FREE TRAVEL COMPETITIONS, FREE TRAVEL QUIZ QUESTIONS

1. Whose poem about the biblical journey of the magi - and that is its title - begins: 'A cold coming we had of it; / Just the worst time of the year / For such a journey'?
   Your clue: a long-running musical. TS Eliot
   
   
2. Which biblical character, the subject of a famous parable with a morality that many non-christians would subscribe to, was at the time of the incidents that are related, 'going down from Jerusalem to Jericho'?
   The Good Samaritan
   
   
3. Who felt compelled to change his name, his intentions and his beliefs because of an incident on the road to Damascus?
   Saul of Tarsus (to Paul and subsequently St Paul)
   
   
4. Which vocalist is particularly associated with the notion of being 24 hours from Tulsa?
   Gene Pitney (a Bacharach/David song)
   
   
5. Which American of the so-called Beat Generation went On the Road?
   Jack Kerouac
   
   
6. Who as a child travelled from Gateshead to Lowood, where there was a school of sorts?
   Jane Eyre
   
   
7. Which Venetian, whose dates are 1254 to 1324, claimed to have travelled to China, to have spent over 20 years there and to have become a provincial Governor?
   Marco Polo
   
   
8. At the time of its inception in 1883 this fabled travel service linked Paris to Munich, Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest with a ferry crossing of the Danube between Giurgiu and Ruse, then finally a 14 hour sea crossing from Varna to Istanbul - Constantinople if you prefer - because there was no rail track available for the final leg of the journey. Its name, please.
   The Orient Express (It seems that there was also at this time no restaurant car.)
   
   
9. Who is the traveller in Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days, La Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingts Jours?
   Phileas Fogg
   
   
10. Who, and I quote, 'walked out one Midsummer Morning' on a journey to mid-20th century Spain?
    Laurie Lee, the Cider with Rosie man