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Telegraph Travel Quiz
I know these have probably been asked (and answered) before, but I am new to this site. I can't find answers to No 8 and no.11. Please.
Thanks in advance.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.For the benefit of the pedantic plonkers who want to know the questions, 8 is "This is "where those yellow American school buses come to die. Moaning like wounded buffalo, they crawl up fearsome inclines laden with entire villages and their livestock." Matt Bannerman was writing about (a) Death Valley, California (b) Quetzaltenango, Guatemala (c) the highlands of Nicaragua. THE ANSWER IS "C".
11 is "How does a town like this gain a reputation for being thronged with cycle-couriers and Rollerbladers? Don't they end up, drawn ineluctably by gravity and exhaustion, pooling in low-lying areas like sedimentary Lycra?". Sam Leith was writing about (a) Vancouver (b) San Francisco (c) Seattle. THE ANSWER IS "B".
Both answers obtained by using the "Search" facility on the web-site for "Telegraph - Travel".