Run Down the Line Trivia Quiz

Answer: San Francisco

Chinatown is a neighbourhood of San Francisco in California. It was established in 1848 when immigrants flooded in from southern China during the gold rush. By 1870, there were approximately 63,000 Chinese people living in America, mainly in San Francisco. They have faced many hardships including racial discrimination, the plague from 1900 to 1904, and the 1906 earthquake.

Answer: Memphis

Memphis is in the mid-south of America, situated at the point where the Wolf and Mississippi rivers meet. The city is the home of the National Civil Rights Museum at the same place where Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. Martin Luther King Jr was returning to his motel room on April 4th in 1968 when a single but fatal shot was fired by James Earl Ray.

Answer: Bogotá

Soccer is a popular sport in Bogotá, Columbia, and this is reflected by the city being home to three professional football teams. Millonarios Fútbol Club and Club Santa Fe both play at the Estadio El Campín which has a capacity for 45,000 people. La Equidad is based at the Estadio Metropolitano de Techo, which has a capacity for 8,000 people.

Answer: Port Stanley

Port Stanley is a small city and the capital of the Falkland Islands. It has a population of approximately 3,140 people (2010 data), mainly Falkland Islanders but also British, Spanish, Japanese and Chilean. Port Stanley and the Falkland Islands became international news when Argentina invaded the country in 1982.

Answer: Casablanca

Work started in 1986 on the Hassan II Mosque in the Moroccan city of Casablanca. It has the tallest minaret in the world, which stands at 210 meters. It has a capacity for 105,000 people, 25,000 on the inside and a further 80,000 on the outside. The mosque stands proudly looking out at the Atlantic Ocean, with part of the floor being glass so that people can look at the sea.

The building design was inspired by part of the Qur'an which reads "the throne of Allah was built on water".

Answer: Valletta

Valletta is a small city on the Mediterranean island of Malta. It has an area of 0.3 of a square mile, but within that area are 320 monuments which include churches, palaces, museums and forts. The capital has been ruled by the Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and the Order of the Knights of St John. These were also called the "Knights Hospitaller", a group of people who dedicated their life to caring for sick and poor pilgrims from the Holy Land.

Answer: Riyadh

Riyadh is the capital city of Saudi Arabia. King Fahd Road is a wealthy business district and popular tourist attraction for visitors who want to view the tall sky scrapers, Kingdom Centre, Al Faisaliyah Center and Al Anoud Tower.

Answer: Islamabad

Karachi was the original capital of Pakistan until the 1960s when the new location of Islamabad was chosen due to it being less vulnerable to attack. The majority of buildings may be fairly new but the history of the city dates back to an ancient settlement up to 500,000 years ago.

Answer: Ulan Bator

The Trans-Siberian Railway will take you from St Petersburg in Russia, through Moscow, Lake Baikal before connecting to the Trans-Mongolian Railway at the Siberian city of Irkutsk. From there it travels through Ulan Bator in Mongolia and across the Gobi desert until it reaches its final destination, the Chinese city of Beijing.

Answer: Port Moresby

Port Moresby is the capital city of Papua New Guinea. The main languages spoken on the island are Motu, Tok Pisin and English. The Motuan and Koitabu people inhabited the islands before the place was discovered in 1873 by Captain John Moresby. Papua New Guinea became independent in 1975.