Clues |
Mystery
Class |
March
23, 2007
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#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."
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#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'."
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#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."
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#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."
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#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."
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#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."
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#8 |
"Oil from our country is green. In
our national language , we speak with a preference for vowels."
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#9 |
"Our
country uses another country's currency as our official currency.
Our country's former currency went out of use several years ago."
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#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."
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