40 picture quiz questions and answers

Four picture rounds of ten questions: maps and outlines, famous places, famous paintings, and animals and nature. Every picture is public domain or openly licensed, with the credit under it. Tap Show answer to check each one.

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Round 1: Maps and country outlines

Which country is highlighted on this map?
Map drawn by Pub Quiz Generator from Natural Earth data (public domain)
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Madagascar
Which country is highlighted in orange on this map?
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Nepal
Name the country from its outline: which country is this?
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Japan
Which US state is highlighted on this map?
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Michigan
Which capital city is marked with the red dot?
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Santiago
Which country has this outline?
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Thailand
This is the outline of which country?
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Portugal
Which country is shown in orange?
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Ecuador
Which country is highlighted in orange on this map?
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Romania
Which country is shown in orange?
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Kazakhstan

Round 2: Famous places

The basilica pictured stands in which tiny independent state?
Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Vatican City
Which London concert hall, home of the Proms, is pictured?
Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Royal Albert Hall
The communications tower pictured, opened in 1976, is the landmark of which Canadian city?
Crisco 1492, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Toronto
The round domed library building pictured is in which university city?
Achim55, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Oxford
What is the name of the white chalk cliffs pictured, on the Sussex coast?
Ian Hawfinch, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Seven Sisters
Gyeongbokgung, the royal palace pictured, founded in 1395, is in which capital city?
Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Seoul
The Valley of the Moon (Valle de la Luna), pictured, lies in which South American desert?
CARLOS TEIXIDOR CADENAS, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Atacama Desert
The peak pictured is the highest mountain in New Zealand. What is its English name?
W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Mount Cook
The steep cobbled street pictured, Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, became famous from a 1973 TV advert for which brand of bread?
Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Hovis
The white dunes and rainwater lagoons of Lençóis Maranhenses, pictured, are in which country?
Julius Dadalti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Brazil

Round 3: Famous paintings

Which future US President is shown crossing the Delaware River in this 1851 painting?
Emanuel Leutze, public domain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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George Washington
Lady Butler's painting Scotland Forever! shows the Scots Greys charging at which 1815 battle?
Elizabeth Thompson, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Waterloo
Gustave Caillebotte's 1877 painting pictured shows a rainy street in which city?
Gustave Caillebotte, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Paris
Claude Monet painted a famous series of more than twenty pictures of which farm subject, shown here?
Claude Monet, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Haystacks
Georges Seurat built up this painting of a Paris riverside park from tiny dots of colour. What is this technique called?
Georges Seurat, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Pointillism
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting shows the building of which biblical tower?
Pieter Brueghel the Elder, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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The Tower of Babel
Which London building did Claude Monet paint through the fog in this picture from the early 1900s?
Claude Monet, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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The Houses of Parliament
Mary Cassatt painted Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, pictured, in 1878. Which French artist invited her to exhibit with the Impressionists?
Mary Cassatt, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Edgar Degas
Paul Klee painted this head, Senecio, in 1922. At which famous art and design school did he teach from 1921 to 1931?
Paul Klee, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Bauhaus
Which French Romantic painter, famous for The Raft of the Medusa, painted this charging cavalry officer in 1812?
Théodore Géricault, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Théodore Géricault

Round 4: Animals and nature

Which insect, pictured, is named for the way it holds its front legs as if in prayer?
Atalay Karakuş, CC BY 4.0, via iNaturalist
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Praying mantis
Which African mammals, pictured, famously take turns to stand upright on sentry duty?
Peter Archdale, CC BY, via iNaturalist
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Meerkats
The largest species of this flightless bird breeds in the Antarctic winter. Which kind of bird is shown in silhouette?
Guillaume Dera, CC0 1.0, via PhyloPic
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Penguin
Which long-eared animal, pictured, is often seen 'boxing' in fields in spring?
Grete Pasch, CC BY, via iNaturalist
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Brown hare
Which bird, the largest and fastest-running on Earth, is shown in silhouette?
Ferran Sayol, CC0 1.0, via PhyloPic
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Ostrich
This close-up shows the seed head, or 'clock', of which plant?
Jesse Rorabaugh, CC0, via iNaturalist (cropped)
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Dandelion
Which big cat's spotted coat is shown in this close-up?
Sumeet Moghe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped)
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Leopard
What is the name of the cat breed pictured, known for its almost hairless, wrinkly skin?
Knopik-som, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Sphynx
Opal, pictured, was proclaimed the national gemstone of which country in 1993?
Aram Dulyan, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Australia
What is the chemical symbol of the yellow element whose crystals are pictured?
Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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