Trivia Jigsaw

Pictures in this puzzle

Every picture here was made for Trivio — 15 of them, and each one is a separate round. Assemble it and the game asks you what it is.

• Eiffel TowerOn hot days the sun-facing iron expands enough that the tower stands about 15 centimetres taller, and its top leans as much as 18 centimetres away from the sun.
• Taj MahalThe building is otherwise rigorously symmetrical, but Shah Jahan's own cenotaph was added off-centre beside his wife's, the single element that breaks the symmetry.
• Pyramids of GizaAt about 146 metres when completed, it remained the tallest human-made structure on Earth for more than 3,700 years, until the great medieval cathedral spires of England finally overtook it.
• Machu PicchuHiram Bingham, who brought the site to world attention in 1911, was actually hunting for Vilcabamba, the last refuge of the Inca, and wrongly concluded he had found it.
• Sydney Opera HouseIts shells are clad in 1,056,006 tiles laid in a subtle chevron pattern, custom-developed over three years with Swedish maker Hoganas in two finishes - glossy white and matte cream - so the roof shimmers rather than glares.
• Statue of LibertyIts copper skin is only about 2.4 millimetres thick, roughly two stacked pennies, and the green colour is a patina that formed over some three decades of weathering.
• Al-Khazneh (The Treasury), PetraIts Arabic name means 'the Treasury' because locals believed a pharaoh's gold was hidden in the stone urn at the top, which is pocked with bullet marks from generations of people shooting at it to break it open.
• El Castillo (Temple of Kukulcán), Chichén ItzáThe pyramid is nested like a Russian doll — archaeologists found an earlier pyramid inside it containing a red-painted jaguar throne, and in 2016 electrical-resistivity scans indicated a third, still smaller structure at the core.
• Sagrada FamíliaConstruction began in 1882 and ran for more than 130 years with no valid building permit — Barcelona finally issued one on 7 June 2019, after the basilica's trustees agreed in October 2018 to pay the city 36 million euros.
• Christ the Redeemer (Cristo Redentor)The 30-metre figure — 38 metres including its pedestal — is clad in a mosaic of thousands of small triangular soapstone tiles, and its face was modelled by the Romanian sculptor Gheorghe Leonida, working under the French-Polish sculptor Paul Landowski.
• Great Mosque of DjennéThe largest mud-brick building in the world is replastered by hand every year by the whole town in a festival called the crépissage, when people climb the bundles of palm wood projecting from the walls — the torons — which double as permanent built-in scaffolding.
• Victoria Falls (Mosi-oa-Tunya)It is neither the tallest nor the widest waterfall in the world, but at about 1,708 m wide and 108 m high it forms the largest single sheet of falling water on Earth.
• Giant's CausewayThe site is made of roughly 40,000 interlocking basalt columns formed when lava cooled and contracted about 50 to 60 million years ago, and although most have six sides, some have four, five, seven or eight.
• MatterhornOn its first ascent on 14 July 1865, four of Edward Whymper's seven-man party fell to their deaths on the descent after one climber slipped and pulled the rope.
• PamukkaleThe terraces are built up from calcium carbonate left behind by mineral-rich hot springs, and they were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1988 together with Hierapolis, the ruined Roman spa city sitting directly on top of them.