Wrong Way Jose's Perilous Travels Quiz

Answer: Southeast

The monument of the Virgin Mary is visible from most of the city of Quito. It is 9,898 feet above sea level. The central square of Quito is located about 16 miles south of the equator. The city itself extends to within about one kilometer from zero latitude. Ecuador is Spanish for equator.

Answer: Due east

Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA) calls itself the "Gateway to Africa's Wildlife Heritage." By the way, Stanley found Livingstone on November 10, 1871, in Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania. It has been said that he greeted Livingstone with the now-famous line, "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"

Answer: Southwest

Sossusvlei is a dry lake most of the time, except when the Tsauchab River flows through the Sesriem Canyon after extensive rainy seasons. This occurs about every 5 to 10 years. Sossusvlei is located next to the Namib Desert which is one of the oldest deserts in the world. Some of the world's tallest sand dunes are found in the Namib Desert.

Answer: Those taking general cruise vacations from Japan

The United States - according to Robert S. Norris, William M. Arkin, and William Burr who wrote for the "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists" as early as 1990 - still use Iwo Jima to keep bombs stored there. However - if this is in fact true - they lack their plutonium or uranium cores. Their other argument is that technically the nuclear-armed vessels off land were legally an inch away from Japanese land. This is supposed to be how the United States technically proved that the there were no nuclear weapons actually in Japan.

Iwo Jima is still considered part of Tokyo. Iwo Jima is now called Ioto (sulfur island). In February of 1945, the U.S. Marines landed there and fought against the Japanese Imperial forces until March, when they finally controlled the island. The top of Mount Suribachi was where the raising of the American flag - and the iconic photo "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" - took place.

Answer: Northeast

According to Google Maps, a flight from Namibia to Tokyo, Japan would take nearly 27 hours with a few stops in between. A typical flight would leave from Walvis Bay, Namibia with a hop to Johannesburg, South Africa. After settling there for a while, your connecting flight would likely be directed to Beijing, China, and then, finally to Tokyo. It would not be fun.

Answer: Due south

Iwo Jima is 650 nautical miles south of mainland Tokyo and is governed as part of Ogasawara, one of the eight villages of Tokyo. Iwo Jima is considered uninhabited. The memorial at Iwo Jima is situated where the American flag was raised on February 12, 1945.

Answer: Southeast

Air Tahiti Nui (TN) has direct flights from Tokyo to Papeete twice per week and it's an 11 hour trip. Flights leave from Tokyo on Saturday and Monday (2015 schedule). Air Tahiti Nui Flights from Japan arrive in Papeete in the morning, around 8.30am. Return flights to Tokyo leave Papeete on Friday and Sunday.

Zika fever outbreaks are quite common when visiting Tahiti. It is similar to dengue fever as it is contracted by mosquito bites.

Answer: North

Usually a flight from Nome (OME) to Anchorage (ANC) Alaska is going to have a full night layover in Anchorage. The next day you take your connecting flight to St Paul Island by propeller airplane.

It's interesting to note that the island is the scene in Rudyard Kipling's story "The White Seal." The poem "Lukannon" in The Jungle Book is about the seals of St. Paul Island and how they continue singing even though the sealers are there to club and kill them in what the poem calls, the "two million strong."

Answer: West

Lake Baikal is known for being the world's deepest lake, but also is considered the oldest. It is located in southeast Siberia, just north of Mongolia.

Answer: Southeast

Southwest is also a direction you could take but it would be longer in distance. A typical flight would take you from Irkutsk Oblast, Russia (IKT) to Moscow (SVO), and then from Moscow (SVO) to Los Angeles (LAX). Your final leg would then go from Los Angeles (LAX) to Mexico City (MEX), and finally to home.