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Exploring Kilometres and Landmarks

This quiz explores the concept of kilometres and significant landmarks, testing knowledge on geography, historical figures, and measurement systems.

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1 At the opposite end is the Admiralty Arch which links The Mall to ________.

2 ________ boasts one of the busiest waterways in the world.

3 Kingsley Amis has suggested that this pronunciation (and the American spelling) be reserved for the thousand-measurer, the wall which ________ says Xerxes built around a thousand troops so he could count his army.

4 Until 1970 the only way to cross the harbour was the Star Ferry which had terminals on the Kowloon peninsular and the island of ________ itself.

5 The distance between the American extremity of the ________ and the Canadian extremity is 1039 m, or fractionally over a kilometre.

6 The Mall, which leads up to ________, is one of London’s main tourist attractions.

7 [2] It is the conventionally used measurement unit for expressing distances between geographical places in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the United Kingdom where the ________ is used.

8 The former pronunciation follows the general pattern in English whereby metric units of measurement are pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, and preserves the pronunciation of ________.

9 However, the Australian Prime Minister at the time, ________, insisted that the second pronunciation was the correct one because of the Greek origins of the two parts of the word.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the COMILOG Cableway, built to transport manganese ore mined in Gabon, was the world's longest cable car at over 75 km.
  • the Northern Woods and Water Route is a 2,400 km (1,490 mi) highway route through northern Canada, from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • the Soviet 76th "K. Y. Voroshilov" Division passed through 7,000 kilometres of former Soviet territory during the Second World War, liberating over 600 towns and cities from Axis occupying forces.
  • the Kalka-Shimla Railway track, a narrow gauge rail track in Himachal Pradesh, has a length of 96 kilometres, passing through 102 tunnels and crossing 864 bridges.
  • in 2002 the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad bought 41½ miles (66.8 km) of track between Meadville and Corry, Pennsylvania for $1.
  • Louis Didier Jousselin built a 3 km long bridge (pictured) in less than 3 months whilst the French occupied Hamburg.
  • the Tuggerah Lakes (pictured), located on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, cover a total area of 77 square kilometres yet have an average depth of less than two metres.
  • a dendrochronological study suggests the Corlea Trackway, a kilometre-long corduroy road in County Longford, Ireland, was built around 148 BC.
  • Bellot Strait is a 2 km passage of water separating Somerset Island from the northernmost point on mainland North America.
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