Today's GeoQuiz is dedicated to students at Clarke Central High School in Athens, Ga., who will hopefully go on to nearby University of Georgia after they've passed ninth grade geography.
Since The World Cup recently concluded, we thought we'd go with another country that was in the soccer tourney though Greece didn't advance into the knock-out round.
Our focus today is on Chios, the fifth largest Greek island, which is only five miles off the coast of this Turkish resort town which is popular with Turkish workers from Germany.
Before we get to the choices for the answers, here is some additional background on Chios. It was once a part of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and the island formally joined Greece in 1912. The island was occupied by Germany from 1941-1944. Chios is also twin cities with Genoa, Italy.
As for the Turkish resort town across the Chios Strait, it is sister cities with Wise, Va., the hometown of the late, great actor George C. Scott of "Patton" fame, and this place is also known for its thermal springs and karpuz (Turkish word for watermelon).
Is the town's name:
A) Bodrum
B) Fethiye
C) Kushadasi
D) Cesme
SIDEBAR: The Akron Aeros in Akron, Ohio, won their home game over the Erie SeaWolves 8-1 on Faith Night. We hope they let folks from Temple Israel in Akron (an actual place) enjoy the same discount as everyone else.
SIDEBAR TWO: Want an interesting book to read this summer? How about "Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle," the 2004 book by Slovenian pop culture philosopher Slavoj Zizek in which the author says that the war in Iraq is a lot like a Hitchcock film because the weapons of mass destruction were very similar to McGuffins, arbitrary plot devices used to move things along in movies like "North by Northwest." Incidentally, The Carolina Theatre in Greensboro, NC, will be showing Hitchcock's "The Birds" on Monday night.
PS_ The answer to last week's quiz was "B." Utrecht, Holland, has a population of around 300,000 people.
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