Trivia quiz questions and answers about historical sites and famous places.
- What two cities are connected by the busiest international airline
route?
- What Spanish port city was founded by Carthaginian general
Hamilcar Barca?
- What Bengal nation lost 300,000 people to a cyclone and a tidal
wave in 1970?
- What desert has an area larger than the continental U.S.?
- What river was designated the U.S.-Mexican border in the Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
- What city's garbage collectors are honored by a street called
Avenue of the Strongest?
- What wonder of the ancient world did Babylonians refer to as the
"House of the Foundations of Heaven and Earth"?
- What country was Berlin part of when it passed one million in
population?
- What's Rome's Piazza San Pietro known as in English?
- What West African nation's name means "lion mountain"?
- What U.S. state would you be in if you made the short trip from
Citronelle to Tangerine?
- What state is home to a huge hunk of granite called The Dan
Blocker Memorial Head?
- What's the world's second largest archipelago, after Indonesia?
- What's Canada's largest inland sea?
- What nation has had a monarchy the longest?
- What Great Lake state are you stuck in if your car has broken
down in Hell?
- What Italian city is considered "the fashion capital of the
world"?
- What British town got its name from its proximity to the Cam
River?
- What western state answers Pamplona's Running of the Bulls with
its own annual Running of the Sheep?
- What's the southernmost country in Central America?
- What ocean are the Maldives in?
- What two countries lay claim to the name Maclean?
- What body of water is approximately nine times saltier than ocean
water?
- What U.S. state's official fish is the humuhumunukunukuapuaa?
- What island country is visited by the most cruise ships?
- What capital has a name meaning "city of Islam"?
- What two U.S. states are readily accessible from a border town
called Moark?
- What did Puritans dub "Rogues Island"?
- What Alpine country's women got the right to vote in 1971?
- What U.S. state legislated the pronunciation of its name in 1881,
to accent the first and third syllables and quiet the final "s"?
- What U.S. state do Knickerbockers knock around in?
- Which is further south - the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Horn
or Cape Catastrophe?
- What 120,000-square-mile African desert is almost completely
covered by woods and grass?
- What country managed to reduce its vodka consumption from 2.6
billion liters in 1984 to just 1.6 billion in 1990?
- What city did Sigmund Freud call home?
- What bay do Royal Bengal tigers most often swim in?
- What Asian nation was not invaded by enemy forces between 1275
and 1944?
Answers to Trivia Quiz # 155 Historical Sites and Famous Places
- London and Paris.
- Barcelona.
- Bangladesh.
- The Sahara.
- The Rio Grande.
- New York City's.
- The Tower of Babel.
- Prussia.
- St. Peter's Square.
- Sierra Leone's.
- Florida.
- Texas.
- The Philippines.
- Hudson Bay.
- Japan.
- Michigan.
- Milan.
- Cambridge.
- Montana.
- Panama.
- The Indian Ocean.
- Scotland and Ireland.
- The Dead Sea.
- Hawaii's
- The Bahamas.
- Islamabad.
- Missouri and Arkansas.
- Rhode Island.
- Switzerland's.
- Arkansas.
- New York.
- Cape Horn.
- The Kalahari.
- The Soviet Union.
- Vienna.
- The Bay of Bengal.
- Japan.