First stop – Turkey! How Turkish Delight–ful is the fairyland of dazzling white calcified castles at Pamukkale?  Thermal water, laden with calcium carbonate gushes out of the mountainside over the plateau edge and forms sparkling white petrified cascade basins ringed with stalagtites.  Do stalagtites

• Stand up
• Hang down
• Wobble to and fro

Ah! India! Perhaps a ride on an elephant might be in order.  What is the difference between an African and an Indian elephant?

• Thousands of miles
• Indian elephants have tusks
• African elephants have bigger ears

Landing in Egypt – home of the pharaohs. How do you enter a pyramid? Toot-and-come-in! Egyptian kings were buried in pyramids but how were their bodies preserved so that they could use them in the Afterlife?

• Daddification
• Mummification
• Pickling

Ciao bella! We’re in Italy.  Pisa to be precise and there’s the famous tower itself.  Yes they’re right! It really is leaning. A famous scientist did an experiment here in 1590 to show that objects of different mass will fall at the same rate.  What was his name?

• Galileo
• Newton
• Einstein

Move over Mickey – we’ve arrived in Florida.  But we’re far more interested in the Kennedy Space Centre.  Especially the launch of the Space Shuttle on 1 July 2006.  What’s the name of the Space Shuttle?

• Challenger
• Discovery
• Tardis

G’day mates! Yet another bonzer day for a barbie in Australia.  Hold it! What’s that rustling in the bushes? Is it a bandicoot, a wombat or a Tasmanian Devil? Strange names eh? All these creatures carry their young in a pouch.  What is the collective name for these types of animals?

• Rodents
• Muppets
• Marsupials

Hola amigos! Next stop sunny Spain. Time for the fiesta known as ‘La Tomatina’ in Valencia.  Hordes of people flock to the city to pelt each other with these.  What are they?

(Hint: They are good for your skin, can help cure a hangover, can counteract the smell of a skunk and were first grown in the UK in 1554 – doesn’t help much does it?)

• Mangos
• Tomatoes
• Turnips

Stopping over in Canada. Ooooooh! Look at the world’s most famous waterfall - Niagara Falls. What a sight! The Canadian or Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side of the Niagara River are 2592 feet wide and 161 feet high. The American Falls on the US side are 1001 feet wide and 167 feet high. An island separates the two waterfalls.  What is it called?

• Goat Island
• Horse Island
• Tracy Island

Here we are in Monaco.  Hey watch out you maniac! – fancy driving like that? The Monaco Grand Prix is one of the world's greatest and most challenging motor-racing events; it is staged around the narrow, winding streets of Monte Carlo. One of the most important aspects of the modern Formula One car is the tyres. They're larger than on a standard family car.  But they also have no tread. Why?

• They have been over-inflated
• To maximise the surface area of the tyre and prevent overheating.
• To reduce the grip on the road

At last we return to the UK.  A nice little holiday cottage in Wales.  Just the ticket.  Perhaps we could climb the highest mountain (1085m) in England and Wales.  The locals know it as Yr Wyddfa (The Tomb). It is better known as

• Ben Nevis
• Cader Idris
• Snowdon