Q 01/05

Angel Falls, the world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall, is in which country?

A) Venezuela

B) Argentina

C) Colombia

D) Suriname

Answer · why

A) Venezuela

It pours off the Auyán-tepui table mountain in Canaima National Park.

Q 02/05

How tall is Angel Falls?

A) 779 m (2,556 ft)

B) 579 m (1,900 ft)

C) 1,279 m (4,196 ft)

D) 979 m (3,212 ft)

Answer · why

D) 979 m (3,212 ft)

Its single uninterrupted plunge is 807 metres; the official height came from a 1949 survey funded by journalist Ruth Robertson.

Q 03/05

Angel Falls is named after Jimmie Angel, who was what?

A) An American aviator

B) A Spanish missionary

C) A British surveyor

D) A Venezuelan president

Answer · why

A) An American aviator

He flew over the falls in 1933 and in 1937 crash-landed his plane on top of the tepui trying to find gold.

Q 04/05

Angel Falls was the main inspiration for Paradise Falls in which 2009 Pixar film?

A) Up

B) WALL-E

C) Ratatouille

D) Brave

Answer · why

A) Up

In 2009 Hugo Chávez also proposed renaming the falls with their indigenous Pemon name, Kerepakupai-Merú.

Q 05/05

Which waterfall in Laos is the widest in the world, at over 10 kilometres across?

A) Jog Falls

B) Ban Gioc Falls

C) Huangguoshu Waterfall

D) Khone Phapheng Falls

Answer · why

D) Khone Phapheng Falls

Its islands and channels give the area its name Si Phan Don, 'the 4,000 islands'; the falls stop boats reaching China up the Mekong.