Do You Know Your Travel Trivia?

It's just a matter of time before we get in the air, on a boat, board a train or just get in the car and take off for a trip. We know you've been thinking about when the coronavirus begins to dissipate and travel restrictions are listed - because we've sure been thinking about it!

Where would you go? What would you do? What intrigues you the most?

Well, we have a little game for you. How well do you know your travel trivia?

Could you identify a landmark? Could you name the original Seven Wonders of the World? How about some travel-related Guinness Book of World Record achievements?

Well, here's your chance.

According to Trip Advisor, this landmark was the world's most visited based on booking data. And for the second year in a row, no less. Here's a hint: "Iconic and historic sites from around the world will always be popular destinations for travelers, but they're popular for a reason," said Laurel Greatrix, a TripAdvisor spokesperson. "These are some of the most historic and memorable sites in the world."

Iconic, beautiful, historic. That is the Roman Colosseum, now celebrating its 1,940th birthday after having been dedicated in the year 80 AD with 100 days of games, including gladiator battles and animal fights. Today, the only fighting is the gentle jostling for position to take pictures at one of the most incredible sites in the world.

There are numerous structures scattered across Europe that can stake a claim to being the oldest. This one is generally considered to be the oldest, albeit not by too many years.

Hint - you can speak English if you visit.

You would be in Scotland, looking at the Knap of Howar, which is considered to be the oldest preserved stone house in Europe. It is believed to have been built and occupied between 3700 BC and 2800 BC and consists of two adjacent buildings, one a home and the other a workspace.

Welp, you might be able to figure out what the seventh continent is, given its almost remote isolation. The band might be a little tougher. Let's just say they've been together after forming in Los Angeles in their late teens, and they've been "heavily" rocking the world for 40 years come 2021.

The one-time concert before just 120 people in December of 2013 took place at the Argentine Antarctic Base Carlini. The show set a Guinness Book of World Records mark for the heavy metal band Metallica, which actually played on all seven continents in that calendar year. The show was nicknamed "Freeze 'Em All."

And, no, it's not the Trevi Fountain in Rome.

The statues of 16 citizens representing the republics of the old USSR dominate the People's Friendship Fountain in Moscow.

To this day, travel agents and advisors remain one of your greatest assets as a traveler. But, just like guy who thought "Hey, I wonder what this piece of chocolate would taste like if I filled it with peanut butter?", who was the first person who said, "I think I can do a great job of connecting this person between Point A and Point B?"

The man was Thomas Cook. The place was England and the year was 1841 when Cook arranged what is considered to be the first-ever organized tour. It was a train trip from Leicester to Loughborough, but it wasn't exactly for fun. Cook, a Baptist minister, organized the tour for a group of temperance supporters.

Boeing Co. might be going through a rough time right now with its 737 MAX issues, but the Washington state-based airplane manufacturer has been an integral part of the growth of aviation for decades. Put it this way - there would not have been a moon landing without Boeing. So when did the company introduce its iconic 747?

Airplane travel changed forever in early 1969 when the 747-100 was introduced. It was bigger (two aisles), faster, and could hold more passengers than any other jet. The747 made its debut just 11 years after another game-changing plane, the 707, was first introduced.

Crossing the Atlantic Ocean in an airplane in less than five hours is like Roger Bannister cracking the four-minute mile in 1954. It's that historic. Hint - the achievement actually might be top of mind for you since it only happened in February 2020.

And the winner is … British Airways. Aided by a huge tailwind from a storm, a BA flight crossed the Atlantic in four hours and 56 minutes, an hour and 20 minutes ahead of schedule and 17 minutes faster than the previous record held by Norwegian Air, according to flight-tracking service Flightradar24.

A tradition that began at Christmas time with fish scales left under plates at dinner to bring prosperity to the house, carrying fish scales in your wallet for the rest of the year is said to bring prosperity for the calendar year.

This is a Czech custom that evolved from eating carp at Christmas. The silver scales were said to mimic coins, or prosperity.

Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo are the Griswolds, trying to reconnect with their nuclear family by taking a cross-country drive to get to the place where Clark (Chevy Chase) used to go as a child. Hint: It's a parody of a pretty famous place.

