FUNDAMENTALS
Todays' quiz is on some of the world's most iconic and historic hotels. Enjoy your stay.
GREAT HOTELS
1. What historic events were hosted at the Ambassador Hotel, Biltmore Hotels and Hollywood Roosevelt Hotels?
2. The 43 Storey New Yorker Hotel has hosted notable guests such as Fidel Castro, Joan Crawford and Spencer Tracy. Its most famous long term resident has been an inventor who spent the last ten years of his life in Suite 3327 of the hotel. Name this inventor?
3. The Singapore Sling was famously created in a bar at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. Name the bar?
4. The Library Hotel is a boutique hotel in New York. What is unique about the classification of the Guestroom floors?
5. Dubai's most iconic structure is a hotel shaped like the sails of a Dhow, a traditional Arab sailing vessel. Name the hotel?
6. This hotel is London has many firsts to its credit - the first luxury hotel in Britain, first to have electricity, air conditioning, 24 hour room service and private bathrooms, all things that we take today for granted. Also it was the first hotel where a reigning British monarch dined - King George VI in 1937. Name the hotel?
7. In which historic hotel would you be staying if you were to occupy suites named Coco Chanel Suite, Chopin Suite and Elton John Suite?
8. Which historic hotel in Moscow situated directly opposite the Bolshoi theatre served for many years as office and residence for Soviet bureaucracy?
9. This hotel has been a favourite haunt of artists, writers and singers. Arthur C Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey here. Writer Dylan Thomas died of alcohol poisoning in this hotel. Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols stabbed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, to death on October 12, 1978. Identify?
10. The historic Waldorf Astoria in New York is situated on Park Avenue in Manhattan. The original Waldorf on Fifth Avenue was demolished to make way for another landmark building. Which one?
ANYTHING GOES
1. The entire alphabet is represented with the starting letters of all UN recognised countries except two letters. Which two letters? (Ashritha Shruthi, Secunderabad)
2. In 2017, when the controversial former basketball star Dennis Rodman visited North Korea, he is believed to have gifted two books for Kim Jong Un. One is a children's puzzle book Where's Waldo for the leader's daughter. What is the other book? (UN Murthy, Secunderabad)
3. Which South American nation is named after a metal? (S Miracle, Secunderabad)
4. What name is given to the line separating the sunlit side of the Earth from the nighttime areas?(Soulath Mohammed, Secunderabad)
5. Sam Morris was a member of the Australian team which played against England in the Test match in January 1885. He played only one test in his cricketing career. What is special about his test appearance? (BK Harinath, Mysuru)
6. There is only one UN recognized nation whose present-day flag contains a unique image on each side — obverse of the flag shows the national coat of arms and reverse has the seal of the treasury? (Yuktha Rakshith Adithi, Secunderabad)
7. Which is the only sovereign African state in which Spanish is an official language? (Kamlesh Sharma, New Delhi)