Famous Places Trivia Quiz Questions
What two cities are connected by the busiest international
airline
route?
A: London and
Paris.
What Spanish port city was founded by Carthaginian general
Hamilcar Barca?
A: Barcelona.
What Bengal nation lost 300,000 people to a
cyclone and a tidal
wave in 1970?
A: Bangladesh.
What desert has an area larger than the continental U.S.?
A: The Sahara.
What river was designated the U.S.-Mexican border in the Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A: The Rio Grande.
What city's garbage collectors are honored by a street called
Avenue of the Strongest?
A: New York City's.
What wonder of the ancient world did Babylonians refer to as the
"House of the Foundations of
Heaven and Earth"?
A: The Tower of Babel.
What country was Berlin part of when it passed one million in
population?
A: Prussia.
What's Rome's Piazza San Pietro known as in English?
A: St. Peter's Square.
What West African nation's name means "lion mountain"?
A: Sierra Leone's.
What U.S. state would you be in if you made the short trip from
Citronelle to Tangerine?
A: Florida.
What state is home to a huge hunk of granite called The Dan
Blocker Memorial Head?
A: Texas.
What's the world's second largest archipelago, after
Indonesia?
A: The Philippines.
What's Canada's largest inland sea?
A: Hudson Bay.
What nation has had a monarchy the longest?
A: Japan.
What Great Lake state are you stuck in if your car has broken
down in Hell?
A: Michigan.
What Italian city is considered "the
fashion capital of the
world"?
A: Milan.
What British town got its name from its proximity to the Cam
River?
A: Cambridge.
What western state answers Pamplona's
Running of the Bulls with
its own annual Running of the Sheep?
A: Montana.
What's the southernmost country in Central America?
A: Panama.
What
ocean are the Maldives in?
A: The Indian Ocean.
What two countries lay claim to the name Maclean?
A: Scotland and Ireland.
What body of water is approximately nine times
saltier than ocean
water?
A: The Dead Sea.
What U.S. state's official fish is the humuhumunukunukuapuaa?
A: Hawaii's
What island country is visited by the most
cruise ships?
A: The Bahamas.
What capital has a name meaning "city of
Islam"?
A: Islamabad.
What two U.S. states are readily accessible from a border town
called Moark?
A: Missouri and
Arkansas.
What did Puritans dub "Rogues Island"?
A: Rhode Island.
What Alpine country's women got the right to vote in
1971?
A: Switzerland's.
What U.S. state legislated the pronunciation of its name in 1881,
to accent the first and third syllables and quiet the final "s"?
A: Arkansas.
What U.S. state do Knickerbockers knock around in?
A: New York.
Which is further south - the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Horn
or Cape Catastrophe?
A: Cape Horn.
What 120,000-square-mile African desert is almost completely
covered by woods and grass?
A: The Kalahari.
What country managed to reduce its
vodka consumption from 2.6
billion liters in 1984 to just 1.6 billion in 1990?
A: The Soviet Union.
What city did Sigmund Freud call home?
A: Vienna.
What bay do Royal Bengal tigers most often
swim in?
A: The Bay of Bengal.
What Asian nation was not invaded by enemy forces between 1275
and 1944?
A: Japan.