Friday, June 19, 2015

Travel Trivia!

For those who like to travel, here are some fun trivia questions. See how many you get right…

1) Which country gets the most people visiting every year?
2) Which country's people consume more beer per capita than anyone else on earth?
3) What is the only US state that had a king?
4) How many people go on a cruise holiday each year?
5) What percent of Africa is in the Northern Hemisphere?
6) Which country is the smallest sovereign nation in the world but also has the highest population density in the world?
7) Which country, located in the Americas, has the most lakes in the world?
8) Do glaciers store more or less than 50% of all the freshwater on the planet?
9) Does the Eiffel Tower or the Empire State Building have more steps?
10) Which island nation has the highest number of spoken languages in the world?
11) What is the driest place on the planet?
12) What is the only continent on the world without a desert?
13) Which city is known as the bullfighting capital of the world?
14) What is the largest Island country?
15) The Russian embassy in the US owes how much money in unpaid parking tickets?


Answers
1) France - over 80 million people visit annually
2) Czechoslovakians consume more beer per capita than anyone else on earth
3) Hawaii
4) Over 10 million take a cruise each year.
5) About 2/3 of Africa is in the Northern Hemisphere
6) Monaco
7) Canada
8) Glaciers store between 70-80% of all the freshwater on the planet. 99% of those glaciers are in the Arctic and Antarctic.
9) The Emipre State Building (1,860 steps) versus the Eiffel Tower (1,792).
10) Papua New Guinea - 820 indigenous languages are spoken in this country.
11) Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.
12) Europe
13) Seville, Spain.
14) Greenland - 839,000 square miles. (Australia is larger, but is a continent versus island.)
15) $3.8 million dollar in unpaid parking tickets!

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