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Symbols and Landmarks

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

I stand tall in Paris, France. I was built in 1889. My height changes during the winter, by shirking 6 inches in the cold. The company that built me was owned by Gustave Eiffel. What am i?

a)

Big Ben

b)

Great Wall of China

c)

Eiffel Tower

d)

Hagia Sophia

2.

I was a church, then a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. I was built in 537, at the time I was the biggest structure in the world.

a)

Leaning Tower of Pisa

b)

Mount Rushmore

c)

Taj Mahal

d)

Hagia Sophia

3.

I am 21,196.18 km long, and over 2,300 years old. I was built to protect China from enemy attacks in the north. I am the longest structure in the world.

a)

Great Wall of China

b)

Burj Khalifa

c)

Sydney Opera House

d)

Great Pyramid of Giza

4.

I am the largest mosque in the world. All Muslims face me when they pray. Millions of people visit me a year.

a)

Machu Picchu

b)

Statue of Liberty

c)

Grand Mosque of Mecca

d)

Stonehenge

5.

I am a huge man made stone circle in England. I am a prehistoric structure that took over a 1000 years to build. Until today no one knows how I was built, legends say I was built by giants.

a)

Versailles

b)

The Louvre

c)

Buckingham Palace

d)

Stonehenge

6.

I'm a french royal palace outside Paris. I have over 700 rooms, 1200 fire places, & 60 stair cases. My gardens are over 30,000 acres, have 400 sculptures & 1400 fountains.

a)

Colosseum

b)

Stonehenge

c)

Palace of Versailles

d)

Angkor Wat

7.

I am the largest religious building in the world, a temple in Cambodia. My name means 'City of Temples'. I was built to preserve the my king's ashes.

a)

Angkor Wat

b)

Sydney Opera House

c)

Great Wall of China

d)

Taj Mahal

8.

I'm an abandoned stone city built by the Incas in Peru. My name means 'old mountain'. I'm built on a mountain ridge, 2430m above sea level.u

a)

Mount Rushmore

b)

Parthenon

c)

The Louvre

d)

Machu Picchu

9.

I was build by the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. I am a tomb for king Khufu. It took 20,000 workers 20 years to build me.

a)

Buckingham Palace

b)

Great Pyramid of Giza

c)

Leaning Tower of Pisa

d)

St. Basil's Cathedral

10.

I'm a bell tower in Italy. I stood up straight for 5 years before I started to lean over to one side. I have 7 bells representing the 7 notes of the musical scale.

a)

Burj Khalifa

b)

Great Wall of China

c)

Leaning Tower of Pisa

d)

The Colosseum

11.

I am the tallest building in the world. I am a 160 stories high. I live in Dubai and I cost US $1.5 billion to build.

a)

Angkor Wat

b)

Burj Khalifa

c)

Statue of Liberty

d)

Buckingham Palace

12.

I'm the largest work of art in the world. Carved out of the Black Hills of South Dakota, USA. The mountain was named after a New York attorney, Charles E. Rushmore. I took 14 years and almost 400 people to carve out the images of 4 US presidents on the hill.

a)

Taj Mahal

b)

The Great Pyramid of Giza

c)

Hagia Sophia

d)

Mount Rushmore

13.

I am the biggest museum in the world, located in Paris, France. I am home to over 380,000 works of art and history, including Leonardo Da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa'. I get around 17,000 visitors a day!

a)

The Louvre

b)

St. Basil's Cathedral

c)

Sydney Opera House

d)

Machu Picchu

14.

I am the home of the British Monarch in London, England. I have 775 rooms, and 78 bathrooms. I have 2 secret tunnels that run below the surface that connect to nearby streets

a)

Versailles

b)

Buckingham Palace

c)

The Parthenon

d)

Taj Mahal

15.

I am a mausoleum in Agra, North India. Built as a tomb for Mumtaz Mahal, the 3rd wife of emperor Shah Jahan. My name means 'crown of palaces'. It took 20 years to build me.

a)

Eiffel Tower

b)

Hagia Sophia

c)

Buckingham Palace

d)

Taj Mahal

16.

My home is Liberty Island in the New York Harbor, USA. I am made of iron and copper. I am 305 feet tall and I weigh 225 ton. I was built in France and moved in pieces to the USA. I represent freedom.

a)

Stone Henge

b)

Statue of Liberty

c)

Angkor Wat

d)

Sydney Opera House

17.

I am a Roman amphitheater in Italy. The largest amphitheater in the world. I was built in 81AD, and used for gladiator contests, executions and mock battles.

a)

Grand Mosque ofr Mecca

b)

Parthenon

c)

Leaning Tower of Pisa

d)

Colosseum

18.

I live on the harbour of Sydney, Australia. I was built in 1973. People come from all over to watch art performances on my stage.

a)

Versailles

b)

Sydney Opera House

c)

Statue of Liberty

d)

Stone Henge

19.

I am a 445 year old church in Moscow, Russia. I am made up of 9 churches connected to each other. My official name is 'Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat', but I'm more commonly known as...

a)

St. Basil's Cathedral

b)

Hagia Sophia

c)

Buckingham Palace

d)

Angkor Wat

20.

I am a temple in the middle of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. I am over 2,460 years old. I have been used as a temple, a church, and a mosque at different periods throughout history.

a)

Leaning Tower of Pisa

b)

Parthenon

c)

Taj Mahal

d)

Machu Picchu