Or Don't," which ran in Mad Magazine in the 1950s, you can cook eggs in the water of Lake Titicaca. . . . Of course you have to boil it first.
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Level 49
Oct 13, 2019
Host of Olympics... That's a bit unprecise. Maybe add "city"?
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Level 62
Oct 13, 2019
I though it was... Daoism?
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Level 63
Aug 31, 2020
me too
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Level 65
Oct 16, 2019
gr8 qz m8
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Level 36
Apr 9, 2021
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Level 52
Apr 27, 2021
Technically speaking Taoism is a philosophy (so I've heard, I could be wrong)
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Level 88
Sep 20, 2021
You are wrong, it is a religion, with gods, spirits, saints, ancestor worship, heavens and hells, practices analogous to yoga, and strong belief in magic and alchemy
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Level 83
Jun 2, 2021
I credit the Great Cornholio for helping with the lake clue
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Level 65
Sep 14, 2021
Unfortunately, Taliban answer may have to be changed
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Level 88
Sep 20, 2021
Came here to say this lol
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Level 73
Oct 27, 2021
Probably should be changed, but it is also technically still correct
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Level 56
Oct 15, 2021
Just here to remind about taliban
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Level 29
Oct 18, 2021
how did i not get Texas
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Level 67
Nov 7, 2021
You just messed with Texas
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Level 67
Nov 7, 2021
Just missed Trafalgar
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Level 61
Feb 14, 2022
Should definitely edit the Afghanistan question; it's understandable to wait a bit to see if the situation changes but it's been long enough now
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Level 76
Apr 21, 2022
5 stars
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Level 72
Nov 21, 2022
I was looking for a country, for the winter olympics answer. Didn't think to try cities.
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Level 67
Feb 16, 2023
53 seconds
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Level 75
Apr 25, 2023
unfortunately the taliban is now back in power so update it (2021-present)
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Level 51
Jun 24, 2023
might want to update the taliban question?
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Level ∞
Jun 25, 2023
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