Friday Fun – The World Records of Travel – Quiz

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    BigDog.
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    If you are trying the quiz you’ll need to answer before opening the link as it gives the answers.

    I scored an impressive (not) 9 out of 30. Have excluded a few questions as they are not travel related.

    Good luck and report back your score.

    The world records of travel.

    01 – Name of Oldest National Park (half a point for Country)
    03 – Most popular country for tourism
    04 – Name Old Museum (half a point for just its location)
    05 – Name Most visited modern art gallery
    06 – Largest fleet of electric taxis (half a point just for country)
    07 – Shortest funicular
    08 – Wettest Place (half a point just for country)
    09 – Heaviest Aircraft in Service
    11 – Hottest place
    12 –Tallest Roller Coaster (half a point just for country)
    13 – Warmest Ocean
    14 – Most people to climb Everest in a single day (unbelievable)
    15- Driest place (half a point just for country)
    16- Most expensive tourist trip. For bonus point give the cost.
    17- Country with most venomous snakes.
    18- Deadliest plane crash
    19- Happiest Country
    20- Longest pier
    21- Largest Restaurant location (half a point just for country)
    22-Largest Cruise Ship (bonus point for capacity to nearest 100)
    23- Largest active volcano (half a point just for country)
    24- Tallest unoccupied building (half a point just for country)
    25-Heaviest Building (half a point just for country)
    26- Largest Game Reserve (half a point just for country)
    29- Largest Aquarium ((half a point just for country)
    31- Most expensive hotel room (half a point just for country)
    32 – Coldest place (half a point just for country)
    33 – Tallest Building
    34- Largest hotel lobby
    35- Highest Swimming Pool (Hotel and Location)
    36- Most expensive club sandwich (Hotel)

    Answers and background here –

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/10302470/The-world-records-of-travel.html


    LuganoPirate
    Participant

    Well I managed a more impressive 6 BigDog ;-(

    Nice idea though.


    john485
    Participant

    This quiz is rubbish. The first two I looked at were wrong. It says a national park established in 1974 is the oldest! And it says the worlds highest pool is on the 188th floor of a building that is only 118 stories high.


    TerryMcManus24
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    Only for fun..init.. Anyway got 9…but not the Hyatt Lobby in SF and I have been there and had lunch a number of times back in the 80s (with a certain Lady from Dallas…ye Oil.)…..wonder what…never mind…


    canucklad
    Participant

    A poor 14.5 …..
    Agree with John485, ref Q1 ….The East Lothian town of Dunbar is not just famous for making the “Best” beer, or its proximity to some brilliant golf course but also famous for one of its sons…. A certain gent called John Muir.
    Loved the unfinished hotel in Pyongyang !!
    The beloved leader must like Kevin Costner movies, Build it and they shall come : ) .

    Oh dear…6.5!


    fatbear
    Participant

    6.5 as well…….


    BigDog.
    Participant

    A New Quiz – 15 Capitals of remote countries, can you name them

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/11138072/The-worlds-hardest-geography-quiz.html

    A mediocre 9/15 to beat.


    LuganoPirate
    Participant

    14/15 or 93%. I got Suriname capital city wrong. I knew most of them and the rest was a question of elimination!


    MrMichael
    Participant

    A dismal 9 for me too, did get Suriname though.

    13…not too hot on Pacific Islands!


    Hermes1964
    Participant

    14/15 too. If only I hadn’t just been paying attention in Geography!


    LuganoPirate
    Participant

    Hermes. +1


    fatbear
    Participant

    15 out of 15, but then I’ve always been a bit of an anorak when it comes to capital cities…..

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