International Trivia  Questions - Middle East - Australia - Panama - Sudan

 

 

International trivia  including Australia, Sudan, Middle East, Fiji, South America.

Who was the first member of the English royal family to wear a pair of silk stockings?
A: Oft-married Henry VIII, in 1509. The stockings were a gift from Spain.

In Middle Eastern legend, what is widely considered to be the forbidden fruit?
A: The banana.

Which continent is the only one to have no glaciers?
A: Australia.

What world leader was originally known as Karl Herbert Frahm?
A: Former German chancellor Willy Brandt. He changed his name to escape the Gestapo.

What was the given name of the long-time Yugoslavian communist leader we knew as Marshal Tito?
A: Josip Broz.

What was the source of the earliest eye glitter ever used--that devised by the ancient Egyptians?
A: Iridescent beetle shells.

What country was once known as New Holland?
A: Australia, in the mid-seventeenth century.

What is the native language of the Fiji Islands?
A: Fijian.

How was Queen Victoria trained to keep her chin up as a child?
A: A sprig of holly was placed beneath her collar.

What Dutch colony was ceded to the British in 1667 in exchange for Dutch Guiana--the South American country now known as Suriname?
A: New York--then known as Nieuw Amsterdam. The exchange was part of the Treaty of Breda.

What is the claim to fame of the Turkish site known as Hissarlik?
A: It is the site of ancient Troy.

Where do the Blue Nile and White Nile meet?
A: At Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.

Where were Panama hats--woven from jipijapa leaves--first made?
A: In Peru. They're also made in Colombia and Ecuador--but not in Panama. They were misnamed after being discovered by North Americans in Panama.

Which ocean is the smallest and shallowest?
A: The Arctic Ocean.

How long is the Suez Canal the water link between the Gulf and Suez and the Mediterranean Sea?
A: It's 105 miles long.

Who was Somdetch Phra Paramendr Maha Mongkut?
A: The monarch immortalized by writer Margaret ED. Langdon in her book "Anna and the King of Siam" and portrayed by Yul Brynner in stage and screen productions of "The King and I."

In what country does Domino's Pizza have a reindeer sausage pie on its menu?
A: Iceland.