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World Landmarks and Heritage

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World landmarks and heritage sites include ancient ruins, historic highways, and famous statues. These questions assess knowledge of global cultural heritage and significant geographical features. Improve your static general knowledge by exploring these global monuments.

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World Landmarks and Heritage Questions

Multiple choice

Sanhedrin is

  1. A Christian pilgrimage place in Jerusalem

  2. An analgesic medicine

  3. Name of the religious council who tried Christ

  4. A pillar built by the ancient Romans in Athens
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The Sanhedrin was the supreme council and tribunal of the Jews during postexilic times. It had religious, judicial, and political authority and is most notably known for trying Jesus Christ. It was not a pilgrimage place, medicine, or Roman pillar.

Multiple choice

Which of the following has not been included in the list of new seven wonders?

  1. Roman Colosseum (Italy)

  2. Machu Picchu (Peru)

  3. Eiffel Tower in Paris (France)

  4. Chirst the Redeemer (Brazil)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The New Seven Wonders of the World, announced in 2007, included: Great Wall of China, Petra (Jordan), Colosseum (Italy), Chichen Itza (Mexico), Machu Picchu (Peru), Taj Mahal (India), and Christ the Redeemer (Brazil). The Eiffel Tower was NOT included in this list, despite being one of the most famous structures in the world.

Multiple choice

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the suitable option.

_______ a busy city, Pompeii was virtually destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.

  1. Once

  2. It was once

  3. Once it was

  4. That once
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence requires 'Once' as an adverb meaning 'formerly' or 'at one time' to modify the entire statement about Pompeii. Option B creates a redundant subject 'it,' Option C is wordy and awkward, and Option D is grammatically incorrect. The concise adverb at the beginning properly establishes the temporal context before the volcanic destruction.

Multiple choice

According to the passage, what is thought to be sunk beneath the ocean?

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

It may be objected to this description, that the Egypt which it presents to the reader is not the Egypt of the maps. Undoubtedly, it is not. The maps give the name of Egypt to a broad rectangular space, which they mark out in the northeastern corner of Africa, bounded on two sides by the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and on the two others by two imaginary lines, which the map-makers kindly draw for us across the sands of the desert. But "this Egypt", as has been well observed, is a fiction of the geographers, as untrue to fact as the island Atlantis of Greek legend, or the Lyonnesse of medieval romance, both sunk beneath the ocean to explain their disappearance. The true Egypt of the old monuments, of the Hebrews, of the Greeks and Romans, of the Arabs, and of its own people in this day, is a mere fraction of this vast area of the maps, nothing more than the valley and plain watered by the Nile, for nearly seven hundred miles by the river's course from the Mediterranean southwards.

  1. Treasure of the ancient Egypt

  2. Island Atlantis of Greek legend

  3. The City of the Lost

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The line 'Both (island Atlantis of Greek legend and Lyonnesse of medieval romance) sunk beneath the ocean to explain their disappearance' suggests the answer.

Multiple choice

Which country has made a replica of “Taj Mahal”?

  1. Afghanistan

  2. Pakistan

  3. Bengladesh

  4. China
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Bangladesh has a replica of the Taj Mahal located in Sonargaon, near Dhaka. It was built by filmmaker Ahsanullah Moni at a cost of $58 million as a tourist attraction, replicating the original monument's architecture using the same materials from India.

Multiple choice

Directions: The first and the last sentences of the passage are numbered 1 and 6, respectively. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named A, B, C and D. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentences and find out which of the following combinations is correct.

  1. Plato described Atlantis as an island larger than Libya and Asia Minor put together, located in the Atlantic just beyond the Pillars of Hercules — generally assumed to mean the Strait of Gibraltar. A. Their armies eventually conquered Africa as far as Egypt, and Europe as far as Tyrrhenia (Etruscan Italy) before being driven back by an Athenian-led alliance. B. As the Atlanteans grew powerful, their ethics declined. C. It was protected by the god Poseidon, who made his son Atlas king and namesake of the island and the ocean that surrounded it. D. Its culture was advanced and it had a constitution suspiciously similar to the one outlined in Plato’s “Republic".
  2. Later, by way of divine punishment, the island was beset by earthquakes and floods and sank into a muddy sea.

  1. ADBC

  2. BCDA

  3. CDBA

  4. DBAC

  5. ACBD
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

“It” in C and “Its” refer to Atlantis in sentence 1. So, the first sentence in order should be either C or D. “Later” in 6 refers to time period, which is only available in A when “Their armies eventually conqured...”, so the order naturally becomes CDBA.

Multiple choice

Which country is famous for pyramids?

  1. Israel

  2. Jordan

  3. Iraq

  4. Egypt
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Egypt is world-famous for its ancient pyramids, particularly the Pyramids of Giza which are among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Israel, Jordan, and Iraq do not have pyramid structures as their defining landmarks.