There’s an unlimited baggage allowance with our bumper quiz about international travellers, flags, travel-related song lyrics and more Who caught the Marrakesh Express in 1969? Joni Mitchell Bob Dylan The Rolling Stones Crosby, Stills and Nash Pink Floyd Which American soft-rockers blessed the rains down in Africa? Boston Toto Foreigner Chicago Hall & Oates Tony Christie and Peter Kay both wanted to go to Amarillo, but where is it? Mallorca Bolton Texas California Andalucía Where will Duke Ellington’s A Train take you? Manhattan Brooklyn Harlem Central Park Staten Island Which of these places is NOT name-checked in Ian Dury and the Blockheads’ globetrotting hit, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick? Borneo Bogotá Bombay Bordeaux What is the world’s largest landlocked country? Sudan Kazakhstan Mongolia Democratic Republic of the Congo Bolivia Which is the world’s largest desert? Gobi Sahara Patagonian Antarctica Siberian In October, the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge opened in which country? China Russia US Japan Norway Which of these countries is largest in area? Australia US (excluding Alaska) India Brazil Kazakhstan Which is the second-longest river in Asia, after the Yangtse? Mekong Yellow Ganges Indus Lena This is the world’s only non-quadrilateral national flag, of which country? Oman Myanmar Nepal North Korea Honduras Which US state’s flag is the only one to feature the Union Jack? Georgia New Hampshire Hawaii Alaska Wisconsin This is the flag of which island? Isle of Man Sicily Canvey Island Prince Edward Island Trinidad This is the flag of which country? Cambodia Brunei Wales Sri Lanka Bhutan Which country flies the oldest continuously used national flag? Denmark Portugal Latvia Scotland Greece Who said, “The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life” ? Michael Palin Anthony Bourdain Jay Rayner Christopher Columbus Nigella Lawson Where was Charles Dickens thinking of when he wrote, in 1842, “It would be hard for a man to stand nearer to God than he does there”? Niagara Falls The Lake District Mont Blanc Venice Greenwich Park Who said: “There are two seasons in Scotland: June and winter” Queen Victoria AA Gill Billy Connolly Robbie Burns A L Kennedy Where was Jan Morris talking about when she said, “It is a cauldron, seething, hissing, hooting, arguing, enmeshed in a labyrinth of tunnels and flyovers, with those skyscrapers erupting everywhere into view”? Manhattan Hong Kong Tokyo Mumbai Spaghetti Junction, Birmingham Who said: “The one phrase imperative to know in any foreign language is ‘My friend will pay’?” Eddie Izzard Dame Edna Everage Oscar Wilde Alan Whicker John Simpson 16 and above. A (suit)case of congratulations to you, you travel hero you! 8 and above. Good … but a little short of travel quizzing greatness. Swotting required 0 and above. Oh, it's all gone a bit travel turkey hasn't it? Continue reading...
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