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Quiz about Stings Geography Course
Quiz about Stings Geography Course

Sting's Geography Course Trivia Quiz


Answer questions about geography you can learn while listening to the music of Sting!

A multiple-choice quiz by alaspooryoric. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
289,950
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
4187
Awards
Top 5% quiz!
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Question 1 of 10
1. In his song "Canary in a Coal Mine" from the "Zenyatta Mondatta" album, Sting speaks of a hypochondriac who wants "to spend the winter in Firenze." Where and/or what is this place? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. In "Too Much Information" from "Ghost in the Machine," Sting complains about modernization after he has traveled the world from the "Sea of Japan to the Cliffs of ______." No Brit would have to travel far to see these cliffs. What cliffs is he talking about? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. In one of the final songs of the "Synchronicity" album, Sting sings of some sisters whose ultimate ambition is to drink their tea in the largest desert in Africa. What desert would that be? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. In "Children's Crusade" from the "Dream of the Blue Turtles," Sting laments how the young British soldiers of WWI were "strewn on the fields" of France and one other country contiguous to France. What other country containing the city of Ghent does Sting mention? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. In his song "Moon over Bourbon Street" also from the "Dream of the Blue Turtles" album, Sting sings about a vampire who experiences a hellish loneliness because he is doomed to be separated from human contact. In what city is this famous Bourbon Street located? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. In "Why Should I Cry for You?" from "Soul Cages," Sting sings about his attempt to deal with his father's recent death. He relies on the imagery created by an individual traveling alone at sea and refers to "the stones of Faroe." Where and/or what is Faroe? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. In "Love Is Stronger Than Justice" from "Ten Summoner's Tales," Sting sings of seven brothers who stop in a town "for a few burritos." The townspeople ask them to help eliminate "los banditos" and offer them "las senoritas" as a reward. Where are the brothers? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. In the song "Valparaiso" from the "Mercury Falling" album, Sting sings of a sailor who is attempting to return to Valparaiso, where his "true love is waiting." Where is this? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. In "I Need You Like This Hole in My Head" composed for the soundtrack to the IMAX Theater film "Dolphins," Sting sings of a pair of dolphins and their love affair. The dolphin beau says, "My love for you is wider than the wide Sargasso Sea." Where is this? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. In "That Sinking Feeling" Sting sings about Ulysses, who is trying to sail home after "fighting in the siege of Troy." Home for Ulysses is an island among the Ionian Islands and lies just off the northeast coast of Cephalonia. Where is Ulysses's home? Hint



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1. In his song "Canary in a Coal Mine" from the "Zenyatta Mondatta" album, Sting speaks of a hypochondriac who wants "to spend the winter in Firenze." Where and/or what is this place?

Answer: Florence, Italy

The city of Firenze (or Florence in English) rests in central Italy on the Arno and is the provincial capital of Tuscany, where Sting currently has a home. It was the center of the Italian Renaissance from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
2. In "Too Much Information" from "Ghost in the Machine," Sting complains about modernization after he has traveled the world from the "Sea of Japan to the Cliffs of ______." No Brit would have to travel far to see these cliffs. What cliffs is he talking about?

Answer: The Cliffs of Dover

The cliffs of Dover create the part of the British coast that faces the Strait of Dover and the country of France; they extend from the ancient port of Dover. The cliffs reach around 350 feet high at some points. They are famously known as "the white cliffs of Dover" because they are composed primarily of chalk. Symbolically, these cliffs have always held great defensive and patriotic value for the British, for they face the European continent from which many invasions were launched before air travel.
3. In one of the final songs of the "Synchronicity" album, Sting sings of some sisters whose ultimate ambition is to drink their tea in the largest desert in Africa. What desert would that be?

Answer: The Sahara Desert

The Sahara Desert is indeed Africa's largest desert, and it covers a significant amount of north Africa, from the west coast all the way to the Nile. Interestingly, around four million people manage to live there. The song that Sting sings is called "Tea in the Sahara."
4. In "Children's Crusade" from the "Dream of the Blue Turtles," Sting laments how the young British soldiers of WWI were "strewn on the fields" of France and one other country contiguous to France. What other country containing the city of Ghent does Sting mention?

