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?
