1 The South African town of Hermanus is one of the world’s best known centres for which specific activity, especially between May and December?

2 In which country is Grounation Day observed as an important holiday on April 21 every year? It actually commemorates the visit of a person to that specific country in 1966.

3 For what specific reason did Northumberland’s Alwick Castle experience a 230 per cent increase in visitors after 2011?

4 Ten million people come to see this tourist attraction every year, and most decide to go to either the Badaling or the Mutianyu areas. Which specific tourist attraction features both these areas?

5 Which famous Scotsman’s 1879 account, Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes, is regarded as one of the first works in English to present hiking and camping as recreational activities?

6 India has only three national holidays. The rest are decided by the individual states and Union Territories. Two of these holidays are Republic Day and Independence Day. Which is the third?

7 Which festival, celebrated in many parts of India and at least one neighbouring country, gets its name from the fact it is celebrated on the sixth day of the month Kartika?

8 Enotourism, better known as wine tourism, is one of the fastest growing holiday activities. With reference to enotourism, distinguish between horizontal tasting and vertical tasting?

9 The most profitable holiday in the history of mankind was when an untidy Scottish biologist returned to London after a month’s holiday in August 1928 with his family. What did he discover when he came back?

10 The Vespa 125 cc Piaggio scooter became one of the largest selling vehicles in Europe, and a design classic thanks to its use in which classic film of the ’50s?

Answers

1. Whale watching. Right Whales come so close to the shore that visitors can actually watch them from their hotels. The town also employs a ‘whale crier’ to walk through the town announcing where whales have been seen.

2. Jamaica, which celebrates Grounation Day in honour of Haile Selassie’s visit

3. It was the setting for the first two Harry Potter films

4. The Great Wall of China.

5. Robert Louis Stevenson. It was very popular in its time and even discussed how the first sleeping bags were designed

6. Gandhi Jayanti, on October 2

7. Chath, which means sixth in Hindi, Nepali and Bhojpuri. It is celebrated in many parts of eastern India and Nepal

8. Horizontal tasting involves tasting wines of the same vintage from different wineries, while vertical tasting is about tasting all the different vintages from a single winery

9. That a colony of staphylococci had been destroyed by a strange mould that had grown by accident. That mould turned out to be penicillin, which saved millions of lives in the 20th century

10. Roman Holiday, starring Gregory Peck and newcomer Audrey Hepburn

Joy Bhattacharjyais a quizmaster and Project Director, FIFA U-17 World Cup

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