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 Where on Earth?
| Your first stop is London. Your hotel is in an area, which got its name from ornamental collars. Where is that area? | "What If" Quiz 3 (Fiachra) |
Piccadilly. Robert Baker, made a fortune from collars called "Piccadellis". He built a house called Picaddilly Hall, soon the whole area took the name Piccadilly.
| You have just left the town of Cairns, Queensland. You are traveling in a large catamaran on your way to Green Island. This is part of an immense living structure that stretches for about 1,250 miles. You are looking forward to going snorkeling and seeing fantastic corals and hordes of colorful fish. Where are you? | More Where On Earth (minch) |
Great Barrier Reef. The Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef in the world, runs from near Mackay, Queensland to the Torres Strait. Apart from over 1,500 species of fish, around four hundred types of coral the reef is home to many other living creatures. There is much concern about damage to the reef, and great conservation efforts are being made to preserve it.
| You are watching the Mardi Gras festivities in the French Quarter of a city whose main area lies between a large river and a lake. Where are you? | Where on Earth? (minch) |
New Orleans. The large river is, of course, the Mississippi, and the lake is Lake Pontchartrain. New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, is situated one hundred miles up the Mississippi from the Gulf of Mexico.
| You are on the Salisbury Plain looking at an ancient monument. It is a circle of standing stones, some of bluestone and some of sandstone. Druids meet here at the summer solstice. Where are you? | More Where On Earth (minch) |
Stonehenge. This group of standing stones was created between 4000 -1000 BC. It could have been used for religious ceremonies and astronomical observances. At one time visitors could walk around inside Stonehenge, but because of damage, although you can get fairly close, you cannot get near enough to touch the stones.
| You are on a shopping street known as the Ginza. This is in a city that was devasted by an earthquake and fire in 1923. It also suffered much in World War II. Which city are you in? | Where on Earth? (minch) |
Tokyo. Tokyo, the capital of Japan, is on the island of Honshu. It was formerly known as Edo.
| You are on a Pacific Island looking at some immense statues. These statues have very large heads. In fact the head is the only part visible in many of them. Where are you? | More Where On Earth (minch) |
Easter Island. These statues are called Moai. Very little is known about the people who made these megaliths from volcanic rock. Easter Island was discovered by the Dutch Admiral Roggeveen on Easter Day 1722.
The island belongs to Chile.
| You are in Venezuela looking at the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world. They are named after the American aviator who discovered them in 1935. What is the name of this waterfall? | More Where On Earth (minch) |
Angel Falls . The cataract falls 3212 feet uninterrupted and is twenty times higher than Niagara falls. James Angel, American aviator fell over the falls in 1935 and crashed there.
| You are in the largest city in Morocco, although it is not the capital. It is also a very important port. The center of the city has spacious avenues, but in the medina, the old part of the city, the streets are narrow. During WWII an important meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill took place here. To the western world it is best known as the setting for an Oscar winning movie. Where are you? | More Where On Earth (minch) |
Casablanca. Casablanca is a seaport on the Atlantic coast. It was under Portuguese rule from 1468 until the French took over in 1907.
It is now one of Africa's leading industrial cities.
| You are in Peru crossing a red gravel desert. There are lots of yellowish pathways seeming to lead nowhere. Your guide tells you that when you look down from an airplane you can see that these lines are drawings. One is of a monkey, another of a hummingbird. What are they known as? | More Where On Earth (minch) |
Nazca Lines. No one knows why these lines are here or who made them. The pictures they make can only be seen from high above.
| You are in Granada, Spain, exploring a fortress built by the Moors. Externally it looks like a fortress, but inside you can wander through halls and courtyards, and admire gardens, pools and fountains. Where are you? | More Where On Earth (minch) |
The Alhambra. The Alhambra was built by the Moors in the 12th and 13th centuries. It was both citadel and palace, and is a wonderful example of Moorish architecture.
