February 2015 - Trivia Questions and Answers - TriviaQA

World Travel Trivia

A £4.5 million visitor center in Stoke-on-Trent tells the story of this British pottery founded in the 1700s

Answer: Wedgwood

World Travel Trivia

After a 15-year restoration, the ruins of Nero’s Golden Palace, Domus Aurea, reopened in this city in 1999

Answer: Rome

World Travel Trivia

The Knopf guide to this country features sections on “Nomads’ tents” and “Matisse in Tangier”

Answer: Morocco

World Travel Trivia

With its quiet beauty of cliffs & coral, the peninsula of this sultanate is billed as the anti-Dubai

Answer: Oman

World Travel Trivia

Instead of going the whole 6,000 miles on this line, you can change at Tarskaya to the Trans-Manchurian for Beijing

Answer: the Trans-Siberian Railway

World Travel Trivia

Music lovers pay homage to this composer by visiting Ainola, his home near Helsinki

Answer: Jean Sibelius

Cradles Trivia

To use this common household device, remove the handset from the cradle

Answer: Telephone

Cradles Trivia

This landmark is called “The Cradle of Texas Liberty”

Answer: The Alamo

Cradles Trivia

U.S. city called “The Cradle of Jazz”

Answer: New Orleans

Cradles Trivia

These 2 rivers were the cradle of civilization in Mesopotamia

Answer: Tigris & Euphrates

Cradles Trivia

Incorporated in 1819, this current state capital was once the cradle of the Confederacy

Answer: Montgomery, Alabama

Cradles Trivia

This mission chapel has been called the “Cradle of Texas Liberty”

Answer: the Alamo

Cradles Trivia

Long Island, with the east coast’s only prairie, was a hub of early flying & is home to the Cradle of this museum

Answer: Aviation

Cradles Trivia

In mythology this baby strangled 2 serpents placed in his cradle

Answer: Hercules

Cradles Trivia

In the 19th century William Ross Wallace wrote, “the hand that” does this “is the hand that rules the world”

Answer: “rocks the cradle”