We wish you a Merry Quizmas and a travelling new year! The Mirror’s annual travel quiz for 2024 awaits.
Put the kettle on, put your feet up and put your global getaway knowledge to the test.
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THE QUESTIONS
Only in America
1) Where does Route 66 start?
2) Where does it end?
3) What is the official language of the USA?
4) What is the smallest US state?
5) What is the oldest university
in the USA?
Up in the air
6) If you get a one-time password for a flight to OTP, which airport are you heading to?
7) The Boeing 787 passenger jet is better known as a…?
8) How many airports are there in the UK?
9) Which major southern hemisphere city’s airport is informally known as Mascot?
10) Ask me anything about the way to AMA airport. Where is it?
Cash is king
11) Which president is on the US $2 note? (Yes, they exist!)
12) What is the currency of Peru?
13) What was the £ to US$ exchange rate in 1934?
14) What was the currency of Cambodia between 1975-80?
15) Why is the back of a US dollar green?
Capital ideas
16) Nouakchott is the capital of which African nation?
17) What is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago?
18) Say ‘Oi’ to this capital. What’s its name?
19) The Bahamas’ capital Nassau is on what island?
20) What is the capital of North Macedonia?
Colour wise
21) What is the most common colour on national flags?
22) What is the ‘Blue City’ of Morocco?
23) In which country is the Black Forest?
24) Which African island nation is named for ‘green’?
25) What is the least common colour on national flags?
Magma mia
26) The famous volcano Mongibello is better known as…?
27) How many active volcanoes are there worldwide? 15? 150? 1,500?
28) Where is the extinct volcano Arthur’s Seat?
29) When did Teide on Tenerife last erupt?
30) What is geologically unusual about Barbados?
Time travel
31) Why are neighbouring Spain and Portugal in different time zones?
32) What famous clock is this?
33) If it is noon in the UK, what time is it in Nepal?
34) Builder William Willett, from Farnham, Surrey, was the creator of what?
35) What year is it in Ethiopia?
Drawing the lines
36) Which is nearer the Equator – New York or Barcelona?
37) What is the world’s most northerly capital at 64°08’N?
39) How many countries does the Equator pass through?
39) How many countries does the Prime Meridian pass through?
40) What is the world’s most southerly capital at 41°17’S?
Try me a river
41) Where is the First Cataract on the River Nile?
42) What is the longest river in the USA?
43) Which river contributes about 20% of the Earth’s fresh water entering the oceans?
44) The regular tidal wave on the River Severn is called the Severn…?
45) Welney Wash is the UK’s biggest man-made river flood storage area, covering around 4,700 acres. In which counties is it?
Cruise views
46) White Star Line’s ship Adriatic, built in 1906, featured the first what at sea?
47) Whittier is a major cruise port in which US state?
48) Cruise ship size is quoted as ‘gross tonnage’ – what is it a measurement of?
49) How many ships are there in the Royal Caribbean fleet?
50) Which island cruise port is this?
THE ANSWERS
Only in America
1) Chicago.
2) Santa Monica, California.
3) There isn’t one.
4) Rhode Island – about the size of Essex.
5) Harvard, Massachusetts (1636).
Up in the air
6) Bucharest, Romania.
7) Dreamliner.
8) 144.
9) Sydney.
10) Amarillo, Texas.
Cash is king
11) Thomas Jefferson. The $2 is uncommon but not considered rare.
12) Sol.
13) £1=US$5.
14) None. The Khmer Rouge regime abolished money.
15) Green is regarded as a symbol of stability.
Capital ideas
16) Mauritania.
17) Port of Spain.
18) Brasilia
19) New Providence.
20) Skopje.
Colour wise
21) Red, 78%.
22) Chefchaouen.
23) Germany.
24) Cape Verde.
25) Purple, only Dominica and Nicaragua.
Magma mia
26) Etna, Mongibello is its Italian name.
27) 1,500.
28) Edinburgh.
29) 1909.
30) It’s not of volcanic origin, most Caribbean islands are.
Time travel
31) Dictator Franco changed Spain’s time zone in 1940 to be in line with German-occupied Europe.
32) Astronomical Clock in Prague, Czech Republic.
33) 5.45pm.
34) Daylight saving time, introduced in 1916.
35) 2017, by the Ethiopian Ge’ez calendar.
Drawing the lines
36) New York City (just!) at 40°73’N, Barcelona is 41°39’N.
37) Reykjavik, Iceland.
39) Thirteen – Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia and Kiribati.
39) Eight – Algeria, Burkina Faso, France, Ghana, Mali, Spain, Togo and the UK.
40) Wellington, New Zealand.
Try me a river
41) Aswan, Egypt.
42) Missouri; at 2,341 miles it is a mile more than the Mississippi!
43) Amazon.
44) Bore.
45) Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.
Cruise views
46) Swimming pool.
47) Alaska.
48) The volume of a ship.
49) 28.
50) Funchal, Madeira.
