Hello, Here is the Letter "Y" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Yerevan

The cities Yamoussoukro, Yaoundé, Yaren and Yerevan are the capital cities of Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Nauru and Armenia respectively.

Yerevan is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world. It is the largest city, the capital since 1918 and the administrative, cultural and industrial center of Armenia. It is located on the banks of the Hrazdan River. The dominant view of the Yerevan skyline is the Greater and Little Ararat Mounts, which are associated with Noah's Ark; according to scripture, it is where that the ark anchored after the flood.

Answer: Romanov

Yekaterinburg is a city in the Sverdlovsk oblast in Russia, which lies along the Iset River more than 1,600 km east of Moscow. It is an important center of heavy engineering and the junction of railways between the Urals and other parts of Russia.

Yekaterinburg became internationally known for being the place where, during the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Imperial Family of the Romanovs, consisting of former Tsar Nicholas II, his wife the Empress Alessandra (granddaughter of Queen Victoria), their five children and four people who accompanied them into exile were executed.

Answer: True

Whitehorse is the capital and only city of the Yukon Territory, Canada. It is the largest settlement in Northern Canada, located on the Alaska Highway at the 1425 kilometer (historic mile 918) in southern Yukon. The Yukon River flows through the city and about 75% of the 35,000 inhabitants of Yukon live in Whitehorse.

The city was named after the White Horse Rapids on the Yukon River, rapids that were an obstacle to navigation of this river during the Klondike Gold Rush.

Answer: Aristotle Onassis

The yacht "Christina O" belonged to the Greek billionaire and shipbuilder Aristotle Onassis. The boat was a Canadian anti-submarine frigate called HMCS Stormont, launched in 1943 and which was present at the Normandy landing. At the end of World War II the Stormont was bought for a trifle by Onassis who after various million dollar investments converted it into a luxury yacht, named after his daughter Christina Onassis.

This yacht, when owned by Onassis, was the scene of numerous parties with the presence of distinguished passengers. After Onassis' death the boat was donated to the Greek government by Christina Onassis. In 1998, the yacht was purchased and renovated by tycoon John Paul Papanicolau and can now be rented to private groups.

Answer: Crimean Peninsula

The "Yalta Conference" sometimes called the "Crimea Conference" was a gathering attended by three allied leaders during World War II: British Prime Winston Churchill, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The meeting was held on February 4-11, 1945 when an Allied victory in Europe was already in sight.

The conference was held at the Palace of Livadia, in the resort town of Yalta, located on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula by the Black Sea and surrounded by the mountain range Aí-Petri. During the 20th century, Yalta was the main holiday destination for the inhabitants of the Soviet Union. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union there was a sharp decline in the number of tourists, because now they can travel to other countries.

Answer: Roald Dahl

The English movie "You Only Live Twice" is a spy movie released in 1967 and is the fifth movie of the James Bond series. The film was directed by Lewis Gilbert and starred Sean Connery as James Bond, a fictional MI6 agent.

The script's first proposal was presented by Sydney Boehm, heavily based on Ian Fleming's novel of the same name, but it was rejected. Roald Dahl, although inexperienced in this activity, and a close friend of Ian Fleming, was invited to write the screenplay. Considering this book was one of the worst by the author, he discarded almost all of the plot, characters and locations in the screenplay. Some of Boehm's ideas were used and in the credits he appears as responsible for "Additional Story Material".

Answer: Theodor Seuss Geisel

"Yertle the Turtle" was written and illustrated by the American Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991) known as Dr. Seuss. This story was published in an issue of Redbook Magazine in 1951, seven years before the publication of the book "Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories" in 1958.

Yertle is the king of the pond and wants to expand his kingdom; for this he orders his servants to form a pile which is topped by his throne. As the pile increases the weight becomes unbearable for Mack and the other turtles under the pile. Mack decides that he has had enough and he burps, shaking the pile, knocking over the throne and making Yertle the king of the mud. Yertle, according to the author, represents Adolf Hitler who oppressed people to have more power. In the end the author says "And the turtles, of course ... all turtles are free / As turtles, and maybe, all creatures should be".

Answer: 34 years old, plane crash

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin (1934-1968) was a pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human being to journey into outer space. He participated in the selection for the Vostok programme. In addition to having technical training and excellent physical condition, aged between 25 and 30 years old, the chosen person had to have physical characteristics suitable for the size of the Vostok capsule: less than 72 kg and no taller than 1.70 meters, Gagarin was 1.57 meters.

Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on April 12, 1961. Upon returning from his trip he became a national hero and an international celebrity having visited over 30 countries. After that, he worked for several years in a cosmonaut training facility. In 1968, on a training flight, Gagarin and the flight instructor died when their MIG-15UTI crashed. Gagarin was 34 years old. There are several versions about his death.

Answer: A cap

The "yarmulke" is part of the clothing of Orthodox Jews, who cover their heads with a skullcap named "yarmulke" in Yiddish or "kippah" in Hebrew. The two words refer to the same object. There are different concepts about when to use the yarmulke. Most Orthodox Jews usually cover their heads when in religious services or in festivities, as a sign of devotion and respect for God.

Yarmulkes or kippot (the plural form of kippah) are made from different materials, of varying colors and sizes. Often the type of kippah shows allegiance to a particular group.

Answer: Yangtze

The Yangtze is the longest river in Asia and China and the third longest in the world, 6,300 km long. Its source is in the Tibetan Plateau, in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The Yangtze runs south until reaching Shigu (that means Stone Drum) in Yunnan province, where it is obstructed by Hailuo Mountain. At this point the river forms a V-shape turn, with an angle of almost 140 degrees and follows the northeast direction until it flows into the East China Sea.

The Yangtze is of paramount importance to China. About 400 million people, a third of the Chinese population, live in this river basin. It is estimated that 20% of the Chinese GDP is generated in its delta region. As some 2,700 km of the Yangtze are navigable, it is the main waterway of the country, being very important for cargo and passenger transport. On the Yangtze River is the "Three Gorges Dam'', a hydroelectric gravity dam, considered since 2012 the largest hydroelectric plant in the world in terms of installed capacity, a whopping 22.55 GW.

Simon Winchester's book "The River at the Center of the World", released in 1996, describes a very interesting ride on this river.