World for Experts Trivia

1. The spicy dish "Chili con Carne" is believed to have its origins in Mexico. So which state has passed legislation declaring it a "State Dish"?

From Quiz An Aussie in Mexico

Answer: Texas (USA)

The dish has roots in Mexico but become popular in Texas and it was introduced to a wider audience at a 1893 exhibition in Chicago by the San Antonio Chili Stand. The bases of the dish are chili peppers, meat, tomatoes and in many dishes also beans. In 1977 legislation was passed declaring "chili con carne" as a State Dish. In New Mexico (USA) the State Vegetables are Chili peppers and Frijoles (refried beans). Veracruz (Mexico) is the home of the tomato based "veracruz" sauce which includes green olives and pimientos. Durango (Mexico) has a traditional dish called Barbacoa which consists of various meats steamed underground over coals in a pit.

From Quiz Do You Snowboard or Ski In July?

Answer: Australia

Skiing in Australia began around 1861 at Kiandra, New South Wales, when Norwegian gold miners started to practise and taught their Australian colleagues on the frozen hills around the town. The first and longest surviving ski club in Southern Hemisphere, the "Kiandra Snow Shoe Club", was formed at Kiandra in that year and was still around as per the end of 2014.

From Quiz Kilted Kangas Member Country's Flora and Fauna

Answer: Victoria

Victoria chose the Pink Heath to be its State Emblem in 1951. The plant grows most commonly to a metre but can grow higher. They flower from late autumn to early spring, the flowers are tubular and grow along the stems. Submitted by ClaudiaCat.

From Quiz Ate, Shot and Left

Answer: Tombstone, Arizona

The OK Corral was razed in a fire in May of 1882, along with many other notable buildings in Tombstone. The Bird Cage was built around that era and one quote says that it was "the wildest, roughest, wickedest honky tonk between Basin Street and the Barbary Coast".

From Quiz Clean Up in Aisle Two!

Answer: Pompeii

Originally, archaeologists had thought that Pompeii had fallen into decline following an earthquake in 62 AD, causing the garbage buildup before the city's destruction in 79 AD. However, recent research has found that Pompeii revitalized itself after the earthquake, indicating that people of that time had a casual view of getting rid of garbage, even leaving it in the streets and the floors of their homes. This question supplied by TimBentley.

From Quiz Food and Drink of the West Country

Answer: Germany

Bread is an important part of German culture and over 300 types of dark and white bread, as well as over 1200 varieties of rolls, are produced there. Brötchen literally means "small bread" and it is one of the most common types of bread eaten in Germany. The official currency of Switzerland is Swiss francs, but Euros are also accepted in many places.

From Quiz Latinus Quizus

Answer: Aberdeen, Scotland

Aberbeen was first settled over 8,000 years ago and was originally separated between Old Aberdeen, at the mouth of the river Don, and New Aberdeen, by the river Dee estuary. The Celtic and Gaelic origins of its name both refer to the city being located by rivers, or at the mouth of two rivers. The names Aberystwyth and Aberdare come from the name origin as Aberdeen, with "aber" meaning mouth (or a river). Abbeydorney's Irish name is Mainistir Ó dTorna ("Monastery of the clan of Torna"), and its English name derives from its translation "O'Dorney Abbey", in reference to a Cistercian abbey was founded there by the chieftain O Torna.

From Quiz Red-letterbox Day

Answer: Yellow

All post boxes, bikes, cars, vans, etc. are yellow. The logo of La Poste, however, remains a blue flying letter.

From Quiz Of the Origin of Countries I

Answer: Saudi Arabia

The creation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia started at the beginning of the 20th century when Abdul-Aziz bin Saud, known as Ibn Saud, captured Riyadh, the ancestral home of his family and the current capital of the modern country. The name Kuwait comes from the Arabic "ākwāt", which means "a fortress built near water". The name Bahrain comes from the plural of the Arabic word "bahr", meaning "sea". The name al-Bahrayn means "the two seas" but it is still unclear which two seas the name refers to. There are two possibilities for the origin of the name Yemen. The first one comes from "yamin", Arabic meaning "on the right side", since the South is on the right side of the country when facing the sunshine. The second one comes from "yumn", which means "felicity" in Arabic.

From Quiz Interesting Facts From Round The World

Answer: "Eat me!"

Fiji was once infamous for its ferocious cannibalism. An example of this was the 19th century Fijian chief, Ratu Udre Udre, who ate almost 1,000 people. A stone for every person he ate was placed beside his tomb when he died - probably from chronic indigestion. He ate the entire body every time and particularly enjoyed the head. If he didn't manage to polish a body off in one sitting, he kept the remainder to snack upon later that day. Ah, there's nothing more enjoyable than leftovers I always say. This hungry man holds the Guinness World Record for being the most prolific cannibal - and hopefully this will never be contested. Fiji was once known as the Cannibal Isles to the rest of the world for a long time. But enough of that. Would you like a slice of nose with your cup of tea?

From Quiz A Quiz About You

Answer: Annual salary

That figure is below the 2011 poverty guideline figure issued by the US Department of Health and Human Services for a family of two. In the "Parade Magazine" annual issue "What People Earn" for 2011 (which is a survey of 157 people in the US), $12,000 was the salary of a taxidermist and graphic designer. Artists, performers, and part time jobs earned around this amount or less. A plastic surgeon in Las Vegas earned 1 million dollars.

