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Wonders of the World

This wonders of the world quiz takes you from the Taj Mahal to the lost marvels of the ancient world. Find out who built them, what they were made of and how a few of them got their names.

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About this Wonders of the World quiz

This wonders of the world quiz mixes the New Seven Wonders you can still visit, such as the Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, Petra and the Great Wall, with famous landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and the lost wonders of the ancient Greek list. In 15 questions you will look past the postcard view to the people, materials and legends behind each one.

The original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were a travellers' list written by Greek authors, and only one of them survives today. In 2007 a worldwide public vote produced a new list of seven, and many other buildings, from Paris's iron tower to Pisa's leaning bell tower, have earned the title in everyday speech. Behind almost every one is a story of a ruler's grief, a city's pride or a builder's mistake.

The quiz suits travel lovers, history fans, quiz nights and students revising world history and general knowledge. Each answer has a short note, so you come away knowing why a place looks the way it does and how its name came about.

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  1. Shah Jahan built this marble tomb for Mumtaz Mahal, who died in 1631 far from Agra. In which Deccan city did she die and was first buried?

    A white marble mausoleum with four minarets beside a long reflecting pool.
    Photo: Daniel VILLAFRUELA, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    • Burhanpur
    • Aurangabad
    • Bijapur
    • Golconda

    Answer: Burhanpur. She died in childbirth at Burhanpur on the Tapti and lay in the Zainabad garden there until her body was carried to Agra at the end of 1631.

  2. The name of this Inca citadel high in the Andes is usually translated from Quechua as what?

    Ancient stone terraces and ruins on a green mountain ridge among steep peaks.
    Photo: Jorge Castro Ruso, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    • Lost city
    • Old mountain
    • Sun gate
    • Cloud house

    Answer: Old mountain. Machu means old and picchu means peak. A 2021 study suggests the Incas themselves may have called the site Huayna Picchu, after the peak beside it.

  3. Indiana Jones rides up to this rock-cut Treasury at Petra in The Last Crusade. Which ancient people carved it?

    A tall rock-cut facade with columns, carved into a rose-red cliff face.
    Photo: Susanahajer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    • Phoenicians
    • Hittites
    • Assyrians
    • Nabataeans

    Answer: Nabataeans. Petra was the Nabataean capital. The 'Treasury' name comes from a legend that the urn on top hid riches, but the urn is solid sandstone.

  4. Ming dynasty builders of this wall bound many of its bricks with a mortar of lime mixed with which kitchen staple?

    A stone wall with watchtowers snaking over green mountain ridges.
    Photo: McKay Savage from London, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    • Sticky rice
    • Egg white
    • Wheat flour
    • Sugar cane

    Answer: Sticky rice. Researchers found that starch from sticky rice soup made the lime mortar denser and more water-resistant, one reason Ming sections still stand.

  5. The largest pyramid at Giza, the only ancient wonder still standing, was built as the tomb of which pharaoh?

    A huge stone pyramid rising from a desert plateau under a clear sky.
    Photo: Douwe C. van der Zee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    • Tutankhamun
    • Khufu
    • Ramesses II
    • Akhenaten

    Answer: Khufu. Khufu, called Cheops by the Greeks, had it finished in the early 25th century BCE. His son Khafre and grandson Menkaure built the other two big pyramids.

  6. This statue was a copper-brown colour when it was unveiled in New York in 1886. What turned it green?

    A green copper statue of a robed woman holding a torch high on an island pedestal.
    Photo: AskALotl, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
    • Green paint added later
    • Algae from the harbour
    • Its copper skin weathering
    • Smoke from passing ships

    Answer: Its copper skin weathering. Copper reacts slowly with air and water to form a green patina, which protects the metal underneath. Eiffel engineered the iron skeleton inside.

