World Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
What European country delights the
Pope with the lowest divorce rate in the
western world?
A: Italy
What Las Vegas hotel claims to display the world's largest hunk of
gold?
A: The Golden Nugget
What's the only New England state without a seacoast?
A: Vermont
What foreign language do Norwegians study for seven years, beginning in the
second grade?
A: English
What U.S. state has only 113 divorces for every 1,000 marriages?
A: Nevada.
What two seas flank the Caucasus Mountains?
A: The Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
What nation's culinary wizards gave the world Stuffed Calf's
Eyes and
Cow
Brain Fritters?
A: France's
What's the largest country in the Commonwealth of Independent States?
A: Russia
What was the final destination of the first U.S. paddle wheel steamboat, which
departed from Pittsburgh?
A: New Orleans
What southern city does Federal Express channel all its packages through?
A: Memphis
What country sends the most tourists to Australia?
A: Japan
What U.S. state is the eighth largest economic power in the world?
A: California
What southeast Asian nation's shoppers began flashing new
American Express cards
in 1994?
A: Vietnam's
What bridge, celebrated in a Bobbie Gentry song, collapsed in
1972?
A: The Tallahatchie Bridge.
What do English-speaking tourists usually call France's Cote d' Azur?
A: The Riviera
What U.S. city is across the Rio Grande from Juarez?
A: El Paso
What high-stakes city has the most unlisted
phone numbers per capita in the
U.S.?
A: Las Vegas
What South American archipelago has a name meaning "land of
fire"?
A: Terra del Fuego
What country has the highest teen pregnancy rate of all the western industrial
nations?
A: The U.S.
How many ngwee equal a kwacha when you're paying for gods in Zambia?
A: One hundred
What Jerusalem site is the only surviving part of the Second Temple?
A: The Wailing Wall
What city did environmental writer Edward Abbey call "the blob that ate
Arizona"?
A: Phoenix
What nation in the Western Hemisphere is the world's largest exporter of
forest
products?
A: Canada
What sea laps shores of Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan?
A: The Caspian
