Casinos Around the World Trivia Quiz

Answer: Macau

The Venetian in Macau (a special administrative region of China) was the biggest casino in the world when it opened in August 2007, with over half of its 10,000,000 square feet dedicated to gambling areas. The remaining space is used as a hotel. Macau legalised gambling in the mid 1800s, and has relied on it for a large proportion of its GDP for decades.

Answer: No

Opened in 2002, the Tusk Rio is located in Klerksdorp, South Africa. It was built with 70 game rooms, all around the theme of Rio's Carnival.

Answer: It is located inside a shopping centre

While relatively small by world standards, at around 65,000 square feet, this was Great Britain's largest casino upon opening. The casino does close, but only for 24 hours a year, on Christmas Day.

Answer: Argentina

At the start of 2014, Argentina had more than 85 casinos operating. Chile underwent a rapid expansion in their casino industry after receiving the go-ahead to build major resorts in 2005. Ecuador shut down the last of their casinos in 2012 after a large public vote to shut the industry down.

Answer: False

Crown Casino, one of the Southern Hemisphere's largest, is in Australia's second biggest city, Melbourne. The complex is over 500,000 square metres in size. In 2013, a high roller reportedly stole $33 million from the casino by illegally viewing video tapes, in a real life version of the "Ocean's Eleven" heist.

Answer: Nepal

Nepal's casinos have had some controversy over the years, largely due to a longstanding law that their own citizens aren't allowed to gamble: they are strictly for tourists. They generally operate out of large hotels in the capital Kathmandu.

Answer: False

In fact despite the more than 30,000 people employed in Atlantic City's casinos, it had one of the USA's highest unemployment rates in 2014, at over 13%.

Answer: The Middle East

The Oasis operated in Jericho, which is part of the Palestinian Territories. It attracted thousands of visitors on a daily basis from nearby Israel, but was forced to close in 2000 due to political issues in the area. Several Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman, have banned gambling altogether and are unlikely to ever open casinos despite their potential to draw tourists.

Answer: Egypt

There is archeological evidence of a thriving gambling culture in Ancient Egypt, but also interestingly of efforts by ancient governments to stop or curtail the activity. Egypt had a large casino culture in the early 21st Century, with over twenty operating in Cairo alone.

Answer: Connecticut

By the end of 2014, Foxwoods was still the largest casino complex in the USA, with nearly 8,000 gaming machines and over 350 table games. In late 2014, North America had more than 1,000 casinos in operation, the most of any continent.