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Trivia Questions

This term also heard on CB radio refers to a wave that's "plunging" or "spilling" on the shore

In 1982 this country began issuing a series of panda coins

The first link in the marine food chain is the "phyto" type of this, including algae

This principality now uses the Euro & has issued Euro coins with Prince Rainier on the obverse

Oceanographers multiply chlorinity, the amount of chlorine in water, by 1.80655 to get this figure

One of Mexico's millennium coins featured a depiction of this migrating butterfly

The ocean contains millions of tons of gold -- meanwhile we're extracting this element, Mg. Whoopee.

A hologram of this sacred temple lies in the center of Cambodia's 2001 10,000-riel coin

Later dictator, this Roman was kidnapped by pirates while on a journey to Rhodes around 75 B.C.

In 1815 Washington Irving planned to join Stephen Decatur on an expedition against these north African pirates