Answer: Belgium

Belgium, whose capital is Brussels, is bordered by The Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and France. France also shares its border with all of the countries mentioned except for The Netherlands. However, only Belgium contains the cities of Ghent and Antwerp, and only Belgium and France are mentioned in Sting's song.
5. In his song "Moon over Bourbon Street" also from the "Dream of the Blue Turtles" album, Sting sings about a vampire who experiences a hellish loneliness because he is doomed to be separated from human contact. In what city is this famous Bourbon Street located?

Answer: New Orleans, USA

New Orleans in the state of Louisiana was established by French settlers near the mouth of the Mississippi River and near Lake Pontchartrain, both of which empty into the Gulf of Mexico. The city is often associated with revelry, hedonism, and dark arts, and Bourbon Street is the symbolic center of these associations. Sting wrote this song after reading Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire."
6. In "Why Should I Cry for You?" from "Soul Cages," Sting sings about his attempt to deal with his father's recent death. He relies on the imagery created by an individual traveling alone at sea and refers to "the stones of Faroe." Where and/or what is Faroe?

Answer: Islands in the Norwegian Sea

The Faroe Islands are northwest of the Shetland Islands and southeast of Iceland; they exist as a province of Denmark. Irish hermits, most likely monks, and Vikings were among the original settlers.
7. In "Love Is Stronger Than Justice" from "Ten Summoner's Tales," Sting sings of seven brothers who stop in a town "for a few burritos." The townspeople ask them to help eliminate "los banditos" and offer them "las senoritas" as a reward. Where are the brothers?

Answer: Mexico

Obviously, the Spanish excludes Brazil, a Portuguese speaking nation, but with a situation involving vigilante cowboys, banditos, senoritas, and burritos, the location could be only Mexico. In fact, the song explains they found themselves "down Mexico way." Unfortunately, the townspeople renege on their deal: after the seven brothers kill the banditos, they discover there is only one senorita for all of them.

The lusty youngest brother kills his other six brothers--thus proving that "love is stronger than justice."
8. In the song "Valparaiso" from the "Mercury Falling" album, Sting sings of a sailor who is attempting to return to Valparaiso, where his "true love is waiting." Where is this?

Answer: A coastal city of Chile

Before he reaches the comfort of Valparaiso, the sailor says he must first sail "round the Cape Horn." Valparaiso was once a great and captivating port on the coast of Chile; however, the Panama Canal diverted much of the traffic that stopped there, and the city succumbed to poverty. Recently, the town has undergone a rebirth and is once again becoming a popular tourist destination.

It is only 71 miles northwest of Santiago, Chile's capital. Sting claims that he has always been fascinated with South America and that Valparaiso was particularly captivating.

He writes, "I imagined that it meant a valley of paradise and pictured old sailing ships berthed in its peaceful harbor, resting after the terrors of Cape Horn."
9. In "I Need You Like This Hole in My Head" composed for the soundtrack to the IMAX Theater film "Dolphins," Sting sings of a pair of dolphins and their love affair. The dolphin beau says, "My love for you is wider than the wide Sargasso Sea." Where is this?

Answer: An expanse of the Atlantic Ocean between the West Indies and the Azores

Bermuda and parts of the Bermuda Triangle lie in the Sargasso Sea. This body of water is named for the seaweed "sargassum" that floats over its entire surface. When Christopher Columbus first encountered this area, he made the mistake of thinking land had to be nearby because of the seaweed and attempted to measure the depth of the water, only to find no bottom. Oddly, the waters of the Sargasso Sea are largely immobile because they are surrounded by some of the strongest, interlocking currents of the Atlantic Ocean.

The title of the song is a very interesting one, by the way. Most of time, a variation of this statement is used to declare sarcastically that one doesn't need someone; in this case, however, a dolphin is most dependent upon the hole in its head.
10. In "That Sinking Feeling" Sting sings about Ulysses, who is trying to sail home after "fighting in the siege of Troy." Home for Ulysses is an island among the Ionian Islands and lies just off the northeast coast of Cephalonia. Where is Ulysses's home?

Answer: Ithaca

Ithaca Island lies off Greece's west coast. The island has been inhabited probably since the second millennium BC. It has been occupied by not only the Greeks, but the Romans, Normans, Franks, Turks, French, and British. In 1953, most of the island's infrastructure was destroyed by an earthquake, and most of the buildings on the island are no older than fifty years. You can read "The Odyssey" for more about Ulysses's (or Odysseus's) adventures as he is sailing home to Ithaca; the epic poem was written by Homer, who may have lived on Ithaca himself.
Source: Author alaspooryoric

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