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The TOP 5 Places in Challenge Teams for 2013
First Place
[19 correct] - (9) Gymnasium 14 (Team Maslova) Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Second Place
[18 correct] - (13) Licey 395 (Pathfinders) Saint Petersburg, Russia
[18 correct] - (15) Oberthur Primary (Investigators) Bull Creek, W. Australia
Third Place
[17 correct] - (14) Linkhorne Middle School (LMS-Jaguars) Lynchburg ,Virginia
[17 correct] - (18) Sec. School 8 (English-Speaking Young Siberians) Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Fourth Place
[16 correct] - (4) Comprehensive school 14 (Matryoshkas) Nazarova, Russia
[16 correct] - (5) Grey Nun Academy - (Grey Nun Academy) Yardley, Pennsylvania
[16 correct] - (12) Lewis & Clark Elem. (Lewis & Clark) Liberty, Missouri
Fifth Place
[16 correct] - (21) Shoal Creek Elem (Team Shoal Creek) Kansas City, Missouri
(1) Barnveld School (Ryan's Geography Geniuses) Barnveld, WI - mroenneb@barneveld.k12.wi.us
12 CORRECT - House on the Rock
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(2) Comprehensive Lyceum #3 (Expedition to Success) Krasnoyarsk, Russia - anyuta_makarova@mail.ru
7 CORRECT - Lake "Round" or "Krugloye"
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(3) Comprehensive Lyceum #174 (Team Krasnoyarsk) Krasnoyarsk, Russia - jen96@mail.ru
10 CORRECT - Stolby National park
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(4) Comprehensive school 14 (Matryoshkas) Nazarova, Russia ana.stasia@mail.ru Skype nastinka591
16 CORRECT - Krasnoyarsk National Nature Reserve “Stolby” (Pillars)
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(5) Grey Nun Academy - (Grey Nun Academy) Yardley, PA - gnastudents@gnaedu.org twitter: GNAlibrary
16 CORRECT - Devil’s Bay, Virgin Gorda, B.V. I.
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(6) Gymnazium Dr. A. Hrdlicky (Team 1A) Czech Republic- prvaci.landmark@seznam.cz
7 CORRECT - MARINE AQUARIUM IN BARCELONA, SPAIN
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(7) Gymnazium Dr. A. Hrdlicky (Team Kvinta) Czech Republic- kvinta.landmark@seznam.cz
9 CORRECT - MOUNT ST. HELENS, USA
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(8) Gymnazium Dr. A. Hrdlicky (Team Kvarta) Czech Republic- kvarta.landmark@seznam.cz
14 CORRECT - FERRARI MUSEUM, MODENA
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(9) Gymnasium 14 (Team Maslova) Krasnoyarsk, Russia ir_maslova@mail.ru
19 CORRECT - Olkhon Island
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(10) IES Alfonso II (Team Spain) Oviedo, Spain segundoaalfonso2@gmail.com
[No clues were sent in by this team]
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(11) Kellybrook Elementary (Team Kellybrook) Kansas City evannelli@liberty.k12.mo.us
8 CORRECT - Uluru or Ayers Rock, Australia
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(12) Lewis & Clark Elem. (Lewis & Clark) Liberty, Missouri - arosheim@liberty.k12.mo.us
16 CORRECT - Truk or Chuuk Lagoon
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(13) Licey 395 (Pathfinders) Saint Petersburg, Russia licey395@gmail.com skype tatyana_serova1
18 CORRECT - Anichkov Bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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(14) Linkhorne Middle School (LMS-Jaguars) Lynchburg ,VA millerrm@lcsedu.net skype: lmsjaguars
17 CORRECT - Charging Bull in New York City
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(15) Oberthur Primary (Investigators) Bull Creek, W. Australia, teamloweoberthur@gmail.com
18 CORRECT - HMAS Sydney II Memorial, Geraldton, Western Australia
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(16) School 664 (Squirrels) Vostochny, Moscow, Russia sch664@mail.ru
12 CORRECT - The Mamayev Kurgan Memorial in Volgograd, Russia
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(17) Sec. School 5 (Siberian Eagles) Krasnoyarsk, Russia nade-ivanova@yandex.ru Skype – nade-ivanova
14 CORRECT - Lake Baikal landmark (Russia)
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(18) Sec. School 8 (English-Speaking Young Siberians) Krasnoyarsk, Russia tutor-@mail.ru
