MAP ROUND:

1) Date of admission into the United Nations. Light blue = 1945, original member, teal = 1946-1959, light green = 1960-1989, dark green = 1990-present. [1]

2) HIV prevalence amongst adults. Dark red = 15%+, light red = 5-15%, orange = 2-5%, yellow = 1-2%, tan = 0.5-1%, light green = 0.1-0.5% [7]

3) Mains electricity plug standards. [1]

4) Proven oil reserves in billions of barrels. [11]

5) Prostitution law. Green = legal and regulated. Blue = legal, but brothels illegal. Red = illegal. [5]

6) Best results in the FIFA world cup. Dark blue = champions, light blue = runners-up, dark green = third place, light green = fourth place, yellow = quarter finals, pink = second round, orange = participated. (purple box = hosts) [2]


ROUND: Napoleon

1) Poland. Poland ceased to exist after the 1795 partition by Russia, Austria, and Prussia, all enemies of Napoleon. The Polish Legion included over 100,000 Polish troops serving under Napoleon's command which joined the invasion of Russia. [1]

2) 'Like a Rolling Stone' by Bob Dylan. [3]

3) Canned food. A major advantage for prolonged field campaigns. [4]

4) The Mechanical Turk. Amazon's Mechanical Turk service similarly uses human labor to simulate a very effective machine. [3]

5) Riga, Latvia, then a part of the Russian Empire. [2]

6) Elvis Costello. He chose not to sue, although complained about his idea being stolen. [1]

ROUND: Big Numbers

1) Colombia. [6]

2) Beetles, with over 400,000 species identified. [10]

3) Somalia. The Somali language has at least 46 different words for camels. [2]

4) Hong Kong. After New York are Singapore, Chicago, and Sao Paolo. [3]

5) Portugal. The cork tree is native to the Iberian peninsula and is difficult to grow elsewhere. [6]

6) Laos. Vietnam received twice as much bombing but had 10 times the population. [3]

ROUND: Rivers

1) Khartoum, Sudan, and Cairo, Egypt are separated by the entire lower Nile. Amazingly, this is only half the length of the river. [8]

2) Hawaiian. [10]

3) Timbuktu, Mali. [5]

4) Pink, similar to the color of human skin, hence the legends. [7]

5) Seoul, South Korea. It sits on the Han River, which originates in North Korea and flows into the Imjin river, which divides the two countries. [1]

6) Johannesburg, South Africa. [3]


ROUND: Heavy Metal

1) Cyprus. The metal was originally Cyprum, but changed to Cuprum in Latin. [6]

2) Born To Be Wild. Lyric: "I like smoke and lightnin', heavy metal thunder, racing in the wind, and the feeling that I'm under" [4]

3) Aluminium-occurs in common bauxite ores but energy costs are 40% of the refining. [6]

4) Gymnastics. Latynina won 18 medals, including 9 golds, from the 1956-1964 Olympics. [8]

5) The Hague (Den Haag), Netherlands. The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 layed out the majority of modern international law about war, the much better known Geneva Convention only amended these. [10]

6) Mercury, specifically mercuric nitrate solution, the fumes of which were inhaled by hat makers. [11]


ROUND: Earls

1) The Crimean War. Earl Cardigan was the commander of Light Brigade during it's famous charge, the implications of which were not realized for years. [8]

2) The pear lemon, native to Vietnam, combined with the Seville orange. [4]

3) The Sandwich. John Montague was the 4th Earl of Sandwich. [11]

4) Soho, not to be confused with SoHo in New York City. [10]

5) Pembroke College, named for Aymer de Valence, the Earl of Pembroke. [7]

6) Count, which was to close to 'Cunt,' Earl is a modification of an old Scandinavian title 'jarl' meaning 'chieftain'. [9]

ROUND: Outliers

1) Fingerprints, from the Greek for 'skin' and 'writing.' [1]

2) Jerusalem, whose status is also disputed between Israel and Palestine which makes designating a country unwieldy. [3]

3) Michoacán, Mexico. [5]

4) Fidel Castro-He wrote FDR in 1940 at the age of 14. The Cuban government still receives monthly checks for $US 4,085 as rent for the Guantánamo Bay naval base as a result of the 1903 Cuban-American treaty, though Castro has claimed none have been cashed since 1959. [3]

5) Nigeria-which serves as a home for African cinema in general. Nearly all Nollywood films are released straight to DVD, and it's the country's second biggest employer. [6]

6) Wikipedia, or more specifically the Wikipedia foundation. [1]


TIEBREAKER: 2700 kilocalories, more than enough to sustain an adult healthily.

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