Friday, June 17, 2011

Daily Trivia Quiz #158 - Trivia About Famous and Interesting Places, Countries, Cities and More!

Places trivia quiz questions and answers about famous and interesting places, cities, historical sites, streets, states and more.

  1. What winter celebration calls for lighting red, green and black
    candles in the Kinara?
     
  2. What's Latvia's largest minority ethnic group?
     
  3. What country sends the highest percentage of 15- and 16-year-olds
    to the altar?
     
  4. How many expressways did China's drivers have to choose from, in
    1992?
     
  5. What southern city is famous for its "Beale Street Blues"?
     
  6. What's the only U.S. state that serves all of its residents with
    water systems that have violated the Safe Drinking Water Act?
     
  7. What British Commonwealth nation has the most people driving on
    the right side of the road?
     
  8. What two African rivers did Henry Stanley prove were not
    connected?
     
  9. What infamous Beijing square has a name that ironically means
    "Gate of Heavenly Peace"?
     
  10. How are you traveling in Africa if you've rented a rakumi?
     
  11. Which of the Great Lkes does not lap Canadian shores?
     
  12. What's the third-largest continent in square miles?
     
  13. What European country uses its Latin name, Helvetia, on its
    stamps.
     
  14. What East African country's annual four percent population growth
    rate is the world's highest?
     
  15. What town name did Missouri's postmaster come up with when
    residents asked for something "sort of peculiar"?
     
  16. What South American country elected as its president Alberto ?Fujimori,
    the son of Japanese immigrants, in 1990?
     
  17. What U.S. state had the first 7-Eleven stores?
     
  18. What sea laps the shores of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan?
     
  19. What Central American country has its capital in Tegucigalpa?
     
  20. What country calls its expressways autostrada?
     
  21. What Great Plains state are you stuck in if you're out of gas in
    Gas?
     
  22. What African country is serviced by Jan Smuts International
    Airport?
     
  23. What Arizona city was so named because it rose from the ruins of
    a Native American town?
     
  24. How may years did Britain lease Hong Kong for?
     
  25. What country boasts the towns of Barnstaple, Fishguard and
    Holyhead?
     
  26. What U.S. state grabs the most money from domestic tourists,
    double that of Hawaii?
     
  27. What eastern European country's name is a Slavonic word meaning
    "plain dwellers"?
     
  28. What fish is called "finnan haddie" when smoked in Scotland?
     
  29. What Southeast Asian city did the U.S. open an embassy in, in
    1995?
     
  30. What mountains are home to the entertainment world's Borscht
    Belt?
     

Answers to Trivia Quiz   #158

  1. Kwanza.
  2. Russians.
  3. The U.S.
  4. Zero.
  5. Memphis.
  6. New Jersey.
  7. Canada.
  8. The Congo and the Nile.
  9. Tiananmen Square.
  10. By camel.
  11. Lake Michigan.
  12. North America.
  13. Switzerland.
  14. Kenya's.
  15. Peculiar.
  16. Peru.
  17. Texas.
  18. The Aral Sea.
  19. Honduras.
  20. Italy.
  21. Kansas.
  22. South Africa.
  23. Phoenix.
  24. Ninety-nine.
  25. Britain.
  26. Nevada.
  27. Poland's.
  28. Haddock.
  29. Hanoi.
  30. The Catskills.