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Gone with the Four Winds Trivia Quiz


All of the places mentioned in this quiz are known for being windy, and they come from the four corners of the globe. Let's see how many you recognize!

A multiple-choice quiz by shuehorn. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
shuehorn
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
345,108
Updated
May 25 24
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
7668
Awards
Top 10% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
1. You are at the northernmost town in the island of Guam in Oceania. The wind is whipping by your face, and you pick up the tempting aromas of coffee, cocoa, pineapples, oranges and tangerines. You look around and see townspeople transporting their wares on carts pulled by harnessed carabau (a local relative of the water buffalo). Where in the world are you? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. You head west and find yourself at the Penghu Islands, an archipelago made up of more than 90 small islands. With basalt columns forming a dominant part of the landscape and coastlines formed of basalt magma, in which body of water is this disputed area, claimed by both China and Taiwan, located?
Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Heading south, you find yourself in one of the windiest cities in Australia. It's early in the morning, and a howling easterly wind is racing down the Darling scarp, and the Fremantle Doctor is due in the late afternoon. In which Western Australian capital city, which is going to have a scorcher today, are you? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. After heading southwest, you're at a desolate mountain, near the seaside. The nearest source of fresh water is over 1,200 km (around 800 miles) away. Katabatic winds make you shiver as if you'll never get warm again. Where on earth are you? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. After heading north, you find yourself in a deserted, dry and arid town. The wind whips your hair around and sends sand into your eyes. You feel as if you have been transported back in time to the old west of Canada or the United States, but you know that's not possible. The signs on the abandoned ghost town streets mention diamond mines, and the wind shows no signs of letting up. Where in the world are you? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. You're not sure how you got here, but you find yourself talking to a man in a kilt, who's raving about the ice cream factory down the road. The wind is so strong that you have a hard time hearing your host, to say nothing of the trouble you're having with his accent. You wonder why anyone would put an ice cream factory here, in this cold and windy locale, and your host exclaims that it's the technology of the future, wind turbines to power the plant in this, the windiest spot in all of Europe. Where on earth are you? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. After a quick hop across the pond, you've arrived in one of the quintessential Wild West frontier towns of the 19th century. The wind is howling and you struggle to hold on to your cowboy hat as you walk around this city nicknamed the "Queen of the Cow Towns". Located in the Great Plains above the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the largest underground water systems in the world, in which windy city, better known for the exploits of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, are you? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. After heading due south, you're in a Chilean community bordering the Strait of Magellan. This city was once named after the Portuguese explorer. During the local winter (July and August) winds can reach velocities up to 130 km/h. When the sun shines, you risk being overexposed to UV radiation, because this place was the first to suffer the consequences of the hole in the ozone layer. Where on earth are you? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Coming from the west, you're now in a city sometimes designated as the southernmost city in the world. The wind, which is substantial, blows mainly from the southwest. Where in the world are you? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. After continuing eastward on your trek, you are now in a city named after the victor of the Battle of Waterloo and located in the southern part of the north island of New Zealand. In which city, the southern-most capital in the world and also one of the world's most remote, are you? Hint



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1. You are at the northernmost town in the island of Guam in Oceania. The wind is whipping by your face, and you pick up the tempting aromas of coffee, cocoa, pineapples, oranges and tangerines. You look around and see townspeople transporting their wares on carts pulled by harnessed carabau (a local relative of the water buffalo). Where in the world are you?

Answer: Yigo

Yigo, a village on the isle of Guam in Oceania, derives its name from the word "yugu", meaning harness for a beast of burden. Yigo is the island's northernmost village. The soil is rich for producing many crops, like the ones mentioned in the question. One of the manufactured products that Yigo is famous for is chocolate. Yigo also has many Ifil wood trees, used to produce a fine hardwood for furniture and other items. By some accounts, it is the 8th windiest place in the world.

Timbuktu is not very windy and is in Mali. Sinjana and Barrigada are small towns in the center of Guam, which are not windy and not noted for the characteristics mentioned above.
2. You head west and find yourself at the Penghu Islands, an archipelago made up of more than 90 small islands. With basalt columns forming a dominant part of the landscape and coastlines formed of basalt magma, in which body of water is this disputed area, claimed by both China and Taiwan, located?

