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Travel Trivia Thursday

Congratulations to Adam and Todd, who correctly identified the island of Corsica for last week’s question. Corsica has been occupied over the years by the Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, Etruscans, Italians, and of course the French. Don’t commit the common…

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Nick, Todd, and James correctly identified the flag of Bermuda, one of the northernmost islands in the Caribbean. Good work! There are lots of islands in the world, but only one is the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte. Most people refer…

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Last week’s trivia answer was Athens, Greece, which also held the Summer Games in 2004. Good work, Adam, Nick, Ivan, Peggy Sue, and Todd! The territory represented by this flag was permanently settled in 1612, after the Sea Venture shipwrecked…

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Alison, Ivan, Adam, Nick, and Todd correctly identified the Amazon River for last week’s question. As much as 300,000 cubic meters per second of water flows from the Amazon during the rainy season. To put that into perspective: Niagara Falls’…

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Congrats to Nick, Peggy Sue, James, and Todd for correctly identifying the Dragon Bridge in Ljubljana, Slovenia. When it was completed in 1901, it was one of the most technically advanced bridges in Europe. This river is sometimes referred to…

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