The Griswolds were on an adventure to visit Walley World, the fictional theme park that was basically a knock off of Disney World - right down to the Marty Moose mascot. Alas, Walley World was closed when they got there.

Construction on the famous landmark began in 1173 but final completion was delayed until the early 1300s because of a variety of factors - wars, financial factors, and numerous stops and starts to figure out why it was leaning. But what was the original purpose for the building?

The tower was originally conceived as the bell tower for the church in Pisa. Ironically, if it wasn't for all the delays allowing the soil underneath to compress, the tower would have fallen over. Thus depriving millions of tourists the chance to take the iconic photo from a distance making it look like they are holding the tower up.

One of the most opulent structures in the world, the Taj Mahal was built by Emperor Shah Jahan to honor his wife (or one of them, anyway). You might know the country, but do you know the city?

Completed in 1648, the Taj Mahal is located in the city of Agra, India. It can be reached by a one-hour flight from New Delhi or a three-hour train ride. It is annually one of the most visited sites in the world.

Arguably, this is one of the most famous - and certainly most important - colleges in the United States. Tourists flock here for its historical value and artifacts. Name it, and here's an important hint. Although it is a regular teaching college, it's not technically correct to call it a campus but rather a post.

Welcome to the United States Military Academy at West Point, located about an hour north of New York City in the picturesque town of Highland Falls on the banks of the Hudson River. Some of the most famous names in military history - MacArthur, Eisenhower - have passed through here.

We'll spot you the first six - the Colossus of Rhodes in Greece, the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus in what is now Turkey, Statue of Zeus in Greece, Temple of Artemis in what is now Turkey, and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in what is now Iraq.

The only remaining original Seven Wonder, and one that still gets a tremendous amount of tourists, is the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

One thing about traveling the world - there are a lot of customs that need to get used to, lest you make a fool of yourself or cause an international incident. So while in the Philippines, calling someone a hostess is a big no-no because …

Even under the most benign circumstances, calling a woman a hostess in the Philippines means calling her a prostitute. Not a good look.

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FAT

IOU

HOG

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FAB - Farnborough Airport, Farnborough, United Kingdom

FAT - Fresno-Yosemite International Airport, Fresno, Calif.

IOU - Edmond Cane Airport, Ouen, New Caledonia

HOG - Frank Pais Airport, Holguin Cuba

OMG - Omega Airport, Kavango East, Namibia

You could fill dozens and dozens of trips and vacations simply by going to museums alone around the world. This one contains paintings by Goya, Velazquez and Raphael, among other famous artists.

This, of course, is none other than the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the greatest museums in the world, without question, featuring some of the most seminal works of any museum.

For such a small destination - hint, it's an island - here are some of the biggest thrills for aviation buffs. Outside the airport is the place to be as incoming flights are just outside your reach.

You'll have to convince us that there's an airport where you can get closer to a plane in flight than Queen Juliana International Airport in Saint Maarten, the Dutch side of the island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean. Incoming flights come right off the shore of the ocean, over the sands, and beachgoers can practically touch the aircraft.

You could spend months traversing the sights and sounds and landmarks of this country, which has more than 6.6 million square feet of land. We'll make it easy - it's not China, and it's not the United States.

Even with losing some of its republics into their own countries, Russia (the former Soviet Union) is the country with the largest landmass in the world.

The iconic piece of land was a major part of the climax of the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." You could go see it for yourself since it's part of the National Park system.

Devils Tower is a butte that stands 867 feet tall from summit to base. You can find it in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River.

Well, this is likely the biggest question you'll ever ask so it might as well be in an iconic setting. Perhaps because of the sheer volume of residents, this place tops the list, but we'd like to think that plenty of tourists use it as a memorable place to pop the question as well.

In a 2018 study, Celebrity Cruises analyzed more than 1 million Instagram posts from the previous 12 months with the hashtags #shesaidyes, #hesaidyes, #isaidyes, and #proposal to find out where the most popular locations are. No. 1? Central Park in New York City, which actually has several iconic spots - Bethesda Fountain, Bow Bridge, Strawberry Fields - to propose.