It’s the WVS World Driving Christmas Quiz!

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For our last post of 2024, test your knowledge of driving in different parts of the globe with our Super-Duper Christmas Quiz.

We’re not clever enough to cover up the answers, so they are down at the bottom of the post below Santa.

Off we go…

Round One: Six Great Roads of the World

Just identify the country from the road name and description.

  1. The Strada Statale 163 hugs the Mediterranean, passing through colourful clifftop villages.
  2. Ruta 40, one of the World’s longest routes, travels through the windy pampas of Patagonia from Cabo Vírgenes.
  3. Highway 1 is an 821-mile loop around this small island country of volcanos and geysers.
  4. Built by returning WWI veterans, the Great Ocean Road looks across a craggy coast to the stormy Southern Ocean.
  5. Passing through Salzburg and Carinthia, the spectacular High Alpine Road ascends 900m in 30 miles.
  6. The hairpins on the Trollstigen are unnerving, but you’re rewarded by views fit for Thor and Odin.

Round Two: You can’t do that!

Driving restrictions from around the world

  1.  Which of these countries has the lowest legal blood-alcohol limits (for over-21 year-olds)?
    (a) Japan (b) France (c) UK (d) US
  2. Which country requires you by law, to carry a breathalyser in your vehicle?
    (a) Russia (b) Canada (c) France (d) South Africa
  3.  In terms of which side of the road is driven on, which of these places is the odd-one out?
    (a) Hong Kong (b) Australia (c) Italy (d) Japan (e) India
  4. Which country was the last in the world to permit women to drive?
    (a) Cambodia (b) Saudi Arabia (c) New Zealand (d) Afghanistan

Round Three: World Driving Random Trivia

  1. As of 2024, the steepest paved road in the world is Ffordd Pen Llech in Harlech, Wales. What is the gradient?
    (a) 27.1 degrees (b) 29.5 degrees (c) 33.8 degrees (d) 37.5 degrees (e) 48.3 degrees
  2. Some sections of the Katy Freeway have 26 lanes (12 main lanes, 8 access roads, 6 mid-freeway lanes). In which US city would you find it?
    (a) Boise (b) New York (c) Los Angeles (d) Phoenix (e) Houston
  3. What is the English nickname for the terrifying North Yungas road in Bolivia, which runs for 65 miles next to 1000-feet drops without guardrails?
  4. Which is the only continent without a paved road?
  5. Put these countries in order of safety (road deaths per 100,000 of population, from most to least dangerous): Austria, Russia, UK, Monaco, Zimbabwe.

That’s the end of the quiz.

A great big thanks to quizchaser.com for their help.

Don’t scroll past Santa until you’re done!

 

Answers

Round One: Six Great Roads of the World

  1. The Strada Statale 163 is in Italy.
  2. Ruta 40 is in Argentina.
  3. That particular Highway 1 loops around Iceland
  4. The Great Ocean Road is in Australia
  5. The High Alpine Road is in Austria
  6. The Trollstigen is in Norway

Round Two: You Can’t Do That!

  1. (a) From those options, Japan has the lowest permissible blood alcohol. We specified over 21s, because the legal limit in the US for anyone under 21 is zero.
  2. (c) France requires you to carry a breathalyser in your vehicle
  3. (c) Italy is the odd-one out because its citizens drive on the right. All the others drive on the left.
  4. (b) Saudi Arabia was the last country to allow women to drive, and it wasn’t until 2018.

Round Three: World Driving Random Trivia

  1. The Ffordd Pen Llech in Harlech has a gradient of (d) 37.5 degrees.
  2. The 26-lane Katy Freeway serves (e) the city of Houston
  3. The North Yungas road is often given the cheery nickname of Death Road.
  4. Antarctica is the only continent without a paved road. They do have a 995-mile packed snow road, though.
  5. From most to least dangerous roads, the countries rank like this: Zimbabwe, Russia, Austria, UK, Monaco. In fact, Zimbabwe has the world’s deadliest roads.

Just one more thing…

We wish all of our customers, and our blog readers, a fabulous Christmas and a great New Year.

Thanks for all of your support and we’ll see you in 2025!

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