UNESCO World Heritage Sites

What this quiz asks

• The World Heritage emblem shows which shape joined to a circle?
• Islands named after these giant animals became World Heritage Site number 1 in 1978. Which islands?
• A 1960s campaign that helped inspire the World Heritage idea saved the temples of Abu Simbel from flooding by which dam?
• The Mediterranean diet is inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List.
• Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in prison, lies off which city?
• The medieval stone city of Great Zimbabwe gave its name to what?
• Select ALL of these that are listed as mixed sites, inscribed for both cultural and natural values.
• Was the Sydney Opera House added to the World Heritage List while its architect was still alive?
• The Côa Valley World Heritage Site in northern Portugal protects thousands of what?
• Jantar Mantar in Jaipur, a World Heritage Site, is a collection of what?
• Which body meets each year to decide which sites are added to the World Heritage List?
• The Alhambra in Granada owes its famous palaces to which Muslim dynasty?
• Chan Chan in Peru, the largest adobe city of the pre-Columbian Americas, was the capital of which people?
• At Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Canada, what did hunters do for thousands of years?
• Which was the first site ever removed from the World Heritage List, in 2007?
• In 2021, Liverpool's historic waterfront was removed from the World Heritage List.
• Select ALL of these that were among the first twelve World Heritage Sites inscribed in 1978.
• Order these sites by the year they were inscribed on the list, earliest first.
• In which year did UNESCO adopt the World Heritage Convention?
• To be inscribed, a site must meet at least one of how many selection criteria?