Geography · Guess the place
Guess the Place Trivia Quiz
Pin It Cities, monuments, wonders and famous streets: name the place from a photo or a clue. Pin it before your friends do.
240 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
About this quiz
This Guess the Place Trivia Quiz has 240 questions: 86 easy, 112 medium and 42 hard, including 75 picture questions. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 240 Guess the place questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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In 2020 archaeologists dug up a 2,000-year-old street-food counter, still painted with ducks and a chicken, in which Roman city buried by a volcano?
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Pompeii
Scientists even found traces of duck, goat, pork, fish and snails in its jars: ancient fast food.
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In 2019, a joke Facebook event to 'storm' which secret US base and 'see them aliens' got over 2 million people saying they'd go?
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Area 51
Only about 150 people turned up at the gates; the rest went to music-festival spin-offs in nearby towns.
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Which Pacific islands, which helped Darwin form his theory of evolution, were home to Lonesome George, the last tortoise of his kind?
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Galápagos Islands
George died in 2012, about 100 years old; his species, the Pinta Island tortoise, died with him.
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Which New York spot was called Longacre Square until 1904, when it was renamed after a newspaper?
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Times Square
The New York Times also started the famous New Year's Eve ball drop there in 1907.
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Up to about 3,000 people cross at once when the lights change at which Tokyo crossing, seen in Lost in Translation and Tokyo Drift?
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Shibuya Crossing
The statue of Hachikō, the loyal dog who waited for his late owner for years, stands right beside it.
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On which cricket ground's balcony did Sourav Ganguly whip off his shirt and wave it after India's NatWest final win in 2002?
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Lord's
It was revenge for Andrew Flintoff swinging his shirt at Mumbai's Wankhede earlier that year.
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Which temple, the largest religious building on Earth, is drawn on its own country's national flag?
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Angkor Wat
It was built as a Hindu temple to Vishnu around 1150 and later became Buddhist; it's on Cambodia's flag.
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Which Singapore hotel balances a ship-shaped sky park, with a famous rooftop infinity pool, across the tops of its three towers?
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Marina Bay Sands
The 150-metre pool sits about 200 m up, on movable joints so its edge stays level as the towers settle.
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In January 2014, a lightning bolt chipped off part of a thumb on which giant statue watching over a famous carnival city?
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Christ the Redeemer
It's struck several times a year; workers keep spare soapstone to patch the fingers and head.
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Over a million wildebeest walk in a giant circle every year in the 'Great Migration', mostly across which Tanzanian plains?
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Serengeti
They follow the rains between Tanzania and Kenya's Maasai Mara, crossing crocodile-filled rivers on the way.
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On which Greek beach, reachable only by boat, does a rusty shipwreck rumoured to have been smuggling sit on white sand between giant cliffs?
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Navagio Beach
The Panagiotis ran aground in a storm in 1980; smuggling was rumoured but never proven. It's on the island of Zakynthos.
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Legend says the giant Finn McCool built a stepping-stone path to Scotland, and its 40,000 hexagon-shaped stone columns are what's left. Where?
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Giant's Causeway
Geologists say the columns formed as lava cooled and cracked about 50-60 million years ago.
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Iceland's most famous milky-blue hot spa isn't natural at all. It's warm runoff water from a power plant. What is it called?
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Blue Lagoon
Locals began bathing in the plant's waste pool in the 1980s and noticed it helped their skin; a spa grew from that.
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Which French island-abbey, cut off by some of Europe's biggest tides, is often called the real model for Rapunzel's kingdom in Tangled?
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Mont-Saint-Michel
Its tides can rise very fast; a raised bridge, opened in 2014, lets the sea flow around it again.
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Which 9 km tunnel under the Rohtang Pass in Himachal is the world's longest highway tunnel above 10,000 feet, cutting the drive to Lahaul by hours?
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Atal Tunnel
Opened in 2020, it lets Manali-Leh traffic skip the snowbound pass, saving about 46 km.
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The two-piece swimsuit was named in 1946 after a Pacific atoll where the US had just tested atomic bombs. Which one?
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Bikini Atoll
Designer Louis Réard hoped his swimsuit would be as explosive as the tests; it's still uninhabited because of radiation.
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Pixar's Cars is set in Radiator Springs, a sleepy town left behind when a new highway bypassed which famous American road?
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Route 66
The film was based on real towns that faded after the Interstates; Route 66 was removed from the map in 1985.
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Thailand shut which cliff-lined bay, made famous by Leonardo DiCaprio's film The Beach, for three and a half years to let it recover?
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Maya Bay
It reopened in 2022 with swimming banned, and blacktip reef sharks came back to its shallows.
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Which Madrid football stadium can slide its grass pitch into an underground greenhouse so the arena can host concerts and NFL games?
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Santiago Bernabéu
Real Madrid's rebuilt stadium stores its grass in trays in an underground chamber, with lights and watering, between games.
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In 2018 the Philippines' president called it a 'cesspool' and shut which white-sand party island to tourists for six months?
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Boracay
Workers rebuilt its sewers; it reopened with limits on visitor numbers and a ban on beach parties.
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Questions about this quiz
How many questions are in the Guess the Place Trivia Quiz?
240. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
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Do I have to spell the answers exactly?
No. You type your answers, and Braggit accepts close spellings, so a small typo still scores.
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