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Metro quiz and subway trivia: London, Paris, Moscow, Tokyo… Free metro questions with explained answers. No sign-up, instant results, shareable score.
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From Berlin's ghost stations to Glasgow's "Clockwork Orange," this quiz explores the history and curiosities of metro systems around the world. A fun way to test your underground knowledge. Play this metro quiz to test your subway trivia, from London's Tube to the Moscow and Tokyo networks.
This quiz currently has 80 questions, ranging from easy to hard, available in French, English and Spanish when the Spanish translation is available.
Warm up before the quiz with these 16 trivia questions and their explained answers: click a question to reveal the answer.
Answer: 1900. The Paris Métro opened its first line on 19 July 1900, during the Paris World's Fair.
Answer: The Tokyo Metro. The Tokyo Metro is world-famous for its extreme punctuality and for the considerable rush-hour crowding, sometimes requiring staff to push passengers into carriages.
Answer: The London Underground. The London Underground is nicknamed 'The Tube' because of the tubular shape of its deep-level tunnels, bored through London clay.
Answer: The Singapore Metro. Singapore's MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) is known for its extreme efficiency, cleanliness and strong integration with buses and taxis.
Answer: Mexico City metro. The Mexico City metro pairs each station with a unique pictogram, a system devised from its opening in 1969 to make the network usable by a population that was then partly illiterate.
Answer: Helsinki metro. The Helsinki metro, in Finland, holds the title of the world's northernmost metro system.
Answer: Line 14. Line 14 of the Paris metro, opened in 1998, was the network's first fully automatic, driverless line, designed from the start with platform screen doors.
Answer: Grand Paris Express. The Grand Paris Express, a future automatic, driverless metro, is one of the largest transit infrastructure projects currently underway in Europe.
Answer: The Metropolitan Railway (London). The Metropolitan Railway, opened in 1863, is considered the world's first underground metro system, originally hauled by steam locomotives.
Answer: The Pyongyang Metro. The Pyongyang Metro, very deep as it was also designed as an air-raid shelter, has stations richly decorated with mosaics and chandeliers glorifying the regime.
Answer: The Kolkata Metro. The Kolkata Metro, put into service in 1984, was the very first metro system built in India.
Answer: The Lisbon Metro. Several Lisbon Metro stations are decorated with traditional Portuguese azulejos, turning some of them into veritable art galleries.
Answer: Bilbao. The entrances to the Bilbao metro, made of curved glass and affectionately nicknamed 'Fosteritos', were designed by British architect Norman Foster and have become a symbol of the city.
Answer: Charleroi. Charleroi's premetro, with its vast underground network built in the 1970s-1980s, is notorious for its chronic underuse relative to the scale of the infrastructure built.
Answer: Los Angeles. The dismantling of the 'Pacific Electric' streetcar network in Los Angeles in the 1950s-1960s left the city without heavy rail transit for decades before a real subway was built.
Answer: Cairo metro. In Cairo, the announcement of a fourth metro line has been repeatedly postponed over the years for lack of immediately available funding for a project of this scale.
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