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hanban
 
Reply Thu 1 Dec, 2005 03:23 am
Which author wrote Lettres de Mon Moulin?
What is the Moulin Rouge?
When was the Red Commune of Paris?
Who said that Paris was worth a mass?
Which composer wrote the Nelson Mass?
Which one of Nelson's arms was amputated?
The Arms of which state are yellow and white with a pair of crossed keys?
Where is the House of Keys the Parliament?
What parliament is known as The Althing?
Which country was the last to give women the vote?
What were women agitators for the vote called in the UK?
When was the Act of Union?
The union of which two people was a famous scientific partnership, ended when the husband was run over by a cart?
During the Terror, French people were taken to the guillotine by cart - or tumbril. Who invented the Guillotine?
And similarly, who invented the Silhouette?
Both the above people were doctors. Name the doctor who invented vaccination against Smallpox (from vacca - Latin for "from a cow")
Who is claimed to have founded the first proper schools in England?
What was the name of Proust's favourite cake?
This church, sharing a name with the above cake, is in which city?
And in which city would you expect to find a sachertorte?
"A thousand years of democracy, and all the Swiss have given Europe is_______ "- what?
And what film did the above quote come from?
Another famous quote - "Après moi le deluge." Who said it?
What did the Dutch open, when the Germans invaded in 1939?
And what did the Russians close one night in Berlin in 1961?
The films Cabaret and I Am a Camera, both set in Berlin, are adapted from the works of which author?
Which Frenchman painted a picture, set in a famous Parisian cabaret, which features a bottle of Bass beer?
Which group of Belgian monks are famous brewers?
In 1830 an opera provoked a revolution in Belgium. What was the opera?
This theatre, famous for its opera premieres, burnt down in 1996, its destruction being helped ironically by a shortage of water in this city. Where?
Sticking to a watery theme - what city is known as The Venice of the North?
In which other watery city would you find The Bronze Horseman?
The Russian poet Pushkin was killed in a duel. in 1837. By whom?
Who was the last Prime Minister of England to fight a duel?
Talking about violence, who were on the receiving end of the Defenestration of Prague?
What is a Venetian window?
Who discovered The Law of Refraction?
What is the French region of Bresse famous for?
If I landed by plane at an airport with the abbreviation TXL, where would I be?
And what do the initials SNCF represent?
What does the acronym ARIBA represent?
Which Italian city is famous for its towers?
Who carried out a famous scientific demonstration from a leaning tower?
Staying in Italy, who wrote The Pines of Rome?
Most of the pines of Pompeii were destroyed by an eruption. But when?
Which Pope of Rome famously said "Le chemin de fer, c'est le chemin d'enfer"?
And which Papal employee painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
And talking of rulers, why was Queen Victoria not also Queen of Hanover?
Sticking to rulers again, when did the French introduce the metric system?
And when was the Euro introduced into the majority of Europe?
Which mountain range is said to divide Europe from Asia?
And now more geography questions:-
A What is the longest river in Europe?
B What is the highest mountain?
C Which country is most densely populated?
D Where is the Blue Grotto?
E What is a fumarole?
Paris is to France as Tallinn is to _______________?
Excepting Russia, what is the largest country in Europe?
What is the main ingredient of Borsch?
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username
 
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Reply Thu 1 Dec, 2005 03:33 am
You have heard of google, haven't you?
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hanban
 
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Reply Thu 1 Dec, 2005 03:36 am
Yep, I have, am just struggling to find some of the answers though! Is a school quiz.
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username
 
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Reply Thu 1 Dec, 2005 03:55 am
It's your schoolwork. What are you going to learn if we do it for you? You should be able to answer at least 80% of these in no more than two minutes apiece. Go to google. It'll tell you, probably in the first hit (it did tell me) which of Nelson's arms was amputated. First hit, which Belgian monks brew beer. First hit, wheo wrote Moulins. I'm not going to tell you. Go to google.
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hanban
 
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Reply Thu 1 Dec, 2005 04:15 am
Point taken.
Cant find the one about last country in Europe to given women the vote!
Google doesnt know either!
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username
 
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Reply Thu 1 Dec, 2005 04:20 am
Good on ya. I don't know, but suspect it might be Switzerland, which didn't go all the way until 1971 (and I got that from google too, tho the hit I read didn't compare it to other Euro countries).
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hanban
 
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Reply Thu 1 Dec, 2005 04:27 am
Thank you for that, I think I have found the answer to be Switzerland too.
Just one more query-sorry to be a pain, but which city would you think is more famous for its towers in Italy -Pisa or Bologna?
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username
 
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Reply Thu 1 Dec, 2005 04:29 am
Pisa's only got one famous one--and it does say towerS. But it's REALLY famous. Your call.
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hanban
 
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Reply Thu 1 Dec, 2005 04:53 am
What were women agitators for the vote called in the UK?

