Which country drinks the most tea? Where did Rishi Sunak spend his holiday? What national flag is she shipwrecked on? Test your wisdom with our quiz for all travelers (including those in wheelchairs)
1 Where did Rishi Sunak (below) spend this summer for his “first true family vacation” in years?
2 Name two of the seven countries invited to King Charles’ coronation in May.
3 Which country finally eased Covid restrictions and reopened its borders in January?
4 In April, which city in the UK was the first to impose a council tax?
5 Which seven-mile-long Welsh beach has the site of a new speed museum celebrating the numerous land speed records recorded here, adding one through actor Idris Elba, above, in a Bentley Continental GT?
6 Which city stood in for New York in the filming of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, EO, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, follows the European travels of Which Four-Legged Creature?
8 Name the romantic comedy that takes place on the streets of Peckham and Brixton, south London.
9 Sam Mendes’s love letter to the movies, Empire of Light, starring Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward, was set in which English seaside resort?
10 Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon was set and filmed in which US state?
11 What is the most common color in national flags?
12 What do the flags of Monaco, Indonesia, Poland, Peru and Austria have in common?
13 Name one of the two that have a map on their flag.
14 Which country reintroduced its original national flag in 2011 (pictured above), replacing an all-green flag symbol, used from 1977 to 2011?
15 Which country’s flag (pictured above) correctly has a shipwreck symbol?
16 What old-fashioned system do Myanmar, Liberia and the United States share?
17 Why is a Briton surprised when he hears the national anthem of Liechtenstein?
18 Which country has tea consumption consistent with capita?
19 And what about coffee?
20 Which country in South America is named after a European port city?
21 Where will the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 take place?
22 Which Asian megalopolis and capital was founded in the mid-nineteenth century through an organization of Chinese tin miners?
23 Rural Bundanoon, New South Wales, the first city to pass a planet-friendly law that was copied in many cities around the world.
24 What is transported on a crowdfunded pipeline that passes through the Belgian city of Bruges?
25 Brazil has had 3 capitals since the formation of the first one in 1549 (the first of the 3 is shown above). Can you call them?
26 Utah, pictured above, Wyoming and Colorado are neighbors, but they are also the only three U. S. states. U. S. companies that have what?
27 Name the U. S. state ending in 3 vowels.
28 And the one that starts with two.
29 What is so special about the islands of Diomedes Greater and Minor?Hint: one of them is in the United States.
30 What happens if you drive south from downtown Detroit across the Detroit River?
31 On which English beach in the city did a World War II bomb explode in February?
Home to many stray cats, the Largo di Torre Argentina in Rome opened to the public this summer. To what fateful occasion in March is his position due?
33 On which Greek island (pictured above) were the 19,000 tourists evacuated due to the wildfires in July?
34 The world’s longest railway tunnel broke down after a derailment in August. What’s your name?
35 Before the coronation, King Charles made his first state stop as monarch: to which country?
36-40 You know where these singers and revolutionaries were born, but can you name the countries where they died?
1 California 2 Russia, Belarus, Iran, Myanmar, Syria, Afghanistan and Venezuela 3 China four Manchester five Pendine Sands 6 Glasgow 7 A Donkey 8 Rye Lane nine Margate 10 Oklahoma 11 Red 12 All are red and white thirteen Cyprus or Kosovo 1four Libya 1five Bermuda 16 They use imperial measures 17 They look like God save the king 18 Turkey 1nine Finland 20 Venezuela 21 Malmö 22 Kuala Lumpur 23 Plastic water bottles banned single-use 2four Beer 2five Salvador, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia 26 All their borders are Straight lines 27 Hawaii 28 Iowa 29 They are three miles from each other, but the Great Diomede is in Russia and across the international date line 30 Entering Canada 31 Great Yarmouth 32 Assassination of Julius Caesar 33 Rhodes 3four St. Gotthard, Switzerland 35 Germany (Berlin) 36 Mexico (Leon Trotsky) 37 France (Jim Morrison) 38 United States (Bob Marley) 39 Bolivia (Che Guevara) 40 Switzerland (Tina Turner)