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Legendary Hotels
Cocktails born at the bar, a cat that joins unlucky dinners and rooms made of ice: check in and test what you know about the world's legendary hotels.
✈️ Travel
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20 questions
~7 min
What this quiz asks
- Which cocktail was first mixed at the Long Bar of Singapore's Raffles Hotel?
- The ICEHOTEL at Jukkasjärvi, carved anew from ice every winter, is in which country?
- Dubai's Burj Al Arab was built on a natural rocky island just off the beach.
- The Hôtel Ritz Paris looks out over which square?
- César Ritz, the hotelier whose name became a byword for luxury, was born in which country?
- Eloise, the six-year-old heroine of Kay Thompson's picture books, lives at which New York hotel?
- The world's first capsule hotel opened in 1979 in which Japanese city?
- Select ALL of these famous hotels that are in London.
- Was the Palace Hotel of Buçaco, in Portugal, built on the grounds of a convent?
- Impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte built London's Savoy hotel with the profits from which operas?
- At London's Savoy, what joins any dinner party of 13 to ward off bad luck?
- Which poet collapsed at New York's Chelsea Hotel in November 1953 and died a few days later?
- Truman Capote held his famous Black and White Ball at the Plaza Hotel in 1966.
- Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace hotel, facing the harbour, was built by which industrialist?
- Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel was built in the 1890s mainly to house passengers of which train?
- Select ALL of these famous hotels that stand in the southern hemisphere.
- The Palace Hotel in Portugal's Buçaco forest was begun in 1888 as a royal residence. In what style was it built?
- Order these hotels by the year they first opened, earliest first.
- Raffles Hotel in Singapore was founded by the Sarkies brothers, hoteliers of which origin?
- In what year did Dubai's sail-shaped Burj Al Arab open its doors?