  7. This stepped pyramid has 365 steps in all. What does that number match?

    A stepped stone pyramid with a staircase up each side, in a clearing.
    Photo: Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    • Stars the Maya named
    • Maya kings who ruled there
    • Villages that built it
    • Days in a year

    Answer: Days in a year. Four stairways of 91 steps plus the top platform make 365, one for each day of the year.

  8. Paris meant to pull this tower down after 20 years. It was built as the gateway to what?

    A tall wrought-iron lattice tower rising over a city park.
    Photo: Benh LIEU SONG, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
    • A royal coronation
    • A new railway line
    • A World's Fair
    • The Olympic Games

    Answer: A World's Fair. The 1889 Exposition Universelle. It survived by proving useful as a radio mast.

  9. This bell tower started to lean in the 1170s, when only three of its floors had been built. What made it tilt?

    A white marble bell tower visibly tilting beside a grassy lawn.
    Photo: Arne Müseler, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons
    • An earthquake
    • Soft, unstable ground
    • A lightning strike
    • A builder's wrong measurement

    Answer: Soft, unstable ground. It stands on soft clay, sand and shells, so one side sank. A war with Genoa then paused building for nearly a century.

  10. Before it became a Buddhist shrine, this temple on Cambodia's flag was built for which Hindu god?

    A sprawling stone temple with lotus-bud towers reflected in a moat.
    Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    • Shiva
    • Brahma
    • Vishnu
    • Indra

    Answer: Vishnu. King Suryavarman II built Angkor Wat in the 12th century for Vishnu. Its long reliefs show scenes from the Ramayana and Mahabharata.

  11. Every grand tomb we call a mausoleum is named after Mausolus, whose own tomb was an ancient wonder. In which modern country did it stand?

    • Greece
    • Egypt
    • Italy
    • Turkey

    Answer: Turkey. It stood at Halicarnassus, today's Bodrum. Earthquakes wrecked it, and knights later reused its stones for Bodrum's castle.

  12. The Colossus of Rhodes, a bronze giant about 33 metres tall, honoured which Greek sun god?

    • Zeus
    • Helios
    • Hermes
    • Poseidon

    Answer: Helios. The Rhodians raised it after beating off a year-long siege. An earthquake toppled it in about 226 BCE, little more than 50 years later.

  13. Legend says a Babylonian king built terraced gardens for a wife from Media who missed her green hills. Name the king.

    • Nebuchadnezzar II
    • Hammurabi
    • Darius I
    • Sargon

    Answer: Nebuchadnezzar II. No trace of the Hanging Gardens has been found at Babylon, and some scholars think they were really at Nineveh, built by the Assyrian king Sennacherib.

  14. In 356 BCE a man named Herostratus burned down this goddess's great temple at Ephesus, purely to become famous. Which goddess?

    • Athena
    • Hera
    • Artemis
    • Aphrodite

    Answer: Artemis. Ephesus banned anyone from saying his name, which clearly failed. Tradition says Alexander the Great was born the same night.

  15. Rome's Flavian Amphitheatre got its popular name, most likely, from a giant bronze statue of an emperor that stood beside it. Which emperor?

    • Augustus
    • Caligula
    • Trajan
    • Nero

    Answer: Nero. The Colosseum went up on the grounds of Nero's Golden House, and his colossal statue stood nearby for centuries.

Frequently asked questions

What are the New Seven Wonders of the World?

Announced in Lisbon in 2007 after a public vote, they are the Great Wall of China, Petra, Christ the Redeemer, Machu Picchu, Chichén Itzá, the Colosseum and the Taj Mahal. The Great Pyramid of Giza was given an honorary place.

Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still stands?

Only the Great Pyramid of Giza. The other six, including the Colossus of Rhodes and the Lighthouse of Alexandria, were destroyed by earthquakes, fire or time, and one, the Hanging Gardens, may never have existed.

Who chose the original Seven Wonders?

No single person. The list grew from Greek travel writing, and versions by writers such as Antipater of Sidon and Philo of Byzantium settled on seven marvels around the eastern Mediterranean.