17 CORRECT - International Russian Youth Center Orlyonok.
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(19) Schuylkill Valley MiddleSchool (Team Wonderstruck) Leesport, PA dschmeck@schuylkillvalley.org
7 CORRECT - Great Barrier Reef
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(20) Schuylkill Valley MiddleSchool (Team Nautilus) Leesport, PA dschmeck@schuylkillvalley.org
7 CORRECT - City of London
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(21) Shoal Creek Elem (Team Shoal Creek) Kansas City, MO - scole@liberty.k12.mo.us skype: scole1600
15 CORRECT - Zone of Silence (Ceballos, Mexico)
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(22) Totem Falls Elem (Team Hickenbottom) Snohomish, WA Karen.hickenbottom@sno.wednet.edu
NO ANSWERS SUBMITTED - Doll Island, Xochimillo, MX
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(23) Warren Hills Elem. (Paw 5) Liberty, Missouri - lriedel@liberty.k12.mo.us
2 CORRECT - Bermuda Triangle
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(24) Gymnazium Dr. A. Hrdlicky (Sexta) Czech Republic- sexta.landmark@seznam.cz
14 CORRECT - PANSKÁ SKÁLA, THE CZECH REPUBLIC (STATELY ROCK)
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End of Challenge Answer Sheet 2013
Challenge Clues 2013 - week 3
(1) Barnveld School (Ryan's Geography Geniuses) Barnveld, WI - mroenneb@barneveld.k12.wi.us
1. Meet the elephant family doing tricks
2. Listen to the band play on and on and on
3. Enter if you dare! The dragon may eat you
4. Who cleans those 3000-some windows?
5. The sea monsters battle!
6. Enter here and you could go on forever
7. Ride on the carousel, but beware of monsters!
8. It’s all a fake
9. Lights, lights, thousands of lights up high
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(2) Comprehensive Lyceum #3 (Expedition to Success) Krasnoyarsk, Russia - anyuta_makarova@mail.ru
1. It's oval.
2. There are no living beings there.
3. It's appeared on the place of a volcano.
4. it's a part of a system which includes two other parts.
5. It's in Asian part of the continent.
6. It's located near a popular resting place.
7. The film was shot there.
8. The territory of this place is 0.3 square km.
9. Another name for this place is Kelingol.
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(3) Comprehensive Lyceum #174 (Team Krasnoyarsk) Krasnoyarsk, Russia - jen96@mail.ru
1. This landmark is a candidate for adding to the UNESKO.
2. This landmark was founded in the firstquarter of the 20thcentury.
3. This landmark is in the northern hemisphere.
4. More than 200,000 people visit this landmark each year.
5. Such famous people as Vitus Bering visited this landmark.
6. A river, which width is about 200 meters, flows through this landmark.
7. This landmark is used for active tourism.
8. People were searching for gold here.
9. There are a lot of sharp elevations in this landmark.
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(4) Comprehensive school 14 (Matryoshkas) Nazarova, Russia ana.stasia@mail.ru Skype nastinka591
1. It covers an area about 200 square miles of thick taiga forest with pine, cedar, spruce, larch, birch and aspen.
2. This place has got more than 100 objects, each of them has its definite name.
3. It is a subject of numerous books, films, an attraction and a source of inspiration for poets, musicians and painters. Ordinary people come here to enjoy nature and climb for sports and for pleasure.
4. Tourists are allowed only to the special territory about 5 square miles known as the Recreation Area.
5. Sometimes bears come to this place when there is no food for them in taiga. Then it is closed for visitors.
6. It is located in the Kuysum Mountains in the foothills of the East Sayans.
7. It is situated on the Yenisei River near an important Siberian city with a million scale population but with no underground.
8. It was discovered in 1624(25) by Russian kozaks, explorers of Siberia.
9. It is National Nature Reserve which was founded in 1925. People call it "a land of fantastical rocks" and "a land of foreign giants."
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(5) Grey Nun Academy - (Grey Nun Academy) Yardley, PA - gnastudents@gnaedu.org twitter: GNAlibrary
1. I am home to boulders
2. You can go hiking here.
3. I have caves.
4. Located between 0 degress and 40 degrees N
5. My name is evil.
6. There are beaches near me.
7. I am a national park
8. I am in a sea.
9. I am British.
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(6) Gymnazium Dr. A. Hrdlicky (Team 1A) Czech Republic- prvaci.landmark@seznam.cz
1. I am filled with 6 million litres of salt water.
2. I am an image of the Mediterranean Sea.
3. I am the biggest of my kind in Europe.
4. I am so helpful that I will take you through all my wealth.
5. If I want, I could soak the feet of the famous voyager again.
6. I was born in 1995.
7. I am a showpiece of the town which Freddie Mercury sings about.
8. I am giving life to 11 thousand animals.
9. The 80 m long glass tunnel intersects me.
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(7) Gymnazium Dr. A. Hrdlicky (Team Kvinta) Czech Republic- kvinta.landmark@seznam.cz
1. I am situated on the Northern hemisphere.
2. "M"
3.You can find me in the country which is often visited by the tourists because of its „lifestyle“.
