The Grumpy Traveller Christmas Travel Quiz Answers

Here are the answers to the Grumpy Traveller Christmas Quiz – let me know how many you got right by leaving a comment below.

1. What is the capital city of Dominica? Roseau
2. The Aldabra giant tortoise is native to which country? The Seychelles
3. Which city is the world’s biggest gambling destination? Macau
4. In what city would you find the Akropoli, Syntagma and Egaleo Metro stations? Athens, Greece
5. The Sound of Music was filmed in and around which city? Salzburg, Austria
6. In which British town would you find the A Team Van, a genuine batmobile and a James Bond Museum? Keswick, Cumbria
7. Plymouth is the destroyed capital of which Caribbean island? Montserrat
8. Lake Ohrid has banks on the shores of which two European countries? Albania and Macedonia
9. You’re only allowed to cuddle koalas in one Australian state. Which one? Queensland
10. In which country is Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson buried? Samoa
11. In which European capital has a plane been turned into a hostel near the main airport? Stockholm, Sweden
12. Which European country is known as Crna Gora in its native language? Montenegro
13. What is recognised by FIFA and Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest football club? Sheffield FC
14. Where is the Royal Yacht Britannia moored? Port of Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
15. Which Australian town broke the world record for the world’s biggest pub crawl the day before I got there? Maryborough, Queensland
16. 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)? Brisbane and Auckland
17. The Vikings called it Jorvik – what do we call it? York
18. Which Caribbean island boasts of having a ‘drive-in volcano’? St Lucia
19. What is the name of Britain’s biggest lake? Loch Lomond, Scotland
20. In which Yorkshire village can the Bronte Parsonage be found? Haworth
21. The seaside resort town of Neum can be found in which coastally-deprived country? Bosnia and Herzegovina
22. In which city was the Nazi party founded in 1919? Munich, Germany
23. Which German city has bizarrely been named as European Capital of Culture 2010? Essen (for the Ruhrgebeit)
24. Which famous body of water is officially known as Port Jackson? Sydney Harbour
25. In which country would you find Nelson’s Dockyard and English Harbour? Antigua and Barbuda
26. Where would you take the Flåmbana to Myrdal? Norway (or, more specifically, Flåm)
27. Which football team calls the Bernabeu stadium home? Real Madrid
28. How many prisoners died trying to escape from Germany’s Colditz POW camp in World War II? One – Michael Sinclair
29. Outside which city is CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider? Geneva, Switzerland
30. The Lokrum nudist beach can be found on an island off the coast of which Adriatic city? Dubrovnik, Croatia