Calling all travel agents! Think you know your Granada from your Grenada? Your La Paz, Mexico from your La Paz, Bolivia? Well, don your thinking cap for what has been called the hardest travel quiz EVER!
Devised by world nomad Graham Hughes – the first person to visit all 201 countries in the world without using a plane – this travel quiz is as hard as they come. Apparently, only six percent of people who have taken the quiz achieved a perfect store.
So, how much do you know about the world?
Grab a pen, print out this page, and compete with your colleagues!
1. What can a thirsty traveller find in the country of Lesotho?
a) The oldest pub in Africa
b) The highest pub in Africa
b) The cheapest beer in Africa
c) The longest bar in Africa
2. Where is the great Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton buried?
a) The Falkland Islands
b) Henderson Island
c) South Georgia Island
d) Ross Island
3. Which country is situated in the rather unique time zone of GMT+5.45?
a) Bangladesh
b) Burma
c) Bhutan
d) Nepal
4. Which country has the most time zones?
a) France
b) Canada
c) Russia
d) United States
5. Which city is served by an airport with the IATA code ‘TOM’?
a) Taormina, Sicily
b) Timbuktu, Mali
c) São Tomé, São Tomé & Príncipe
d) Toamasina, Madagascar
6. Which is the largest seaport in Europe?
a) Hamburg
b) Felixstowe
c) Rotterdam
d) Antwerp
7. What is currently the largest country in Africa by area?
a) Democratic Republic of Congo
b) Libya
c) Algeria
d) Sudan
8. Which of these four-lettered countries does not have a capital consisting of four letters?
a) Togo
b) Fiji
c) Chad
d) Peru
9. How many countries are full member states of the United Nations?
a) 193
b) 195
c) 196
d) 190
10. What connects the flags of Kiribati, Mexico and Egypt?
a) They all contain the colour green
b) They all debuted in the same year
c) They all feature birds
d) They all feature a representation of the sun
11.Which modern country was known to the Romans as Helvetia?
a) Finland
b) Greece
c) Switzerland
d) Croatia
12. What is the name of the currency of Uzbekistan?
a) Tenge
b) Plov
c) Som
d) Manat
13. What weird coincidence connects the capital of Australia’s Northern Territory and the capital of Nebraska?
a) Both named after men who were assassinated in a theatre
b) Both named after men who married the same woman
c) Both named after men whose existence was prophesied by Nostradamus
d) Both named after men who were born on the exact same day
14. It’s common say ‘L’Chaim!’ when raising a toast in Israel, but what is its literal translation?
a) Friendship
b) Good Health
c) To Life
d) Cheers
15. During Columbus’ final voyage to the New World, he scraped the barnacles off his ship in the area now known as Bocas Del Toro in which modern country?
a) Cuba
b) Colombia
c) Dominican Republic
d) Panama
16. Ibn Battuta, widely recognised as one of the greatest travellers of all time, was born in which modern-day country?
a) Saudi Arabia
b) Turkey
c) Morocco
d) Iraq
** THE ANSWERS **
1 b) The highest pub in Africa
2 c) South Georgia Island
3 d) Nepal
4 a) France
5 b) Timbuktu, Mali
6 c) Rotterdam
7 c) Algeria
8 c) Chad
9 a) 193
10 c) They all feature birds
11 c) Switzerland
12 c) Som
13 d) Both named after men who were born on the exact same day
14 c) To Life
15 d) Panama
16 c) Morocco
So how do you compare?
Score percentage of readers
90-100 per cent – 6 per cent of readers
80-89 per cent – 5 per cent
70-79 per cent – 2 per cent
60-69 per cent – 6 per cent
50-59 per cent – 11 per cent
0-49 per cent – 70 per cent