4. I am associated with the apocalypse.
5. The part of my body went around the World faster than W. Fogg.
6. 1853, 1980
7. The lives of others depend on my mood.
8. I have got the same name as the British diplomat.
9. I am higher than the highest mountain in the Czech Republic
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(8) Gymnazium Dr. A. Hrdlicky (Team Kvarta) Czech Republic- kvarta.landmark@seznam.cz
1. Place where two eras meet.
2. I’m enviromentally friendly.
3. I’m in 50% hidden underground.
4. I’m situated in the Old Continent.
5. I’m yellow, but I should be red as it is a traditionall colour for things connected with me.
6. No farmer would be ashamed for the herd of the horses under my roof.
7. "If you can dream about it, you can do it" has something to do with me.
8. 1898 – 1988
9. My creator saw the birth of his daughter but he didn’t live to see my grand opening.
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(9) Gymnasium 14 (Team Maslova) Krasnoyarsk, Russia ir_maslova@mail.ru
1. Water is all around this place.
2. It is the only inhabited place within a long distance.
3. Major part of population is fishermen.
4. There is a rock there which has a name in honour of people who worship the spirits of nature.
5. There are a lot of ringed seals.
6. The site of an ancient person was found by archaeologists there.
7. There are more than 300 sunny days during a year.
8. It is a part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
9. It is located near the famous rift zone.
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(10) IES Alfonso II (Team Spain) Oviedo, Spain segundoaalfonso2@gmail.com
[No clues were sent in by this team]
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(11) Kellybrook Elementary (Team Kellybrook) Kansas City, MO evannelli@liberty.k12.mo.us
1. Our landmark is in a nation whose flag is blue, red, and white.
2. Carvings and paintings can be found here in my sandstone.
3. This "central" landmark receives less than 18 inches of rain per year.
4. Humans settled in my area more than 10,000 years ago.
5. Come here if you have "time to dream" or see rock art.
6. Tourists have been visiting me since the 1930’s.
7. It may be bad luck to take something from me.
8. I will really impress you at sunset with my color.
9. My "original" name and "premier" name work together in a partnership.
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(12) Lewis & Clark Elem. (Lewis & Clark) Liberty, Missouri - arosheim@liberty.k12.mo.us
1. Name changed
2. More than one creates our landmark
3. Life here is very simple
4. Japanese desperately needed me
5. WW2 is a big part of my history
6. You could call it a Mecca for divers and bird fans
7. Commemorative Plaque placed here in the early 1990s
8. Oil still leaks from my pacific graveyard where Betty is laid to rest
9. Atoll
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(13) Licey 395 (Pathfinders) Saint Petersburg, Russia licey395@gmail.com skype tatyana_serova1
1.The landmark is located in Eastern Europe.
2.It cost 50 in local currency to build.
3. It's mostly made of stone.
4. It's been renovated several times.
5. It was named after a Russian military man.
6.It got its present look in the 19th century.
7.It's about 55 metres long.
8. It has some traces of the Nazi shells.
9. There are 4 bronze sculptures on it.
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(14) Linkhorne Middle School (LMS-Jaguars) Lynchburg ,VA millerrm@lcsedu.net skype: lmsjaguars
1. Northern hemisphere
2. Man made
3. Tourist attraction
4. I can be seen around the world
5. Seized by a Queen
6. Over $250,000
7. Merry Christmas
8. I weigh more than the real one
9. Temporary?
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(15 ) Oberthur Primary (Investigators) Bull Creek, W. Australia, teamloweoberthur@gmail.com
1. 5 Elements
2. Forever waiting
3. Birds
4. 1941
5. Eastern Hemisphere
6. Black Granite
7. Tragedy
8. 12 metres
9. Irish
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(16) School 664 (Squirrels) Vostochny, Moscow, Russia sch664@mail.ru
1. It is not the highest one in the area
2. Up and up
3. 200
4. They came from east, and south, and west, but none was able to stay.
5. no grass for a couple of years;
6. more than 34000;
7. 52+20+29 = 85
8. The king never visited it
9. It's one of 7 wonders of its country
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(17) Sec. School 5 (Siberian Eagles) Krasnoyarsk, Russia nade-ivanova@yandex.ru Skype – nade-ivanova
