Chad, China, Guinea, Morocco and Turkey have something in common besides being nations of the world. They’re also five of the 13 countries whose names in lower case are acceptable words in standard Scrabble. A chad, as everyone recalls from the 2000 U.S. presidential election, is a fragment of paper; china is fancy dinner plates; a guinea is an old English coin; morocco is a type of soft leather and a turkey is a big American bird.
Morocco’s Jebel Toubkal is the highest peak in which mountain range?
A) Atlas
B) Carpathian
C) Karakoram
D) Ural
Previous answer: Oedipus correctly answered “a man” to the “Riddle of the Sphinx”: What goes on four feet in the morning, two feet in the afternoon and three feet in the evening?
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