telegraph xmas quiz
paul
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We have teamed up with Cox & Kings, the world's longest established travel
company, to offer the winner of our Christmas quiz a holiday for two in
India.
The prize
The nine-day trip is the perfect introduction to the sub-continent, taking
in Delhi, the Taj Mahal at Agra, Jaipur and the spectacular palace at
Samode. The prize includes flights on Virgin Atlantic, twin-share b & b in
first-class hotels throughout, transfers and guided sightseeing. The winners
may travel, subject to availability, on any one of the 44 dates on which the
"Indian Experience" tour leaves before December 2002.
Cox and Kings
The Cox & Kings' programme includes destinations in Latin America, the
Middle East, Africa, China and the Far East, in addition to specialist fine
art and natural history tours. For further information or to order a
brochure call 020 7873 5000 or visit www.coxandkings.co.uk.
How to enter:
You can sit in front of the fire dreaming of an escape to the tropics - or
you can do our quiz and try to win the nine-day holiday for two in India
with Cox & Kings.
This quiz was also published in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday December 22.
All you have to do is answer the questions below, complete the tie-breaker
in not more than 20 words, fill in the form and press submit. Competition
ends Saturday January 5 2002.
When William Hague resigned as leader of the Conservative Party, Michael
Portillo was on holiday in his favourite country. Where was he?
On a city break in Florence, Tuscany
Wine-tasting in the Loire
Visiting the Roman ruins of Volubilis near Fez
Playing golf in the Algarve
In his guide to summer reading, Max Davidson claimed that books for the
beach sent out clear messages. Which novel, does he reckon, says the
following: "Although I'm a bit podgy I like a good laugh and some
old-fashioned rumpy-pumpy?"
Appassionata by Jilly Cooper
Love, etc by Julian Barnes
Wicked Pleasures by Penny Vincenzi
The Clematis Tree by Ann Widdecombe
The lady herself might have departed to the great pink boudoir in the sky,
but in which hotel can you book yourself into the Barbara Cartland suite?
Cliveden, Somerset
The Oriental, Bangkok
Sandy Lane, Barbados
Claridges, London
And in which hotel can you enjoy a moment of quiet contemplation in the
Jeffrey Archer Memorial Library?
Cliveden, Somerset
The Oriental, Bangkok
Sandy Lane, Barbados
Claridges, London
In which of the following will the euro not be legal tender next year?
Tahiti
Martinique
Gothenburg
Tenerife
Which tourist attraction decreased its entrance charge by 100 per cent this
year?
The Victoria & Albert Museum
Madame Tussaud's
The Taj Mahal
The Eiffel Tower
And which tourist attraction increased its entrance charge by 14,444 per
cent this year?
The Victoria & Albert Museum
Madame Tussaud's
The Taj Mahal
The Eiffel Tower
Prince Andrew marked the end of 22 years' service in the Royal Navy with
what sort of holiday?
A shooting party in Balmoral
With his ex-wife and children on the Côte d'Azur
An expedition up Mount Kilimanjaro
Aboard a yacht off Thailand with a bunch of B-list It-girls
The British Tourist Authority brought out a leaflet this year aimed at
helping hoteliers meet "the needs and expectations of Britain's overseas
visitors". According to the BTA, people of which nationality "expect their
accommodation to be licensed"?
Irish
Czechs
Russians
Greeks
The British Tourist Authority brought out a leaflet this year aimed at
helping hoteliers meet "the needs and expectations of Britain's overseas
visitors". According to the BTA, people of which nationality "resent
tipping"?
Americans
New Zealanders
Swedes
Dutch
The British Tourist Authority brought out a leaflet this year aimed at
helping hoteliers meet "the needs and expectations of Britain's overseas
visitors". According to the BTA, people of which nationality are "proud and
hard to please"?
Germans
French
Irish
Jamaicans
The British Tourist Authority brought out a leaflet this year aimed at
helping hoteliers meet "the needs and expectations of Britain's overseas
visitors". According to the BTA, people of which nationality are "very
demanding and straightforward with a strong reluctance to eat British meat"?
Germans
French
Irish
Jamaicans
Which "bustling modern city centre" whose restaurants "rival those in
central London" published 60,000 guides this year marketing itself as
"western Europe's largest town"?
Manchester
Liverpool
Croydon
Glasgow
How much does the BTA estimate that British hotels and tourist businesses
will have lost by the end of this year?
£5 million
£100 million
£1 billion
£2·5 billion
Whom did Malta adopt as its "ambassador of tourism" this year?
Lucky Lucas
Gary Neville
Danny of Hear'Say
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Which of the following pieces of bathroom equipment is most likely to incur
the derision of Paddy Burt?
Toilet
Shower
Bidet
Bath
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was set in spectacular locations. Where was
it filmed?
Taiwan
The United States
India
China
If you booked a tour to see "Il gigante buono", what would you find
yourself looking at?
Mount Etna in Sicily
The priapic murals in Pompeii
Pizza-making in Naples
Pavarotti at La Scala
Whom does Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of EasyJet, describe as his
"inspiration"?
The Princess of Wales
Freddie Laker
Richard Branson
Aristotle Onassis
In this year's BA Tourism for Tomorrow Awards, which of the following was
overall winner?
Orchid Hotel, Madras
Temple Tiger Lodge, Nepal
Olango Birds and Seascape Tour, Philippines
The Wetland Centre, London
In which of the following would you not find Lapland?
Finland
Sweden
Russia
Iceland
After 71 years, TWA ceased to be on December 2 this year. What did its
initials stand for?
Third World Airways
Two Way Airways
Trans World Airlines
The World's Airline
On which country did the American press bestow the epithet "Disasterland"
earlier this year?
