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1) Which of the following is not a city in NORWAY?
A — Stockholm
B — Oslo
C — Bergen
D — Trondheim
2) In late summer 2024, over 20 silver Roman denarii coins were discovered inside a wall hole at an acropolis on the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria. The Italian island is located between ITALY and which country in Africa?
A — CAMEROON
B — TUNISIA
C — ETHIOPIA
3) Which two states in the UNITED STATES have more than 80 counties each?
A — Arizona and Nevada
B — Michigan and Minnesota
C — Connecticut and Rhode Island
D — North Dakota and South Dakota
ANSWERS
Question 1:
A . . . . . Stockholm which is the capital of Sweden (↗)
Question 2:
B . . . . . Tunisia
Question 3:
B . . . . . Michigan and Minnesota
1) Which answer choice is not a traditional name and meaning of Mount Everest?
A — Pittiputhisetrimadayinokki (“towering pillar of the cosmos”)
B — Sagarmatha (“head of the Earth touching heaven”)
C — Chomolungma (“goddess mother of the world”)
2) True or false: Minted in the year 1999, a gold commemorative coin issued by TÜRKIYE displays a denomination of 60,000,000 Lira.
3) Which gemstone is oftentimes the top export of the CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC?
A — topaz
B — diamond
C — emerald
D — sapphire
ANSWERS
Question 1:
A . . . . . Pittiputhisetrimadayinokki (“towering pillar of the cosmos”)
Sidenote: The technically correct pronunciation of Mount Everest should be “eve-rest” instead of “ever-est,” based on how George Everest’s surname was pronounced. Therefore, the first syllable would rhyme with “sleeve” rather than “never.”
Question 2:
True
Question 3:
B . . . . . diamond
After fact-checking and compiling a list based on various sources of data, the following is a list of countries that do not currently have railroad service for transportation and passengers as of January 21st, 2019:
Andorra, Belize, Bhutan (possible Golden Jubilee Railway project coming soon), Burundi (projects are being planned), Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Chad (projects are being planned), Cyprus, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Kuwait, Libya, Malta, Mauritius, Niger, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Qatar (projects are being planned), Rwanda, San Marino, Somalia, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Yemen
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Data regarding the exports and international trading partners of VATICAN CITY (Holy See) is sparse, hence why it was not included in the original Exports series on GeoFact of the Day. The following items are major exports of Vatican City, according to MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu): automobile parts, collector’s items and souvenirs, dextrin, furniture, measuring instruments, men’s coats, metal-clad products, orthopedic appliances, and postage and revenue stamps. Countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Thailand, Cambodia, the United States, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Turkey, Portugal, Pakistan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Peru, Colombia, Antigua and Barbuda, Mexico, Zambia, and South Africa.
For the complete list of the world's countries and their main exports and trading partners, access the Countries & Their Exports post (↗) — published today!
Data regarding the exports and international trading partners of MONACO is sparse, hence why it was not included in the original Exports series on GeoFact of the Day. The following items are major exports of Monaco, according to the Encyclopedia of the Nations at NationsEncyclopedia.com: cards, cosmetics and other beauty products, glassware, packaged food, perfume, pharmaceuticals, postage stamps, precision machinery, and re-exports from other countries.
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and a majority of other countries (unlisted). Trade is predominantly conducted with other European countries, especially European Union members.
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According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org), the following items are major exports of LIECHTENSTEIN: automobiles and automobile parts, small machinery, audio/video connectors, dental products (including dentures), electronics, glasses and other optical products, hardware, and packaged food.
Countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Switzerland, Austria, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Czech Republic, and Portugal.
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According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of ANDORRA: audio alarms, automobiles and automobile parts, blank audio media, cigarette paper, compasses, essential oil, furniture, gold, grain, hobby models, house linens, integrated circuits, iron, machinery, orthopedic appliances, perfume, petroleum gas, stuffed animals, telephones, tobacco products, various vegetables, and video displays.
Countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Spain (top importer), Switzerland, Mauritania, France, the United States, Slovakia, Norway, Finland, Chile, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Mexico, Guatemala, Senegal, Central African Republic, Poland, the Netherlands, Italy, Colombia, Argentina, Canada, and Palau.
