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GeoJeopardy! Fridays #78

Time for GeoJeopardy! Fridays, because it's the end of the year so lets deal with some extinctions.

- Where the Wild Things Were -

In prehistoric times 10 foot tall "terror birds" ranged over much of this continent, including Patagonia
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The shamainu or Honshu type of this canine, died out early in the 20th century

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Though specimens still exist in zoos, the Barbary lion, native to the north of this continent, is extinct in the wild

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The Xerces Blue of this insect, native to sand dunes in San Francisco's Sunset District, became extinct in the 1940s

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The bulldog rat disappeared around 1900 from this Aussie-owned island named for a holiday

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