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Tuesday Travel Trivia (Week 47)
If it's Tuesday morning, it must be another week of Tuesday Travel Trivia, the web's most popular trivia game according to Gadling's own biased numbers.
A hearty congratulations goes out to Richard Wong, last week's trivia winner who managed an impressive score of 10/10. Nicely done, sir! That's almost perfect!
Want to become this week's trivia champ? Check out the ten questions that follow and leave your answers in the comments. Come back next Tuesday for the answers. Good luck!
- Within two years, what is the average life expectancy of someone born in Swaziland, the country with the lowest life expectancy in the world?
- Gulag Orkestar was the debut of album of what band that shares a name with a city in Lebanon?
- The three hubs of what U.S. airline are located in Charlotte, Philadelphia, and Phoenix?
- What alliterative two-word phrase is defined as a derogatory term for an attraction that appeals to travelers but is considered to be in bad taste or to give poor value for the money?
- What Brooklyn landmark is named for the rabbits that had overrun it in the 17th century when the Dutch first landed there?
- What country uses a currency that's the same as the last name of the author of Atlas Shrugged?
- "Never go on trips with someone you do not love," advised what author of The Snows of Kilimanjaro?
- The town of Panmunjom sits on the border between what two nations?
- Often served over chicken, what kind of thick sauce from Mexico comes in amarillo, rojo, colorado, and poblano varieties, among others?
- What is the name of the Japanese art of the aesthetic miniaturization of trees?
Last week's questions and answers are hiddn safely below the fold...
- What world capital is often called simply D.F. (deh eh-feh) by locals? Answer: Mexico City
- In Richard Linklater's 1995 film Before Sunrise, an American man (Ethan Hawke) and a French woman (Julie Delpy) spend an evening talking and walking around what Central European capital? Answer: Vienna, Austria
- The letters in the name of what world city can be rearranged to spell "Go Boat"? Answer: Bogota
- Name one city that the Prime Meridian (the Equator's lesser-known cousin) passes through? Answer: Greenwich
- At 14,505 ft., Mt. Whitney is the highest peak in what California mountain range? Answer: The Sierra Nevadas
- What is the "anatomical" name for the part of the travel season that falls between high and low season? Answer: Shoulder season
- In what well-known art museum does Diego Velazquez's masterpiece Las Meninas hang? Answer: The Prado in Madrid
- What famous author's early book Roughing It is the semi-autobiographical story of his travels through the Wild West in the 1860s? Answer: Mark Twain
- Named for a country that doesn't exist anymore, what car built by the Zastava corporation did Time Magazine once say had the feel of "something assembled at gunpoint"? Answer: The Yugo
- What method of transportation, legal (of course) in the Netherlands, is known as liften in Dutch? Answer: Hitchhiking
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tim Laynor Sep 15th 2009 11:52AM
1. 40 years
2. Beirut
3. US Airways
4. Tourist Trap
5. Coney Island
6. Ayn Rand
7. Ernest hemingway
8. North Korea and South Korea
9. Chipolte
10. Bonsai
jkiel Sep 15th 2009 1:04PM
1. 20
2. Beirut
3. US Airways
4. Tourist Trap
5. Coney Island
6. South Africa
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. North & South Korea
9. Mole
10. Bonsai
Richard Wong Sep 15th 2009 2:33PM
1. 25 (I know it's pretty low)
2. Beirut
3. US Airways (formerly USAir)
4. Tourist Trap
5. Coney Island
6. South Africa (and the nominally "independent" Lesotho)
7. Papa Hemingway
8. ROK and DPRK
9. Mole (how do you put the accent over the "e"?)
10. Bonsai
Doug Sep 15th 2009 4:39PM
1. 40
2. Beirut
3. US Airways
4. Tourist Trap
5. Coney Island
6. South Africa
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. North & South Korea
9. Mole
10. Bonsai