| You are in George Town, an international banking center. You arrived on this small island in the Caribbean by cruise ship. Soon you will be boarding a bus to take you to stingray city, where you can snorkel amidst a lot of stingrays. Where are you? | Where on Earth? (minch) |
Grand Cayman. Yes. I did it. Quite an experience and no danger - just keep swimming and don't put your feet down. Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and is part of the British Commonwealth.
| You are in England looking at the home of the world's greatest playwright. It is a half timbered Tudor building. Nearby a modern theater stands beside the river that is part of the town's name. Where are you? | Where on Earth? (minch) |
Stratford-upon-Avon . Stratford-upon-Avon is the probable birthplace of William Shakespeare. He was baptized there in 1564, but there is no record of his actual place and date of birth.
| You are in Africa, in the Serengeti National Park enjoying seeing all the animals: zebra, giraffe, elephants and even the black rhinoceros. Not too far away is the mountain that inspired one of Ernest Hemingway's short stories. What is this mountain? | Where on Earth? (minch) |
Kilimanjaro. Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa. It is located in northeast Tanzania. "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is Hemingway's story.
The movie version starred Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward and Ava Gardner.
| You are in a city that stands at the entrance to the St. Lawrence Seaway. This is a French speaking city, but you may spot some English signs. Expo 67 was held here and it is the home of McGill university. Where are you? | Where on Earth? (minch) |
Montreal. Montreal, named for Mont Royal which rises 769 feet in the middle of the city, is the largest city in the province of Quebec. However, the capital of Quebec is Quebec City.
| You are in a 'rose-red city half as old as time' in a remote area of Jordan. You reach it by going along a narrow passageway between cliffs. Once through this cleft you gaze in awe at the facade of the Treasury and other buildings that seem to grow out of the rock face. They are around 2,000 years old. Where are you? | More Where On Earth (minch) |
Petra. Petra is in southwest Jordan. It was captured by the Romans in 106AD. Then the Muslims took over in the seventh century. The Crusaders later took possession. Then the city was abandoned. It was rediscovered in 1812. Actually it isn't rose-red but more of a salmon color.
| You are crossing the 'blue' Danube, in a city where many great composers lived, among them Johann Strauss, jr., Beethoven and Mozart. Where are you? | Where on Earth? (minch) |
Vienna. Vienna, capital of Austria, was capital of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy from 1867 to 1918.
| You are beside the highest navigable lake in the world, watching the reed boats sailing on the water. It lies between Bolivia and Peru. What lake is it? | Where on Earth? (minch) |
Titicaca. Lake Titicaca is the second largest lake in South America. It is 122 miles long and over fifty miles wide, and is 12,507 feet above sea level.
| You are at San Simeon, California. Visiting the home of a late newspaper magnate. It is built in Italian, French, Spanish and Moorish styles. Much of the building material and many of the home's contents were imported from Europe, including one of the two swimming pools. By what name is it commonly known? | More Where On Earth (minch) |
Hearst Castle. William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate, started planning his castle in 1919. The building was still going on 28 years later, when he moved out.
| You are about to attempt to climb Mount Everest. You are staying in Kathmandu, the capital of this small Himalayan country. Siddartha Gautama (Buddha) was born in this country. Where are you? | Where on Earth? (minch) |
Nepal. Nepal lies between India and the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China.
Seven of the eight highest mountains in the world lie in, or partly in, Nepal
| Why not try these islands in the Mozambique Channel for a taste of the exotic? | "What If" Quiz 3 (Fiachra) |
Comoros Islands. These islands take their name from the Arabic for moon. The weather here will be refreshingly cooler, as it's winter in the southern hemisphere.
| Which Mediterranean island city takes its name from Nike? | "What If" Quiz 3 (Fiachra) |
Nicosia. SUN. SUN. SUN. Relax and unwind in Cyprus. You need energy for the next stage of your holiday which takes you to the Middle East.
