Tuesday Travel Trivia (Week 28)

Welcome back to Tuesday Travel Trivia! This is now our 28th week, which means that we’ve officially lasted longer than Saved by the Bell: The College Years.

Congrats to last week‘s winner JohnMC, who navigated his way through questions frightening enough to scare both children and cowardly adults.

Want to become this week’s trivia champion? If you can handle all the prizes, press, and interviews that follow such a distinction, check out the following ten questions and leave your answers in the comments. Good luck!

  1. What anise-flavored spirit was popular among late 19th and early 20th Century artists living in France, including Vincent Van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, and Ernest Hemingway?
  2. “BKK” is the three-letter code for the largest airport in what world city?
  3. The city of Minsk is the capital of what Eastern European nation?
  4. The fictional “Brokeback Mountain” (yes, like the movie) was supposed to be located in what US state?
  5. Located in Morocco, the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are the only two European Union territories in Africa. What European country do they belong to?
  6. What mountain range is traditionally thought of as separating Europe from Asia?
  7. What is the oldest Major League baseball stadium still in use?
  8. What travel writer and blogger for the LA Times penned the humorous travel books Sand in my Bra, Whose Panties are These?, and The Thong Also Rises?
  9. The travel section in last Sunday’s Washington Post contained a plea for Washingtonians to “take back” what US city (specifically, a borough), writing that it is now “ripe for the taking, instead of ripe for getting taken”?
  10. What are the two official languages of the Philippines?

As always, last week’s questions and answers are posted below the fold…

  1. What five-letter word is used broadly to describe almost any spiced, sauce-based dish in southern and southeastern Asian cuisine? Answer: Curry
  2. How much does the “September 11 Security Fee” add to the cost of every plane ticket purchased for flights originating in the United States? Answer: $2.50
  3. What is Africa’s most populous city? Answer: Cairo
  4. Who was the host of the popular show Survivorman, which tested the host’s ability to survive for seven days in extreme climates and locales? Answer: Les Stroud
  5. What French novelist born in 1871 once wrote that “the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes”? Answer: Marcel Proust
  6. Next year’s World Cup will be held in South Africa, but what country has been chosen to host the 2014 World Cup? Answer: Brazil
  7. What German filmmaker was the creator of the critically-acclaimed documentaries Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World? Answer: Werner Herzog
  8. What legendary actor is currently Priceline.com’s “Negotiator” pitchman? Answer: William Shatner
  9. How many runners participated in this year’s Boston Marathon (within 3,000)? Answer: Just over 25,000
  10. Which US President was in office when travel to Cuba by Americans was first prohibited? Answer: John F. Kennedy