Geography warm-up · 13 August 2026
Which country is it?
Put this on the big screen. Show one clue at a time and let the class guess out loud. Every class in the world gets the same country today.
- It covers about 9,373,000 km².
- It shares a land border with 2 countries.
- People there speak English.
- The money is the dollar.
- On the map it lies above the equator and west of the prime meridian.
- Its capital starts with "W" and has 12 letters.
United States
Question of the day
Romania
In which year did Nadia Comăneci score the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics?
- A1976
- B1968
- C1984
- D1992
At the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, 14-year-old Nadia Comăneci was the first gymnast awarded a perfect 10.0 at the Games.