Famous Landmarks Quiz: Who Built Them, Why and Where?
What event was the Eiffel Tower built for, why does the Tower of Pisa lean, who carved Petra out of rock? Test what you know about the stories behind famous landmarks in ten questions.
What event was the Eiffel Tower originally built for?
Who designed the Hagia Sophia, opened in 537?
Why does the Tower of Pisa lean?
What was the Taj Mahal in India built as?
What was Rome's Colosseum called in antiquity?
In which city is the Selimiye Mosque, which Mimar Sinan called his "masterpiece"?
Which architect won the 1957 design competition for the Sydney Opera House?
What made Göbeklitepe in Şanlıurfa famous around the world?
Which civilisation built Machu Picchu in Peru?
Which people carved the city of Petra in Jordan out of rock?
Knowing a famous building takes more than naming it from a photo: who it was built for, who its master builder was and why it stands the way it does are all part of its story. From Göbeklitepe to the Hagia Sophia, from Machu Picchu to the Sydney Opera House, this quiz asks about the lesser-known sides of the world's best-known buildings.
Ten questions, four options each. Every answer is settled knowledge in architectural history, and guessing is allowed.
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