World Map Quiz

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World Map Quiz

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World Map Quiz. Where is the Palace of Versailles. The Palace of Versailles is in France. Where is Machu Picchu?. Machu Picchu is in Peru. Where is Angkor Wat ?. Angkor Wat is in Cambodia. Where is Chichen Itza?. Chichen Itza is in Mexico. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Where is the Palace of Versailles

• The Palace of Versailles is in France.

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Where is Machu Picchu?

• Machu Picchu is in Peru.

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Where is Angkor Wat?

• Angkor Wat is in Cambodia.

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Where is Chichen Itza?

• Chichen Itza is in Mexico.

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Point in which country Sydney Opera House is.

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Point in which country the Little Mermaid is.

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Point in which country the Great wall is.

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Point in which country the Taj Ma-hal is.

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Point in which country the Burj al Arab Hotel is.

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Point in which country Kilimanjaro is.

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Point in which country Auschwitz is.

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What is this Place?

• _____________is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London,[1] and often extended to re-fer to the clock and the clock tower.[2] The tower is now officially called the Elizabeth Tower, after being re-named in 2012 (from "Clock Tower") to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

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What is this Place?

• ________________ is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy. Built of concrete and stone,[1] it was the largest amphithe-atre of the Roman Empire, and is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and engineering. It is the largest am-phitheatre in the world.[2]

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What is this place?

• _______________________is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865).[1] The entire memorial covers 1,278.45 acres (5.17 km2)[2] and is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level.[3]

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What is this place?

• _________________ is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female fig-ure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of free-dom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.

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What is this place?

• _____________ is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company de-signed and built the tower. Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair, it has become both a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The tower is the tallest structure in Paris[10] and the most-visited paid monument in the world; 7.1 million people ascended it in 2011. The tower received its 250 millionth visitor in 2010.

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What is this place?

• _________________ is an archaeological site on the Giza Plateau, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. This com-plex of ancient monuments includes the three pyramid complexes known as the Great Pyramids, the massive sculpture known as the Great Sphinx, several cemeter-ies, a workers' village and an industrial complex. It is located some 9 km (5 mi) inland into the desert from the old town of Giza on the Nile, some 25 km (15 mi) southwest of Cairo city centre. The pyramids, which have historically loomed large as emblems of ancient Egypt in the Western imagination,[1][2] were popularised in Hellenistic times, when the Great Pyra-mid was listed by Antipater of Sidon as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.