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Category 1 : 1  Question: What spread from Asia to Europe and caused the deaths of millions of people?  Answer: bubonic plague/black death Back to the Board

Category 1 : 2  Question: What is the name of the former arm of the North Sea that was eventually turned into a freshwater lake?  Answer: Zuider Zee Back to the Board

Category 1 : 3  Question: What is the lasting impact of the British Empire around the world?  Answer: English is spoken in more countries than any other language Back to the Board

Category 1 : 4  Question: How did the Irish potato famine impact other countries?  Answer: Irish people emigrated to other countries Back to the Board

Category 1 : 5  Question: Which Balkan nation was ripped apart by conflict in the early 1990s?  Answer: Yugoslavia Back to the Board

Category 2 : 1  Question: Of the following, which is not a cause of recent conflict in the Balkans? ○ Religious differences ○ Economic alliances ○ Anger over past conflicts ○ Nationalistic feelings  Answer: economic alliances Back to the Board

Category 2 : 2  Question: What was the name for the Serbian policy towards Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Muslims and Croats in the 1990s?  Answer: ethnic cleansing Back to the Board

Category 2 : 3  Question: Name 2 of the 3 methods used by the international community to respond to Serbia’s actions in the 1990s.  Answer: military intervention Negotiated settlements Economic boycott Back to the Board

Category 2 : 4  Question: Why is Poland’s water unsafe to drink?  Answer: they don’t have enough sewage treatment plants Back to the Board

Category 2 : 5  Question: What is the purpose of the European Environmental Agency?  Answer: to provide information Back to the Board

Category 3 : 1  Question: Why is international cooperation needed to solve the problem of pollution?  Answer: pollution spreads across national boundaries Back to the Board

Category 3 : 2  Question: What happened to the trade of member nations when they joined the Common Market?  Answer: it quadrupled Back to the Board

Category 3 : 3  Question: Why are the new EU members causing increased tension for the EU?  Answer: the are less prosperous Back to the Board

Category 3 : 4  Question: What is the name of the freshwater lake in the Netherlands?  Answer: Ijsselmeer Back to the Board

Category 3 : 5  Question: Who was the leader of Serbia during the 1990s?  Answer: Slobodan Milosevic Back to the Board

Category 4 : 1  Question: What was the name of the group that fought against Serbian officials in Kosovo?  Answer: Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) Back to the Board

Category 4 : 2  Question: The _______ ________ migrated from Poland and Russia to the Balkan Peninsula.  Answer: -South Slavs Back to the Board

Category 4 : 3  Question: What is an earthen bank that hold back the sea?  Answer: dike Back to the Board

Category 4 : 4  Question: What combines with harmful gases to make air pollution?  Answer: particulates Back to the Board

Category 4 : 5  Question: Vojislav Kostunica was the reform leader who was elected President of ___________ in  Answer: Yugoslavia Back to the Board

Category 5 : 1  Question: -Serbia launched a campaign of ______ _______ by committing violence against the Muslims and Croats of Bosnia.  Answer: -ethnic cleansing Back to the Board

Category 5 : 2  Question: What is the name of the high earthen platforms that provide safety during floods?  Answer: terpen Back to the Board

Category 5 : 3  Question: What is the name of the brown haze created when gases react with sunlight?  Answer: smog Back to the Board

Category 5 : 4  Question: What is the name of the land that is reclaimed from the sea by diking and draining?  Answer: polder Back to the Board

Category 5 : 5  Question: What harmful form of oxygen causes health problems?  Answer: ozone Back to the Board

Category 6 : 1  Question: -What term describes the fertile soil in the Northern European Plain?  Answer: -chernozem Back to the Board

Category 6 : 2  Question: What term describes permanently frozen subsoil?  Answer: permafrost Back to the Board

Category 6 : 3  Question: What physical feature separates Europe from Asia?  Answer: The Ural mountains Back to the Board

Category 6 : 4  Question: What is the longest river in Europe?  Answer: Volga River Back to the Board

Category 6 : 5  Question: What is the oldest and deepest lake in the world?  Answer: Lake Baikal Back to the Board