Projects Abroad Travel Quiz

 

Questions

1. Parcheesi is which country’s national game?

 
a. Thailand
b. India
c. South Africa

2. The two-humped Bactrian camel is native to what country?

 
a. Morocco
b. Senegal
c. Mongolia

3. Where can you find cassava and other starches combined, cooked, fermented or pounded to make the culinary delights of fufu and banku?

 
a. Ghana
b. Tanzania
c. Fiji

4. It is said that 1 in 30 in this country have had plastic surgery.

 
a. Mexico
b. Thailand
c. Argentina

5. This Thai sport has lost some of its national popularity but is still practiced in rural traditional villages.

 
a. taekwondo
b. egg rolling
c. pad see ew

6. What country was the first former Soviet state to elect a Communist as its president in 2001?

 
a. Mongolia
b. Moldova
c. Romania

7. What common habit did Chinese authorities try to ban by fining trespassers prior to the Beijing Olympics?

 
a. shouting
b. spitting
c. dancing the Charleston

8. Though briefly occupied by Italy, this country is only 1 of 2 African countries never to have been colonized?

 
a. Ethiopia
b. Togo
c. Tanzania

9. What country’s capital city has a street market called the Witches’ Market where you can find magic spells, sorcery and potions being sold?

 
a. Togo
b. Romania
c. Bolivia

10. Tanzania has two official languages. One is Swahili. The other is:

 
a. English
b. Indougou
c. Wolof

11. What country boasts the elephant orphanage with the largest herd of elephants in captivity in the world?

 
a. Nepal
b. South Africa
c. Sri Lanka

12. Where is the Yeti or Abominable Snowman said to live?

 
a. Nepal
b. Mongolia
c. Romania