1. I am situated in the same hemisphere as Sydney.
2. If you look at me from high above, I look like a giant crescent.
3. I'm bigger than Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island combined together.
4. I have a diversity of flora and fauna: 1,340 species of animal (745 endemic) and 570 species of plant (150 endemic).
5. Some people call me the 'Galapagos.'
6. I am the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (5, 577 feet) of my kind.
7. I was awarded World Heritage Site status in the 1990s.
8. I contain 20% of the world's fresh running water reserve.
9. Hundreds of rivers flow into me, but only one flows out.
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(18) Sec. School 8 (English-Speaking Young Siberians) Krasnoyarsk, Russia tutor-@mail.ru Skype – tikhonova1975
1.This place is near the Black Sea, one of beautiful and great places of Russia.
2.This place is in the Krasnodar region, 45 km from the city Tuapse.
3.It was founded in 1960.
4.This place has got many children from 6-11 years old from 88 Russian regions and nearest countries.
5.You can go there by train, by car, by bus or by plane.
6.Not every person in Russia knows about this place but it is popular place to visit.
7.Children and teenagers can swim, take photos, sunbath, relax, make projects, make new friends and speak different languages here.
8.Children and teenagers have to study hard, have excellent records and be active to be a guest of this place.
9.This place was awarded the Medal of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League.
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(19) Schuylkill Valley MiddleSchool (Team Wonderstruck) Leesport, PA dschmeck@schuylkillvalley.org
1. This landmark is in the Eastern Hemisphere
2. It spans over an area of 344,400 km2
3. It is visible from space
4. You will need special equipment to visit it
5. It was constructed by billions of organisms
6. It is made up of many colored structures
7. You won’t find this landform inland
8. It was not manmade
9. The world’s biggest living landmark
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(20) Schuylkill Valley MiddleSchool (Team Nautilus) Leesport, PA dschmeck@schuylkillvalley.org
1. It is a district in city of its own name,
2. It is over 1000 years old,
3. It is in the northern hemisphere.
4. It started as a Roman outpost,
5. It has special political power in its country,
6. It is near the Thames.
7. It is also called the Square Mile,
8. The Romans called it Londinium.
9. This district maintains Tower Bridge.
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(21) Shoal Creek Elem (Team Shoal Creek) Kansas City, MO - scole@liberty.k12.mo.us skype: scole1600
1. Shhh…it’s so quiet!
2. I can be found in an area that covers 1/3 of the earth’s surface. Something similar can also be found on Venus and Mars.
3. There is a lot of magnetite found here.
4. Our landmark is in a country that has a famous holiday on May 5th.
5. Phone calls …I don’t think so.
6. Strangely, I line up with the "Devil’s Triangle" and the only Wonder of the Ancient World still standing.
7. I attracted Athena in the same year Kellogg's acquired Eggo Waffles.
8. My "first victim" was a person who beat one of Amelia Earhart's recordsby almost 4 hours.
9. Here you can experience close encounters of the third kind.
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(22) Totem Falls Elem (Team Hickenbottom) Snohomish, WA Karen.hickenbottom@sno.wednet.edu
1. Located 18 miles south of the country's capital city.
2. It is said to be haunted.
3. Located north of the equator.
4. Started by a recluse 50 years ago.
5. The only way to get there is by gondola
6. Built to keep evil spirits away from the garden.
7. Area created on artificial islands called chinampas.
8. Inspired by the death of a little girl.
9. A plethora of toys popular with girls.
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(23) Warren Hills Elem. (Paw 5) Liberty, Missouri - lriedel@liberty.k12.mo.us
1. An amusement park ride in Australia is named after me.
2. It was nameless until 1964.
3. I have two names. However, neither one of them are officially recognized.
4. I made Christopher Columbus’s compass go crazy!
5. Suggested culprits are aliens, sea monsters or squids. While some say bad luck, Mother Nature or bad craftsmanship.
6. It has claimed many lives and is responsible for many disappearances.
7. Some people say it's a sailor's legend.
8. I have inspired songs, albums, movies, books and tv shows.
9. Maybe methane bubbles?
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(24) My error - this one was left out (Terry).
NEW- Gymnazium Dr. A. Hrdlicky (Sexta) Czech Republic- sexta.landmark@seznam.cz
1. The tourists of my country like me very much.
2. I was influenced by the volcanic activity.
3. I am located in the Northern hemisphere.
4. I am as firm as a rock.
5. I am protected.
6. Organ
7. I am a film star.
8. I am situated in Switzerland but I am not in the state of Switzerland.
9. The Heart of Europe is very close to me.
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End of Challenge Clues