Ten Degrees of the World Trivia

1. This South American capital city sits on the banks of a river that is nearly 70 miles wide at that point, and sits in the country that won the first FIFA World Cup.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part VI

Answer: Montevideo

Although the Uruguayan peso is the official currency, many products are offered for sale in US dollars in Uruguay and ATM machines dispense both currencies. The city has 14 miles of public beaches on the Rio de la Plata. Montevideo is the southernmost capital city in South America, and Buenos Aires sits upstream. Uruguay is referred to as the "Switzerland of the Americas" because of its solid economy and structured banking system. Sister cities of Montevideo include Mexico City, Paris, and Havana.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part V

Answer: Amsterdam

Even though Amsterdam is the capital and largest city in the Netherlands, the Dutch government is based out of The Hague. As you probably know already, Amsterdam is found at sea level, with the average height at two meters, and the airport found at four meters below sea level. There are plenty of museums in Amsterdam, more than 140, including the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, Hermitage, and the house of Anne Frank. Some of Amsterdam's sister cities are Kiev, Montreal, and Manchester.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part III

Answer: Dubai

When oil was discovered in the Dubai area in 1966, the city's economy, cityscape and demography took off. A mass immigration led to the 2000s, when less than 20% of Dubai citizens were locals. In 1968, there was reportedly 13 cars in the city, as well as only one skyscraper in 1991. Today there are over 400 skyscrapers, including Burj Al Arab, the first seven-star hotel, which is located on an artificial island. Looking for Mohammed? The city has the most people named that than any other in the world. Dubai's sister cities include Caracas, Moscow, and Brisbane.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part II

Answer: Madrid

At 650 meters, Madrid is over 100 meters higher than Bern, Switzerland, but far behind Andorra la Vella, which is the highest at 1,023 meters. The official symbol of Madrid is a bear standing on its hind legs and eating berries from a madroño tree. Madrid is home to soccer team Real Madrid, considered by FIFA to have been the world's most successful teams in the 20th century. In that century they won 27 league titles (with the first one in 1932), 17 Copa Del Rays, and eight UEFA Champions League titles. A rival to Disney World, Madrid also houses "Warner Brothers Movie Park". Open for six months every summer, the attraction holds five different theme parks: Old West Territory, Hollywood, DC Super Heroes, Cartoon Village, and Warner Bros. Studios. Madrid is also a sister city to New York City, Berlin, and Beijing.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part VII

Answer: Quebec City

Quebec Winter Carnival is most synonymous with its snowman mascot, Bonhomme. Near a million visitors take part in the festival each year, almost double the city's population. The city was founded in 1608 by French explorer Samuel de Champlain who called the city "Kwebec", an Algonquin term meaning "where the river narrows". The walls surrounding Quebec's Old Town still stand, making it the only walled city in North America found north of Mexico. That section was classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. In 1763, the French were defeated by British troops in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. The British victory began the unification of New France and the eventual establishment of Canada.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part VI

Answer: Saint Petersburg

The city was renamed Petrograd, after Peter the Great, in 1914 and then Leningrad, after Vladimir Lenin, in 1924. With the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991, Saint Petersburg was reinstated. Peter the Great founded the city in 1703, looking for a port city in which to build the Russian navy and to Westernize Russian society. Saint Petersburg was the capital of Russia for over 200 years, and today is the largest European city that is not a capital. Situated on the Neva River, Saint Petersburg has more bridges than any European city and features 170 km of coastline. Sister cities of Saint Petersburg include Melbourne, Helsinki, and Rio de Janeiro.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part V

Answer: Athens

The Acropolis or "high city" is the sacred site where Greeks built temples to honour their gods and/or goddesses. The Parthenon is the most well-known, built to remember Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and skill, and also the basis of Athens' name. The Olympic Games were first held in 776 BC in Olympia, some 260 km (160 miles) from Athens, and were well attended. Instead of gold medals awarded today, victors got olive wreaths, and ones who backed out of the Games were fined for cowardice. The modern Olympics started in Athens in 1896, and returned in 2004. Athens has many sister cities, including Seoul, Washington D.C., and Barcelona.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part III