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According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of ZIMBABWE: air pumps, aircraft, animal hides, asbestos, beverages, cement, centrifuges, chemicals, chromium, citrus fruit, clothing and textiles, coal, coffee, collector’s items, computers, construction vehicles, copper, corn (maize), cotton, cut flowers, diamonds, dried legumes, electricity to neighboring countries, ferroalloys, fertilizer, figurines and sculptures, footwear, fruit juice, furniture, gold, granite, graphite, gypsum, hairpieces and wigs, iron, lead, lithium, livestock, malt, medical supplies, metal goods, nickel and nickel mattes, niobium, oilseeds, packaged food, paper containers, peanuts and other ground nuts, pepper, pesticides, platinum, prefabricated buildings, refrigerators, rice, seafood, sowing seeds, spices, steel, sugarcane, tantalum, tea, telephones, tin, tobacco, transformers and transmissions, tungsten, vanadium, vegetable products, wheat, wood and wood products, yarn, and zirconium.
Zimbabwe produces a variety of machinery. Functions of the machinery manufactured in the Southern African country include bottling, construction, cooling, excavation, heating, industrial food preparation, liquid dispersal, and stone processing — among others. According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of Zimbabwe's exports include South Africa (top importer), Mozambique, Zambia, the United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Switzerland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Malawi, Italy, the Netherlands, Tunisia, China, the United States, Spain, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Sudan, and Tanzania.
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According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of ZAMBIA: animal hides, barley, beverages, bran, breakfast cereal, broadcasting equipment, cassava, cereal meal and pellets, chemicals, clothing and textiles, coal, cobalt, coffee, confectionery sugar, construction vehicles and cranes, copper, copper products (including bars and wire), corn (maize), cut flowers, excavation machinery, fertilizer, frozen vegetables, gemstones (especially diamonds and emeralds), gold, hydroelectricity to neighboring countries, insulated wire, interchangeable tool parts, iron products, lead, legumes, liquid pumps, magnesium carbonate, military ammunition and weapons, molasses, mollusks, olive and palm oil, packaged food, paper containers, peanuts, postage stamps, poultry meat, quicklime, raw and refined copper, rice, silver, sorghum, soybeans and soybean meal, sugarcane, sulphur (sulfur), sunflower seeds, tobacco, unmentioned edible preparations, uranium (small amounts), vegetable residues, wheat flour, wood, yeast, and zinc.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Switzerland (top importer), China, the United Arab Emirates, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Zimbabwe, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Malawi, Luxembourg, Tanzania, Japan, Kenya, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Germany, Rwanda, Burundi, South Korea, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Mauritius, Algeria, Swaziland, the United States, Uganda, Angola, Australia, Hungary, Ireland, and Madagascar.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of YEMEN: aircraft parts, animal food, automobiles, baked goods, barley, bran, buckwheat, buses, cargo and passenger ships, cement, ceramic tableware, cereal meal, clothing and textiles, coal (small amounts), coffee, combustion engines, concentrated milk, copper, corn (maize), cotton, crabs and other crustaceans, cut flowers, dried and salted seafood, electric motors, fruit juice, gold, grapes, handicrafts, khat (qat) plants, lead, liquefied natural gas, marble, medical supplies, melons, mollusks, nickel, oilseeds, onions, petroleum, pulses, rock salt, scrap copper, scrap plastic, sheep hides, soap, sugar, tea, tobacco, tropical fruit (especially bananas), vegetable oil, and wheat flour.
