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Thursday, September 15, 2005

Traveling Shorts September Quiz

September Quiz (with great prize!..)

Do you like winning prizes? Here is your chance - today we encourage you to test your knowledge in the area of travel, geography and entertainment. So are you ready to be challenged? OK, here are the rules. Below are 12 questions - some easy, some difficult. You have to tell us if each of the sentences/questions is True or False. The answer shoul look like this: Q1-F, Q2-T, Q3-T, Q4-F, etc. (with T meaning True and F - False). Please send the answers to hill.stan@gmail.com . The person who will be the first to give us ALL CORRECT answers will be the winner - announced here as soon as we'll get the perfect answer... If we not get the perfect answer by Sep. 30, 2005, at 10 pm PST we'll give the prize to the person with most questions answered correctly. We will ask the winner to e-mail us her/his mailing address so that we could deliver the prize. Now, what is the prize?

September Quiz Prize: "$500 in casino benefits in your choice of Reno/Lake Tahoe or Las Vegas" gift certificate.

And here come the questions:


  1. Meteora Monasteries are located in Kalampaka, Greece.
  2. During his life, John Paul II was the bishop of the Rome diocese and the Wadowice diocese.
  3. Canada has two official languages - English and French.
  4. Nicole Kidman and Gwen Stefani were both born in Australia.
  5. Oahu is the biggest Hawaiian island.
  6. Donald Trump owns majority of Las vegas casinos.
  7. The mountains in Russia that separate Asia from Europe are called Ural Mountains.
  8. Fjord is a Norwegian word for a deep, narrow lake.
  9. Disneyland® Resort in Anaheim, California has two theme parks.
  10. All of the members of the The Beatles were born in Hamburg, Germany.
  11. Saigon was once called Ho Chi Minh City.
  12. Beijing is the China's most populous city.

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So here you go!

Good luck to everyone!

Stan & Helen

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