These come up a lot in trivia, so I need to fold them into my regular rotation.
- The Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin include what summer palace of Frederick the Great, the setting of a board game whose (redacted) box cover is shown below?
- Of the US states, which contains the greatest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the Chaco Culture National Historical Park?
- The heritage site in this Moroccan city encompasses only the old town at its heart, which is probably where Homer Simpson purchased the monkey’s paw in “Treehouse of Horror 2”. Name the city.
- One of the newest sites to receive UNESCO designation is England’s Lake District, which inspired what daffodil-admiring Romantic poet who “wandered lonely as a cloud”?
- The Villa Savoye in France, the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, the Curutchet House in Argentina, and 14 other sites are all included in the UNESCO listing honoring what Swiss-French modernist architect?
Answers
- Sanssouci
- New Mexico
- Marrakech
- William Wordsworth
- Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