Answer: Taiwan Strait

The Penghu Islands, a group of low lying islands with vast grasslands, lie in the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and mainland China and are considered to be one of the windiest places in Asia. Most of the islands are uninhabited with Makung, the only city in the archipelago, located on the largest island, Penghu. The archipelago forms a natural boundary between the East China Sea and the South China Sea.

The other three water bodies also border the island of Taiwan.
3. Heading south, you find yourself in one of the windiest cities in Australia. It's early in the morning, and a howling easterly wind is racing down the Darling scarp, and the Fremantle Doctor is due in the late afternoon. In which Western Australian capital city, which is going to have a scorcher today, are you?

Answer: Perth

Perth is known as one of the windiest cities in the world, let alone Australia. Crosswinds at the main airport make it difficult for planes to land and you know it's going to be a hot day when the easterly winds pick up in the summer. The great relief to people living in Perth though is the 'Fremantle Doctor', a south-westerly wind that comes in the afternoon to cool the entire city down... By some accounts, Perth is the 10th windiest city in the world.

Although Geraldton is also one of Western Australia's windiest places, it's not the capital and it's nowhere near Fremantle. Lying on the coast approximately four hours north of Perth, it's a lovely place to visit. Broome is in the far north of Western Australia and known more for its pearl farming and amazing beaches. Albany is in the south and known for being the first settlement in Western Australia and a very busy whaling area for many years.
4. After heading southwest, you're at a desolate mountain, near the seaside. The nearest source of fresh water is over 1,200 km (around 800 miles) away. Katabatic winds make you shiver as if you'll never get warm again. Where on earth are you?

Answer: Mount Erebus, Antarctica

Katabatic winds are cold downslope winds, which reach maximum velocity in the icy regions. In the vicinity of Mount Erebus, katabatic winds strike McMurdo Valley with hurricane force. Though it is not heavily populated (and has no permanent population), most accounts put Antarctica as the windiest place on the planet.

Mount Erebus is situated near the South Pole, and approximately 1,200 km south west of the subglacial Lake Vostok. Mount Erebus borders the Ross Sea. The other mountains or rocks are much closer to fresh water. Loreley Rock is at the bank of the Rhine. Grossgloeckner is some 60 km (40 miles) from Zell am See (and the eponymous lake). The Vesuvius, between Naples and Salerno, is in a region full of small rivers and lakes.
5. After heading north, you find yourself in a deserted, dry and arid town. The wind whips your hair around and sends sand into your eyes. You feel as if you have been transported back in time to the old west of Canada or the United States, but you know that's not possible. The signs on the abandoned ghost town streets mention diamond mines, and the wind shows no signs of letting up. Where in the world are you?

Answer: Pomona, Namibia

Pomona is a ghost town now, but it was once a hustling and bustling boom town for the diamond trade in Southern Africa. It is now part of the Sperrgebiet National Park in Namibia, which restored access to the country's Forbidden Territory in 2010. Pomona's claim to fame is that it has the highest average wind speeds in Southern Africa, and is one of the windiest places on the African continent!

Johannesburg is a diamond-producing center, but it is not as windy as Pomona and it could in no way be considered a ghost town. Mumbai is another highly populated area, and it is not known for diamond production. Murfreesboro, Arkansas is one of the only places in the US that diamonds can be mined, but it does not fit the rest of the description at all.
6. You're not sure how you got here, but you find yourself talking to a man in a kilt, who's raving about the ice cream factory down the road. The wind is so strong that you have a hard time hearing your host, to say nothing of the trouble you're having with his accent. You wonder why anyone would put an ice cream factory here, in this cold and windy locale, and your host exclaims that it's the technology of the future, wind turbines to power the plant in this, the windiest spot in all of Europe. Where on earth are you?

Answer: Aberdeenshire, Scotland

In 2011, the BBC named Scotland the windiest country in Europe, after a dispute over an advertisement for Mackies Ice Cream that boasted about using wind turbines to power their carbon-neutral factory in Aberdeenshire. The University of Glasgow's Wind Research Facility performed tests that proved Aberdeenshire's claim to be correct, with wind speeds of over 20 mph consistently all year-round.