Answer: Detroit

From Detroit, one can look east across the Detroit River, to Windsor, Ontario. As the river bends to the east, one can look south to Windsor. The "Big 3" auto manufacturers, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, earned Detroit the nicknames "The Motor City" or "Motown" for short. In the Detroit River sits Belle Isle, a 1,000 acre island and park. Included on the island is a nine-hole golf course, museum, and baseball, football, and basketball fields/courts. Some of Detroit's sister cities are Minsk, Turin, and, fittingly, Toyota, Japan.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part I

Answer: Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the second largest city, and the location of the Scottish parliament. The city has been in existence since the sixth century, but did not gain city status until 1889. Edinburgh's "Old Town" is home to some of the oldest high-rise buildings, due to the narrowness of the roads and the crowdedness in that part of town. The "New Town" was the answer to the crowdedness in the "Old Town", and was designed by young architect James Craig in 1766. Famous people from Edinburgh include authors J.K. Rowling and Sir Walter Scott, TV comedian Ronnie Corbett, and telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell. Edinburgh has been twinned with Vancouver since 1977. They are also twinned with other world cities like Kiev, Florence, Krakow, and San Diego.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part VII

Answer: Bordeaux

Historically, Bordeaux has been governed by many different leaders. The region has been controlled by the Roman Empire, Francia, and even served as an independent state before King Louis XVI's army entered the city in 1653 and brought it inside France. The French government temporarily relocated to Bordeaux during the Franco-Prussian War and the two World Wars, although they were forced out to Vichy in World War II. It also served as a German U-boat base during the Second World War. The city is on the Garonne River and is home to an estimated 287,000 acres (116,000 hectares) of vineyards and produces close to a billion bottles of wine annually. The aeronautical industry in Bordeaux has produced the Dassault Falcon private aircraft and cockpits for the commercial Airbus A380.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part VI

Answer: Manchester

Along with the legendary Manchester United and City teams, The Football League (the precursor to the Premiership) was also founded in Manchester in 1887. With a team of top scientists assembled, Ernest Rutherford first split the atom, a discovery that led to the beginning of atomic weapons. Also in Manchester you can find the UK's oldest public library with over 60,000 books published before 1851. It was there that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels began to pen the "Communist Manifesto". Sister cities of Manchester include Wuhan, China, Faisalabad, Pakistan, and Cordoba, Spain.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part V

Answer: Bethlehem

The city of Bethlehem dates all the way to the Paleolithic Era, and was named after the goddess Beit Lahmu in the 14th century BC. The Hebrew words "beit" and "lahmu" have many different interpretations, but it is believed that Bethlehem means "house of bread". In Arabic, it means "house of meat/flesh". Control of Bethlehem has changed frequently, with the Ottoman Empire, Britain, Jordan, and Israel each controlling it between 1900-1950. Israel gained control in the Six Day War of 1948, and holds it to this day as part of the West Bank. Some of Bethlehem's sister cities are Glasgow, Pretoria, and Abu Dhabi.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part IV

Answer: Prague

The Kladruber horse breed, bred in Prague and in other parts of the Czech Republic is considered a Living Work of Art, and is listed on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Believe it or not, it isn't the Irish or Germans that drink the most beer, it is the Czechs that drink the most beer per capita. One Czech will drink 43 gallons on average a year. Many different scholars have claimed to feel weird tremors coming from underground when in Prague. Dark and empty alleys and squares also have weird sounds. It has spooked many, including Prague-born Franz Kafka. Some of Prague's sister cities are Stockholm, Paris, and Phoenix.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part III

Answer: Nassau

Nassau was used as the setting of the Beatles movie "Help", and James Bond "Thunderball", both released in 1965. The remake of "Thunderball", "Never Say Never Again" was also filmed there, as was parts of the 2006 "Casino Royale". A large festival in Nassau is "Junkanoo" (named after founder John Kanoo), a large and colourful street festival that's held from December 26-January 1, during the wee hours of the night, usually from 1-10 AM. Along with Detroit, Nassau is also a sister city of Acapulco and Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part I

Answer: Munich

The motto of the city is "München mag Dich" which translates to "Munich likes you". 80% of Munich's city centre was destroyed by Allied bombing during the Second World War. The city is also the home of legendary BMW car company, and also is considered the most expensive city in Germany to live in. However, Munich has also been voted one of the best places in the country to live in. Famous people from Munich include composer Richard Strauss and Adolf Hitler's mistress Eva Braun. Munich has been twinned with Edinburgh since 1954, as well as Hyderabad, Cincinnati, and Sapporo, among others.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part VII

