CAPITAL IDEAS
GAMES/World of Puzzles
Merl Reagle

1. What Middle Eastern capital ends with a U.S. state capital?

2. Name the only six-letter, one-syllable world capital. (It's in Europe.)

3. When the two syllables of an African country trade places, the result is a capital city in South America. Name both places.

4. CZECHOSLOVAKIA contains another country's capital, OSLO, in its exact center. Name the European capital that has another country in its exact center.

5. When the definitions below are answered correctly, the result will sound like a world capital. For example, FIRE YOGI would be CANBERRA

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     Auto graveyard
     Wide shoe size
     Southern girl aged
     Revolution delay

HINTS:
1. The U.S. capital is in the Northwest.
2. It's nickname is "Ciy of a Hundred Spires."
3. Both the country and city have four letters.
4. The country in the center is in the Middle East

Answers:

1. JERUSALEM
2. PRAGUE
3. MALI -LIMA
4. TIRANA (Albania)
5)
   AL JEERS (Algiers)
   KHARTOUM (car tomb)
   TRIPOLI (triple E -EEE)
   BELGRADE (belle grayed)
   KUWAIT [CITY] (coup wait)