Places trivia questions and answers.
Trivia questions and answers - Places
What Canadian province got its name from the Iroquois word guilibek,
meaning "place where waters narrow"?
A: Quebec.
Which U.S. president used some of his winnings from
poker games to help launch his campaign for a seat in the U.S.
House of Representatives?
A: Richard Nixon
What country's farthest southern and northern points are Land's End
and John o' Groats, respectively?
A: Britain's.
What New York City landmark is the largest movie theater in the
U.S.?
A: Radio City Music Hall.
What's the world's longest road, running from Texas to Valparaiso,
Chile?
A: The Pan-American Highway.
What $7.2 million purchase did one senator call "an awful lot of ice
for an awful lot of dollars," in 1867?
A: Alaska.
What European capital's Potsdamer Platz was busy enough to warrant
the world's first traffic light?
A: Berlin's.
What was the most populous state in the U.S. for the last time in
1800?
A: Virginia.
What Nepalese city name means "wooden temples"?
A: Katmandu.
What Egyptian city was built up during the Middle Ages from
limestone stripped off the exterior of the Great Pyramid?
A: Cairo.
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What Yukon mining district was the site of the 1890s gold rush?
A: The Klondike.
What Texas city along Route 66 got its name from the Spanish word
for yellow?
A: Amarillo.
What two republics make up the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia?
A: Montenegro and Serbia.
What Scandinavian country last fought in a war in 1814?
A: Sweden.
What U.S. state's public golf courses have the highest average green
fees?
A: Hawaii's.
What former Soviet republic joined Russia as one of the world's ten
largest countries?
A: Kazakhstan.
What Arab country's national dish is a soup called fool?
A: Egypt's.
What continent are you on if you're lost in the eastern tip of
Egypt?
A: Asia.
What continent has the fewest flowering plants?
A: Antarctica.
What country lies on the western side of the Iberian Peninsula?
A: Portugal.
What volatile nation was the first Caribbean country to gain
independence?
A: Haiti.
What barnyard animal utterance is known in France as groin groin?
A: Oink-Oink.
What southern state capital got its name for being the terminus of
the Western & Atlantic Railroad?
A: Atlanta.
What desert's name was inspired by the array of colors that erosion
has exposed there?
A: The Painted Desert's.
What Berlin landmark had lost over 60 tons in shipments to the U.S.
by 1990?
A: The Berlin Wall.
What was the biggest city in America until 1755?
A: Boston.
What U.S. city had three of the world's five tallest man-made
structures in 1994?
A: Chicago.
What cave mammals inspired some folks to dub Nebraska the
"Bug-eating State"?
A: Bats.
What Asian country has the world's lowest amount of urban green
space per person?
A: Japan.
What country went metric to join the European Community, but kept
the pint for use in pubs and for milk?
A: Britain.
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