Trivia time
As you may have noticed, I’m not averse to the odd bit of trivia. That doesn’t make me a loser. It makes me very cool indeed.
Christmas quiz
And as I’m far too stingy and Scrooge-like to hand out proper presents to the readers of this blog, I thought I’d create a Christmas quiz for everyone instead. The following questions are rampantly egotistical – they’re all based on places I have been to this year. But if you’re up for the challenge, see how many of the answers you can get. The answers can be found here – leave a comment at the bottom of the answer page and let me know how many you get right.
- What is the capital city of Dominica?
- The Aldabra giant tortoise is native to which country?
- Which city is the world’s biggest gambling destination?
- In what city would you find the Akropoli, Syntagma and Egaleo Metro stations?
- The Sound of Music was filmed in and around which city?
- In which British town would you find the A Team Van, a genuine batmobile and a James Bond Museum?
- Plymouth is the destroyed capital of which Caribbean island?
- Lake Ohrid has banks on the shores of which two European countries?
- You’re only allowed to cuddle koalas in one Australian state. Which one?
- In which country is Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson buried?
- In which European capital has a plane been turned into a hostel near the main airport?
- Which European country is known as Crna Gora in its native language?
- What is recognised by FIFA and Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest football club?
- Where is the Royal Yacht Britannia moored?
- Which Australian town broke the world record for the world’s biggest pub crawl the day before I got there?
- There are three antipodean cities in which you can officially climb major bridges. Sydney is one. What are the other two (half a point each)?
- The Vikings called it Jorvik – what do we call it?
- Which Caribbean island boasts of having a ‘drive-in volcano’?
- What is the name of Britain’s biggest lake?
- In which Yorkshire village can the Bronte Parsonage be found?
- The seaside resort town of Neum can be found in which coastally-deprived country?
- In which city was the Nazi party founded in 1919?
- Which German city has bizarrely been named as European Capital of Culture 2010?
- Which famous body of water is officially known as Port Jackson?
- In which country would you find Nelson’s Dockyard and English Harbour?
- Where would you take the Flåmbana to Myrdal?
- Which football team calls the Bernabeu stadium home?
- How many prisoners died trying to escape from the Colditz POW camp in World War II?
- Outside which city is CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider?
- The Lokrum nudist beach can be found on an island off the coast of which Adriatic city?
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Q22 – by 1939 the Nazi Party was already in power in Germany for six years and roughly 20 years old (depending on what you want to take as the real founding of the Nazi Party).
Ah yes – that’d be a typo. Well spotted – changed it now.
have you thought about being a Jeopardy contestant? With all this knowledge, you could be the next Ken Jensen!
Great quiz – I scored 12, and am pretty chuffed, considering the questions are just the teensy weensiest bit Australia-heavy…
Travel PR’s best brains have gone at this, and the scores are as (pathetically) follows: Sue Ockwell 7, Richard Mellor 7, Mika Bishop 5. More (and better) to hopefully follow, and we may even be inspired to do our own.
Thanks David, it’s a fab quiz that’s made our respective afternoons very enjoyable.
OK, so four out of 30 questions are on Australia. But I spent a lot of time there this year
Glad you enjoyed it.
11 out of 30.
But I’m claiming a sort of moral victory because so many questions were about Oz or the Pacific… and I don’t fly. That’s my excuse anyway.
Great quiz.
14.5
But I dispute your answer for question 19!