Clues
Mystery Class	March 23, 2007
#1	"We are a large, bilingual and multicultural nation. In the language of one of our native peoples, our country's name is said to mean something much smaller than a nation. "Our province is and is not attached to the mainland of our country; the capital city of our province claims to have the world's tallest one of these, but other places make that claim too."
#2	"Our country is an archipelago. It is said that centuries ago, the citizens of this country knew that lands existed to the west, but did not know of any lands to the east, and therefore they gave this country a name that generally means 'place where the sun originates or rises first'."
#3	"Our homeland is floating, and in July it grows to twice the size it is in January."
#4	"Centuries ago, a powder was invented here with explosive results."
#5	"Our school is found in one of the smaller countries on our continent. The majority of our population lives in agricultural villages like this."
#6	"Unlike most countries, when we count how many time zones our country is away from Greenwich, we don't fall squarely on an hour, instead our time zone falls on a fraction of an hour."
#7	"The official language of our country is different from the official language of most of our neighbors. Our country has a very long coastline, and some very beautiful beaches like this one."
#8	"Oil from our country is green. In our national language , we speak with a preference for vowels."
#9	"Our country uses another country's currency as our official currency. Our country's former currency went out of use several years ago."
#10	"Our country has three time zones, twice that number of states, and we have territories that are one-third the number of our states."