Lonely Planet Asia — April 2017

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Travel Quiz

What on Earth?

Mauritania has a rare national flag

with no red, white or blue in it.

Which country has the only other

such flag?

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CHINESE CUISINE. 1) CROATIA. 2) COLOMBIA. 3) THE WINTER PALACE. 4) VIENNA. 5) POLICE. 6) SIERRA LEONE. 7) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 8) UK. 9)

‘Centurions’ often pose

for photos inside the ruins

of the Palace of Diocletian

in Split. Which country is this in?

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Which former British

colony in Africa (capital:

Freetown) joined the UN

(^6) in 1961 as its 100th state?
The US bought the Danish
Virgin Islands exactly a
century ago. To which
country does the other
half of the Virgin Islands belong?
2
4
Which capital is home to
the Hundertwasserhaus?
Which scientist, writer
and politician is shown
on the US$100 bill?
W
a
o
7
Which country is the
setting for Gabriel García
Márquez’s novel One
Hundred Years of Solitude?
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3
5
If you
dial 100 in
India, who
would you
expect to
be calling?
So-called century eggs,
also known as thousand
year eggs, are a feature
(^9) of which cuisine?
It’s 100 years
since the last
tsar of Russia
abdicated.
What was his official
St Petersburg
residence?