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Geography Questions on Jeopardy! #5

Can you answer these geography questions which were featured on Jeopardy!?
DO NOT start your answer with "What is" or "The"
Episodes: 13-16
Year: 1984
Quiz by Ian9876
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Last updated: August 22, 2023
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ISLANDS
Owned by tiny Denmark, it's the world's largest island
Greenland
New York's largest, it has more people than 41 of our 50 states
Long Island
Until 1949 a Dutch colony, now the world's most populous island nation
Indonesia
Made up of over 7,000 islands, only Far East country with a Roman Catholic majority
Philippines
GEOGRAPHY
World's longest mountain chain, stretching 4,500 miles across South America
Andes
1 of 3 countries with territory on 2 continents
Turkey / Russia/ Egypt
Direction you generally travel in sailing up the Nile
South
"Mexican" region that also contains parts of Guatemala and nearly all of Belize
Yucatan
"From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli" refer to these 2 countries
Mexico & Libya
BODIES OF WATER
Originally at Lewiston, NY, this falls has over the years moved 7 times upstream
Niagara Falls
While Thatcher looks over Parliament, Parliament looks over this
Thames
The dam you need to make Lake Mead
Boulder / Hoover Dam
Only one of the 5 Great Lakes entirely in U.S.
Lake Michigan
You can bet on the banks of this California-Nevada lake
Lake Tahoe
WORLD CITIES
It's the most populous city in the Western Hemisphere
Mexico City
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