Clubbing Around The World Trivia Quiz

Answer: Ibiza

Ibiza is situated in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Southeast Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, after Majorca and Minorca. Ibiza offers beautiful beaches, picturesque villages and quiet forests, yet it is world famous for its crazy, hedonistic parties, mostly concentrated around the bigger towns. Located near San Rafael, the colossal disco Privilege has a capacity of some 10,000 people, and an area of over 7,000 square meters.

It boasts about 20 bars, two VIP areas, a swimming pool, a glass dome, a small plane hanging from the ceiling, and much more. Do arrange a meeting point with your friends! Trying to find them among crowds of wild dancers could drive you to despair.

Answer: Ulysses

Today, "Ulysses" is widely regarded as one of the literary masterpieces of the 20th century, but when first published in Paris in 1922, it was condemned as "nonsensical, obscure and obscene".
The tale, a modern parallel to Homer's epic "Odyssey", takes place in Dublin, and describes the events of one single day in the life of three people, Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom and Stephan Dedalus. The Davy Byrne's pub is especially associated with Leopold Bloom, who spends there a part of his day.
Located on 21 Duke Street, the pub has kept its Victorian character and décor. Its culinary speciality is seafood. So, if you love James Joyce, but you don't care for Gorgonzola cheese or Burgundy wine, you need have no qualms about indulging in oysters and Guinness.

Answer: Charlie Biddle

Charles Reed Biddle was born in Philadelphia in 1926, but lived in Quebec for over fifty years, and became a Canadian citizen in 2000. Married to a French Canadian, he raised five children, all musicians. He first went to Montreal in 1948, and from that year he took countless initiatives to promote jazz music in Quebec. In 1979, he produced the first local jazz festival, which paved the way to the "Festival International de Jazz de Montréal", now one of the most important jazz festivals in the world.

In 1981, the musician opened his own club, the "Biddle's Jazz and Ribs", where he played bass fiddle weekly, for over 20 years. After his death, in 2003, his heirs started a legal battle to have his name and image removed from the club, so "Biddle's Jazz and Ribs" was renamed "House of Jazz".

Answer: El Floridita

A plaque reminds that El Floridita was the "cradle of the daiquirí", the cocktail of rum and lime juice invented by its famous bartender, Constante.
"...he had drunk double frozen daiquiris, the great ones that Constante made, that had no taste of alcohol and felt, as you drank them, the way downhill glacier skiing feels running through powder snow ....", wrote Hemingway in "Islands in the stream", his unfinished novel that reveals obvious autobiographical traits.
The novelist's bronze statue and the other mementoes displayed in "Hemingway Corner", testify that he was the most assiduous, famous and beloved of all patrons.

Answer: Cognac

Originally made with fresh pureed white peaches, champagne and cognac, the Bellini cocktail is now popular everywhere in several variations, particularly with peach juice and Prosecco, an Italian sparkling wine. It was named after the Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini (1426-1516). The legendary Harry's Bar in Venice was founded in 1931 by Giuseppe Cipriani, financially assisted by a certain Harry Pickering, a young, rich American who owed him a debt of gratitude.

Many international celebrities have enjoyed their drinks in the relaxed and sophisticated atmosphere of the Harry's Bar. With a Bellini in our hand and a little imagination, we can all be part of the glitterati. To face the astronomic bill with fortitude, though, we need more than one cocktail.

Answer: Sir Winston Churchill

The story is very popular, but probably untrue. Jenny Jerome, aka Lady Randolph Churchill (1854-1921) was a famous American beauty and Sir Winston Churchill's mother. As the legend goes, she gave a banquet in 1874 at the Manhattan Club in New York to celebrate Samuel J. Tilden's election as governor, and commissioned a new cocktail for the occasion.

The bartender mixed American Whiskey, Italian Vermouth, and Angostura Bitters, garnished the whole with a Maraschino cherry, et voilà: the "Manhattan Cocktail" was born. Considering that, at about the same time, Lady Churchill also gave birth to her son Winston in England, it doesn't seem very likely that she would cross the pond and give parties.

A variation of the story suggests that the banquet was held for Tilden's presidential candidacy in 1876. True or not, this certainly sounds more plausible.

