From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 1, Round 7 - Geography - Places Named After Famous People   
   >   
   > 1. Besides Washington, DC, there's only one other capital city in   
   >    the world that's named after an American president.  It's located   
   >    in West Africa.  Name either the city or that president.   
      
   Liberia   
      
   > 2. Let's go the other way.  What is the only US state capital   
   >    which is named for a foreign statesman?  It was done in an   
   >    attempt to attract German capital for railway building.   
      
   Bismarck   
      
   > 4. The next one is not a state capital, but rather the largest city   
   >    within this US state in the Pacific Northwest.  The city is   
   >    named for the chief of the Duwamish and Squamish people, a chief   
   >    who is better remembered for his environmentalist speeches.   
   >    Name the city.   
      
   Seattle   
      
   > 6. Another British statesman and famous military leader lent his   
   >    family name to a downtown street and subway station in Toronto;   
   >    however, he lent his hereditary title to the capital of a nation   
   >    in Australasia.  Name that capital.   
      
   Canberra   
      
   > 7. This city, the second largest in Afghanistan, was named in 330 BC   
   >    after a foreign conqueror.  The second-largest city in Egypt is   
   >    also named for this leader, but we want the Afghan city name,   
   >    which is a local variant of the leader's name.   
      
   Kandahar   
      
   > 8. During colonial times, this capital city in Africa was named   
   >    after the king of the colonizing country.  In fact, the colony   
   >    was considered his private kingdom.  Since independence, the   
   >    capital city has been renamed.  It has the largest number of   
   >    French-speakers in the world.  Give either the old colonial   
   >    name or the new name.   
      
   Leopoldville (old), Kinshasa (new)   
      
   > 9. It was Tsaritsyn until 1925, and then Stalingrad from 1925   
   >    to 1961.  Finally, Nikita Kruschev removed that name as part of   
   >    his de-Stalinization process.  What is the city's current name,   
   >    referencing the river it lies on?   
      
   Volgograd   
      
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