Grumpy Traveller Christmas Quiz 2011 answers

Here are the answers to the Grumpy Traveller Christmas Quiz 2011. Give yourself a point for each, and feel free to share your score in the comments below the original quiz. If you cheated, of course, you’re going to Hull. Sorry, hell.

1. One African country and one South American capital city are anagrams of each other – name them.

Mali and Lima

2. Topeka is the capital city of which US state?

Kansas

3. Which country is the world’s smallest republic?

Nauru

4. Dilma Rousseff is the president of which country?

Brazil

5. What is the most populated landlocked country in the world?

Ethiopia

6. Which is bigger, Ukraine or South Sudan?

South Sudan – but only just

7. What links the major international airports of Chicago, Sydney and Porto, plus the domestic airports in Anchorage and Oklahoma City?

They’re all named after people who died in plane crashes.

8. Which major city is built on the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers?

Belgrade

9. In which year did Colonel Gaddafi come to power in Libya?

1969

10. Which is the major hub airport of China Airlines?

Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (Taipei)

11. The now defunct Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station near Canberra, Australia, broadcast what to the world in 1969?

Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon.

12. In which country would you find the Jotunheimen and Dourefjell-Sundallsfjella National Parks?

Norway

13. Measured by number of passenger flights per week, which is the world’s busiest air traffic route?

Sao Paulo to Rio De Janeiro

14. If all member states of the UN are listed in alphabetical order, which country comes between Costa Rica and Croatia?

Côte d’Ivoire

15. If you list all member states of the UN in German, which country is first?

Egypt. (Ägypten: The Ä is usually – if admittedly not always, treated as Ae. Which beats Afghanistan)

16. In which English county will you find Otterburn, Seahouses and Almouth?

Northumberland

17. In which Swiss city is the International Olympic Committee headquartered?

Lausanne

18. And in which Swiss city is UEFA headquartered?

Nyon

19. Druk Air is the national flag-carrier airline of which country?

Bhutan

20. Which country has the most UNESCO World Heritage sites?

Italy with 47