Answer: Queensland

Birdsville is a little outback town located in Queensland, on the banks of the Diamantina River between the Simpson Desert and the Sturt's Stony Desert. Birdsville counts only about 120 inhabitants. The two day horse races held in September, though, are a major outback event and draw thousands of visitors, national and international. Funds raised during the races are donated to the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the Birdsville Clinic.

The Birdsville Hotel and Pub was built in 1884, and was originally a surveyors' depot. Along with more traditional dishes, its menu features also emu and camel.

Answer: Greco

The painter Giorgio de Chirico, who every morning drank his cappuccino at the Antico Caffè Greco, used to say: "The Caffè Greco is the only place to sit and wait for the end of the world". The list of the famous personalities who have frequented this coffee house is infinite: novelists, poets, composers, singers, actors, kings, queens, maharajahs. It was founded in 1760, and it is one of the oldest cafés in the world.

The walls display antique paintings and mementoes of all the celebrities who have been there.

The elegant décor, the tiny marble tables, the plush red upholstered sits: all has remained as it was centuries ago. The only difference are the swarms of tourists, loaded with Gucci and Prada bags, who mercilessly fill even the rooms' most remote corners.

Answer: Whites

Unlike most traditional Gentlemen's clubs (not to be confused with the Gentlemen's clubs referring to adult entertainment), White's still exists today. It is on St James's Street, the London area in which most Gentlemen's clubs were once located. White's was the oldest and most magnificent of all Regency establishments.

It counted among its members the most illustrious names of British nobility and high society, such as the "Arbiter of Fashion", Beau Brummell, the Duke of Argyll, and Lord Alvanley.

Its gaming room, in which more than one lord lost his fortune, was known as "hell", and its infamous Betting Book reveals that the members wagered on simply everything, from the most banal to the most significant events in life.

Answer: Maxfield Parrish

Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) was born in Philadelphia. He was a prolific artist, and his many paintings and murals have been reproduced in magazines, books, prints, calendars etc.
He created the mural sized painting "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" in 1909. During Prohibition, the painting was moved to another room of the hotel, but now it has its permanent place in the namesake bar.
Countless eminent people have resided at the Palace Hotel, including Queen Elizabeth, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Thomas Edison. Burnt down during the earthquake of 1906, the Palace Hotel was rebuilt in all its magnificence in 1914.

Answer: Les Deux Magots

The terrace-café Les Deux Magots, in the heart of St. Germain-des-Prés, derives its name from the play "Les Deux Magots de la Chine" (Two Dignitaries from China), which was popular in the 19th century. With its rival next door, Café de Flore, and the Brasserie Lipp, across the street, this bistro forms a "golden triangle" of Parisian cultural history. For decades, the "crème de la crème" of Parisian intelligentsia has met, discussed, written, smoked, drunk and eaten here -- surrealists such as Breton and Cocteau, existentialists like Sartre, Beauvoir, and Camus, the lost generation around Francis S. Fitzgerald, and many more glorious names.

Answer: Hungry Duck

In the 90's, the "Hungry Duck" was often quoted by the media as the wildest, craziest and most depraved spot in the world. Its notorious bacchanalias, marked by a total lack of inhibitions, nightly attracted huge crowds of Russians and foreigners. Regular occurrences were also brawls, accidents, police and narcotics raids. Over 200 criminal cases were raised against the "Hungry Duck", which became the only bar in the world to be denounced in a national parliament.

The scandalised government closed it in 2001.

It was re-opened some months later, but as some patrons say (or rather complain), it has lost much of its wildness.

Answer: Eric Clapton

The original Hard Rock Café was founded in 1971 in London, Hyde Park, by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton, two American lovers of hard rock 'n' roll. It was an immediate success, and the owners expanded all over the world. All Hard Rock Cafés are music themed, and they attract their customers with live music and with the world's greatest collection of rock 'n' roll memorabilia.

As legend has it, the collection was started when Eric Clapton, an assiduous frequenter of the original London Hard Rock Café, donated a signed guitar to be hung on the wall. Allegedly, a week later Pete Townsend sent his guitar too, pointing out that it was as good as Eric's.

