Well, What Do You Know

WELL, WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

Test your knowledge with an around the world travel quiz.

I give you three guesses.

1. Zuppa Inglese is the Italian for

1. Brown Windsor Soup
2. A macho Englishman
3. Trifle

2. The Mona Lisa gazes enigmatically from the walls of

a. The Uffizi Museum in Florence

b. The Louvre in Paris

c. The National Gallery in London

3. Hetty Pegler’s Tump is a

a . A famous inn in the Lake District of Northern England

b. Traditional Scottish pudding

c. A pre-historical burial ground in the Cotswolds

4. The Spanish Riding School, where the white Lipizzaner stallions

Display the art of classical horsemanship is to be found in

1. Vienna
2. Madrid
3. The island of Lanzarote

5. Scotland’s most popular tourist attraction is

a. the Burrell Collection in Glasgow

b. Balmoral Castle

c. The Palace of Holyroodhouse

6. Which island is known as the legendary birthplace of

Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love,

1. Capri
2. Cyprus
3. Crete

7. Schuhplattier is

a. A high mountain glacial plateau

b. An Austrian folk dance

c. A quilt

8. The smallest country in the world is

a. Iceland

b. Liechtenstein

c. The Vatican

9. If your air holiday includes the experience of being “bumped”

Does it mean that you are

1. subjected to a very heavy impact on landing
2. jostled by muggers intent on stealing your wallet
3. told that the flight has been overbooked and there is no seat available for you

10. The National dish of Portugal is

a. Dried codfish

b. Grilled sardines

c. The fish soup called caldeirada

11. Captain Scott’s ship Discovery in which he sailed on his historic and ill-fated voyage to the Antarctic is now permanently berthed in

a. Portsmouth

b. Dundee

c. St. Katharine’s Dock in London

12. If you ordered emeneks from a menu in Yugoslavia would you expect to be served

a. ham and eggs

b. hot spicy sausage

c. a glass of fiery white brandy?

13. Caesar’s Palace in best known as

a. The splendid villa of the Caesars in Rome

b. A Las Vegas hotel, famous for big name entertainment

c. A fort on Hadrian’s Wall

14. If you found yourself in the Alamo, would you be in

a. An opera house in Milan

b. A historic fort in San Antonio, Texas

c. Building in Madrid?

Answers: 1c,2b,3c,4a,5a,6b,7b,8c,9c,10a,11b,12a,13b,14b.

All that got 100% right may take a long lunch time.

Maureen Jones

All Horizons Travel/Frosch

825 Santa Cruz Ave

Menlo Park, CA 94025

650-961-2340 direct

www.froschvacations.com

maureen.jones@frosch.com