| Which ex-Soviet Republic had a few problems with its regional areas Southern Ossetia and Abkhazia? | Geographical Facts (flem-ish) |
Georgia. Never seen TV-pics of Gorby's ex-Foreign Secretary Eduard Shevarnadze, having to fight for his life against Mr Gamsakhurdia's men ? - Belarus or White Russia, with Minsk as its capital is still very friendly to the ex-Red Russia. The Azeris had a bit of a tiff with the Armenians but neither Ossetia nor Abkhazia are within their competence.
| Which country's flag consists of a blue horizontal stripe, a black horizontal stripe, then a white horizontal stripe at the bottom? | World Geography Quiz - 'Millionaire' Format (buguru) |
Estonia. Estonia is the smallest of the three Baltic countries.
| Which area is, from the point of view of physical geography, the outsider in this group? | Geographical Facts (flem-ish) |
Tenerife. Tenerife is one of the Canary islands,100 miles off the NW coast of Africa.- The others are deserts or parts of deserts in mainland Africa. The Tenere is part of Niger. The Kalahari Desert is shared by Namibia and Botswanaland. The Great Karoo is a plateau in South Africa's Cape Province,and is part of a desertlike area.
| Where, in Germany would you find the castle Disney use in their logo? | "What If" Quiz 3 (Fiachra) |
Neuschwanstein. What an incredible place? Wonder if what the guide said about Ludwig is really true?
| Where was ancient Sumeria (or Sumer) located? | Interesting and Intriguing Places (robert362) |
Iraq. Perhaps best known for the legend of Gilgamesh
| Where in Africa is Mafia Island? | Geographical Facts (flem-ish) |
Tanzania. Well, the question was not where do you find the largest number of mafiosi per square kilometer.- Apart from having had Muammar al-Gadaffi as a charismatic colonel since 1969 , that country has towns such as Tripoli, Benghazi and Tobruk. - Congo Kinshasa: hard to know what its present frontiers are. Sierra Leone:capital Freetown. Hard to know what it means to be free here..Anyway quite a few got shot for free in this slightly chaotic place
| What's the new Russian name of Stalingrad ? | Geographical Facts (flem-ish) |
Volgograd. Gorkiy was the Soviet name for Nizniy Novgorod. Maxim Gorky, the Soviet writer, was born here. Just as his buddy Joseph Stalin he replaced his original name: Aleksei Maximowitch Peshkov by something more 'revolutionary'.. - It would not be Russia if there did not pop up some other town with the same name elsewhere too, so south of Sankt-Peterburg you will find a Novgorod without the Nizhnyi. Nov-gorod=new town. - Yeltsinograd ..that still may happen in the future and we once might walk the Putinskaja in the new town of Yeltsinograd. Volvograd could be Sweden but Russia returned to Stalingrad its old name of 'town on the Volga'.
| What is Zanzibar to the country of Tanzania? | Geographical Facts (flem-ish) |
island off the coast. Though it still has the larger part of the government buildings , Dar-Es-Salaam, the Port of Peace, is not any longer the designated official administrative capital.Since 1996 the National Assembly has moved to Dodoma ,a less well-known city. - After first world war the Germans left here .There followed a period under the British.In the sixties de-colonisation happened here as well and in 1964 the separate entities of Zanzibar and Tanganyka made a deal and became a joint venture under the name of Tanzania. After a period as a one-party system,opposition parties were allowed from 1991.
| What is the present-day name of the country that was born from a merger between British Togoland and Gold Coast? | Geographical Facts (flem-ish) |
Ghana. British Gold Coast and British Togoland merged in 1957. It was the first British colony in Africa to achieve independence. Capital: Accra.- Ivory Coast or Cote d'Ivoire: its neighbour to the west. Capital Yammousokro, in replacement of Abidjan. - Benin: nominal capital Porto Novo. Political and economic capital: Cotonou.- Nigeria: civil war in the late sixties. Capital Abuja. Main port: Lagos.
| What is the name of the wind that often blows in the afternoon in the city of Perth, Western Australia? | World Geography Quiz - 'Millionaire' Format (buguru) |
Fremantle Doctor. After a hot middle-of-the-day period, the 'Doctor' brings cool medicine.
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