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B. Glasgow
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Glasgow is the correct answer. Review the question and compare it with the other choices to remember this fact for future exams.
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D. Russia
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Volgograd is the fifteenth-largest city in Russia, the second-largest city on the Southern Federal District, and the fourth-largest city on the Volga. The city was founded as the fortress of Tsaritsyn in 1589.
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A. Morocco
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The Strait of Gibraltar (Arabic: مضيق جبل طارق, romanized: Maḍīq Jabal Ṭāriq; Spanish: Estrecho de Gibraltar, Archaic: Pillars of Hercules), also known as the Straits of Gibraltar, is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates the Iberian Peninsula in Europe from Morocco
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A. Netherlands
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You’ll find the Rijksmuseum on the Museumplein in downtown Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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C. Andorra
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Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a sovereign landlocked microstate on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south.
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A. Jill Biden
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Jill Biden is the current first lady of the United States, as wife of the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden.
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A. Rafael Nadal
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Spain’s world number one tennis player Rafael Nadal, who turned 32 today, has an asteroid named after him. The asteroid, discovered by an astronomical observatory on Nadal’s home island of Majorca, was named after him when he beat Roger Federer in the Wimbledon 2008 final.
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C. New Zealand
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The Hen and Chicken Islands (usually known collectively as the Hen and Chickens) lie to the east of the North Auckland Peninsula off the coast of northern New Zealand.
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A. Canada
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Ellesmere Island, largest island of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Baffin region, Nunavut territory, Canada, located off the northwest coast of Greenland. The island is believed to have been visited by Vikings in the 10th century. It was seen in 1616 by the explorer William Baffin and was named in 1852 by Sir Edward A.
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A. Hindu Kush Himalayan range
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The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region, often referred to as the ‘Third Pole’, is spread over 3,500 square kilometres across eight countries including India, Nepal and China. As per a recent research backed by the UNDP, up to two billion people in southeast Asia can face food and water shortages, as the HKH mountain ranges lose up to two-thirds of its ice by 2100.