Message in a bottle dropped into Baltic Sea gets a reply 24 years later

Apr 04, 2011

Q: A 5-year-old German boy dropped a message in a bottle from a ship into the Baltic Sea 24 years ago, and he finally got a reply. Where is the Baltic Sea?

Circle the area on this map

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Q: Frank Uesbeck, now 29, wrote in his note that he and his father were traveling on a ship to the country at the western end of the Baltic Sea. Which nation would that be?

A. Finland

B. Russia

C. Poland

D. Denmark

Q: The bottle was found by Daniil Korotkikh, 13, on a beach in Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave wedged between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic. Before it became part of Russia it was called Konigsberg and part of . . .

A. Poland

B. Lithuania

C. Germany

D. Sweden

Q: What other Russian city is on the Baltic Sea?

A. Moscow

B. St. Petersburg

C. Vladivostok

D. Murmansk

Q: Which of these Baltic nations does NOT have a capital on the sea?

A. Lithuania

B. Latvia

C. Estonia

D. Finland

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