However it started, the huge collection consists nowadays of over 70,000 "treasures", including Jimi Hendrix' and B.B. King's guitars, John Lennon's hand written "Help" lyrics, Madonna's bustier and Elton John's glasses.

The collection regularly rotated from café to café.

Answer: Park Hyatt

"Lost in Translation" contains unforgettable scenes at the Peak Lounge, with a shy Scarlett Johansson and a bored Bill Murray searching the meaning of their lives. The movie was directed by Sofia Coppola in 2001, and a great part of it is set at the Hotel Park Hyatt. The Peak Lounge, in the style of a bamboo garden, is situated on the 41st floor, and offers a spectacular panorama of Tokyo. During the day, the light streams through the glass ceiling, and at night the bar is suggestively lit by washi paper lanterns.

Answer: Allen Ginsberg

The Blue Moon Tavern opened in 1934, "one mile from campus", as the State law prescribed, and all the students and professors flocked there to buy alcohol. Since then, it has been a popular hangout for bohemians and literary icons, such as Jack Kerouac, Dylan Thomas, Theodore Roethke, Richard Hugo, Carolyn Kizer, and many others. In the late 80s, a civic crusade saved the Blue Moon Tavern from demolition, and in 1990 it was officially declared a historic landmark. American Beat-era poet Allan Ginsberg (1926-1997) is especially famous for his poem "Howl", which begins with the lines "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix..." The poem is dedicated to his friend, the writer Carl Solomon, whom he met while staying at a mental institution.

Answer: A Garota de Ipanema

Today, the Café Veloso in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro's elegant district, has been renamed "A Garota de Ipanema", and the street, "Rua Vinícius de Moraes". Although composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and lyricist Vinícius de Moraes didn't write their famous bossa nova song at the Café Veloso, they have always connected it with the lovely Helô Pinheiro, a young girl who lived in Ipanema. The "king of bossa nova", Joao Gilberto, sang the "Garota de Ipanema" in Portuguese, and Astrud Gilberto the English version, "Girl from Ipanema", which became an international hit in the 60's.

Answer: Studio 54

The hottest and hippest disco that New York has ever had, Studio 54, opened in 1977 and closed in 1986. A magnet for the rich and beautiful of the world in its glory days, Studio 54 was probably the most famous nightclub of all time. In 1979, we could have had our drink served by young Alec Baldwin ("The Hunt for Red October"), who worked there for a couple of months as a busboy. Today, Studio 54 serves as a permanent venue for Roundabout Theatre Company.

Answer: St Pauli

As John Lennon famously stated, he was born in Liverpool, but grew up in Hamburg. At the beginning of the 1960's, the Beatles started their unparalleled careers in the Hanseatic city in Northern Germany. The lively St Pauli district is the centre of Hamburg's nightlife.

The main street, the Reeperbahn, is lined with restaurants, bars, cabarets, theatres, discos, sex shops, strip joints etc. In the side streets, especially in the renowned Grosse Freiheit ("Great freedom") there are clubs, bars and theatres with live sex shows.

Some are tourist traps, some are true originals. Two of the clubs in which the Beatles played, the StarClub and the Kaiserkeller, burnt down, others as the TopTen and the Indra, still exist, although very changed.

Answer: La Boqueria

The "Mercat de St Josep" also called La Boquería, is a temple of gastronomic delights. Under the high ceiling, the stalls display a colourful profusion of vegetables, fruits, fish, meat, candies, flowers, all artistically arranged like still-life masterworks. The Boquería is located on La Rambla, Les Rambles in Catalan, Barcelona's main artery, justly considered one of the most beautiful streets of the world. The Bar Pinotxo (which means Pinocchio) is located in the market area.

Answer: Bermuda

Bermuda (also called "Great Bermuda") is the largest island of the namesake British dependency in the Atlantic Ocean, formed by several islands, islets and coral rocks. Its capital is Hamilton.The Swizzle Inn is Bermuda's oldest pub, and is situated in Hamilton Parish. Established in 1932, the "Swizzle" is home to Bermuda's national drink, the famous "Swizzle", a potent mixture of dark rum, bitters, triple sec and fruit juice. Two of them and, as some Bermudans say, "you forget your name".