For today’s Geo Quiz, we were looking for a city on Germany’s Emscher River where an octopus named Paul has shown an uncanny ability for predicting the outcome of World Cup soccer matches. The answer is Oberhausen in Germany. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Daniel Fey, the spokesman at Oberhausen’s Sea Life Aquarium, where Paul the octopus makes his predictions.
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