India
Mozambique
Britain
Sudan
Along with its service to New York, BA is operating Concorde flights to
which holiday island?
Iceland
Mauritius
Barbados
Bermuda
At which Greek airport were the Planespotting 12 arrested for spying last
month?
Corfu
Kalamata
Thessalonika
Eleftherios Venizelos
In a year when many Americans avoided Britain, Madonna married in a British
castle. Was it?
Skibo
Alnwick
Chillingham
Eilean Donan
One tailfin belongs to a German airline? Is it..
(a) (b) (c) (d)
All but one of these items originates in Latin America. Is the odd one
out...
(a) (b) (c) (d)
One of these has never hosted a travel show. Is it.
Mary Nightingale
Kate Thornton
Emma Bunton
Juliet Morris
Margaret Beckett and her husband, Leo, told the Travel section of The Daily
Telegraph this year that they part-exchanged their caravan for which new
model?
Bailey Champagne
Avondale Rialto
Sprite Musketeer
Lunar Clubman
Which hotel sacked Sophie Rhys-Jones as its PR after her business partner
was videotaped suggesting it could provide "discreet villas" for clients to
have gay sex?
Chiva Som, Phuket
The K Club, Barbuda
Banyan Tree, Phuket
Amanjena, Marrakesh
Which of the following tour operators is not German-owned?
Preussag
Thomson
Thomas Cook
First Choice
Which of these will be the odd one out next year?
Swedish krona
Norwegian krone
Czech koruna
Greek drachma
Should you chance upon the Spanish festival of San Fermin, what danger are
you likely to encounter?
Being smothered in rotten tomatoes
Being hit by a donkey dropped from a medieval tower
Being forcibly intoxicated by men dressed as Franciscan monks
Being gored by a bull
Where could you hope to meet a "Zonian"?
Disney World
Belarus
Panama
Croydon
Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for Culture, a job that embraces the
tourism portfolio, showed her support for the British tourist industry this
year by holidaying where?
Dartmoor
Cumbria
Northumberland
Florida
"What a lovely holiday, there's nothing funny left to say", sang Robbie
Williams in The Road to -. Which country run by a military dictatorship was
his suggested destination?
Iraq
Burma
Libya
North Korea
Which of the following was not featured as a location in the Harry Potter
film?
Goathland, North Yorkshire
King's Cross station, London
Alnwick Castle, Northumberland
Windsor Castle, Berkshire
When Tony Blair decided to take a break in Cornwall this summer, why did he
encounter criticism from West Country hoteliers?
Because he stole the towels
Because he tried to negotiate a discount
Because he cancelled at the last minute
Because he took Alastair Campbell instead of Cherie and the children
Wilbur Smith described how he had used Egypt - where he had holidayed nine
times in the past 30 years - as the background of his latest novel, Warlock.
Who of the following has not used the same country for literary ends?
Agatha Christie
Lawrence Durrell
Tony Parsons
Naguib Mahfouz
Which of the following is an accommodation option in the Australian town of
Woy Woy?
The Prince of Wales Leisure and Entertainment Park
The Spike Milligan Wing of the Glades Country Club Motor Inn
The Woyal Suite of the Woy Woy Woyal Hotel
The Harry Secombe Memorial Caravan Site
According to research carried out by Guildhall University this year, the
commonest cause of air rage is alcohol. Which is the second most common?
Smoking bans
"Overly strident cabin crew"
Drug use
The "passenger's personality"
Which London hotel is home to the broom cupboard that provided Boris Becker
with the most expensive five seconds of his life?
Claridges
The Ritz
The Metropolitan
The Hilton on Park Lane
When Jonathan Raban was asked to nominate his favourite travel book, he
picked one he described as "an unvarnished self-portrait of a clever,
languid Old Etonian 'doing' the Middle East". What was it?
Mirror to Damascus by Colin Thubron
Arabia by Jonathan Raban
Eothen by A W Kinglake
Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
All airports are identified by a three-letter code; hence FAT is Fresno in
the United States and FUK is Fukuoko in Japan. Where is FEZ?
Fez, Morocco
Fergus, Canada
Ferguson, Australia
Faro, Portugal
Tiebreaker:
is the most underrated sight in the world because
Geekay
marked a few answers below: (among the questions, though I'm sure there's an
easier-to-read way to do it!)
Glyn
Remove NONSENSE to reply.
paul <pa...@lunch.screaming.net> wrote in message
news:a0dvqk$hok48$1...@ID-62928.news.dfncis.de...
> Visiting the Roman ruins of Volubilis near Fez >>>>>this one
> Gothenburg >>>>>>>this one
> Trans World Airlines >>>>>this one
> The World's Airline
>
>
> On which country did the American press bestow the epithet "Disasterland"
> earlier this year?
>
>
> India
> Mozambique
> Britain
> Sudan
>
>
> Along with its service to New York, BA is operating Concorde flights to
> which holiday island?
>
>
> Iceland
> Mauritius
> Barbados
> Bermuda
>
>
> At which Greek airport were the Planespotting 12 arrested for spying last
> month?
>
>
> Corfu
> Kalamata
> Thessalonika
> Eleftherios Venizelos
>
>
> In a year when many Americans avoided Britain, Madonna married in a
British
> castle. Was it?
>
>
> Skibo >>>>>this one
> Alnwick
> Chillingham
> Eilean Donan
>
>
> One tailfin belongs to a German airline? Is it..
>
>
>
> (a) (b) (c) (d) d - Lufthansa (according to my hubby)
Tiggywinks
1c
3b
6a
9a
10b
11b
12a
14d
15b
17d
19c
22c
30a
34d
38d
39b
43c
Good Luck Jean