It has Asia’s largest saltwater lake
Kazakhstan?
Nope, try again
Are we talking about Caspian sea?
I live near Main Street USA, but not in Florida or Missouri.
One of the worlds most useless canals goes through my town (on it’s path to crossing the entire width of the country). It was built largely with russian POW’s. However, roughly eight years before it was completed, steam locomitives became a thing, making it obsolete.
I think you’re referring to the Masurian Canal, so you could be in either Russia or Poland.
Close, but no dice. This one was built a fair while earlier , and is part of a 390km long waterway (of which the majority is natural). It’s still maintained today, but not used for any commercial traffic.
Ooooh, that sounds like the Göta Canal, making you Swedish! The Masurian Canal was built far too late to be correct but my brain was fixated on the uselessness aspect.
The Canal Knower
Yep, that’s right :)
There’s a catholic cathedral that was designed by a protestant and a protestant cathedral that was designed by a catholic.
The first airplane was flown here.
Brasil?
I had to look it up: I never knew there were still so many claims to have been first
North Carolina?
Yup. Outer banks specifically
If there’s water to be manipulated in a way to either keep it out, or to make land appear where water once was, they are going to hire people from here.
Swamp Germany!
Netherlands? Or Denmark.
Ding ding ding! Netherlands indeed.
root beer flavored milk for $0.25 a cup among other flavors like chocolate and banana
Every easter, we go from door to door and beat girl’s backs with a whip made of braided rods. They give us sweets and alcohol for exchange.
Czech or Slovakia.
It’s Czech, indeed
More navigable waterways than any other US state. (From there but no longer live there).
Louisiana?
No…
Wisconsin orMinnesota(Doesn’t the name translate to Land of Many Lakes?)
It is true about the lakes in Minnesota but navigable would be traverse travel by maritime vessels. So no…
An estimated 132,000 miles of river and stream channels, representing the state’s 17 major river systems, are carved into Alabama’s landscape, with about 61 percent flowing permanently throughout the year and 39 percent flowing only intermittently during wetter times. At 1,438 miles, Alabama leads the nation in miles of navigable channels, with 16 lock-and-dam structures on six river systems. More than 20 hydroelectric generating facilities and 20 or more impoundments on smaller streams for public water supply have been built throughout the state. The total surface area of lakes, ponds, and reservoirs is 563,000 acres, and about 33.5 trillion gallons of water flow through Alabama’s river and stream channels every year. Also, Alabama’s underground water supplies are estimated at about 553 trillion gallons, or more than 16 times the amount of surface water.
Wild guess but Rhode Island?
Nope… 😎
Minnesota?
No you are second guess of Minnesota. The answer is Alabama.
Cool fact!
Despite New being in the name of it, the “old” place was named many years after.
New Brunswick?
Newport? (if by “old” you mean British!)
New Mexico
I’ve got a few but I’ll go with:
The Guinness World Record Largest Open Sandwich; It was a barbecue pork bun (as of July 2010; dunno if the record still stands)
Ok. In retrospect this was way too obscure.
How about the town Pepsi was invented in?
When I lived there, it was the city with the most parkland per capita in the US.
The US!
Nailed it.
We have a 1/2 scale copy of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Las Vegas? Seems like they have a half scale version of everything.
Nope, but its true, Vegas does seem to have every monument you can think of.
Niles, IL
This wizard wins the cookie
I don’t know the scale, but Saugus, Massachusetts - “Leaning Tower of Pizza”
We had the highest sheep:human ratio of any country. I think we still do, but I’m not sure.
New Zealand? Iceland?
NZ
I can go regular skiing on snow and water skiing on the ocean in the same day.
Italy?
Vancouver?
You’re closer but unfortunately you went over. (I’m in California)
I was going to guess California because I used to live there. There’s also fun in the desert just a short drive away.