For today’s Geo Quiz we’ve got our eye on a German city along the Emscher River. The city’s located in the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia. The coal mines and steel plants there closed down years ago. But the city’s sprawling shopping mall called the Centro is open for business. So is its aquarium. It seems the resident octopus is something of an oracle. Somehow the mollusk named Paul has an uncanny knack for predicting the outcome of World Cup matches.
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