Sunday, May 3, 2020

Monday, May 2, 2020 Morning Challenge

Geography!

The theme this morning is CAPITAL CITIES.  See which questions you think you can answer without the use of any resources.  From there, use your detective skills and the internet to answer the rest of the questions.

1 - It hosted the 2008 summer Olympic Games and is home to a palace complex known as the Forbidden City.
2 - It's home to the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Élysées.
3 - It's situated on the Potomac River and boasts numerous national monuments including the Lincoln Memorial.
4 - It's home to a complex of government buildings called the Kremlin.
5 - It was divided by a wall from 1961 to 1989.
6 - It's where you can climb the Petronas Towers, the tallest twin towers in the world.
7 - It's home to a bronze statue of The Little Mermaid from the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.
8 - It was the site of Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum and is still overlooked by the Parthenon.
9 - It's where you can explore Wenceslas Square and the world's largest castle.
10 - It lies on a Communist-run Caribbean island, just south of the U.S. state of Florida.

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