Places trivia questions and answers.
What foreign company's Tennessee factory is the largest single auto
plant in the U.S.?
A: Nissan's.
What Florida city's name translates to "mouth of the rat" because of
it's toothy inlet?
A: Boca Raton's.
What Italian city had the Roman name Mediolanum?
A: Milan.
What New England state would be home if you laid down roots in Bald
Head?
A: Maine.
What 4,588-mile dune-laden expanse did Choi Jong-yul say he walked
across "because it was there"?
A: The Sahara Desert.
What country is bordered by Algeria, Niger, Chad, Egypt, Sudan and
Tunidida?
A: Libya.
What Asian country boasts the largest Muslim population in the
world?
A: Indonesia.
What academy is sometimes dubbed "Canoe U."?
A: The U.S. Naval Academy.
What U.S. state has an official commonwealth folk song written by
resident Arlo Guthrie?
A: Massachusetts.
What island was Abel Tasman the first European to land on, in 1642?
A: Tasmania.
What African country's name is from the Latin for "free"?
A: Liberia's.
What republic is sandwiched between Lithuania and Estonia?
A: Latvia.
What's the only U.S. state to share a border with one of Canada's
Maritime Provinces?
A: Maine.
What Central American nation flies a flag with one blue and one red
star?
A: Panama.
What 1994 U.S. event was tagged pas le Big One by French
journalists?
A: The Los Angeles earthquake.
What Australian geological wonder has an aboriginal name that means
"great pebble"?
A: Ayers Rock.
Which of the seven wonders of the ancient world was demolished by an
earthquake in 224 B.C.?
A: The Colossus of Rhodes.
What country is home to 21 percent of the world's people?
A: China.
What are painted bright yellow and left out for public use on the
streets of Portland, Oregon?
A: Bicycles.
What southern city did Andrew Jackson name for one on the Nile
River?
A: Memphis.
What city, founded in 1550 by Sweden's King Gustav Vasa, was first
called Helsingfors?
A: Helsinki.
What country's auto identification letters are KWT?
A: Kuwait's.
What strife-torn African nation boasts a world high of 8.3 births
per female?
A: Rwanda.
What Asian county's women's magazine Non Non is its bestseller?
A: Japan's.
What's the world's largest desert, as determined by the least
precipitation?
A: The Antarctic.
What's a German sign reading "Rauchen verboten" telling you not to
do?
A: Smoke.
What U.S. state boasts a difference of 20,320 feet between its
highest and lowest points?
A: Alaska.
What Boston green space, founded in 1634, is the oldest park in the
U.S.?
A: The Boston Common.
What New Orleans soup has a name derived from the Bantu word for
okra?
A: Gumbo.
What country is bordered by Austria, France, Slovenia and
Switzerland?
A: Italy.
What city was the site of the last Moorish Kingdom in Spain?
A: Granada.
Ehat interstate highway connects Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, to San
Francisco?
A: I-80.
What Pacific atoll got its name from its location between the
Americas and Asia?
A: The Midway Islands.
What Tuscan city do Italians know as Firenze?
A: Florence.
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