Q 01/05

The camp where trips to Angel Falls begin can be reached only how?

A) By river

B) By air

C) By road

D) On foot

Answer · why

B) By air

By air. No road crosses the jungle to the lagoon-side camp, so visitors fly in on small planes and then head upriver by canoe.

Q 02/05

Angel Falls is about as tall as three of which landmark?

A) Statue of Liberty

B) Washington Monument

C) Eiffel Tower

D) CN Tower

Answer · why

C) Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower. Three of them would reach 990 metres against the falls' official 979, a figure a 1949 expedition surveyed after trekking to the foot of ...

Q 03/05

Angel Falls' 807-metre plunge is almost as tall as which skyscraper?

A) Taipei 101

B) Petronas Towers

C) Burj Khalifa

D) Shanghai Tower

Answer · why

C) Burj Khalifa

Burj Khalifa. Dubai's 828-metre tower would only just top the plunge, a drop so long that much of the water has turned to mist by the time it lands.

Q 04/05

Angel Falls lies inside which Venezuelan national park?

A) Morrocoy

B) Mochima

C) Canaima

D) Henri Pittier

Answer · why

C) Canaima

Canaima. The rivers that rise in the park feed the Guri Dam downstream, which generates a large share of Venezuela's electricity.

Q 05/05

Which Venezuelan state contains Angel Falls?

A) Amazonas

B) Bolívar

C) Zulia

D) Miranda

Answer · why

B) Bolívar

Bolívar. Its capital, Ciudad Bolívar, was called Angostura until 1846, and it is the town where Angostura bitters were invented in 1824.