E 07/01/06 Sunday Times Travel Quiz

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The Sunday Times is running its usual Travel quiz this year. The questions are quite hard (for me anyway) but the answers can usually be found on the internet after a little work. The prize is a £12K holiday which is definitely worth having but it is also quite fun researching the questions (I usually try and get my family involved over Christmas).

More details and the questions can be found here:http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,18929-1934461,00.html

The answers that I (with your help) have managed to get so far are set out below. When I get time to work on the rest of the questions I will post my answers here and if anyone else knows any of the answers please post them and I will try to collate them together by updating this post now and then. In particular we now seem to need the answers to 2 final questions, the first (question 14) is the name of a site where divers can see rifles, motorcycles, mortar shells and a steam locomotive. The second question asks you to name 4 famous statues that are pictured at the above link - does anyone have any ideas?! I am stumped!

Vic :xmastree:

Answers so far:

1. Papua New Guinea

2. (a) Native America
(b) Japan
(c) Malaysia
(d) Spain
(e) Finland and a hefty wife could refresh the most as the winner wins his wife's weight in beer.

3. Charles Dickins - Paris

4. Paul Gauguin

5. Ile de Porquerolles and Port Cros

6. Wroclaw

7. Greenland

8. The land of the long white cloud

9. He was swimming

10. (a) 33.46S 18.20E Robben Island, Capetown

(b) 37.50N 122.25W Alcatraz, San Francisco

(c) 43.08S 147.50E Port Arthur, Tasmania

11. (a) Brussels
(b) Lisbon
(c) Wigan

12. (a) they are located on a border between two countries
(b) they are all made out of caves
(c) They are all filming locations for the Harry Potter films

13. (a) Goulburn, New South Wales
(b) Yap, Federated States of Micronesia
(c) Tully, Queensland

14. ???

15. The currencies of Haiti, Laos and South Korea respectively

16. (a) Ferdinand Magellan
(b) Phileas Fogg
(c) Michael Palin

17. (a) (iii) Philippines
(b) (ii) Queensland
(c) (iv) India
(d) (v) Indonesia
(e) (i) Wales

18. Saba

19. (a) puffin
(b) shark
(c) guinea pig

20 ???

mikeyv_2

Some more answers:

6. Wroclaw
7. Greenland
8. The land of the long white cloud (not 100% sure of this one)
9. Himself (he swam it, registering himself as a boat which cost 36 cents, so maybe a swimming costume?)

13.a) Goulburn, New South Wales
b) Yap, Federated States of Micronesia
c) Tully, Queensland

15. Currency

16. a) Ferdinand Magellan
b) Phileas Fogg
c)

17. a) Philippines
b) Queensland
c) India
d) Indonesia
e) Wales

18. Saba

19. a) Puffin
b) Shark
c) Guinea Pig

tyke65

as for number 10:-

a) 33.46S 18.20E is near enuff capetown, so an educated guess says robben island

b) 37.50N 122.25W is san francisco, so it must be alcatraz

c) 43.08S 147.50E is tasmania, so again, the educated guess is port arthur

mike.mccusker

Number 3 is Paris - charles dickens wrote it

aylesby

My contribution / guess

14. SS Thistlegorm Red Sea

20 a) Venus di Milo
(b) Lincoln Memorial
(c) The Kiss by Rodin
(d) Pieta by Michelangelo

speckyhen

Many thanks to you all for sharing all your sterling research!!

speckyhen

Could the answer to 13 b, be Campbellford, Ontario, Canada?
http://www.bigthings.ca/ontario/campbell.html

Any idea what reference point was used for your original answer Vic?

mikeyv_2

speckyhen, I think you're right. I said Yap because I had seen somone had asked the question on another forum, and someone said that was the answer and I couldn't find anything different. But it looks like they were wrong and you were right.

samthecat

ref 12 (c) I do not think that Wigan holds city status so it could be either a mistake in the question or a red herring. What do you all think?

Saint_Chris

Yes wigan is not a city