Planning a geography lesson, a team trivia night or a pub quiz round? These 40 world famous landmarks quiz questions and answers are ready to use. They run across four rounds: general knowledge, landmark anagrams, emoji puzzles and a clue round, and the answers sit at the bottom.
Every fact has been checked against primary or reference sources, including ЮНЕСКО-ның бүкіләлемдік мұралар тізімі, the Royal Family website, АҚШ ұлттық паркі қызметі және Британика. The full list is at the end.
Landmarks at a glance
- Көрнекті белгі дегеніміз не? A building or place that is unique or easy to recognise, which helps people find their way. Landmarks are either natural, like a waterfall or mountain, or human-made, like a tower or temple.
- How many World Heritage sites are there? UNESCO’s list stands at 1,248 properties in 170 countries after the July 2025 session (ЮНЕСКО).
- Which of the Seven Wonders still stands? Only the Great Pyramid of Giza (Британика).
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Host this landmarks quiz live
Reading questions aloud works, but a live quiz is more fun. With a free викторина жасаушы, players join on their phones, answer against the clock and earn more points the faster they respond. AhaSlides marks every answer and updates the leaderboard, so there is no pen and paper to manage.
We built two of this quiz’s questions in AhaSlides to show you how they look on screen. First, a multiple-choice question from Round 1:
Next, a typed-answer question from the anagram round, where players have to spell the landmark themselves:
Тіркелу тегін өз нұсқаңызды құру немесе дайын викторинадан бастау үшін шаблон кітапханасы.
1-ші тур: жалпы білім
Get the ball rolling with common knowledge. This round mixes multiple choice, matching, typed answers and a true or false question for variety.
1. What is the name of the ancient citadel in Athens, Greece?
- Афины
- Салоники
- Акрополис
- Серрес
2. In which country is Neuschwanstein Castle?
- UK
- Германия
- Бельгия
- Италия
3. Which is the tallest waterfall in the world?
- Виктория сарқырамасы
- Ниагара сарқырамасы
- Періште сарқырамасы
- Игуасу сарқырамасы
4. Which palace has been the official London residence of the UK’s sovereigns since 1837?
- Кенсингтон сарайы
- Букингем сарайы
- Бленхайм сарайы
- Гамптон сарайы
5. In which city is Angkor Wat?
- Пномпень
- Кампонг Чам
- Сиануквилл
- Siem Reap
6. Match each country to its landmark: Singapore, Vietnam, Australia, Brazil.
- Мерлион саябағы
- Ха Лонг-Бей
- Сидней опера театры
- Құтқарушы Мәсіх
7. Which landmark stands in New York Harbor but was built in France and shipped across the Atlantic?
8. Which is the tallest building in the world?
9. Fill in the blank: the Great ______ of China is the longest wall in the world.
10. True or false: you can see the Great Wall of China from the Moon with the naked eye.
Round 2: landmark anagrams
Shuffle the letters and unscramble these landmarks as fast as you can.
11. C-l-u-e-s-m-o-o-s
12. a-c-h-i-c-c-u-P-h-u-M
13. g-h-e-e-S-t-e-n-o-n
14. t-a-P-e-r
15. a-c-e-M-c
16. e-B-B-g-i-n
17. a-n-o-i-n-t-i-r-S
18. a-a-g-r-a-i-N
19. E-e-e-t-v-r-s
20. m-o-i-P-e-p-i
Round 3: emoji pictionary
Let imaginations run wild. Players guess the landmark, or the place, from the emojis.
21. Which famous tower is in this country? 👢🍕
22. What is this landmark? 🪙🚪🌉
23. What is this landmark? 🎡👁
24. What is this landmark? 🔺🔺
25. What is this landmark? 🇵👬🗼
26. Which famous London landmark is this? 💂♂️⏰
27. What is this landmark? 🌸🗼
28. Which city is this landmark in? 🗽
29. Where is this landmark? 🗿
30. What is this landmark? ⛔🌇
Round 4: clue round
No pictures needed. Read each clue aloud and see who can name the landmark first. Award a bonus point if they also name the country.
31. A white marble mausoleum in Agra, built by a Mughal emperor for his wife.
32. Giant carved stone heads on a remote Pacific island that belongs to Chile.
33. A triumphal arch at the western end of the Champs-Élysées, commissioned by Napoleon.
34. A limestone statue with a lion’s body and a human head, guarding the pyramids at Giza.
35. A chapel whose ceiling was painted by Michelangelo.
36. The highest mountain in Africa.
37. Four US presidents carved into a granite mountainside in South Dakota.
38. Japan’s highest mountain, a near-perfect volcanic cone.
39. A Maya step pyramid called El Castillo, in the Yucatán.
40. The world’s most visited museum, home to the Mona Lisa, with a glass pyramid outside.
World famous landmarks quiz answers
1-ші тур: жалпы білім
- Акрополис
- Германия
- Angel Falls (Venezuela, 979 metres)
- Букингем сарайы
- Siem Reap
- Singapore: Merlion Park. Vietnam: Ha Long Bay. Australia: Sydney Opera House. Brazil: Christ the Redeemer.
- The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France
- The Burj Khalifa in Dubai (828 metres)
- қабырға
- False. NASA and astronauts confirm it cannot be seen from the Moon with the naked eye.
Round 2: anagrams
- Колизей
- Мачу-Пикчу
- Стоунхендж
- Петра
- Мекке
- Үлкен Бен
- Санторини
- Ниагара
- Эверест
- Pompeii
Round 3: emoji pictionary
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italy)
- Алтын қақпасы көпірі
- Лондон көзі
- Гиза пирамидалары
- Петронас егіз мұнарасы
- Үлкен Бен
- Токио мұнарасы
- Нью-Йорк
- Пасха аралы, Чили
- Тыйым салынған қала
Round 4: clue round
- Таж Махал, Үндістан
- Moai statues, Easter Island, Chile
- Arc de Triomphe, France
- The Great Sphinx, Egypt
- Сикстин капелласы, Ватикан қаласы
- Килиманджаро тауы, Танзания
- Mount Rushmore, USA
- Фудзи тауы, Жапония
- Чичен Ица, Мексика
- Лувр, Франция
Жиі Қойылатын Сұрақтар
What are the Seven Wonders of the World?
The classic list of the ancient world is the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Pharos (lighthouse) of Alexandria.
Which ancient wonder still exists?
Only the Great Pyramid of Giza. It was built for the pharaoh Khufu around 4,500 years ago from roughly 2.3 million blocks of stone (Британика).
Does UNESCO recognise the Seven Wonders?
No. UNESCO does not publish a list of wonders. It maintains the Дүниежүзілік мұра тізімі, which currently has 1,248 properties.
Дереккөздер
- UNESCO World Heritage Centre: World Heritage List
- Britannica: Angel Falls
- Emaar: Burj Khalifa
- Britannica: Great Pyramid of Giza
- Britannica: Seven Wonders of the World
- Britannica: Great Wall of China
- NASA: Great Wall
- US National Park Service: Creating the Statue of Liberty
- The Royal Family: Buckingham Palace
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