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Where Are You Now? Trivia Quiz


This is a kind of game that will really squeeze your brain out because you have to know which country is which. My imaginary time and space shuttle will help you exist in a particular place as if you're on it from past to present. Good luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by mariah2001. Estimated time: 8 mins.
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Author
mariah2001
Time
8 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
50,294
Updated
Oct 06 24
# Qns
20
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
10 / 20
Plays
7513
Last 3 plays: Guest 185 (12/20), tiye (15/20), Guest 172 (4/20).
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Question 1 of 20
1. You are swimming in a waterfall wider than any other waterfalls in the world. Where are you now? Hint


Question 2 of 20
2. You are in a market full of things to be bought. You have selected an item and gave your bill to the vendor. The vendor didn't accept your money so you have to change your bill from dollar to 'ouguiya'. If the monetary bill is 'ouguiya', where are you now? Hint


Question 3 of 20
3. You are basking in a place where the sun shines its hot rays down and you can't feel anything but dryness and hotness because you're basking in the most arid place on earth. What is the name of this desert in South America?

Answer: (One Word)
Question 4 of 20
4. You are wrapped with a thin jacket and getting frozen up with a very cold ambience but you can see lava rapidly flowing in the icy surface of this place and a volcano puking super hot lava in its mouth. This place is known for that. Where are you now? Hint


Question 5 of 20
5. You are situated near a big plantation carrying up oils to produce petroleum and gasoline. If you ask me where are you, all I can say is that you are in the smallest oil rich nation. Now, it's my turn to ask. Where are you now? Hint


Question 6 of 20
6. You're a reporter and you need to ask people some certain questions pertaining to their place but you can't understand them because they are speaking 'divehi'. If their language is 'divehi', where are you now? Hint


Question 7 of 20
7. You are lost in the jungle and you can't find your way out because you're located in the heart of the largest rainforest in Asia. Where are you now? Hint


Question 8 of 20
8. You've been sailing for 40 days and 40 nights. No more food left to eat and you're starving when you see something in the horizon. It's a land!.You're getting nearer and nearer and near enough to see the name of the island 'Kerguelen Island'. This island is a territory of which country? Hint


Question 9 of 20
9. You're a historian and you're in a place called the 'Fertile Crescent' tracking the time of early civilization that exists between two rivers. In which country are you now?

Answer: (one word (former name was Mesopotamia))
Question 10 of 20
10. You are measuring the length of the Nile river. The Nile has certain names in certain countries where it flows. If you are already measuring the 'White Nile', where are you now? Hint


Question 11 of 20
11. You are in a place which has more cars than people. Where are you now? Hint


Question 12 of 20
12. You are a slave and you did something that the highest person in the palace doesn't like so you have been commanded to clean the whole palace complex. Covering 1090 mu (72 hectares or 180 acres), you'll be busy for a while. Where are you now? Hint


Question 13 of 20
13. You are one of the labourers who constructed the most beautiful building in the world as regarded by many because it is a symbol of love and mourning. The emperor built this in memory of his wife. In which country are you?

Answer: (one word (name of a country))
Question 14 of 20
14. You're working in a television transmitting tower which is the tallest tower in the world. Where are you now? Hint


Question 15 of 20
15. You are praying in a religious garden of a shrine together with the Shinto priests believing the Shinto 'the way of gods' and your religion is Shintoism. Where are you now? Hint


Question 16 of 20
16. You're driving in a public transportation with no wheels. These are boats which are called vaporetti that act like buses. There are also gondolas for hire to cross to other buildings. You can't go anywhere without walking unless you ride in these boats. In which country are you now?

Answer: (One Word (name of the country))
Question 17 of 20
17. You're the only one who luckily survived in a plane crash and you don't know what country you are in. You can see a new flag with red, black and green horizontal stripes. There is a crescent and a star in the black stripe. Over in a bin there is a solid green flag which has been discarded. What country are you in now? Hint


Question 18 of 20
18. You're one of the Arabs who went to this place because this believed to be the final pilgrimage the Prophet Mohammad took before he died. This place has ka'ba, a square building house said to be given by Archangel Gabriel to Patriarch Abraham where all Muslims used to pray. In which country are you?

