From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 1, Round 4 - Geography History - Colonies   
   >   
   > 1. In 1763 the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years War and   
   >    resulted in France ceding almost all its North American   
   >    territories to Great Britain.  But what Caribbean island did   
   >    the French choose to retain, considering it more valuable   
   >    than Canada?   
      
   Hispaniola   
      
   > 2. What was the first Caribbean country to gain its independence?   
      
   Haïti   
      
   > 3. What was the last Central American country to gain its   
   >    independence, in 1981?   
      
   Belize   
      
   > 4. Upon its independence from the UK on 1966-10-04, Basutoland   
   >    was renamed to what?   
      
   Botswana   
      
   > 5. Ghana, independent from the UK in 1957.   
      
   Gold Coast   
      
   > 7. Panama, in 1903.   
      
   Colombia   
      
   > 8. Mauritania, in 1960.   
      
   France   
      
   > 9. Guinea-Bissau, in 1974.   
      
   Portugal   
      
   > 10. Palau, in 1994.   
      
   USA   
      
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