World

Question 1

What is the only manmade structure in the world to stand above 800 m tall?

Answer 1

Burj Khalifa (Dubai)

Question 2

In which royal palace will you find the Hall of Mirrors?

Answer 2

Palace of Versailles

Question 3

Name this landmark.

Answer 3

Trevi Fountain

Question 4

Roughly half the size of Texas, it’s the largest structure made by living creatures & can even be seen from space.

Answer 4

Great Barrier Reef

Question 5

Sticky rice was used in the mortar to build what famous world landmark?

Answer 5

Great Wall of Chine

Question 6

What is the only living structure that can be spotted from space?

Answer 6

Great Barrier Reef

Question 7

What famous road gets its name from the classical Greek concept of a heavenly place that, as Homer describes, is “where life is easiest for men. No snow is there, nor heavy storm, nor ever rain, but ever does Ocean send up blasts of the shrill-blowing West Wind that they may give cooling to men.”

Answer 7

Champs-Elysees (Elysian Fields)

Question 8

A stone structure whose construction began in May 1891 on a thoroughfare known as Ulitsa Aleutskaya remains today best-known as a terminus of what?

Answer 8

Trans-Siberian Railway