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Оглавление1 Featuring buildings at Naiku and Geku and the Uji Bridge, which complex is Japan’s most sacred Shinto shrine?
2 Which cantilever railway bridge was opened by the future Edward VII on March 4, 1890?
3 Arecibo Observatory, site of the world’s largest single-unit radio telescope, is found where?
4 The Hotel Attraction (1908) is an unbuilt design by which Catalan architect?
5 Which chateau, c. 25 miles north of Paris, houses the Musée Condé?
6 The Delta Works, the world’s largest flood protection project, is in which country?
7 In the city of York, the Lendal Bridge, Millennium Bridge and Skeldergate Bridge span which river?
8 The Hotel Negresco first opened in 1913 in which French resort city?
9 60 Andrassy Street was which country’s much-feared secret police HQ?
10 Graham Sutherland’s tapestry Christ in Glory is in which English cathedral?
11 Designed by I.M. Pei, which Hall of Fame sits on the shore of Lake Erie?
12 Which Birmingham Town Hall architect invented a two-wheeled cab in 1834?
13 Eel Marsh House is a haunted abode in which spine-chilling Susan Hill novel?
14 Princess Anne’s home Gatcombe Park is in which county?
15 Which New York nightclub opened in 1977 at 254 West 54th Street?
16 Built in 1924, Los Angeles’s Ennis House was designed by which architect?
17 Opened in 2002, City Hall, London, was designed by which British architect?
18 Which Spanish architect designed the tallest building in the Nordic countries, the Turning Torso in Malmö?
19 Carved into granite cliffs on the south Cornish coast, which open-air theatre was created by Rowena Cade?
20 Which twin tower skyscraper complex in Mississauga, Canada, is pictured?
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