Lost Treasures Trivia Quiz
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- 🗂️ Archaeology
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Famous missing valuables and artifacts. Play the Lost Treasures trivia quiz solo to sharpen your knowledge, or challenge a friend head-to-head in Trivia Tango — every question comes with an explanation so you learn as you play. Questions span every level, from easy warm-ups to expert-level stumpers, so there's a real challenge here however much you already know.
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Sample Lost Treasures Quiz Questions
A mix of easy, medium and hard — questions run from warm-up to expert, so there's a real challenge at every level. Think you know the answers? Play to find out.
This legendary city of gold was sought by Spanish conquistadors throughout South America, but was never found.
Difficulty: Easy- El Dorado
- Atlantis
- Shangri-La
- Camelot
This Austrian lake was used by Nazis to dump looted treasure, and recovery efforts have pulled up counterfeit currency and artifacts.
Difficulty: Medium- Lake Toplitz
- Lake Constance
- Lake Attersee
- Lake Hallstatt
This 17th-century English ship, wrecked near the Isles of Scilly in 1707 with Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell aboard, carried naval payroll that remains largely unfound.
Difficulty: Hard- HMS Association
- HMS Royal Anne
- HMS Eagle
- HMS Romney
This ancient island civilization, described by Plato, allegedly sank into the ocean in a single day and night.
Difficulty: Easy- Lemuria
- Atlantis
- Mu
- Avalon
This Dutch ship, wrecked off Western Australia in 1629, carried a fortune in silver coins and witnessed a brutal mutiny and massacre.
Difficulty: Medium- Vergulde Draeck
- Zuytdorp
- Batavia
- Duyfken
This American treasure salvage company was sued by Spain over their 2007 recovery of $500 million in coins from an unidentified colonial wreck.
Difficulty: Hard- Mel Fisher Inc.
- Odyssey Marine Exploration
- Global Marine Industries
- Treasure Salvors
This boy pharaoh's tomb, discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter, contained over 5,000 artifacts including a solid gold death mask.
Difficulty: Easy- Ramesses II
- Cleopatra
- King Tutankhamun
- Akhenaten
This secret Nazi project used Jewish concentration camp prisoners to forge British pound notes, with the counterfeit currency later dumped in Austrian lakes.
Difficulty: Medium- Operation Paperclip
- Operation Bernhard
- Operation Valkyrie
- Operation Thunderstorm
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