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Tuesday Travel Trivia celebrates Week 30 by giving away $400 in prizes!
Yep, you read that headline correctly. This week Tuesday Travel Trivia is doing its best Jeopardy! impression by offering hundreds of dollars worth of prizes to one lucky winner. Among them:
- An Arc'teryx Blade 30 backpack ($199.95)
- A SanDisk Sansa slotRadio player ($99.95)
- A red Peek Mobile Email Device ($80, monthly subscription service not included)
- Assorted other electronic whiz-bangs and doo-dads to be determined
To enter to win these suh-weet prizes, check out the following ten trivia questions and leave your answers in the comments. (More terms and conditions at the end of this post.)
The stakes are high this week, so go ahead and employ your favorite search engine if you need some help with the answers. But be forewarned: Even Jeeves won't know the answers to some of these brain-busters.
We'll contact the randomly chosen winner via e-mail within a few days. Good luck!
- Who is the author of the recently released book Travel as a Political Act?
- In 1989, the motto of what airline proclaimed itself "the world's favourite airline"?
- Last year, a Swedish entrepeneur made headlines by turning what massive object into a hostel?
- Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan are the world's only two countries with a very unusual geographic characteristic. What is it?
- In what Tennessee city is Graceland located?
- True or false: English is the official language of the United States.
- Name the early Twentieth Century poet who wrote the following lines: "We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time."
- What humorous American travel writer's books include A Walk Through the Woods, In a Sunburned Country, and I'm a Stranger Here Myself?
- Fill in the missing country in this Top Ten list: 10. New Zealand 9. United States 8. Norway 7. Australia 6. Japan 5. The Philippines 4. Russia 3. Greenland 2. Indonesia 1. __________
- Within 100, how many bridges cross the Amazon River?
Last week's answers are printed below the fold...
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What group has described itself as "New Zealand's Fourth Most Popular Folk Parody Duo"? Answer: Flight of the Conchords
- Home to some of the Atlantic Ocean's harshest weather, the Bay of Biscay is located between which two countries? Answer: France and Spain
- Although located in Switzerland, the tiny Alpine town of Meiringen is home to a museum dedicated to what British literary character? Answer: Sherlock Holmes
- The island nation of the Maldives (pictured) is the smallest country belonging to what continent? Answer: Asia
- What is the title of Robert Frost's famous poem which ends, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"? Answer: "The Road Not Taken" (points off for anyone who said "The Road Less Traveled")
- In 2006, Chicago's city council banned what French dish in restaurants, causing an uproar that eventually resulted in the ban being overturned? Answer: Foie gras
- What upcoming two-letter computer-animated film from Pixar partially takes place in the jungles of Venezuela? Answer: Up
- What country is home to the beermaker Heineken? Answer: The Netherlands
- Borscht, a red vegetable soup whose principal ingredient is beetroot, originates from what region of the world? Answer: Eastern Europe
- Named the Best Hostel Chain for 2008 by the website Hostel World, Wombats has locations in which two European countries? Answer: Austria and Germany
Terms and Conditions of the Giveaway
- To enter, simply leave a comment answering the questions posed above.
- The comment must be left before Friday, May 22nd at 5:00 PM Eastern Time.
- You may enter only once.
- One Prize Winner will be randomly selected to receive the prizes listed above.
- Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older.
- The total value of the prize is approximately $400
- Click here for the complete official rules of this giveaway.
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Reader Comments (Page 4 of 5)
Kirsten May 22nd 2009 3:24AM
1. Rick Steves
2. British Airways
3. Boeing 747
4. double landlocked
5. Memphis
6. false
7. T.S. Eliot
8. Bill Bryson
9. Canada
10. 0
flared0ne May 22nd 2009 4:46AM
01. Rick Steves is that author.
02. British Airways began using that slogan in 1989.
03. A 747 Jumbo Jet
04. They are the only two 'doubly landlocked' countries -- i.e., surrounded by landlocked countries.
05. Graceland is in Memphis, Tennessee.
06. False: the United States has no official language.
07. T. S. Eliot wrote those words in "Little Gidding".
08. Bill Bryson wrote all three of those books.
09. Finland has the most islands. Canada has the most coastline, counting islands, but China is also in that top-ten list of contenders, while it is not in the top-ten "most islands" list.
10. Zero. No bridges cross the Amazon -- any feeder into the Amazon small enough to be bridged isn't CALLED the Amazon. Guaranteed correct "to within 100 bridges".
