Monday, June 13, 2011

Daily Trivia Quiz #154 - Places Trivia - Canada, Britain, Chile, Berlin, Amarillo, Haiti and More

Trivia questions and answers - Places, Locations, Cities, States, Countries and more.
  1. What Canadian province got its name from the Iroquois word guilibek,
    meaning "place where waters narrow"?
     
  2. Which U.S. president used some of his winnings from poker games to help launch his campaign for a seat in the U.S.
    House of Representatives?
     
  3. What country's farthest southern and northern points are Land's End
    and John O' Groats, respectively?
     
  4. What New York City landmark is the largest movie theater in the
    U.S.?
     
  5. What's the world's longest road, running from Texas to Valparaiso,
    Chile?
     
  6. What $7.2 million purchase did one senator call "an awful lot of ice
    for an awful lot of dollars," in 1867?
     
  7. What European capital's Potsdamer Platz was busy enough to warrant
    the world's first traffic light?
     
  8. What was the most populous state in the U.S. for the last time in
    1800?/
     
  9. What Nepalese city name means "wooden temples"?
     
  10. What Egyptian city was built up during the Middle Ages from
    limestone stripped off the exterior of the Great Pyramid?
     
  11. What Yukon mining district was the site of the 1890s gold rush?
     
  12. What Texas city along Route 66 got its name from the Spanish word
    for yellow?
     
  13. What two republics make up the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia?
     
  14. What Scandinavian country last fought in a war in 1814?
     
  15. What U.S. state's public golf courses have the highest average green
    fees?
     
  16. What former Soviet republic joined Russia as one of the world's ten
    largest countries?
  17. What Arab country's national dish is a soup called fool?
     
  18. What continent are you on if you're lost in the eastern tip of
    Egypt?
     
  19. What continent has the fewest flowering plants?
     
  20. What country lies on the western side of the Iberian Peninsula?
     
  21. What volatile nation was the first Caribbean country to gain
    independence?
     
  22. What barnyard animal utterance is known in France as groin groin?
     
  23. What southern state capital got its name for being the terminus of
    the Western & Atlantic Railroad?
     
  24. What desert's name was inspired by the array of colors that erosion
    has exposed there?
     
  25. What Berlin landmark had lost over 60 tons in shipments to the U.S.
    by 1990?
     
  26. What was the biggest city in America until 1755?
     
  27. What U.S. city had three of the world's five tallest man-made
    structures in 1994?
     
  28. What cave mammals inspired some folks to dub Nebraska the
    "Bug-eating State"?
     
  29. What Asian country has the world's lowest amount of urban green
    space per person?
     
  30. What country went metric to join the European Community, but kept
    the pint for use in pubs and for milk?
     

Answers to Fun Daily Trivia Quiz   # 154  Places trivia answers.

  1. Quebec.
  2. Richard Nixon
  3. Britain's.
  4. Radio City Music Hall.
  5. The Pan-American Highway.
  6. Alaska.
  7. Berlin's.
  8. Virginia.
  9. Katmandu.
  10. Cairo.
  11. The Klondike.
  12. Amarillo.
  13. Montenegro and Serbia.
  14. Sweden.
  15. Hawaii's.
  16. Kazakhstan.
  17. Egypt's.
  18. Asia.
  19. Antarctica.
  20. Portugal.
  21. Haiti.
  22. Oink-Oink.
  23. Atlanta.
  24. The Painted Desert's.
  25. The Berlin Wall.
  26. Boston.
  27. Chicago.
  28. Bats.
  29. Japan.
  30. Britain.