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Tuesday Travel Trivia (Week 19)
If you love something, let it go. If it comes back, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, just say "screw it" and play Tuesday Travel Trivia. (I believe I have that crocheted on a pillow somewhere in my house.)
Congrats to last week's winners, Lauren, Eva, and fgeorge, who were the only three out of seventeen players to get all ten questions correct. Your parents were right-- you are special.
As always, check out the questions below and leave your non-Googled answers in the comments. Next Tuesday I'll post the answers and give the winners their propers. Here we go:
- What famous American author, attempting to rediscover his home country in the 1960s, went on a three-month trip with his dog Charley and eventually penned the book Travels with Charley in Search of America?
- Tokyo has at least seven cafes where customers pay about US$10 per hour to sip tea among what four-legged animals?
- Fill in the two missing countries in this series: Russia, Canada, China, _________, _________, Australia, India.
- What is the occupation of the vast majority of people who work for the company Berlitz?
- What four-letter British term means to engage in some type of public performance in order to earn tips?
- If your plane is landing at Jose Marti International Airport, in which Caribbean capital city will you find yourself?
- What are the two official languages of the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus?
- What word for a type of Spanish appetizer means "lid" or "cover"?
- Which US state does not make up one of the "Four Corners," the only spot where a person can be in four states at once: Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, or Colorado?
- What's the name of the world's largest organization of youth hostels, with more than 4,500 members?
The answers to last week's questions are below the fold...
- Of the world's ten longest bridges, three are located in the same US state. Where are they? Answer: Louisiana
- The only internationally-recognized student identification card, which entitles holders to discounts at popular tourist spots worldwide, is known by what four-letter acronym? Answer: ISIC
- What is the world's most populous Muslim country? Answer: Indonesia
- Johanna Sigurðardottir-- it's okay, I can't pronounce it either-- recently became the world's first openly gay prime minister. What country is she from? Answer: Iceland
- What 2008 documentary about a French tight-rope walker named Philippe Petit recently won the Academy Award for Best Documentary? Answer: Man on Wire
- In the 1999 campaign for the US Presidency, Texas governor George W. Bush told a Slovakian journalist, "The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned firsthand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas. I had a great meeting with him. It's an exciting country." Why was this statement by Bush considered a gaffe? Answer: The foreign minister was actually from Slovenia.
- If the southeastern part of Italy looks like a boot, what largest Mediterranean island does it appear to be kicking? Answer: Sicily
- What seven-letter Russian word for "castle" or "fortress" is used to describe the official residence of Russia's president? Answer: Kremlin
- What early 20th-Century travel novella was the inspiration for the 1979 film Apocalypse Now? Answer: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
- What "beautiful, blue" river has four national capitals located along its banks, the most of any river in the world? [Jeopardy devotees will know the answer to this one.] Answer: The Danube River
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1. John Steinbeck
2. Um. Horses?
3. USA, Brazil
4. ESL teachers
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6. Havana, Cuba
7. Greek, Turkish
8. Tapas
9. Nevada
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1. ?
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4. ?
5. Busk
6. Barbados
7. Greek, Turkish
8. Tapas
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1. Michael Crichton
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1. John Steinbeck
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3. USA, Brazil
4. ESL teachers
5. Busk
6. Havana, Cuba
7. Greek, Turkish
8. Tapas
9. Nevada
10. HI - Hostelling International