The other places mentioned are windy, but not as much so, and they don't have kilt-wearing patriots extolling the virtues of the local ice cream factory.
7. After a quick hop across the pond, you've arrived in one of the quintessential Wild West frontier towns of the 19th century. The wind is howling and you struggle to hold on to your cowboy hat as you walk around this city nicknamed the "Queen of the Cow Towns". Located in the Great Plains above the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the largest underground water systems in the world, in which windy city, better known for the exploits of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, are you?

Answer: Dodge City, Kansas

The Great Plains consist of a vast stretch of flat land covering large parts of North America. Dodge City rose to prominence when the regular route for driving cattle from Texas to the railway lines of Kansas was quarantined due to the spread of splenic fever, also known as Texas Fever, by ticks carried by the longhorn Texan cattle. Dodge City is considered by some accounts to be the sixth windiest city in the world.

Incidentally, the state of Kansas was named after the Native American tribe of Kansa. Kansa is widely accepted to mean "people of the south wind".
8. After heading due south, you're in a Chilean community bordering the Strait of Magellan. This city was once named after the Portuguese explorer. During the local winter (July and August) winds can reach velocities up to 130 km/h. When the sun shines, you risk being overexposed to UV radiation, because this place was the first to suffer the consequences of the hole in the ozone layer. Where on earth are you?

Answer: Punta Arenas

Although Punta Arenas has about 120,000 inhabitants (according to the 2002 census), the Chilean government has not granted city rights to the area. It is governed as every other Chilean municipality by an alcalde (a title comparable to the mayor of a small community).

Punta Arenas was founded in 1843 by only 21 people. The local economy thrives on sheep farming, fishing, tourism and oil refineries. By some accounts, Punta Arenas is the fourth windiest city in the world (using population as the measure of a city and not the Chilean government's criteria).

Machu Picchu is a famous city that is now Inca ruins in southern Peru. Iquitos is another Peruvian city, the largest city in the Peruvian rainforest on the Amazon river. Copiapo is a small municipality in northern Chile, and it is famous because 33 miners were trapped in a collapsed copper mine in 2010. Thankfully, they were liberated after 69 days, and none of them died.
9. Coming from the west, you're now in a city sometimes designated as the southernmost city in the world. The wind, which is substantial, blows mainly from the southwest. Where in the world are you?

Answer: Ushuaia

Ushuaia, Argentina is considered to be the southernmost city in the world, situated at 54° 48' South. Some Europeans did call it "the furthest place on Earth", but that depends on your starting point. It is the capital of the Argentinian province of Tierra del Fuego, and it counted about 56,000 inhabitants in 2010.

There are other settlements further south, but as these are very small settlements, they probably don't deserve the name "city". Ushuaia is also very windy, by some accounts, it is the seventh windiest city in the world.

Durban (South Africa) is on 29° 53' South. Hobart (Australia) is on 42°52' South.

Tristan da Cunha is an island on 37° 4' South, and it is part of the most remote archipelago in the world, the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. It counted a resident population of only 275 in 2009.
10. After continuing eastward on your trek, you are now in a city named after the victor of the Battle of Waterloo and located in the southern part of the north island of New Zealand. In which city, the southern-most capital in the world and also one of the world's most remote, are you?

Answer: Wellington

Wellington became capital of New Zealand in 1865, replacing the old capital, Auckland. Wellington also has a fault line running through the center of the city hence the reason for so many buildings in the city center being made of wood instead of the more modern concrete and brick construction. Wellington also boasts the largest wooden office building in the southern hemisphere. By some accounts, Wellington is the windiest city in the world.

Auckland is the biggest city in New Zealand and is also home to the largest Polynesian community in the world. Christchurch lies nearly half-way down the east coast of the south island of New Zealand and is well-known for a series of massive earthquakes in the early 2010s nearly destroying the city. Invercargill is the southern and western-most city in New Zealand, lying on the far south coast of the south island. Invercargill is cold, wet and part of the cloudiest region of New Zealand.
Source: Author shuehorn

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