Gavin McOwan 

The big 2021 travel quiz: from Hadrian’s Wall to outer space

In what city did Bond almost come a cropper, and which country ditched the Queen? See how much you remember from the world of travel in 2021
  
  

Sycamore Gap on Hadrian's Wall, North Pennines.

  1. Hadrian’s Wall (pictured above) will be how old in 2022?

    1. 1,500

    2. 1,900

    3. 2,100

    4. 2,500

  2. You may have watched Love Actually (again) this Christmas. Do you remember which US state Colin (Kris Marshall) heads to in search of romance?

    1. California

    2. New York

    3. Texas

    4. Wisconsin

  3. On 8 June 2021, the National Geographic Society officially recognised the existence of what?

    1. Life on Mars

    2. The world's fifth ocean

    3. An underwater volcano off Iceland

    4. A previously unknown breed of river shark in the Amazon

  4. Boldly going?

    in 2021, who won the billionaires' space race to become the first private citizen to enter space in his (obviously) own spaceship?

    1. Jeff Bezos

    2. Richard Branson

    3. Rupert Murdoch

    4. Elon Musk

  5. The Beatles' final live performance, on the rooftop of their London headquarters (pictured) – as seen in this year's Disney+ documentary Get Back – would have taken place where, if the director of the original Let it Be film, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, had had his way?

    1. In front of the Berlin Wall

    2. The Cavern Club in Liverpool

    3. A Roman amphitheatre in Libya

    4. The Grand Canyon

  6. In March, the container ship Ever Given got stuck and blocked the Suez Canal for how many days?

    1. 6

    2. 8

    3. 10

    4. 12

  7. In September, which country became the first to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender?

    1. El Salvador

    2. Iceland

    3. Norway

    4. South Korea

  8. It is 30 years since the breakup of Yugoslavia. How many separate republics did it divide into?

    1. Five

    2. Six

    3. Seven

    4. Eight

  9. underground sign

    London’s newest tube extension opened in September. Where does it terminate?

    1. Battersea Power Station

    2. Clapham Junction

    3. Muswell Hill

    4. Wembley Stadium

  10. Where was the UK City of Culture 2021?

    1. Bradford

    2. Brighton

    3. Coventry

    4. Glasgow

  11. England's first travel green list, announced in May, contained which island, often cited as one of the world's most remote?

    1. Easter Island

    2. Pitcairn Island

    3. South Georgia

    4. Tristan da Cunha

  12. Which British city became only the third site in 50 years to lose its Unecso world heritage status

    1. Chester

    2. Edinburgh

    3. Liverpool

    4. York

  13. Which Caribbean country became a republic this year, renouncing the Queen as its head of state?

    1. Barbados

    2. Jamaica

    3. The Bahamas

    4. Trinidad and Tobago

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    Which ancient city was the setting for the opening scenes in much-anticipated Bond film No Time to Die?

    1. Cadiz

    2. Matera

    3. Messina

    4. Plovdiv

  15. FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 file photo, Christie's employees adjust an oil on canvas painting by Sir Winston Churchill painted in Jan. 1943 called 'Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque' during an Art pre-sale photo call at Christie's auction house in London. The Moroccan landscape painted by Winston Churchill and owned by Angelina Jolie sold at auction on Monday March 1, 2021, for more than $11.5 million, smashing the previous record for a work by Britain’s World War II leader. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

    A painting by Winston Churchill of which other ancient city was sold this year for over £8m?

    1. Tehran

    2. Algiers

    3. Luxor

    4. Marrakech

  16. And where was Boris Johnson caught unawares indulging in that same Churchillian hobby this autumn (and we don't mean a Stoke primary school)?

    1. Marbella

    2. Sorrento

    3. Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat

    4. Deia, Mallorca

  17. UAE-DESERT-NATURE-TOURISM<br>A woman tourist is seen while on a tour in the sand dunes at the Telal Resort on the outskirts of the city of al-Ain at the far east of the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi on January 26, 2021. (Photo by Karim SAHIB / AFP) (Photo by KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)

    Which country's interior provided the endless desert used in the sandworm and ornithopter scenes in sci-fi epic Dune?

    1. Namibia

    2. Mongolia

    3. Abu Dhabi

    4. Jordan

  18. Which city is this?

    1. Amsterdam

    2. Berlin

    3. Brussels

    4. Vienna

  19. In which US state would you find the highly secret Area 51?

    1. Alaska

    2. Idaho

    3. Nevada

    4. New Mexico

  20. Measuring tape

    Only three countries in the world do NOT use the metric system - which of these four does?

    1. Liberia

    2. Myanmar

    3. North Korea

    4. USA

Solutions

1:B, 2:D, 3:B - National Geographic cartographers said the swift current circling Antarctica keeps the waters there distinct and thus worthy of their own name: the Southern Ocean , 4:B, 5:C, 6:A, 7:A, 8:B - Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia, 9:A - The two-station branch line links Battersea Power Station to Kennington to via Nine Elms, 10:C, 11:C, 12:C, 13:A, 14:B, 15:D, 16:A, 17:C, 18:C, 19:C, 20:C

Scores

  1. 11 and above.

    Well done - you’ve been upgraded to first class!

  2. 8 and above.

    A solid Premium Economy effort

  3. 5 and above.

  4. 4 and above.

    I know we’ve been in lockdown, but you really do need to get out more.

  5. 3 and above.

  6. 2 and above.

  7. 0 and above.

  8. 1 and above.
 

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