Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #136 - World Trivia Questions and Answers from Around the World

Fun world trivia questions and facts with answers.
  1. What European country delights the Pope with the lowest divorce rate in the western world?
     
  2. What Las Vegas hotel claims to display the world's largest hunk of gold?
     
  3. What's the only New England state without a seacoast?
     
  4. What foreign language do Norwegians study for seven years, beginning in the second grade?
     
  5. What U.S. state has only 113 divorces for every 1,000 marriages?
  6. What two seas flank the Caucasus Mountains?
     
  7. What South American capital's name means "I saw the mountain"?
     
  8. What nation's culinary wizards gave the world Stuffed Calf's Eyes and Cow Brain
    Frittters?
     
  9. What's the largest country in the Commonwealth of Independent States?
     
  10. What was the final destination of the first U.S. paddle wheel steamboat, which
    departed from Pittsburgh?
     
  11. What southern city does Federal Express channel all its packages through?
     
  12. What country sends the most tourists to Australia?
     
  13. What Spanish ethnic group do geneticists consider the most direct descendants of 
    Cro-Magnons?
     
  14. What U.S. state is the eighth largest economic power in the world?
     
  15. What southeast Asian nation's shoppers began flashing new American Express cards
    in 1994?
     
  16. What bridge, celebrated in a Bobbie Gentry song, collapsed in 1972?
     
  17. What do English-speaking tourists usually call France's Cote d' Azur?
     
  18. What U.S. city is across the Rio Grande from Juarez?
     
  19. What European capital used to be called Lutetia?
     
  20. What high-stakes city has the most unlisted phone numbers per capita in the
    U.S.?
     
  21. What South American archipelago has a name meaning "land of fire"?
     
  22. What country has the highest teen pregnancy rate of all the western industrial
    nations?
     
  23. How many ngwee equal a kwacha when you're paying for gods in Zambia?
     
  24. What Jerusalem site is the only surviving part of the Second Temple?
     
  25. What city did environmental writer Edward Abbey call "the blob that ate
    Arizona"?
     
  26. What nation in the Western Hemisphere is the world's largest exporter of forest
    products?
     
  27. What sea laps shores of Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan?

     
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 136 - World
Trivia Answers


  1. Italy
  2. The Golden Nugget
  3. Vermont
  4. English
  5. Nevada.
  6. The Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
  7. Montevideo's
  8. France's
  9. Russia
  10. New Orleans
  11. Memphis
  12. Japan
  13. Basques
  14. California
  15. Vietnam's
  16. The Tallahatchie Bridge.
  17. The Riviera
  18. El Paso
  19. Paris
  20. Las Vegas
  21. Terra del Fuego
  22. The U.S.
  23. One hundred
  24. The Wailing Wall
  25. Phoenix
  26. Canada
  27. The Caspian