World Heritage Quiz | General Questions on Major Cultural and Natural Sites

The Great Wall is a military defense system that integrated earlier works and was extended by successive dynasties, with construction continuing into the Ming. The First Emperor of Qin did not build all of what survives.

It is the mausoleum Shah Jahan built at Agra in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal. Its magnificence invites the mistaken impression of a palace, but the central building is a mausoleum.

It is a mixed property, valued both for the cultural achievement of Inca architecture and land use and for the biodiverse natural setting where the Andes give way to the Amazon basin.

Angkor comprises the remains of the successive capitals of the Khmer Empire, which flourished from the 9th to the 15th century. It includes not only Angkor Wat but Angkor Thom and hydraulic works as well.

The property around Memphis is a funerary landscape of rock-cut tombs, mastabas, temples and pyramids. The three great pyramids at Giza form part of it.

These are the principal Classical Greek buildings that make up the Acropolis of Athens. The name does not refer to the Parthenon alone; the inscription covers the monuments on the hill as a group.

Petra was a Nabataean caravan city where, besides the rock-cut architecture, channels and cisterns storing seasonal rain sustained urban life in an arid land.

At Chichén Itzá, Maya building technique is joined by Toltec-related elements of central Mexican origin. The Inca civilization was centered on the Andes of South America, a different region.

The historic center of Rome includes, besides monuments of the Republic and the Empire, architecture formed as the center of the Christian world. It is not an inscription of the Colosseum alone.

Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites were built from the Neolithic into the Bronze Age. They are to be understood not as medieval fortifications but as a broad ceremonial and funerary landscape.

In the Galápagos Islands, geographical isolation, converging currents and volcanic activity fostered a distinctive biota, which is what made them so important to the study of evolution.

The Great Barrier Reef is a large coral reef ecosystem comprising numerous reefs and islands. Its name should not be taken to mean a single continuous wall of reef.

The Serengeti is known for the seasonal mass migration of herbivores and its interaction with the predators that follow them. That differs in emphasis from reserves centered on gorillas.

Yellowstone has a large geothermal area and is known for its many geysers and hot springs. Its focus is not canyon landforms such as those of the Grand Canyon.

The Grand Canyon was carved by the erosion of the Colorado River, and strata of many periods are exposed in its deep walls. It is not a valley cut by glaciers alone.

Iguazu National Park on the Argentine side and Iguaçu National Park on the Brazilian side are adjacent but separate natural properties. The continuity of the landscape and the unit of inscription should be kept distinct.

Komodo National Park is renowned as the habitat of the Komodo dragon and also conserves terrestrial and marine ecosystems. The inscription is not of Komodo Island alone.

Kilimanjaro is a volcanic massif in Tanzania, rising sharply from its surroundings as a free-standing mountain. It lies within Tanzania, not on the border with Kenya.

The Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks include not only glacial landforms and lakes but the important fossil record of the Burgess Shale. It is not a single national park.

The Sundarbans is a mangrove forest spreading across the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna. It is a wetland ecosystem where tides meet fresh water, not a dry savanna.