Fun around the world for kids of all ages Quiz

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1. To which European capital city would you have to travel in order to visit a Disney theme park?

Answer: Paris

Located in Marne-la-Vall�e in the outskirts of Paris, Disneyland Paris was originally called Euro Disney when it first opened in 1992.
The two main Disney parks in the US are Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida and Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Other Disney parks around the world include Tokyo Disney in Japan, and Hong Kong Disneyland and Shanghai Disney, both in China.

2. In which European country did LEGO originate?

Answer: Denmark

The brainchild of carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen, who began making wooden toys in 1932, the LEGO company was founded in 1934 in Billund, Denmark. The name 'Lego' comes from the Danish 'leg godt', meaning 'play well'.
Today, LEGO makes not only one of the world's most popular toys, but also runs Legoland Amusement Parks in Denmark (at Billund), in Germany (at Gunzburg), in England (at Windsor) and in the USA (at Carlsbad, California).

3. Which one of the Wombles of Wimbledon Common is named after a South American river?

Answer: Orinoco

Originally appearing in a series of children's books by Elisabeth Beresford, the Wombles became famous in the 1970s through a BBC TV series.
The main characters included Great Uncle Bulgaria (named after the East European country), Orinoco (named for a South American river), Tobermory (named after the capital of the Scottish island of Mull), Bungo (named after a Japanese province), Tomsk, Mrs Cholet and Miss Adelaide (named after towns respectively in Russia, France and Australia).

4. Madame Tussaud was born in France and grew up in Switzerland, but in which city did she open her first wax-works museum?

Answer: London

Anna Maria Grosholtz was born in Strasbourg, France in 1761. Her father was killed in the Seven Years War before she was born and her mother moved to Switzerland, where she learned the art of wax-working. Having returned to Paris in 1789, she narrowly avoided execution during the revolution.

She married Francois Tussaud in 1795, moved to London in 1802, and established her first waxwork exhibition in 1835 in Baker Street, close to the site of the present-day Madame Tussaud's Museum. Today a 'Madame Tussaud Museum' can be found in 10 cities around the world -- London, Amsterdam, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Berlin, Las Vegas, Washington D.C., New York City and Hollywood.

5. A.A. Milne's 'Winnie-the-Pooh' stories are set in the fictional Hundred Acre Wood, which is based on a real woodland area in which English county?

Answer: Sussex

A Londoner by birth, Milne bought a house in rural Sussex in 1925. A mile from the new family residence was Ashdown Forest. A year later, in 1926, the first collection of Pooh Bear stories was published. Milne's son, Christopher, on whom Pooh's friend Christopher Robin was based, said in his autobiography that "Pooh's forest and Ashdown Forest are identical".

6. Built in 1911, the Scenic Railway at Luna Park is the world's oldest continually-operating roller-coaster. In which Australian city can you ride it?

Answer: Melbourne

There were originally four Luna Parks in Australia, the oldest (opened in 1912) in Melbourne. Now only the Melbourne and Sydney ones remain. The Scenic Railway is one of only two roller-coasters in the world that still require a brakeman to ride on board, so it is considered a classic.

7. Staying on the roller-coaster theme, in 2005 'Kingda Ka' at 'Six Flags Great Adventure' became the world's highest strata-coaster at 456 feet. In which US state can you ride 'Kingda Ka'?

Answer: New Jersey

'Kingda Ka' was the second strata-coaster (one where the rider makes a complete circuit of the track rather than going back and forth down the same stretch) to break the 400-foot barrier. The first was the 'Top Thrill Dragster' at 420 feet located at Cedar Point in Ohio, which opened in 2003.

8. What nationality was the author of the 'Moomin' books?

Answer: Finnish

Novelist, comic-strip author and painter Tove Jansson was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1914. Originally published in 1945 in Swedish, the first of the 'Moomin' books was translated into English as 'The Moomins and the Great Flood'. The last of the nine novels and five picture books in the series was released in 1993. 'Moomin World' a Moomin theme park for children ('Muumimaailma' in Finnish) is located near the city of Turku in western Finland.

9. The fictional town of Avonlea, the setting for Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic novel 'Anne of Green Gables', is located in which Canadian province?

Answer: Prince Edward Island

Published in 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel is widely considered a classic of children's literature. The story is set on a farm in the fictional community of Avonlea, which is located on Prince Edward Island where the author grew up.

10. You would vacation on which body of water in order the re-enact the story told in Jerome K Jerome''s humorous 19th century travelogue 'Three Men in a Boat'?

Answer: River Thames

The book tells the story of a trip up the River Thames from Kingston to Oxford. The full title this comedic 1889 work is 'Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)'. The three men who took regular boating trips together are Jerome himself (who is the narrator) and two of his real friends, George and Carl. The fourth member of the party, Montmorency the dog, is entirely fictitious.

Source: Author EnglishJedi

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Fun around the world for kids of all ages Quiz

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