It’s once again time for your weekly dose of Travel Trivia. Answer these ten questions in the Comments, and come back next week to find out if you were right. And, hey, no cheating– that means no looking at maps, no Googling, no phoning-a-friend. There’s no prize for the winner (‘cept tons of respect), so don’t be that guy. As my third-grade teacher used to say, you’re only cheating yourselves.
By the way, congrats to last week’s winners Amy, Stolen, and our own Willy Volk.
Without further ado, the questions.
- Of the eleven countries whose name begins with A, all but two of them also end with A. Which two don’t end with A?
- Who wrote the award-winning 1975 travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar?
- Name the African country whose flag is a solid green rectangle.
- Remember Sarah Palin? For what small Alaskan town did she serve as mayor from 1996-2002?
- What “hip, vibrant” online travel community features a Bounty Board full of assignments for aspiring travel writers and recently acquired the site Brave New Traveler?
- What is the official name of North Korea?
- In which South American country are the Nazca Lines (seen above) located?
- Which country’s residents spent the most on international travel during 2007?
- According to Forbes Traveler, what US tourist destination was the most visited spot in the world in 2007?
- What US territory is the only one larger than a US state?
Look below the fold for last week’s answers.
- What famous TV travel host is the editor of the 2008 edition of The Best American Travel Writing? Anthony Bourdain
- Which African nation was forced to print a series of 10-million dollar bills earlier this year to combat rampant hyper-inflation? Zimbabwe
- Name the famous American author who once wrote, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” Mark Twain
- Angel Falls is the world’s highest waterfall at over 3,200 feet. In which South American country is it located? Venezuela
- Which of the first five US presidents does not have a capital city named for him? John Adams (Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, was named for President James Monroe)
- Who told Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert that he had named one of his aircrafts “Air Colbert”? Richard Branson
- What is the name of the type of projection used in the map above? Mercator projection
- What’s the name of the enclave-country that is located entirely within South Africa’s borders? Lesotho
- In what states (or countries) were Barack Obama and John McCain born? Obama – Hawaii; McCain – the Canal Zone (now Panama)
- Which of these countries is often not considered a part of Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark? Finland