Athynna May 22nd 2009 1:02PM
Thorough :)
Aisling May 22nd 2009 7:20AM
1. Rick Steves
2. British Airways
3. Boeing 747
4. double landlocked
5. Memphis
6. false
7. T.S. Eliot
8. Bill Bryson
9. Canada
10. 0
Sharon May 22nd 2009 6:35AM
1. Rick Steves
2. British Airways
3. Boeing 747-200
4. Both countries are Doubly Landlocked
5. Memphis
6. False
7. T.S Eliot
8. Bill Bryson
9. 0
10. Canada
JONI CHADWELL May 22nd 2009 10:37AM
1. Rick Steves
2. British Airways
3. Oscar Dios
4. double land locked
5. Memphis
6. False
7. T.S. Eliot
8 Bill Bryson
9. Finland
10. Zero
Heather S May 22nd 2009 10:24AM
1) Rick Steves
2) British Airways
3) boeing 747
4) They are double landlocked
5) Memphis
6) False
7) TS Eliot
8) Bill Bryson
9) Canada
10) zero
jane jakins May 22nd 2009 3:18PM
Rick Steves
2) British Airways
3) Boeing 747
4) Both doubly-landlocked
5) Memphis, Tennessee
6) False
7) T. S. Eliot
8) Bill Bryson
9) Canada
10)
Andrew Gordon May 22nd 2009 11:08AM
1. Rick Steves
2. British Airways
3. Boeing 747-200
4. They are double landlocked countries. (Landlocked countries completely surrounded by landlocked countries)
5. Memphis
6. False, the United States does not have any official languages (at the federal level).
7. Thomas Stearns Eliot
8. Bill Bryson
9. Finland
10. 0
Peter D May 22nd 2009 1:03PM
1. Rick Steves
2. British Airways
3. Boeing 747
4. Both are doubly-landlocked
5. Memphis, Tennessee
6. False
7. T. S. Eliot
8. Bill Bryson
9. Canada
10. Zero
Tammy Kennedy May 22nd 2009 12:31PM
1. Rick Steves
2. British Airways
3. A decommissioned 747 - 200
4. Both landlocked by landlocked countries (double landlocked).
5. Memphis, TN
6. False
7. T.S. Eliot
8.Bill Bryson
9. Canada
10. 0 (zero)
Ashley May 22nd 2009 1:00PM
1. Rick Steves
2. British
3. Boeing 747 (airplane)
4. Double Land Locked
5. Memphis
6.False; no official language
7. T. S. Elliot
8. Bill Bryson
9. Canada
10. 0 (zero)
Sabine Blanch May 24th 2009 4:11PM
1. Rick Steves
2. British Airways
3. Boeing 747
4. They are double landlocked countries.
5. Memphis
6. False
7. T. S. Eliot
8. Bill Bryson
9. Finland
10. 0
kathy pease May 22nd 2009 1:09PM
1. Rick Steves
2. British Airways
3. Boeing 747
4. They are double landlocked countries.
5. Memphis
6. False
7. TS Eliot
8. Bill Bryson
9. Finland (most islands in the world)
10. 0
Suanne Giddings May 22nd 2009 1:37PM
1. Rick Steves
2. British Airways
3. Boeing 747
4. Both are doubly-landlocked
5. Memphis, Tennessee
6. False
7. T. S. Eliot
8. Bill Bryson
9. Canada
10. Zero
B.W. May 22nd 2009 3:36PM
1 Rick Steves
2 British Airways
3 Boeing 747
4 double landlocked
5 Memphis
6 false
7 T.S. Eliot
8 Bill Bryson
9 Finland
10 zero
Gianna May 22nd 2009 1:54PM
1. Who is the author of the recently released book Travel as a Political Act?
Rick Steves.
2. In 1989, the motto of what airline proclaimed itself "the world's favourite airline"?
British Airways.
3. Last year, a Swedish entrepeneur made headlines by turning what massive object into a hostel?
Boeing 747.
4. Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan are the world's only two countries with a very unusual geographic characteristic. What is it?
Double land locked.
5. In what Tennessee city is Graceland located?
Memphis.
6. True or false: English is the official language of the United States.
False.
7. Name the early Twentieth Century poet who wrote the following lines: "We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time."
T. S. Eliot.
8. What humorous American travel writer's books include A Walk Through the Woods, In a Sunburned Country, and I'm a Stranger Here Myself?
Bill Bryson.
9. Fill in the missing country in this Top Ten list: 10. New Zealand 9. United States 8. Norway 7. Australia 6. Japan 5. The Philippines 4. Russia 3. Greenland 2. Indonesia 1. __________
Canada.
10. Within 100, how many bridges cross the Amazon River?
Zero.
Mary Keedy May 23rd 2009 4:01AM
1. Rick Steves
2. British Airways
3. Boeing 747
4. They are double landlocked
5. Memphis
6. False
7. T.S. Eliot
8. Bill Bryson
9. Canada
10. 0
sally wess May 22nd 2009 3:33PM
1. Rick Steves
2. British Airways
3. Boeing 747
4. Landlocked
5. Memphis
6. False
7. T. S. Eliot
8. Bill Bryson
9. Finland
10. zero
Sarah Lehan May 22nd 2009 2:21PM
1. Rick Steves
2. British Airways
3. Boeing 747-200
4. They are double land locked
5. Memphis
6. False
7. T.S. Eliot
8. Bill Bryson
9. Finland
10. Zero