Answer: Casablanca

The story of Casablanca consists multiple instances of conflict. Portuguese colonizers destroyed Anfa in an attempt to overthrow the independent state harboring pirates in the late 15th century. The colonizers eventually constructed a new town called "Casa Branca" meaning White House in their native tongue. By the beginning of the 20th century, the French had taken control of the city and launched a military siege of citizen resistance to the colonizers. The Hollywood film "Casablanca" from 1942 was released a few weeks after the Allied invasion of North Africa in the Second World War and is consistently considered one of the greatest films of all time. A year later, the Casablanca Conference was an Allied meeting to plan future war strategy and was where the agreement was made to continue the war until the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part VI

Answer: Los Angeles

In 1892, oil was struck in the area that now holds Dodger Stadium, and by 1923 25% of American oil was coming out of what is now Tinseltown. But how did the movie industry take over the refineries? Thomas Edison. Edison held most of the country's film patents in his New Jersey home. To avoid getting into intellectual property disputes with Edison, movie makers escaped to the west. Sitting on the San Andreas Fault, LA is actually moving 0.25 inches a year towards San Francisco, meaning it is 15 million years away from reaching the Bay Area's current location. Sister cities of Los Angeles include Taipei, Jakarta, and Vancouver.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part V

Answer: Rabat

The capital of Morocco was moved from Fez to Rabat in 1912, by General Hubert Lyautey, the French administrator of Morocco. The city was founded by the Almohad Dynasty in 1146. Rabat has a beautiful Mediterranean climate, with nearly 3,000 hours of sunlight per year, and where the average high temperature is between 17-27°C (63-80°F). Rabat's sister cities include Madrid, Tunis, and Honolulu.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part IV

Answer: Copenhagen

"The Little Mermaid" was built along the shore of Copenhagen Harbour in 1909, to celebrate the story written by Dane Hans Christian Andersen. The urban fairy tale park Tivoli Gardens was opened in 1843, and the basis for Walt Disney's Disneyland and Disney World theme parks. The inner harbour of the city was extensively cleaned in the early 2000s, and it was cleaned enough that you can swim in it now. Copenhagen is home to Carlsberg beer, one of Denmark's most famous export. Copenhagen is a sister city with Beijing, and also has partnerships with Berlin and Paris.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part III

Answer: Shanghai

The city had 23 million people living in its city limits in 2010, making it the largest city proper in the world. To compare, New Zealand's entire population was only 4 million! Being home to so many people, Shanghai has the largest bus system in the world, with a whooping 1,242 routes running daily. The people of Shanghai speak, surprisingly, Shanghainese, one of the 248 Chinese dialects, and far different from Mandarin. Along with Shanghainese, all Shanghai students begin compulsory English classes in Grade 1, and some schools offer English kindergarten as well. Shanghai has partnerships with many world cities, including Oslo, Montreal, and Saint Petersburg.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part I

Answer: Harare

Harare is a major trading centre in Zimbabwe, where tobacco, cotton, maize, and citrus fruits are dealt on a daily basis. In May, 2005 the Zimbabwe government demolished all backyard huts as part of "Operation Murambatsvina" or "Drive Out Trash". The operation was the cleaning of Zimbabwe slums under Robert Mugabe. The Joina City Tower opened in the downtown core, 14 years after ground was broken on the building. The financial difficulties continued after the building opened, as only three % of the building was occupied after its first 18 months. Famous Hararens include writer Shimmer Chinodya, Mugabe, and Charlene, Princess of Monaco. Harare has been twinned with Munich since 1996, and Harare is also twinned with Nottingham as well as Italian cities Prato and Lago.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part VI

Answer: Jakarta

Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia, despite not actually being a city. The province of Jakarta is the actual capital, and roughly 23 million people call the area home, with around ten million calling the city proper, home. According to a "Forbes" report in 2012, Jakarta was chosen as the city with the most active Twitter city, ahead of London, New York City, and Tokyo. Sister cities of Jakarta include Mexico City, Seoul, and Berlin.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part V

