Q 01/05

Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is both the oldest and the only one still standing?

A) Lighthouse of Alexandria

B) Great Pyramid of Giza

C) Temple of Artemis

D) Colossus of Rhodes

Answer · why

B) Great Pyramid of Giza

The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest human-made structure on Earth for more than 3,700 years. The other six wonders have all been destroyed.

Q 02/05

Gustave Eiffel, the engineer of the Paris tower, designed the hidden iron skeleton of which monument?

A) Christ the Redeemer

B) Lincoln Memorial

C) Statue of Liberty

D) Gateway Arch

Answer · why

C) Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty wears a copper skin only about 2.4 mm thick that carries no load. It hangs on Eiffel's interior framework, one of the earliest e...

Q 03/05

Which word comes from the name of a ruler buried at Halicarnassus in a Wonder of the Ancient World?

A) Sarcophagus

B) Catacomb

C) Cenotaph

D) Mausoleum

Answer · why

D) Mausoleum

Mausoleum comes from Mausolus, who governed Caria for the Persian kings and was entombed around 350 BC. His tomb was the last of the six lost wonders ...

Q 04/05

Which city in Jordan, carved into rose-coloured sandstone cliffs, was once the capital of the Nabataean Kingdom?

A) Petra

B) Palmyra

C) Jerash

D) Baalbek

Answer · why

A) Petra

Petra stayed unknown to the Western world until 1812, when the Swiss traveller Johann Burckhardt rediscovered it. It is now one of the New 7 Wonders o...

Q 05/05

Which prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain has bluestones hauled 150 miles from the Preseli Hills of Wales?

A) Avebury

B) Skara Brae

C) Stonehenge

D) Newgrange

Answer · why

C) Stonehenge

Stonehenge holds one stone from even farther away: research published in 2024 traced its partly buried Altar Stone to north-east Scotland, some 700 km...