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1. More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in what state?
   
   
2. The ______ River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the ______ river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States. (The same word fills in both blanks.)
   
   
3. ______ is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. Ninety percent of the world's ice covers ______. (The same word fills in both blanks.)
   
   
4. The country of ______ got its name from the nut, not the other way around.
   
   
5. The country of ______ has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. ______ is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."(The same word fills in both blanks.)
   
   
6. Next to Warsaw, the city of ______ has the largest Polish population in the world.
   
   
7. ______ Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.
   
   
8. ______, ______, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence. (This question is asking for a city and a country.)
   
   
9. ______, ______, is the only city in the world located on two continents.(This question is asking for a city and a country.)
   
   
10. The city of ______ ______'s full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de ______ ______ de Porciuncula -- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size as 2 letters.
    
    Just for a little more fun, one more.
    
    
11. There is a city in the U.S. where you will find more Irish than in Dublin, Ireland; more Italians in than in Rome, Italy; and more Jews than in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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