Answer: (Two Words(name of the country))
Question 19 of 20
19. You are one of the aborigines that made a spectacular series of irrigated rice terraces which are larger in size than any other rice terraces in the world. Native people believed that this is a 'stairway to heaven'. Where are you now? Hint


Question 20 of 20
20. You're one of the inhabitants of early civilization of this place which they call 'the city in clouds'. It is still unknown today how they carried many heavy stones up in the mountain and why they left this place, as the Spaniards had no idea about this place. Where are you now? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. You are swimming in a waterfall wider than any other waterfalls in the world. Where are you now?

Answer: Laos

Khone falls located in Laos is the widest waterfall with a width of 11km (6.7 mi) and a flood flow of 42,475 cu.m per sec (1,500,000 cu.ft per sec).
2. You are in a market full of things to be bought. You have selected an item and gave your bill to the vendor. The vendor didn't accept your money so you have to change your bill from dollar to 'ouguiya'. If the monetary bill is 'ouguiya', where are you now?

Answer: Mauritania

Mongolia's currency is 'tugrik' while Tonga is 'pa'anga' and Angola is 'kwanza'.
3. You are basking in a place where the sun shines its hot rays down and you can't feel anything but dryness and hotness because you're basking in the most arid place on earth. What is the name of this desert in South America?

Answer: Atacama

The Atacama Desert is found in Chile.
4. You are wrapped with a thin jacket and getting frozen up with a very cold ambience but you can see lava rapidly flowing in the icy surface of this place and a volcano puking super hot lava in its mouth. This place is known for that. Where are you now?

Answer: Iceland

Iceland is called 'The land of fire and ice' because amidst its very cold temperature, it has more than 200 active volcanoes waiting for their turn to erupt.
5. You are situated near a big plantation carrying up oils to produce petroleum and gasoline. If you ask me where are you, all I can say is that you are in the smallest oil rich nation. Now, it's my turn to ask. Where are you now?

Answer: Bahrain

Bahrain is the smallest of the four choices place with 620 sq. km , next is Lebanon with 10,400 sq. km, then Qatar with 11,437 sq. km and Kuwait with 17,820 sq. km.
6. You're a reporter and you need to ask people some certain questions pertaining to their place but you can't understand them because they are speaking 'divehi'. If their language is 'divehi', where are you now?

Answer: Maldives

Maldives inhabitants speak 'divehi', Congo speaks 'French lingala monokutuba', Bhutan speaks 'dzong-kha' and Pakistan speaks 'punjab, sindih Urdu and pushto'.
7. You are lost in the jungle and you can't find your way out because you're located in the heart of the largest rainforest in Asia. Where are you now?

Answer: Indonesia

The Indonesian rainforest covers 1,400,000 sq. km of the country.
8. You've been sailing for 40 days and 40 nights. No more food left to eat and you're starving when you see something in the horizon. It's a land!.You're getting nearer and nearer and near enough to see the name of the island 'Kerguelen Island'. This island is a territory of which country?

Answer: France

Kerguelen Island is located in the southern part of Indian Ocean along with other islands but it is administered by France.
9. You're a historian and you're in a place called the 'Fertile Crescent' tracking the time of early civilization that exists between two rivers. In which country are you now?

Answer: Iraq

Iraq was once the home of the Sumerian civilization. Mesopotamia was the former name of Iraq which means a land between two rivers. It is called 'Fertile Crescent' because it was a very rich land inhabited by Sumerians who depended on fishing and farming.
10. You are measuring the length of the Nile river. The Nile has certain names in certain countries where it flows. If you are already measuring the 'White Nile', where are you now?

