Have Passport - Will Travel Trivia Quiz

Answer: London

Abbey Road runs through St. John's Wood (Borough of Camden and the City of Westminster) in London. The Abbey Road Studios (3 Abbey Road) was a venue the Beatles used for recording and the road appeared on the cover of the 1969 album called "Abbey Road" by the Beatles. All of the Beatles members were born in Liverpool and the band was formed there in 1960.

Answer: Edinburgh

Bobby was a Skye Terrier and when his owner, John Gray, passed away, John was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard (cemetery). Bobby then spent the rest of his life sitting on his owner's grave. He spent 14 years at the gravesite and himself passed away in January 1872. He became so well known amongst the locals that they continued to feed him during his stance. He became known as Greyfrairs Bobby and his statue is a well-known tourist attraction. A number of books and films have been based on Bobby's life.

Answer: South Africa

South Africa was banned from competing in the Olympic Games from 1964-1991 due to the apartheid regime. South Africa has competed in the Olympics since 1992. Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe) was banned from competing at the games during the 1970s. Germany was banned from the 1920, 1924 and 1948 games following WWI and WWII. Kuwait was suspended from competing in the 2016 games.

Answer: Spain

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was an Italian explorer who was born in Genoa. His voyages were sponsored by King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (Spain). His first voyage started on August 3, 1492 from Palos de la Frontera with three ships. He had married a Portuguese lady and lived in Lisbon, Portugal for a few years prior to his overseas voyages.

Answer: Brazil

Brazil gets its name from the brazilwood tree. This comes from the Portuguese translation of the tree as "pau-brazil". The tree has an orange-red heartwood that yields a red dye called brazilin. Venezuela: The Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, thought the coastal area reminded him of Venice, Italy, so he named the area "Veneziola" meaning "Little Venice".

The Spanish translated this as Venezuela. Chile: There are theories as to whether the name Chile came from the Incas or other Native America languages. Bolivia is named after the Spanish military and political leader Simon Bolivar, who many historians believe was the George Washington of South America.

Answer: Mexico City

In Mexico City, at the medal presentation ceremony of the Men's 200m track final of the 1968 Olympics, the American athletes Tommie Smith (gold) and John Carlos (bronze) were photoed with a black glove salute during the playing of the American national anthem.

The silver medalist Peter Norman, (Australia) although not saluting, did wear a badge of the Olympic Project of Human Rights. When Norman returned to Australia he was ostracized and his career and social life suffered considerably. To their credit,when Peter passed away in 2006, Smith and Carlos travelled to Australia and gave eulogies and were pallbearers at his funeral.

In 2012 the Australian Government gave a posthumous apology to the Norman family for the way Peter Norman was treated when he returned to Australia from 1968 until his death in 2006.

The Olympics games were held in Montreal (1976), Los Angeles (1932 and 1984) and Atlanta (1996).

Answer: Melbourne

The Yarra River is 242kms in length and runs through Melbourne and empties into Hobson's Bay. The river is known by the locals as "the river that runs upside down" due to the cloudiness and brown colour of the water. Melbourne was the first city in the Southern Hemisphere to hold the Olympic Games (1956).

The city also currently holds the Australian Tennis Open and the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix. It is truly a sporting city with the country's largest sporting stadium holding 100,000, namely the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground).

The River Torrens runs through the city of Adelaide and the Swan River runs through the city of Perth, both state capital cities in Australia. The Avon Rover runs through the city of Christchurch which is on the South Island of New Zealand.

Answer: Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country with Ulaanbaatar as its capital city. Just outside Ulaanbaatar the 40m (131 ft) high statue is that of the founder of Mongolia, being Genghis Khan (1162-1227). Mongolia and northern China are home to the wild Bactrian (two humped) camel which sadly is an endangered species.

The Golden Eagle Festival is held annually in Mongolia in the first weekend in October. The eagles are taken to a spot high in the mountains and released to find their handlers on horseback. The first and swiftest eagle to find its handler is the winner.

This festival is held outside many villages. The falconry custom comes from the Kazakh people who fled Kazakhstan during the communist era and have remained in Mongolia.

Answer: Sweden

The Swedish monarchy dates back 1,000 years, however, the lineage stopped in the early 1800s. The Riksdag of Estates was the highest authority in Sweden next to the King at the time. As King Charles XIII had no apparent heir to the throne, the Riksdag of Estates appointed Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte (a Marshal of France) in 1810 to be the apparent heir to the throne. He was born in Pau, France in 1763. It must be remembered that Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor Napoleon I of France) controlled most of continental Europe at the time. He had recently defeated Sweden in the Franco-Swedish War (1805-1810). When King Charles XIII passed away in 1818, Bernadotte became Charles XIV John of Sweden. Since 1818 the royal house of Sweden is known as the "House of Bernadotte". He ruled until his death in 1844.

The Danish monarchy is the oldest monarchy in Europe dating back 1,000 years. The Norwegian monarchy also dates back over one thousand years, however in 1905 the union of Norway and Sweden was dissolved and Norway chose its own monarch in King Häkan VII. The Netherlands has a relatively young monarchy being established in 1815 and was formerly governed by members of the House of Orange-Nassau.

Answer: Brussels

Audrey Hepburn was born in Brussels on May 4, 1929 to a British father and Dutch mother. The famous statue or landmark is Manneken Pis and depicts a little boy urinating into a fountain. The statue was designed and put in place around 1618-9.
The "Little Mermaid" statue in Copenhagen stands at 1.25m (4.1 ft). "The Thinker" bronze sculpture in Paris is approximately 186cm in height.