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1. Somewhere in the world there is a sacred site where the indigenous people believe that touching the red sandstone is a way of communicating with the gods. What is the name of it?
2. Berchtesgaden, Germany, is known for the Untersberg mountain and the 500-year-old salt mine below it. How did miners get from one level of the mine to the one below?
3. eL Seed is a French-Tunisian street artist. What is the name that he gives to his style of work?
4. In the middle of the twentieth century, the Dead Sea began to shrink. Water from the River Jordan (which flows into the Dead Sea) began to be diverted for farming and industry. What geological phenomenon did it cause in parts of Israel?
5. The Uhuru Railway connected Zambia and Tanzania by train. 'Uhuru' is a Swahili word. What does it mean?
6. The Skagen Painters, a group of Scandinavian artists, gathered in the village of Skagen on the coast of Denmark throughout the late 18th and early 19th centuries. What was the topic of many of their paintings?
7. In 2007, a place of worship was completed in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. It had four minarets and a mihrab. What kind of building was it?
8. In which of these national parks might you have to build a snow hole in order to survive a night on a mountain?
9. The Ice Music Festival originated in Norway in 2006. What made it unique?
10. Mauritius became a republic in 1992. It doesn't have an official language, but which of these would you be most likely to hear?
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