From Quiz Gardz Around the World

Answer: A Stone Age settlement

The settlement of "Skara Brae" as it is called is the best-preserved Stone Age settlement in Western Europe. It was occupied during the Neolithic Period (3100-2500BC). The discovery was made in 1850 after a tremendous storm had battered the island leaving the structure exposed. It was granted UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 1999. Question by navaho56.

From Quiz The Amazing Quiz Around the World

Answer: Oyster Card

Yes, it's the Oyster card. It's blue, it lets you travel by any train, tube, bus or tram serving London, within an area determined by how much zone coverage you buy. A simple touch of the card to the touchpad as you step into the bus, pass the Tube turnstile, etc; you hardly need to break stride. I live in South Africa, I'm insanely jealous of London's public transport system.

From Quiz Eating Your Words in Africa

Answer: Chicken

Chickens are widely eaten in Africa. The country of Benin is squeezed in between Togo and Nigeria. A colony of France until 1960, its official language is French but fifty indigenous languages are also spoken. Other African countries also have sayings about chickens. In Sierra Leone they say: 'Even though chickens don't wash, their eggs are still white.' In Libya the warning is: 'If you get mixed with bran, you'll soon be pecked by chickens.'

From Quiz Polygamy in the USA: Beyond "Big Love"

Answer: polygyny

Polygamy is usually used interchangeably with polygyny, even though polygamy has a much broader meaning. Polyamory is the involvement in more than one relationship, although the parties involved do not have to be married. Polyandry is the practice of a wife having more than one husband, a situation found even less commonly than polygyny. Polydactyl means having more than the usual number of fingers or toes and really has nothing to do with polygamy at all.

From Quiz The Lost Kingdom

Answer: France

The French monarchy was overthrown in 1792 as a result of the French Revolution and replaced by the First Republic. Napoleon's rise to power displaced the republic with an empire in 1804. Napoleon's subsequent defeat by the anti-French forces led to the restoration of the Bourbon kingdom. The overthrow of King Louis Philippe in the 1848 revolution led to the Second Republic of which Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte was elected president later that year. However, in 1852 Louis-Napoleon overthrew his own republic and proclaimed himself Emperor Napoleon III. In the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, his empire was replaced with the Third Republic in 1870. While the intention of many in the French government after 1870 was to return once more to a kingdom, the Third Republic lasted until the defeat of France by Nazi Germany in 1940. The Fourth Republic lasted from 1946 until constitutional changes ushered in the Fifth Republic in 1958.

From Quiz Marriage and Divorce #2

Answer: Slovenia and Croatia

Yugoslavia (or the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes as it was originally known) was formed after the First World War in 1918. The secession of Slovenia and, more particularly, Croatia marked the beginning of a long and often extremely bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia.

From Quiz Marriage and Divorce #1

Answer: Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia was carved out of the Austro-Hungarian Empire by the Treaty of St Germain in 1919 (Czechoslovakia had declared independence from Austria in 1918 and this independence was recognised by this treaty). The Velvet Revolution of 1989 saw a peaceful end to communist rule in Czechoslovakia. However, pressure from Slovakian politicans led to the peaceful division of the country on the 1st of January 1993 into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The division of Yugoslavia from 1991 onwards was anything but velvet.

From Quiz Mishmash A - Part I

Answer: Algeria

In 2002, Algeria had approximately 3,500,000 home satellites that gave it a world ranking of seventh place. The country that had the most was United States of America with 16,000,000. Source: World Telecommunication Development Report 2002

From Quiz Facts Around The World

Answer: Saudi Arabia

The King Fahd International Airport is 780 km².

From Quiz Official Names of Countries

Answer: Commonwealth of Australia

From Quiz Nicknames Of Cities And Countries

Answer: Finland

It actually has some 60,000 lakes.

From Quiz Geographically Thinking

Answer: Mt. Kosciusko

It really isn't all that tall (7,316 ft)

From Quiz More Superlatives from World Almanac

Answer: Malaysia

Malaysia incidentally had the two tallest buildings in the world at one point, the Petronas Towers.

From Quiz Superlatives from World Almanac 2001

Answer: Aconcagua

Aconcagua is 22,834 feet.

From Quiz World Challenge

Answer: Crete

The first major invasion by airborne troops.

From Quiz Chiefly European Matters

Answer: Zürich

Although there are a handful of main churches in Zürich, both Fraumünster and Grossmünster were built in the Middle Ages with the latter being commissioned by Charlemagne. The two churches sit on opposite banks of the Limmat River as it flows into Zürichsee, and they're linked by the Münsterbrücke, allowing visitors to reach both sides of the Lindenhof Quarter in the middle of the city. Saints Felix, Regula, and Exuperantius were declared patron saints of Zürich having been executed there while fleeing persecution from the then Roman Emperor. Between the two churches one can find the smaller Wasserkirche on the east bank of the river, built on the site where they were allegedly beheaded. Naturally, all of these were sites of pilgrimage for centuries.

From Quiz The World Food Prize

Answer: Dr. Evangelina Villegas and Dr. Surinder Vasal

Dr. Vasal and Dr. Villegas worked together to come up with the first ever quality protein maize to help nourish the hungry. Dr. Villegas is the first woman ever to win the World Food Prize.

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