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Trivia quiz: If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Trivia

11-May-09 / James Callan

Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on April 7, 2009
Caution! This round proved insanely difficult. Use at your own risk.

Name the city that’s host to all of these features. Anywhere on the globe is fair game.

1) Where can you tour Her Majesty’s Yacht Britannia, celebrate Hogmanay, and drink up at the Whisky Heritage Centre?

2) Where can you take the the 25 de Abril Bridge across the Tagus River, and get a view of the Christo Rei “Christ the King” statue while riding the scenic Santa Justa Lift?

3) Where can you see the King Mango Strut parade or catch an NBA game in American Airlines Arena after a dip in the Venetian Pool?

4) Where can you visit the top of the tallest free-standing structure in the Americas, then get your sport on at an Argonauts football game or the Hockey Hall of Fame?

5) Where can you see an opera at the Teatro ColÃ³n, the government in action at the Casa Rosada, and an original cast of Rodin’s sculpture The Thinker?

6) Where can you go shopping at the Namdaemun Market, visit Five Grand Palaces, and honor the ancestors of the royal family at the Jongmyo shrine?

7) Where can you see the Victoria Memorial and the Tower of the Martyrs, then get swept up in a massive celebration of the Hindu festival Durga Puja?

8) Where can you visit a patch of rainforest at the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve and the Asian Civilisations Museum while staying at the historic Raffles Hotel?

9) Where can you watch cricket at the stadium that hosted the 1956 Summer Olympics, visit Eureka Tower, the world’s tallest residential tower, and see the preserved body of Phar Lap?

10) Where can you visit the Topkapi Palace, take a spin through a Whirling Dervish Hall, and get yourself scrubbed up at the CaÄŸaloÄŸlu Bath?

Geography

9-January-08 / James Callan

1) The combined area of all Wal-Marts in the world is approximately equal to the area of which of these islands: Manhattan, Maui, Nantucket, or Vancouver Island?
2) Name one of the two states that border a record 8 other states.
3) Paris is the most populous French-speaking city in the world. What’s the second-largest?
4) What present-day country is home to most of the territory of the ancient Etruscan civilization?
5) Multiple choice: which of these distances is the longest: Moscow, Idaho to Moscow, Russia; San Juan Island to San Juan, Puerto Rico; Sun City, AZ to Sun City, South Africa; or Toledo, OH, to Toledo Spain?
6) What Pacific Ocean country is the most linguistically diverse in the world, home to over 820 languages?
7) Angola, East Timor, Macau, and Mozambique are all former colonies of what European country?
8) What country has the world’s second-largest sheep population, but is the world’s largest exporter of wool?
9) What’s the largest city located within the Mojave Desert?
10) What building was the tallest in Seattle for 48 years, from its construction to when the Space Needle was built?

Geography

17-October-07 / James Callan

1) If you list all United Nations member states in alphabetical order, which one comes first?
2) Which is the most populous province in Canada?
3) Four states have capital cities named after US presidents. Name three of those states.
4) By population, what’s the largest country in the world with a majority Muslim population?
5) What country has unsuccessfully petitioned to join the United Nations every year since 1991?
6) Islam’s two holiest sites are in Saudi Arabia. Which Middle East country is home to Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site?
7) The Ganges River flows from India into the Bay of Bengal through what country?
8) In 1827, RenÃ© CailliÃ© earned a 10,000 Franc prize from the SociÃ©tÃ© de GÃ©ographie when he became the first non-Muslim to visit and return from what city in Mali?
9) What country, located south of the equator, is the world’s largest exporter of beef?
10) In 1975, what city was renamed Ho Chi Minh City?

Average score (21 teams): 6.95