Answer: Stockholm

The Stadhuset in Stockholm is home to the Nobel Prize Award, and for those who are uninvited, the basement restaurant serves up the menu from the previous year. The Riddarholmskyrkan (Riddarholm Church) is the oldest building in Stockholm, dating back to 1270. The Stockholm archipelago, which makes up the islands of Stockholm, plus the ones in the Baltic Sea, each rise by three millimetres (0.12 inches) per year. Swedish international giant IKEA has its largest store in the country where it was created by Ingvar Kamprad in 1943. Sarajevo, Kiev, and Saint Petersburg are all sister cities of Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part IV

Answer: Reykjavik

Reykjavik means "Smoking Bay" in the native Icelandic. The nightlife in the city was pretty hard to come by, as beer was banned until 1989, and still remains pricey today. Reykjavik was initially called Reykjarvik when it was founded in 870. However, the extra r was dropped by the 14th century. The city is only two degrees south of the Arctic Circle, and gets only four hours of daylight on the shortest day of the year, and almost 24 hours during the summer. Despite being so far north, Reykjavik has a warm climate, the average winter temperature is only -3˚ C, (27˚F). Some of Reykjavik's sister cities in Stockholm, Moscow, and Seattle.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part II

Answer: Melbourne

Melbourne is known as the cultural capital of Australia, and is the second largest city in the country. Melbourne hosts many major sports events, including the Australian Open, Australian Grand Prix, and the AFL Grand Final, among others. With around 250 km of track and almost 500 trams, Melbourne's tram system is the largest in the world, ahead of St. Petersburg, Berlin and Moscow. Over 182 million passenger trips are made each year. Sister cities of Melbourne include Osaka, Thessaloniki, and St. Petersburg.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part I

Answer: Kazan

Capital of the sovereign state of Tartarstan, Kazan was deemed the "Third Capital of Russia" by the Russian Patent Office in 2009. That year, Kazan was also named the "Sports Capital of Russia", when the city became the co-host city to the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and was host to Kontinental Hockey League champion Ak Bars Kazan. The Kazan Kremlin was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. Kazan is twinned with Harare, as well as cities such as Astana, Donetsk, and Antayla.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part VII

Answer: New York City

New York served as the capital of the United States for five years from 1785-1790. With a population density of over 28,000 people per square mile, the selling of Manhattan to Dutch control for 60 guilder in 1626 seems like a steal! New York City streets have become associated with all forms of culture such as theatre (Broadway), shopping and fashion (Times Square and 34th Street), and banking and the economy (Wall Street), amongst others. New York is known as the city that never sleeps and that is reflected in it having the largest subway service, the busiest airport, and the largest public transit fleet in North America, all of which operate around the clock. The city is home to large media companies (NBC, CBS, Associated Press), financial banks (Citi, American Express, JP Morgan Chase), telecom companies (Verizon, Time Warner), and international organizations (United Nations, Major League Baseball).

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part VI

Answer: Sydney

The bridge of course is the Sydney Harbour Bridge, constructed in 1932. The bridge took over 272,000 litres of paint just for the first coat. The nearby Sydney Opera House took 14 years and over 10,000 workers to complete. The city originally became known as Sydney after Thomas Townshend, Lord Sydney, who was instrumental in establishing the colony. A very popular travel destination, the longest non-stop passenger flight in the world operates from Sydney to Dallas. Sister cities of Sydney include San Francisco, Wellington, and Guangzhou.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part V

Answer: Addis Ababa

A fairly new city, Addis Ababa ("new flower") was founded in 1887. The city was once believed to be the source of the human race, considering the ancient fossils and remains found, but scientists have since traced their findings to northern sections of the country. At nearly 2,400 metres (7,875 feet) above sea level, Addis Ababa is the third highest capital city. Signs of the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1937 are still evident today in the city, with Italian Fascist architecture and Marxist billboards across the capital. Also to be seen are eucalyptus trees planted along the streets of the city. Addis Ababa is also sister cities with San Francisco, Tel Aviv, and Johannesburg.

From Quiz 10 Degrees of the World - Part IV

Answer: Winnipeg

Lieutenant Harry Colebourn purchased a bear in Ontario during the First World War, and named it after his regiment's home, Winnipeg. Winnipeg the Bear was the inspiration for A.A. Milne's story. The Manitoba Legislature Building features a 17-foot golden statue on the top, which has been perched there since 1920. The naked boy is a bad choice considering Winnipeg's temperature. Nicknamed "Winterpeg", the average temperature is under 0˚C (32˚F) five months of the year. Winnipeg has sister cities like Chengdu, Lviv, and formerly, Minneapolis.

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