Saturday, June 11, 2011

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #152 - Famous Locations and Places

Places and Locations trivia questions and answers.

  1. What Memphis mansion was opened to the public in 1982?
     
  2. What U.S. state gave the world Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino,
    Mahalia Jackson and Jelly Roll Morton?
     
  3. What country is central to the books Out of Africa and The Green
    Hills of Africa?
     
  4. What country boasts the world's highest paid national
    legislators?
     
  5. What southwestern U.S. state adopted the bola tie as its official
    state neckwear?
     
  6. What $325 million chateau was finished for Louis XIV of France in
    1682?
     
  7. What southeastern state boasts the cities of Frog Jump, Only, and
    Sweet Lips?
     
  8. What Mississippi town name provides the answer to the Arizona
    town of Why?
     
  9. What European country sells an amazing 550 million one-pound cans
    of Heinz Baked Beans, or ten per citizen, each year?
     
  10. What eastern town is home for a service academy and the U.S.
    Silver Depository?
     
  11. What ancient African country did the Greeks name for the "sun burnt
    faces" of its natives.
     
  12. What's the only remaining European territory on the South
    American continent?
     
  13. What nation of over 7,000 islands has two-thirds of its
    population living on Luzon and Mindanao?
     
  14. What country receives 26 percent of all Saudi Exports?
     
  15. What Massachusetts spot is hyped as " America's Hometown"?
     
  16. What biblical place name means "pleasure"?
     
  17. What preceded Tokyo as the capital of Japan?
     
  18. What nation boasts the cities of Go Cong, Play Cu, Dong Ha and Ha
    Dong?
     
  19. What two U.S. cities have the same name, are the largest cities
    in their states, but are not state capitals?
     
  20. What U.S. state was named after chaste Queen Elizabeth I?
     
  21. What Southwestern state are you standing in if you ring a
    doorbell in Ding Dong?
     
  22. What continent is Greenland a part of?
     
  23. What southern U.S. state boasts the town of Satellite Beach?
     
  24. What country was created in 1920 from the remains of the Hapsburg
    Empire?
     
  25. What do Southerners call ground hominy with the germ removed?
     
  26. What Arab nation has the highest percentage of Christians?
     
  27. What U.S. state gets raked by the most tornadoes annually?
     
  28. What city does the Bible call the City of David.
     
  29. What two U.S. states went to court in 1996 over ownership of
    historic Ellis Island?
     
  30. What ice cream factory is the number one tourist attraction in
    Vermont?
     
  31. What Nebraska city outlawed burping in churches?
     
  32. Which city is farthest west - San Diego, Reno, or Los Angeles.
     
  33. What island calls itself the Republic of China?
     
  34. What's the only state whose official state song was composed for
    a Broadway musical?
     
  35. What outfit is known as the Red Crescent in Muslim nations?
     

Answers to Fun Daily Trivia Quiz   # 152  Places trivia answers.

  1. Graceland.
  2. Louisiana.
  3. Kenya.
  4. The U.S..
  5. Arizona.
  6. Versailles.
  7. Tennessee.
  8. Why Not.
  9. Britain.
  10. West Point.
  11. Ethiopia.
  12. French Guiana.
  13. The Philippines.
  14. The U.S..
  15. Plymouth.
  16. Eden.
  17. Kyoto.
  18. Vietnam.
  19. Portland, Oregon, and Portland , Maine.
  20. Virginia.
  21. Texas.
  22. North America.
  23. Florida.
  24. Austria.
  25. Grits.
  26. Lebanon.
  27. Texas.
  28. Jerusalem.
  29. New York and New Jersey.
  30. Ben & Jerry's.
  31. Omaha.
  32. Reno.
  33. Taiwan.
  34. Oklahoma.
  35. The Red Cross.