Certain industries — particularly the automobile industry in Yemen — experience sharp fluctuations in operations from year to year when dealing with complications caused by civil unrest, destruction, and terrorism. The automobile industry was considered to be in shambles only a few years ago but fared well last year (2017) due to an increase in orders for vehicles.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include China (top importer), Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Egypt, Malaysia, the United States, South Korea, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Somalia, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Indonesia, Djibouti, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Vietnam, Argentina, Jordan, Japan, the Netherlands, Thailand, Ethiopia, Belgium, Lebanon, Eritrea, and India.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of VIETNAM: animal food, automobile parts, baked goods, bananas, batteries, bauxite, beverages (especially beer and liquor), broadcasting and video-recording equipment, cases and trunks, cashews, cassava, cement, chromate, cinnamon and other spices, circuit boards, clothing and textiles, coal briquettes, coal, coffee, copper pipes, electric motors, electric transformers, electricity to neighboring countries, electronics, feldspar, fertilizer, footwear, frozen fruit and nuts, furniture, glass, gravel, headphones and microphones, industrial printers, iron products, machinery, malt extract, manganese, natural gas, nickel, office machine parts, packaged food, paddy rice, pasta, peanuts, pepper, petroleum products, phosphates, quicklime, rare earth elements, rubber, seafood, silverware, soybeans, starches, steel, sugarcane, tea, telephones, tobacco, toys, valves, wheat flour, and wood products.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include the United States (top importer), China, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Italy, the Philippines, France, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, Cambodia, India, Canada, Taiwan, Singapore, Austria, Spain, Belgium, Mexico, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, Israel, and Sweden.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of VENEZUELA: aluminum, animal hides, asphalt, automobile parts, bananas, basic manufactured goods, bauxite, beef, beverages (especially liquor), buckwheat, chemicals, chocolate, citrus fruit, clothing and textiles, coal briquettes, cocoa butter, coffee, corn (maize), dairy products, diamonds, eggs, electronics, excavation machinery, fertilizer, float glass, gold, insulated wire, iron materials, iron ore, melons, molasses, natural gas, oilseeds, packaged food, paper products, perfume plants, petroleum and petroleum coke, pork, rice, seafood (especially crabs and crabmeat), sorghum, steel, sugarcane, telephones, tomatoes, tree nuts, and wood fiberboard.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include the United States (top importer), China, India, Singapore, the Netherlands Antilles, Singapore, Cuba, Japan, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Aruba, Spain, Jamaica, Sweden, Nicaragua, Malaysia, South Africa, Nigeria, Italy, Trinidad and Tobago, Chile, Belgium, the Netherlands, Turkey, France, Poland, Antigua and Barbuda, Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, and Saint Lucia.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of VANUATU: antiques, beef, cleaning products, cocoa, coconuts and copra, coffee, dried fruit, electric lighting, fish netting, handicrafts, iron gas containers, kava, numismatic (coin) collectibles, other tropical fruits and vegetables, refined petroleum, seafood, semiconductor devices, signaling equipment, taro, tug boats, wood, and yams.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Fiji (top importer), Thailand, Japan, China, Australia, South Korea, Singapore, Venezuela, the United States, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Hong Kong, Chile, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the United Kingdom, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Russia, Canada, Vietnam, Turkey, Nigeria, the Netherlands, and Mongolia.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of UZBEKISTAN: alcoholic beverages, aluminum bars, animal food, animal hides, automobiles, cabbage, chemicals, clothing and textiles, copper and iron products, copper wire, cotton, cucumbers and zucchinis, dried fruit, dried legumes, equipment and machinery, fertilizers, flavored water, fruit juice, gold, grapes, insulated wire, monofilaments, nuts, onions, packaged food, paper pulp, peat, perfume plants, petroleum products, pitted fruit, polymers, precious metal scraps, printed material, radioactive elements, refined copper, root vegetables, tobacco, utility meters, valves, wheat flour, yarn, and zinc.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Turkey (top importer), Russia, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Ukraine, Iran, India, Poland, Tajikistan, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Germany, Belarus, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Indonesia, Georgia, Mongolia, Spain, the United States, Portugal, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of URUGUAY: adhesives, aluminum foil, animal fat and margarine, animal hides, automobile parts, automobiles, batteries, beverages, blood for medical uses, cellulose, chemicals, citrus and other fruit, cleaning products, clothing and textiles, dairy products (especially concentrated milk), electric machinery, fertilizer, flour, furniture, gemstones, gold, insulated wire, iron pipes, kaolin-coated paper, malt, meat, medical supplies, orthopedic appliances, packaged food, pesticides, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, plastic products, rice, scrap copper, seafood, seeds, soybeans, synthetic dyes, transportation equipment, vegetable sap, wheat, wood, and wool.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Brazil (top importer), China, the United States, Argentina, the Netherlands, Germany, Turkey, Peru, Paraguay, Mexico, Israel, Russia, Spain, Chile, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Canada, Colombia, Thailand, Venezuela, Vietnam, Bolivia, Hong Kong, France, Cuba, Poland, South Korea, and South Africa.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of the UNITED STATES: air and liquid pumps, aircraft, aluminum plating, animal food, apples, armored vehicles, automobiles, baked goods, beauty products, berries, beverages (especially alcohol, flavored water, juice), blood for medical uses, broadcasting equipment, card and video games, centrifuges, chemicals, chocolate, cleaning products, coal briquettes, coal tar oil, coffee, combustion and spark-ignition engines, computers, copper ore, corn (maize), cotton, dairy products, delivery trucks, diamonds and other gemstones, dried legumes, electric control boards, electric motors, electric power accessories, electric transformers, excavation machinery, and forage crops.
