Matt's Great Big Summer Quiz
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Let's travel around the world with this summer themed quiz. Don't forget to comment on each place with your answer!
mattUpdated 4 years ago
The 1966 film The Endless Summer which featured Cape St Francis in South Africa, as well as locations in Ghana, Tahiti and California, focused on which sport?
Cape St Francis, 6313, South Africa
The Vengaboys had a 1999 hit with "We're going to Ibiza", a remake of a 1975 song for Typically Tropical. In the original version, which Caribbean island were the band "going to" instead?
Balearic Islands, Spain
Athens hosted the main events of the first modern Summer Olympic Games in this stadium in which year?
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Leof. Vasileos Konstantinou, Athina 116 35, Greece
Neo pagan celebrations occur at Stonehenge on the summer solstice. In 2019 on which date did the summer solstice fall?
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Amesbury, Salisbury, United Kingdom
- https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/
The 1967 phenomenon when around 100,000 hippies convereged on San Francisco's neighbourhood of Haight Ashbury is known as the Summer of ... ?
Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA
The landscapes around Holmfirth in northern England were the setting for the long running British TV comedy Last of The Summer Wine. In which English county is Holmfirth?
United Kingdom
Kingston Ontario was the birthplace of which Canadian singer-songwriter, whose 1985 song about summer might reference a sexual position or a year, depending who you ask?
ON, Canada
Palm Beach in Sydney is used to film the exterior shots for the fictional Summer Bay, the setting of which long running Australian soap opera?
New South Wales, Australia
This ruined city in crete named Lato shares its name with the word for "summer" in which Central European language?
Agios Nikolaos Municipality, Greece
Which of William Shakespeare's sonnets begins with the line "shall I compare thee to a summers day"?
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21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, London, United Kingdom
- https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/
