Welcome back to another edition of Tuesday Trav-Triv. Hopefully you’ve all got some New Year’s Eve plans figured out by now, so you don’t find yourself sitting on the couch at home with just Dick Clark and a bowl of Rocky Road to keep you company… again.
Big congrats go to last week’s trivia winners! This week we’ve got ten more brain-busting questions for you to anguish over. Check ’em out below and leave your answers in the comments. Come back next Tuesday– same time, same place– for the answers.
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The world’s largest art gallery is located in St. Petersburg, Russia. What is it called?
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Set mostly in India, the 2007 travel film The Darjeeling Limited was directed by whom?
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In what country is the world’s tallest man-made structure located?
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If I wanted to eat a pierogi in the place of its origin, to what part of the world would I go?
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What Chinese dialect is more widely spoken, Cantonese or Mandarin?
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In what easternmost Mexican state is Cancún located?
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Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert had an ongoing fake feud with what Korean pop singer after a 2007 Time Magazine online poll cited the singer as the world’s most influential person?
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New York City is composed of five boroughs: Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, and two others. What are they?
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What two-letter website is useful for calculating the exchange rates of currency from all over the world?
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About how many islands make up the Asian nation of Indonesia? A) 17,000 B) 3,200 C) 102,000
The answers to last week’s questions are hidden below the fold…
- Who wrote the critically acclaimed travelogue The Sex Lives of Cannibals, a book about the author’s time spent living in the island nation of Kiribati? Answer: J. Maarten Troost
- What western US town is known as the “Biggest Little City in the World”? Answer: Reno, Nevada
- Name two of South Africa’s three capitals. Answer: Cape Town, Pretoria, Bloemfontein (you can be forgiven for forgetting the last one)
- What well-known TV travel host and guidebook publisher is on the advisory board of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws? Answer: Rick Steves, who probably just got a LOT cooler to some of you
- The three-letter abbreviation for what busy airport comes from its previous name, Orchard Field Airport? Answer: Chicago’s O’Hare Airport (ORD)
- American Airlines acquired what large US-based carrier in 2001? Answer: TWA (remember them?)
- What large body of water gets its name from the Latin for “in the middle of land”? Answer: Mediterranean Sea
- The often-mispronounced city of Wrocław is located in what European country? Answer: Poland (just FYI, it’s “Vrots-wav”)
- The first Australian aboriginal word to appear in the English language was the name of what animal? Answer: Kangaroo
- In what Russian town will the 2014 Winter Olympics be held? Answer: Sochi