Answer: Sudan

Sudan people call it the 'White Nile', Tanzania inhabitants call it 'Kagera', Uganda calls it 'Victoria and Albert Nile' because in their place the river is divided into two and Egyptians just call it the Nile River. As the river flows through South Sudan it's called Bahr al Jabal which means "River of the Mountain".
11. You are in a place which has more cars than people. Where are you now?

Answer: San Marino

Statistically, San Marino has more cars than people with a data of 0.9 heads per car, U.S.A. has 1.3 heads per car, Monaco has 1.5 heads per cars and Nepal has 2,259 heads per car which is obviously the country with the least number of cars in the world.
12. You are a slave and you did something that the highest person in the palace doesn't like so you have been commanded to clean the whole palace complex. Covering 1090 mu (72 hectares or 180 acres), you'll be busy for a while. Where are you now?

Answer: China

The Forbidden City covers 720,000 sq. m (180 acres) and consists of many buildings. Protected by high, wide walls and a moat, the Imperial Palace was built in the early 1400s and has almost 9,000 rooms in 980 separate buildings.
13. You are one of the labourers who constructed the most beautiful building in the world as regarded by many because it is a symbol of love and mourning. The emperor built this in memory of his wife. In which country are you?

Answer: India

The Taj Mahal is located in Agra, India and the emperor who built this is Shah Jahan.
14. You're working in a television transmitting tower which is the tallest tower in the world. Where are you now?

Answer: U.S.A.

The KHTI-TV Tower in U.S.A. is the tallest tower in the world, CN Tower in Canada is the tallest free-standing structure, Petronas Towers in Malaysia is the tallest building and Eiffel Tower in France is one of the best symbols a country has.
15. You are praying in a religious garden of a shrine together with the Shinto priests believing the Shinto 'the way of gods' and your religion is Shintoism. Where are you now?

Answer: Japan

Shintoism has been existed for many years. It reached China but it didn't last long because Buddhism came. Japan is the only country it has survived in.
16. You're driving in a public transportation with no wheels. These are boats which are called vaporetti that act like buses. There are also gondolas for hire to cross to other buildings. You can't go anywhere without walking unless you ride in these boats. In which country are you now?

Answer: Italy

Venice, Italy is a place you can only get round by boat or on foot, although you can arrive by train or car.
17. You're the only one who luckily survived in a plane crash and you don't know what country you are in. You can see a new flag with red, black and green horizontal stripes. There is a crescent and a star in the black stripe. Over in a bin there is a solid green flag which has been discarded. What country are you in now?

Answer: Libya

Libya changed its flag in 2011 from solid green to a flag with red, black and green strips, a crescent and a star. This was just one change resulting from a revolution which took place in 2011. The revolution also deposed Muammar Gaddafi, ruler of the country for over forty years.

Bangladesh has a green flag with a red circle in the middle, Somalia has a sky blue flag with a white star in the center and Vietnam has a red flag with a yellow star at the middle.
18. You're one of the Arabs who went to this place because this believed to be the final pilgrimage the Prophet Mohammad took before he died. This place has ka'ba, a square building house said to be given by Archangel Gabriel to Patriarch Abraham where all Muslims used to pray. In which country are you?

Answer: Saudi Arabia

Mecca, Saudi Arabia is the place where Muslims gather around the ka'ba and pray.
19. You are one of the aborigines that made a spectacular series of irrigated rice terraces which are larger in size than any other rice terraces in the world. Native people believed that this is a 'stairway to heaven'. Where are you now?

Answer: Philippines

These terraces are contoured on the mountainous slopes of northern interior Luzon, Philippines. Their main purpose is to grow agricultural products for the natives.
20. You're one of the inhabitants of early civilization of this place which they call 'the city in clouds'. It is still unknown today how they carried many heavy stones up in the mountain and why they left this place, as the Spaniards had no idea about this place. Where are you now?

Answer: Peru

The city of Machu Picchu is found in the mountains northwest of Cuzco, Peru though the Inca civilization was extended in other near countries of Peru.
Source: Author mariah2001

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