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Theme Parks and Rides

From Victorian big wheels to Disneyland's steel coasters and Europe's fairy-tale forests, see how much you really know about theme parks and rides.

🎉 Pop Culture medium 20 questions ~6 min
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What this quiz asks

  • Disneyland opened in 1955 in which Californian city?
  • Tivoli Gardens, one of the world's oldest amusement parks, is in which city?
  • Efteling, the theme park famous for its Fairytale Forest, is in which country?
  • Efteling opened before Disneyland.
  • The first Ferris wheel was built for the 1893 World's Fair in which city?
  • How do classic fairground bumper cars get their electricity?
  • Built in 1897, the giant wheel called the Riesenrad stands in the Prater park of which city?
  • What do log flume rides imitate?
  • Could the original 1893 Ferris wheel carry more than 1,000 passengers at once?
  • Select ALL of these theme parks that are in Germany.
  • PortAventura, which opened in 1995, is next to which Spanish seaside resort?
  • Blackpool Tower is taller than the Eiffel Tower, the Paris landmark that inspired it.
  • Select ALL of these theme parks that are part of a Disney resort.
  • Europa-Park was opened in 1975 by a German family whose firm is also known for what?
  • Which amusement park north of Copenhagen, dating back to 1583, is often called the oldest in the world?
  • In what year did Tivoli Gardens open?
  • The Switchback Railway, opened in 1884 and often called America's first roller coaster, was in which resort?
  • Put these Disney parks in order of opening, earliest first.
  • Which Disneyland ride of 1959 was the first roller coaster to use tubular steel track?
  • Where did the boat ride It's a Small World make its debut?