Travel quiz for adults and kids

Ten questions for the grown-ups, with 20 points on offer...

• A: The Mekong
• B: The Volga
• C: The Yangtze
• D: The Mississippi

• A: Chile
• B: Paraguay
• C: Uruguay
• D: Bolivia

• A: Tunis
• B: Maputo
• C: Luanda
• D: Nairobi

• A: Addis Ababa
• B: Harare
• C: Asmara
• D: Pretoria

• A: Two
• B: Three
• C: Four
• D: Five

• A: Philadelphia
• B: Pittsburgh
• C: Allentown
• D: Harrisburg

• A: Lincoln
• B: Roosevelt (Theodore)
• C: Jefferson
• D: Kennedy

• A: Istanbul
• B: Moscow
• C: St Petersburg
• D: Venice

• A: Banjo Hungers
• B: Ralph Zoe Tibet
• C: Angkor Airplane Turk
• D: Acton Pew

And some questions for younger readers, each worth four points...

• A: Columbosaurus
• B: Ontarosaurus
• C: Albertosaurus
• D: Manitobosaurus

• A: Atlantic
• B: Pacific
• C: Indian
• D: Arctic

• A: Lima
• B: Lemur
• C: Femur
• D: Limonada

• A: Holland
• B: France
• C: Belgium
• D: Germany

• A: Snowdon
• B: Peter’s Peak
• C: Ben Nevis
• D: Ben Never

ANSWERS

(1) C: The Yangtze — at 3,917 miles, only just shorter than the Nile (4,130 miles) and the Amazon (4,086 miles).

(2) B: Paraguay. You’re about 20 miles from Iguazu Falls, one of the natural wonders of the world.

 

(3) B: Maputo — the capital of Mozambique. Lourenco Marques was a 16th-century explorer who “discovered” Maputo Bay, on which the city sits.

 

(4) A: Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian capital hovers at an altitude of 7,726ft — higher than Kathmandu in Nepal and Thimphu, Bhutan.

 

(5) C: Four. Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, London. (Southampton doesn’t count.)

(6) D: Harrisburg, on the south-east side of the state, midway between the more obvious Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

(7) D: Kennedy. JFK was only 24 when work on the South Dakota landmark ended in 1941. The three other listed presidents are all present — as is the first, George Washington.

 

(8) D: Venice. Istanbul features heavily in the film, but the final fight with villain Rosa Klebb takes place in Italy.

 

(9) Take your pick from Kabul (Afghanistan), Kampala (Uganda), Kathmandu (Nepal), Khartoum (Sudan), Kiev (Ukraine), Kigali (Rwanda), Kingston (Jamaica), Kingstown (St Vincent and the Grenadines), Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Kuwait City (Kuwait).

 

(10) A: Johannesburg; B: Port Elizabeth; C: Kruger National Park; D: Cape Town — all of them in South Africa.

(1) C: Albertosaurus. As in Alberta, where bones were found.

 

(2) B: Pacific. Specifically the South Pacific — in a fictional Polynesia.

 

(3) A: Lima — on Peru’s Pacific coast.

 

(4) D: Germany. France, Belgium and (obviously) Holland all pass by the window.

 

(5) C: Ben Nevis. Scotland’s tallest mountain is also Britain’s — at 4,413ft. Snowdon rises to 3,560ft.

The Daily Telegraph