Q 01/05

Which New York hotel, birthplace of a famous apple-and-celery salad, first stood where the Empire State Building is now?

A) The Sherry-Netherland

B) The Waldorf-Astoria

C) The St. Regis

D) The Knickerbocker

Answer · why

B) The Waldorf-Astoria

The Waldorf-Astoria was knocked down in 1929 to clear the skyscraper's site and reopened on Park Avenue two years later. It was also the first hotel t...

Q 02/05

Which country has the world's oldest hotel, a hot-spring inn founded in 705 and run by 52 generations of one family?

A) China

B) Italy

C) Japan

D) Turkey

Answer · why

C) Japan

Japan's Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, at the foot of the Akaishi Mountains, was recognised by Guinness World Records in 2011. The founding family's line r...

Q 03/05

Which hotel, named after the founder of modern Singapore, is where the Singapore Sling cocktail was first mixed?

A) Raffles

B) The Peninsula

C) The Strand

D) The Oriental

Answer · why

A) Raffles

Raffles opened in 1887 under the Armenian Sarkies Brothers, and bartender Ngiam Tong Boon invented the drink in its Long Bar. In 1902 an escaped circu...

Q 04/05

Which hotel inspired Stephen King to write The Shining after a one-night stay just as it was closing for winter?

A) Timberline Lodge

B) The Ahwahnee

C) The Brown Palace

D) The Stanley

Answer · why

D) The Stanley

The Stanley in Estes Park, Colorado, hosted King and his wife Tabitha in 1974 as the other guests were checking out. Room 217, said to be the one they...

Q 05/05

Which hotel giant grew out of an A&W root beer stand opened in Washington, D.C., in 1927?

A) Hyatt

B) Sheraton

C) Marriott

D) Ramada

Answer · why

C) Marriott

Marriott began when J. Willard Marriott and his wife Alice sold cold drinks in the humid capital, soon renaming the stand The Hot Shoppe. The company ...