Sunday, June 12, 2011

Daily Trivia Quiz #153 - Interesting World Famous Places, Locations, and Objects

Interesting Places and Locations Around the World
  1. What foreign company's Tennessee factory is the largest single auto
    plant in the U.S.?

     
  2. What Florida city's name translates to "mouth of the rat" because of
    it's toothy inlet?

     
  3. What Italian city had the Roman name Mediolanum?

     
  4. What New England state would be home if you laid down roots in Bald
    Head?

     
  5. What 4,588-mile dune-laden expanse did Choi Jong-yul say he walked
    across "because it was there"?
     
  6. What country is bordered by Algeria, Niger, Chad, Egypt, Sudan and
    Tunisia?

     
  7. What Asian country boasts the largest Muslim population in the
    world?

     
  8. What academy is sometimes dubbed "Canoe U.?

     
  9. What U.S. state has an official commonwealth folk song written by
    resident Arlo Guthrie?

     
  10. What island was Abel Tasman the first European to land on, in 1642?

     
  11. What African country's name is from the Latin for "free"?

     
  12. What republic is sandwiched between Lithuania and Estonia?

     
  13. What's the only U.S. state to share a border with one of Canada's
    Maritime Provinces?

     
  14. What Central American nation flies a flag with one blue and one red
    star?

     
  15. What 1994 U.S. event was tagged pas le Big One by French
    journalists?

     
  16. What Australian geological wonder has an aboriginal name that means
    "great pebble"?

     
  17. Which of the seven wonders of the ancient world was demolished by an
    earthquake in 224 B.C.?

     
  18. What country is home to 21 percent of the world's people?

     
  19. What are painted bright yellow and left out for public use on the
    streets of Portland, Oregon?

     
  20. What southern city did Andrew Jackson name for one on the Nile
    River?

     
  21. What city, founded in 1550 by Sweden's King Gustav Vasa, was first
    called Helsingfors?

     
  22. What country's auto identification letters are KWT?

     
  23. What strife-torn African nation boasts a world high of 8.3 births
    per female?

     
  24. What Asian county's women's magazine Non Non is its bestseller?

     
  25. What's the world's largest desert, as determined by the least
    precipitation?

     
  26. What's a German sign reading "Rauchen verboten" telling you not to
    do?

     
  27. What U.S. state boasts a difference of 20,320 feet between its
    highest and lowest points?

     
  28. What Boston green space, founded in 1634, is the oldest park in the
    U.S.?

     
  29. What New Orleans soup has a name derived from the Bantu word for
    okra?

     
  30. What country is bordered by Austria, France, Slovenia and
    Switzerland?

     
  31. What city was the site of the last Moorish Kingdom in Spain?

     
  32. What interstate highway connects Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, to San
    Francisco?

     
  33. What Pacific atoll got its name from its location between the
    Americas and Asia?

     
  34. What Tuscan city do Italians know as Firenze?
     

Answers to Fun Daily Trivia Quiz   # 153  Places trivia answers.

  1. Nissan's.
  2. Boca Raton's.
  3. Milan.
  4. Maine.
  5. The Sahara Desert.
  6. Libya.
  7. Indonesia.
  8. The U.S. Naval Academy.
  9. Massachusetts.
  10. Tasmania.
  11. Liberia's.
  12. Latvia.
  13. Maine.
  14. Panama.
  15. The Los Angeles earthquake.
  16. Ayers Rock.
  17. The Colossus of Rhodes.
  18. China.
  19. Bicycles.
  20. Memphis.
  21. Helsinki.
  22. Kuwait's.
  23. Rwanda.
  24. Japan's.
  25. The Antarctic.
  26. Smoke.
  27. Alaska.
  28. The Boston Common.
  29. Gumbo.
  30. Italy.
  31. Granada.
  32. I-80.
  33. The Midway Islands.
  34. Florence.