Guess the Landmark

What is this?

• Stonehenge (Wiltshire, England)

• Washington Monument (Washington D.C., USA)

• Mount Rushmore (South Dakota, USA)

• Mount Everest (China & Nepal)

Answer explanation

With construction starting in 1929, $250,000 was the budget to begin sculpting. Approximately 400 workers blasted away over 450,000 tons of rock using the most advanced methods.

What is this?

• Potala Palace (Lhasa, China)

• Mont St. Michel (France)

• Loch Ness (Scotland)

• La Sagrada Familia (Spain)

Answer explanation

The Abbey served as a prison during the days of the French Revolution. It was built over crypts in the 11th century.

What is this?

• Angkor Wat (Cambodia)

• Berlin Cathedral (Berlin, Germany)

• St. Peter's (Vatican City, Italy)

• Kremlin (Moscow, Russia)

Answer explanation

Construction began in 1506 with Julius II. The design was a Greek Cross designed by Donato Bramante. Construction leadership was handed down through a number of people, and the design was eventually modified to a Latin cross, but changed back to Bramante's design in 1527, before changing again to the Latin cross.

What is this?

• Malwiya (Spiral) Minaret (Iraq)

• Minaret of Jam (Afghanistan)

• Umayyad Mosque (Syria)

• Qutb Minar (India)

Answer explanation

The Great Mosque of Samarra with its iconic Malwiya Minaret was constructed in 848–852 AD during the reign of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutawakil, was the largest in the world for over 400 years.

What is this?

• St. Basil's Cathedral (Russia)

• Temple of Kukulcán (Mexico)

• Drepung Monastery (Lhassa, China)

• Angkor Wat (Cambodia)

Answer explanation

Angkor Wat contains a complex water system with dykes, reservoirs, canals and basins. It is important to the area's history containing art and other cultural aspects from the Khmer Empire, evidence of an advanced, strict social order.

What is this?

• Angel Falls (Venezuela)

• Iguazu Falls (Argentina / Brazil)

• Niagara Falls (Canada / USA)

• Agua Azul Waterfalls (Mexico)

Answer explanation

Iguazú Falls or Iguaçu Falls are waterfalls of the Iguazu River on the border of the Argentine province of Misiones and the Brazilian state of Paraná. Together, they make up the largest waterfall system in the world. The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu.

What is this?

• Milad Tower (Iran)

• Skylon Tower (Canada)

• Tower of Pisa (Italy)

• Galata Tower (Turkey)

Answer explanation

One of the twin spiral staircases in the building has two extra steps to compensate for the lean. It contains seven bells, all halted for fear they will contribute to more leaning. The largest bell is over 8,000 pounds.

What is this?

• Taj Mahal (India)

• Al-Masjid an-Nabawi (KSA)

• Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi Mosque (Egypt)

• Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Turkey)

Answer explanation

The Blue Mosque has five main domes, six minarets, and eight secondary domes. The design is the culmination of two centuries of Ottoman mosque development. It incorporates many Byzantine elements of the neighboring Hagia Sophia with traditional Islamic architecture and is considered to be the last great mosque of the classical period.

What is this?

• Hill of Fourvière (Lyon, France)

• La Sagrada Familia (Barcelona, Spain)

• Chichen Itza (Yucatán, Mexico)

• Cathedral of Resurrection (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Answer explanation

On 19 March 1882, construction of the Sagrada Família began under architect Francisco de Paula del Villar. In 1883, when Villar resigned, Gaudí took over as chief architect, transforming the project with his architectural and engineering style, combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms. Gaudí devoted the remainder of his life to the project, and he is buried in the church's crypt. At the time of his death in 1926, less than a quarter of the project was complete.

What is this?

• Eiffel Tower (France)

• Tokyo Tower (Japan)

• Tianducheng (China)

• Milad Tower (Iran)

Answer explanation

Completed in 1958, Japan's Tokyo Tower soars nearly 2,000 feet in the sky (making it almost 1,000 feet taller than the real Eiffel Tower). Much like its French cousin, the Tokyo Tower has come to define its city skyline.