Ping-pong is the subject of today's geo-quiz.

Yes, ping-pong. It's also known as table tennis.

The game that started as an after-dinner pass-time is now an Olympic sport.

It's huge in Europe, East Asia, and North America.

It's even been instrumental in changing history.

"Ping-pong diplomacy" helped thaw the Cold War between the United States and China.

President Richard Nixon made his famous visit to China 35 years ago today.

But first, can you tell us where ping-pong got its start?

It's probably not where you think.

Our Geo Quiz begins at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, in New York City.

There you'll find Tiffany's, the world-famous jewelers. Today, the store is a popular tourist spot.

For that, thank the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's." It starred Audrey Hepburn... and her little black dress.

Audrey Hepburn

Hepburn wore three of them in the movie. One fetched just under a million dollars at auction last year.

Incidentally, you'd need more than that to buy a pile of Britney Spears' hair. It's being auctioned online today for more than a million.

The money raised from the sale of Hepburn's dress is going to a charity based in an Indian city.

It's : “The major city in eastern India, also the major port of eastern India, which not only serves several eastern India states but also the countries of Nepal and Bhutan. It's also on the border with Bangladesh. And it is also known perhaps as the City of Joy.”

So, name this Indian City of Joy.

We thought we'd offer a little winter sunshine for today's Geo Quiz...

Right about now, many of us are dreaming of a warm, sunny beach far away from the snow and ice.

One possible destination is Aruba.

Aruba

It's high season on the Caribbean island.

Aruba is one of three islands in a chain off the coast of Venezuela.

They're all owned by the Netherlands.

And they're known as the ABC islands.

Aruba is clearly the A in the bunch.

For today's Geo Quiz, we're asking you to take out your brochures and find the name of the other two islands... The B and the C.

For Today's Geo Quiz --- set sail for the South Pacific.

We're looking for one of the islands that make up the Republic of Vanuatu. Vanuatu is a Melanesian island nation. It lies in between Fiji and the Solomon Islands.

The 25-mile long island we want you to pinpoint has an active volcano named Mount Yasur.

Mount Yasur

And the islanders were out on the streets celebrating this week:

"The bells you can hear in the back ground are men wearing bells on their ankles. They're wearing sarongs, and they're bare chested, on the backs of the their bodies in red paint are the words USA."

Volcanoes, bells on their ankles, and USA. See if you can connect the dots and tell us where this unusual celebration is going on...

Today's Geo Quiz takes us to a seaside town in Sri Lanka. This town at the southern tip of Sri Lanka is famous for its beaches, temples, and tea plantations. It's also the site of an international sporting event that may not be on your radar. It's the annual Ceylon Elephant Polo Tournament.

Elephant polo

The elephants are specially trained and selected for their speed and size. Tournament organizer Geoffrey Dobbs says a Sri Lankan police team easily won the first game of the day. But the second game didn't go as smoothly:

“The Capital Pachyderms from Washington DC were playing a team from Spain, one of the elephants threw the player off the elephant, you know she was rather stuck on the elephant for a while which was slightly alarming.”

The four-ton elephant went on rampage and smashed into a nearby bus. But the player escaped with minor injuries. We'll check in with her ... after you take a crack at naming this tournament town...

Today's Geo Quiz takes us to an ancient Tibetan city.

Tibetan plateau

The name of the city we're looking for literally means the place of the gods. It's perched high up -- as in, 12,000 feet high up, on the snow-covered Tibetan Plateau. The area is sometimes called the "roof of the world".

The new railway that connects this city with Beijing is said to be the highest railway in the world. The train ride from Beijing takes 47 hours and 28 minutes.

A ticket will cost you 389 yuan for a hard seat -- that's about 50 bucks. 150 dollars buys you a soft sleeper seat. Oxygen masks are available for travellers who have trouble with altitude sickness. So, name the Tibetan city at the end of this long train ride.

One last hint: It's the traditional capital of Tibet, which is considered by China to be an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.

Stone Age lovers figure in today's Geo Quiz.

We're searching for a region in northern Italy where archaeologists have made an unusual find:

The skeletons of a couple buried 5-to-6,000 years ago.

Their arms are wrapped around each other in what might have been a loving embrace.

Lovers of Valdaro

Local newspapers are calling them the "Lovers of Valdaro" after the town where the bones were discovered.

The story has made headlines in Italy's most populated region.

In the spirit of Valentine's Day --- scientists have promised not to split up the prehistoric lovers.

They plan to keep the skeletons together to preserve what could be "the world's longest known hug" .

Scientists still don't know whether the remains are that of a man and a woman.

But one thing's for sure --- this discovery was made in an Italian region north of Emilia-Romagna, and south of Switzerland.

Name it if you can...

Seven emirates are your first clues for today's Geo Quiz

We're looking for the largest of the seven United Arab Emirates. Its rich Persian Gulf oil fields make it one of the most prosperous. This emirate is energetically using its wealth to build art museums, and stock them with treasures from around the world.

Guggenheim

It recently struck a deal with the Guggenheim Museum in New York to build a 300,000-square-foot museum for modern and contemporary art. And it's now negotiating another deal to bring French masterpieces from the Louvre in Paris.

So, name the emirate that's angling for some priceless artworks if you can. We'll tell you about the mixed reaction from Paris to this mega art deal when we unveil the answer.

For our Geo Quiz today, we're looking for a country in the West Indies that's set to host some 2007 World Cup cricket matches. The wickets, the bowlers, and the batsmen in their resplendent white uniforms won't converge on this tiny Caribbean island nation for several weeks yet. But their new cricket stadium is ready to go.

That's thanks to the government of China which paid for the 40 million dollar stadium and 500 Chinese workers who pitched in.

The old stadium was destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in 2004.

This island is famous for more than cricket. It's got plenty of home-grown cinnamon, cloves, and ginger. There's even a nutmeg on its national flag. So name this spice island if you can...we tell you more about that cricket stadium when we reveal the answer...

Where in the world can you quench your thirst with a tall glass of kvass?

Kvass

That's the question for today's Geo Quiz. Kvass is a fermented beverage that's been around for centuries. It's sweet, sour and a little fizzy. Traditionally kvass was made from stale black bread. Here's one fan of the stuff with a few more clues:

"Its one of the ancient beverages on the face of the earth, one of the very first records dates back to 988 when the good old prince Vladimir ordered to bring out this certain beverage based on honey and kvass and it was distributed in the streets and squares."

Kvass cart

Kvass is still brewed, bottled and sold in several former communist countries. But we'll settle for the name of the country where kvass was once so popular it became known as the "Coke of communism." In fact it still so popular that soft drink giant Coca Cola now wants to market its own brand of the fermented favorite.

Kvass