Fancy yourself as an armchair globetrotter? Then scroll on and find out if you’re a Christmas turkey or as wise as the three kings
The 1994 film Miracle on 34th Street is based on a real-life New York department store. What is it?
Macy’s
Bloomingdale’s
Woolworth’s
Barney’s
Which country can’t join Fifa, and so is not eligible to enter the World Cup and other international football tournaments, because of its weather conditions?
Greenland
Papua New Guinea
Antarctica
Nepal
Which is the largest country in the world without a permanent river?
Turkmenistan
Iraq
Mongolia
Saudi Arabia
In which city will the 2024 Summer Olympics be held?
Tokyo
Los Angeles
Paris
Sydney
Much of the classic 1945 film Brief Encounter, starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, was shot at which British railway station?
Crewe
Carnforth
London Marylebone
Brighton
Albert Camus’s novels The Plague and The Outsider are set in which country, where the Nobel prize winner grew up?
Morocco
Algeria
Spain
Lebanon
Which model of car shares its name with both a Spanish and an Argentinian city?
Ford Granada
Austin Allegro
Chrysler Cordoba
Vauxhall Viva
Which cocktail was invented at the Raffles Hotel in the early 20th century?
Martini
Singapore sling
Mai Tai
Old Fashioned
Name this city skyline
Sydney
Glasgow
St Louis
Newcastle
And this one …
Seattle
San Francisco
Toronto
Shanghai
This one’s easy-peasy …
Moscow
Berlin
Tokyo
Warsaw
There are only two double-landlocked countries in the world (which require the crossing of two borders to reach a coastline). Name the one in Europe.
Andorra
Luxembourg
Liechtenstein
Slovakia
And now name the second, which is in Asia.
Mongolia
Laos
Bhutan
Uzbekistan
What is the first of the three countries that Liz Gilbert visits in Eat, Pray, Love?
France
Italy
Spain
Russia
What was the name of the hotel in the Stephen King novel (and Stanley Kubrick film), The Shining?
Mountain Hotel
Overlook Hotel
Hotel California
Rocky Mountain Lodge
It’s probably no surprise that Amsterdam is the lowest MAJOR European capital, but which is the highest?
Berne
Madrid
Vienna
Sofia
But Amsterdam is 28 metres higher than the world’s lowest capital. Name it.
Baku, Azerbaijan
Tunis, Tunisia
Djibouti
Singapore
Everyone knows that Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird deals with racism in the Deep South, but in which state?
Georgia
Louisiana
Alabama
Mississippi
In which New York hotel did Leonard Cohen meet a woman he later sang this about: “You told me again you preferred handsome men/But for me you would make an exception”.
Washington Square Hotel
Chelsea Hotel
The Roosevelt Hotel
The Waldorf Astoria
In 1959, which former US territory became the 50th and newest US state?
Rhode Island
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
16 and above.
Hallelujah! You’re an armchair globetrotter
11 and above.
Well done – tidings of comfort and joy to you
0 and above.
Christmas turkey!
6 and above.
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