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Qtnz about Eiffel tower

1.What is the Eiffel tower made of?
Correct Answer: Iron

2. What is the official purpose of the Eiffel Tower?
Correct Answer: Observation Tower

3. How high is the tower including the antenna?
Correct Answer: approx. 1070ft

4. When was the tower completed?
Correct Answer: 1889

5. What happened to the tower in 1902?
Correct Answer: It was struck by lightning

6. How much does the Eiffel Tower weigh?
Correct Answer: 7,300 tons

7. Who designed he tower?
Correct Answer: Gustave Eiffel

8. How many steps does the Eiffel Tower have?
Correct Answer: 1660

9. What spy was allegedly captured by a plan involving the Eiffel Tower?
Correct Answer: Mata Hari

10. What is the name of the restaurant on the second floor?
Correct Answer: Jules Verne

11. What did the con artist Victor Lustig do twice in 1925?
Correct Answer: Sold the tower for scrap

12. What is it possible to do now on the first floor during the winter months?
Correct Answer: Ice Skate

13. Who is the Eiffel Tower named after?
Correct Answer: Gustave Eiffel

14. how much does the eiffel tower weigh
Correct Answer: 42 tones

15. where is the Eiffel tower ?
Correct Answer: paris

16. how many people visited the eiffel tower each year since 1998?
Correct Answer: 6 million people


Qtnz about China Wall

1. About how long is the Great Wall of China?
Correct Answer: 1,500 miles

2. The Great Wall of China was built in the ____ Century BC.
Correct Answer: Third

3. Why was the Great Wall of China built?
Correct Answer: To deter intruders

4. The Great Wall of China is considered one of the Great Wonders of the World.
Correct Answer: False

5. The Great Wall of China can be seen from the moon.
Correct Answer: False

6. How many Chinese provinces does the Great Wall of China span?
Correct Answer: 17

7. The Great Wall of China was built by different dynasties over how many years?
Correct Answer: 800

8. At its tallest points, the Great Wall of China is how tall?
Correct Answer: 25 feet

9. At one time, how many watchtowers were strung along the Great Wall of China?
Correct Answer: 40,000

10. At the peak of its construction, every fifth male in China was part of building the Great Wall of China.
Correct Answer: True

11. Because so many people died building the Great Wall of China, it has been nicknamed what?
Correct Answer: "Longest Cemetery on Earth"

12. In July 2005, what skateboarder became the first to clear the great wall of China by flying down a ramp at 50 mph and jumping the wall?
Correct Answer: Danny Way

13. Who was the original creator of the Great Wall of China
Correct Answer: Shi Huangdi


Qtnz about Golden Gate

1. The bridge is located on:
Correct Answer: San Francisco Bay

2. The time taken to construct the bridge was a little over:
Correct Answer: 4 Years

3. The bridge links San Francisco with:
Correct Answer: Marin

4. The Golden Gate Bridge is ________ in color.
Correct Answer: International Orange

5. The total length of the bridge is approximately _________ miles.
Correct Answer: 1.2

6. The construction of the bridge was completed in:
Correct Answer: 1937

7. The name of the bridge comes from:
Correct Answer: The Golden Gate Strait

8. Who was responsible for the Art Deco touches and the choice of color for the bridge?
Correct Answer: Irving Morrow

9. The bridge was officially inaugurated for vehicular traffic by:
Correct Answer: President Roosevelt

10. How many vehicular traffic lanes are there in the bridge?
Correct Answer: 6

11. The bridge is popularly known as the bridge that couldn't be:
Correct Answer: Built

12. How wide is the mid span swing of the bridge?
Correct Answer: 27 feet

13. How many towers does the bridge have?
Correct Answer: 2

14. The exit on the marine side of the bridge is called:
Correct Answer: Visa Point

15. The total cost of building the bridge was approximately:
Correct Answer: $35 Million

16. what days are you not alowed to walk on and veiw the golden gate bridge
Correct Answer: holidays

17. Who built the golden gate bridge
Correct Answer: Joseph B. Strauss
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4. The Great Wall of China is considered one of the Great Wonders of the World.
Correct Answer: False

5. The Great Wall of China can be seen from the moon.
Correct Answer: False
Though I am not much sure but i think answers to these two should be true...
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Indeed, they are true. Even the title of the thread says 'G.K. (Abt Wonders)'.
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@ Lord Avalon and Princess Royal;

Guys ! Are you serious ?

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Correct Answer: False
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Guys ! Are you serious ?


As per my knowledge, yes. Obviously, not clearly but in form of a line.
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