Welcome to our Beaches Quiz
Beaches Quiz I
- Oddicombe Beach, Meadfoot Beach, and Babbacombe Beach are just three of the main beaches at which British seaside resort?
- Who played lifeguard "C.J." Parker in the television series Baywatch?
- Which two colours on a flag mean that lifeguards are on patrol and you should only swim in the area between the flags?
- The long sandy beach at Oxwich Bay can be found in which Area of Outstanding Hatural Beauty?
- How many players are there in a beach volleyball team?
- Name the 2017 British drama film adapted from a 2007 Booker Prize-nominated novella by Ian McKewan?
- Bondi Beach is a popular beach in a suburb of which Australian city?
- In August 1979, which seaside resort openned Britain's first nudist beach?
- Who directed the 2000 drama thriller film The Beach?
- True or False. Waikiki Beach is a famous surfing beach in New zealand?
- Where in the UK would you find Sandown Beach, Shanklin Beach and Freshwater Bay?
- Which city on the Bay of Biscay is considered to be France's surfing capital?
Answers:
- Torquay
- Pamela Anderson
- Red and yellow
- The Gower
- 2 per side
- On Chesil Beach
- Sydney
- Brighton
- Danny Boyle
- False. It's in Hawaii, USA.
- Isle of Wight
- Biarritz
Beaches Quiz II
- Which Spanish resort in the province of Alicante has the three major beaches: Playa de Levante, Playa de Poniente and Playa de Mal Pas?
- The beach on the island of Monuriki, Fiji, was made famous by which Tom Hanks film?
- Which 1964 film ends with both men enthusiastically dancing the sirtaki on the beach?
- In which British resort town would you sunbathe on Thorpe Bay Beach and Three Shells Beach?
- In which county is Berrow Beach, the longest sandy beach in the UK?
- Which 1953 Oscar winning film featured the famous beach scene between Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr?
- Lunderston Bay is the nearest sandy beach to which UK city?
- Which certification by the Foundation for Environmental Education is awarded to beaches that meets its stringent standards?
- Walking on the beaches of Swansea and Gower area every year, around 40 stings are recorded from what type of fish?
- "One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand" is a line form which book?
- Copacabana beach is located on the coast of which ocean?
- Which former Manchester United player captained his country in beach football and was in the team that won the first ever FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup?
Answers:
- Benidorm
- Castaway
- Zorba the Greek
- Southend-on-Sea
- Somerset
- From Here to Eternity
- Glasgow
- The Blue Flag
- Weever fish
- Robinson Crusoe
- Atlantic
- Eric Cantona
Quiz III
- You might recognise West Sands Beach at St Andrews, Scotland, from the opening scenes of which film?
- Which holiday resort town in South Wales has two Blue Flag beaches at Trecco Bay and Rest Bay?
- Fistral Beach, which has a reputation as one of the best beach breaks in Cornwall, is in which town?
- Spiaggia Grande is the main beach of Positano which is a resort town on which famous stretch of coastline in Italy?
- What name is given to the wood that is found washed onto a shore or beach by the action of winds, tides or waves?
- Which beach on the Merseyside coastline has since 2007 been the permanent home of the 'Another Place' sculptures by Antony Gormley?
- In 1924 who set a world land speed record on Pendine Sands in his Sunbeam 350HP car Blue Bird?
- What name is given to the the study of mollusc shells?
- The Marinha Beach is located in which region (not country!) of continental Europe?
- In the USA, which Brooklyn neighbourhood is famous as a destination where locals and tourists crowd its beach?
- Camber Sands is the only sand dune system in which English county?
- Saint Tropez's Tahiti beach was popularised in which 1956 Brigitte Bardot film?
- Daytona Beach in the United States is the headquarters for which American sport?
- What sort of beach features pebbles or small to medium-sized cobbles?
- Zandvoort is one of the major beach resorts of which country?
- The beaches of Venus and La Fontanilla can be found in which Spanish city?
Answers:
- Chariots of Fire
- Porthcawl
- Newquay
- Amalfi Coast
- Driftwood
- Crosby beach
- Malcolm Campbell
- Conchology
- The Algarve (Portugal)
- Coney Island
- East Sussex
- And God Created Woman
- NASCAR
- A shingle beach
- Netherlands
- Marbella
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