Even more exports include frozen produce, furniture, gold, grapes, heating machinery, industrial printers, insulated wire, integrated circuits, iron products, jewelry, kaolin, laboratory instruments, lead ore, low-voltage protection equipment, machines for manufacturing, meat, medical devices and supplies, nuts, office machine parts, oilseeds, oranges, orthopedic appliances, oscilloscopes, paper products and pulp, pears, pesticides, petroleum and petroleum gas, pharmaceuticals, photo lab equipment, pitted fruit, plastic products, platinum, precious metal scraps, rice, sauce and seasoning, scrap aluminum, scrap copper, scrap iron, semiconductor devices, silver, sorghum, soybean meal, soybeans, starch residue, steel, telephones, televisions and video displays, titanium, tractors, trailers, transmissions, transportation parts, turbines, valves, wheat, wood, X-ray equipment, and zinc ore.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Canada (top importer), Mexico, China, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong, South Korea, the Netherlands, Brazil, France, Belgium, Singapore, Taiwan, India, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Malaysia, Spain, Colombia, Austria, Chile, Thailand, Ireland, Vietnam, Turkey, Peru, and Dominican Republic.
According to MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of the UNITED KINGDOM: aircraft and automobile parts, aircraft, aluminum, animal food, antiques, artwork (especially paintings and sculptures), automobiles, baked goods, barley, beauty supplies, beverages, blood for medical use, boats, broadcasting equipment, brochures and other paper products, centrifuges, chemicals, chocolate, cleaning products, clothing, coffee, computers, delivery trucks, diamonds, dried legumes, engines, furniture, gas and electric turbines, gold, jewelry, leather footwear, liquid pumps, low-voltage protection equipment, medical instruments and supplies, metal products, nitrogen compounds, pesticides, petroleum, petroleum gas, pharmaceuticals, plastic products, platinum, potatoes, scientific instruments, scrap aluminum, scrap copper, scrap iron, tea, telephones, tires, titanium, tractors, wheat, and valves.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include the United States (top importer), Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland, China, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Hong Kong, Japan, Turkey, Sweden, South Korea, Poland, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Saudi Arabia, India, Norway, Russia, Denmark, South Africa, Czech Republic, Angola, and Austria.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: aluminum, automobiles, baked goods, beauty and shaving products, broadcasting equipment, chemicals, chocolate, clothing and textiles, computers, concentrated milk, construction materials, copper wire, dates, diamonds and other gemstones, dried legumes, dried seafood, electric batteries, engines, equipment and machinery, fertilizer, flavored water, fruit juice, gas turbines, gold, handicrafts, iron products, jewelry, light fixtures, meat, medical supplies, natural gas, nuts, parts for aircraft and automobiles, pepper, perfume, petroleum and petroleum products, polymers, precious metal watches, printed material, re-exports from other countries, rice, rubber tires, scrap aluminum and copper, ships, spices, sugar, synthetic yarn, tea, telephones, tobacco, and tropical fruit.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include India (top importer), Iran, Switzerland, Oman, Japan, China, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United States, Kuwait, Qatar, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and Iraq.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of UKRAINE: air and liquid pumps, aircraft, automobiles, baked goods, ball bearings, bran, cargo and passenger ships, chemicals, chocolate, clay, coal, coats and suits, concentrated milk and other dairy products, confectionery sugar, corn (maize), eggs, electric equipment (heaters, motors, transformers, etc.), electricity to neighboring countries, equipment and machinery, fertilizer, footwear, frozen fruit and nuts, fruit juice, gas and steam turbines, glass bottles, grain (especially barley and wheat), gravel, honey, insulated wire, iron and steel products, iron ore, kaolin, low-voltage protection equipment, malt extract, natural gas, nickel, packaged food, paper products (especially wallpaper), petroleum and petroleum products, pharmaceuticals, plastic sheeting, poultry meat, refined copper, soybeans, sugar beets, sunflower seeds and other oilseeds, telephones, televisions, titanium, tobacco, transmissions, transportation parts, vegetable residues for animal feed, and wood.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include India (top importer), Russia, Egypt, Turkey, China, Italy, Poland, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Iran, Hungary, the United States, Belarus, Romania, Israel, Czech Republic, Algeria, Iraq, and Austria.
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