Hotel Quiz Questions

Quiz

1. What is the name of the black pyramid hotel opened in 1993 in Las Vegas?
2. Who spent their honeymoon in the presidential suite at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel for a week between March 25 and 31, 1969?






3. Who wrote the 1965 novel Hotel?
4. Which establishment was the setting for a classic 1960 Hollywood film based on a 1959 novel by Robert Bloch?
5. Which actress played the waitress Polly Sherman in TV's Fawlty Towers?
6. Which 5-star hotel in Mayfair, London, has long-standing connections with royalty and is sometimes referred to as an "annexe to Buckingham Palace"?
7. In which city would you find The Ryugyong Hotel - an unfinished 330-metre-tall pyramid-shaped skyscraper which has been known as being the tallest unoccupied building in the world?
8. Which Las Vegas hotel was the world's largest when it opened in November 1993 and is represented by its Leo the Lion logo?
9. Where would you be if you stayed at the famous colonial-style luxury Raffles Hotel?
10. What name is given to smaller independent non-branded hotels that often have the ambiance of being a personal guest in a private home, rather than just a hotel occupant?
11. The Burj al-Arab hotel in Dubai is structured to represent the shape of what practical object?
12. What item first appeared in The Superior Hotel in Superior, Montana, in 1908?
13. In 1942, the owner of which hotel chain married actress Zsa Zsa Gabor?
14. Capsule hotels, where people sleep in stacks of rectangular containers, were first introduced in which country?
15. Which famous hotel was the first hotel in the world to offer room service?
16. Which hotel and city was Ernest Hemingway staying in when he learned his wife wanted a divorce and shot the toilet with his pistol?
17. Which luxury London hotel was built by Richard D'Oyly Carte with profits from his Gilbert and Sullivan opera productions?
18. Which group had a massive late 1976 hit with their release of Hotel California?
19. In the Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Professor Aronnax describes the interior of the submarine as similar to which Liverpool hotel?
20. In late 2007, which comedian advertised Premier Inn on prime time television?
21. Which New York hotel, located on Fifth Avenue and Central Park South, was the setting for films such as "Funny Girl" and "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York"?
22. The Shelbourne Hotel is which European city's oldest and most historic hotel?

Answers:

1. Luxor
2. John Lenon and Yoko Ono
3. Arthur Hailey
4. The Bates Motel
5. Connie Booth
6. Claridges
7. Pyongyang (North Korea)
8. The MGM Grand
9. Singapore
10. Boutique hotels
11. A boat's sail
12. A Gideon Bible
13. Hilton Hotels (he was Conrad Hilton)
14. Japan
15. The Waldorf Astoria
16. Ritz Hotel, Paris
17. The Savoy
18. The Eagles
19. The Adelphi Hotel
20. Lenny Henry
21. The Plaza
22. Dublin's