Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Daily Trivia Quiz #155 - Historical Sites and Famous Places

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