Which is the most famous loch here in the Trossachs? (Hint: There’s a song named after it.) A Loch Lomond B Loch Ness C Loch Dumfries Loch Lomond is the largest lake by surface area in Great Britain. It has more than 30 islands and, as the song goes, ‘bonnie, bonnie banks.’ The correct answer … Read more
What is a loch? A A bridge B An island C A lake or inlet Sea lochs, similar to fjords, are common along Scotland’s 6,160 miles of ragged coastline. ‘Loch’ can also mean a landlocked freshwater lake. The correct answer is A lake or inlet.
Sir Walter Scott based poems and novels here in Scotland’s Trossachs region. Which of these other writers is also Scottish? A Charles Dickens B Thomas Hardy C Robert Burns Robert ‘Rabbie’ Burns wrote in both Scots and English. His ‘Address to a Haggis’ is read at a traditional ‘Burns supper’—with the titular sausage as the … Read more
What is the ‘Curse of the Pharaohs’? A A 1945 comedy starring Abbott and Costello B Jay Pharoah’s 2019 stand-up special C A curse believed to have killed those who disturbed Tut’s tomb Soon after the discovery of King Tut’s tomb, the excavation’s patron, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, suddenly died of an infection. … Read more
What comedian had a hit single with the song ‘King Tut,’ selling more than a million copies in 1978? A Steve Martin B Robin Williams C Gilda Radner Steve Martin and the Toot Uncommons (actually members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) performed the song on ‘SNL’ while the King Tut exhibit was touring the … Read more
King Tut, or Tutankhamun, was a pharaoh in what ancient empire? A Assyria B Egypt C Greece King Tut was the last of his royal family to rule (he reigned 1332-1323 BCE). The ancient Egyptian empire lasted for more than 3,000 years. The correct answer is Egypt.
Africa’s tallest mountain, Kilimanjaro, rises from the lowlands of what country? A Tanzania B South Africa C Uganda The correct answer is Tanzania.
What is NOT an objective of UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves? A Preventing wars B Ending human activity in protected zones C Conserving cultural diversity Biosphere reserves are meant as places where humans can learn how to coexist with nature and the environment. Aside from protecting the biodiversity of natural environments, biosphere reserves aim … Read more
What’s the largest biosphere reserve in North America? A Yellowstone National Park B Tsá Túé C Denali National Park and Preserve Covering more than 36,000 square miles, Tsá Túé encompasses Great Bear Lake and part of its watershed in northern Canada. UNESCO designated it a biosphere reserve in 2016. The correct answer is Tsá Túé.
Bing Quiz: Hughes produced and directed an epic 1930 war film called what? A Seventh Heaven B All Quiet on the Western Front C Hell’s Angels Hughes focused his epic film on two brothers in the British Royal Flying Corps of WWI, promising thrilling dogfighting stunts. When the main stunt pilot told Hughes that a … Read more