International Trivia Questions About Places
What winter celebration calls for lighting red,
green and black
candles in the Kinara?
A: Kwanza.
What's Latvia's largest minority ethnic group?
A: Russians.
What country sends the highest percentage of 15- and 16-year-olds
to the altar?
A: The U.S.
How many expressways did China's drivers have to choose from, in
1992?
A: Zero.
What southern city is famous for its "Beale Street Blues"?
A: Memphis.
What's the only U.S. state that serves all of its residents with
water systems that have violated the Safe Drinking Water Act?
A: New Jersey.
What British Commonwealth nation has the most
people driving on
the right side of the road?
A: Canada.
What two African rivers did Henry Stanley prove were not
connected?
A: The Congo and the Nile.
What infamous Beijing square has a name that ironically means
"Gate of
Heavenly Peace"?
A: Tiananmen Square.
How are you traveling in Africa if you've rented a rakumi?
A: By camel.
Which of the Great Lakes does not lap Canadian shores?
A: Lake Michigan.
What's the third-largest continent in square miles?
A: North America.
What European country uses its Latin name, Helvetia, on its
stamps.
A: Switzerland.
What East African country's annual four percent population growth
rate is the world's highest?
A: Kenya's.
What town name did Missouri's postmaster come up with when
residents asked for something "sort of peculiar"?
A: Peculiar.
What South American country elected as its president Alberto Fujimori,
the son of Japanese immigrants, in
1990?
A: Peru.
What U.S. state had the first 7-Eleven stores?
A: Texas.
What sea laps the shores of Kazakhstan and
Uzbekistan?
A: The Aral Sea.
What Central American country has its capital in Tegucigalpa?
A: Honduras.
What country calls its expressways autostrada?
A: Italy.
What Great Plains state are you stuck in if you're out of gas in
Gas?
A : Kansas.
What African country is serviced by Jan Smuts International
Airport?
A :South Africa.
What Arizona city was so named because it rose from the ruins of
a Native American town?
A: Phoenix.
How may years did Britain lease Hong Kong for?
A: Ninety-nine.
What country boasts the towns of Barnstaple, Fishguard and
Holyhead?
A: Britain.
What U.S. state grabs the most money from domestic tourists,
double that of Hawaii?
A: Nevada.
What eastern European country's name is a Slavonic word meaning
"plain dwellers"?
A: Poland's.
What fish is called "finnan haddie" when smoked in
Scotland?
A: Haddock.
What Southeast Asian city did the U.S. open an embassy in, in
1995?
A: Hanoi.
What mountains are home to the entertainment world's Borscht
Belt?
A: The Catskills.