Is that one Suffragettes or Suffragists?
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Sturgis
 
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Reply Thu 1 Dec, 2005 06:52 am
I am sure if you search a little harder hanban you will discover the answer to that last one, and in fact answer all the questions for yourself.
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Green Witch
 
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Reply Thu 1 Dec, 2005 07:31 am
hanban - What makes you think these bums playing around on a computer when they should be working will give you the right answers? I would double check any answer here, if I was you.
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Sturgis
 
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Reply Thu 1 Dec, 2005 08:21 am
Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing
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Paaskynen
 
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Reply Thu 1 Dec, 2005 12:26 pm
These are the answers that I found in my (unreliable) memory:
What is the Moulin Rouge?
- A famous night club in Paris, known from many films and paintings
When was the Red Commune of Paris?
- March 26 to May 30, 1871
Who said that Paris was worth a mass?
- King Henry IV (at the moment of speaking he was still Henry III of Navarre and protestant)
Which one of Nelson's arms was amputated?
- right arm
What parliament is known as The Althing?
- Parliament of Iceland
Which country was the last to give women the vote?
- Some countries still haven't given women the vote, but Switzerland recently did.
What were women agitators for the vote called in the UK?
- Suffragettes
When was the Act of Union?
- There were many Acts of Union, one example was the act of union between Sweden and Norway in 1814, but the question probably refers to the Treaty of Union between England and Scotland 1707.
The union of which two people was a famous scientific partnership, ended when the husband was run over by a cart?
- Pierre and Marie Curie
During the Terror, French people were taken to the guillotine by cart - or tumbril. Who invented the Guillotine?
- unknown, Guillotin improved a model made by Antoine Louis, but older forms were known elsewhere in Europe
Both the above people were doctors. Name the doctor who invented vaccination against Smallpox (from vacca - Latin for "from a cow")
- Jenner
And in which city would you expect to find a sachertorte?
- Vienna
"A thousand years of democracy, and all the Swiss have given Europe is_______ "- what?
- Cheese or Cuckoo clocks
And what film did the above quote come from?
- Probably, The Third Man
Another famous quote - "Après moi le deluge." Who said it?
- Louis XIV of France
What did the Dutch open, when the Germans invaded in 1939?
- The dikes? (Certainly not their arms!)
And what did the Russians close one night in Berlin in 1961?
- The Berlin wall
The films Cabaret and I Am a Camera, both set in Berlin, are adapted from the works of which author?
- Guess, Irving Berlin
Which Frenchman painted a picture, set in a famous Parisian cabaret, which features a bottle of Bass beer?
- Guess: Toulouse Lautrec
Which group of Belgian monks are famous brewers?
- The Trappists
In 1830 an opera provoked a revolution in Belgium. What was the opera?
-
Sticking to a watery theme - what city is known as The Venice of the North?
- Stockholm
And what do the initials SNCF represent?
- Syndicat National de Chemin de Fer
Which Italian city is famous for its towers?
- Bologna
Who carried out a famous scientific demonstration from a leaning tower?
- According to legend, Gallileo Gallilei
Most of the pines of Pompeii were destroyed by an eruption. But when?
- 79 AD
And which Papal employee painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
- Michaelangelo
And talking of rulers, why was Queen Victoria not also Queen of Hanover?
Sticking to rulers again, when did the French introduce the metric system?
And when was the Euro introduced into the majority of Europe?
2001
Which mountain range is said to divide Europe from Asia?
- The Urals
And now more geography questions:-
A What is the longest river in Europe?
- The Volga
B What is the highest mountain?
- Mont Blanc
C Which country is most densely populated?
- Monaco
E What is a fumarole?
- A volcanic vent
Paris is to France as Tallinn is to _______________?
- Estonia
Excepting Russia, what is the largest country in Europe?
- Ukraine
What is the main ingredient of Borsch?
- Red beet
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Sturgis
 
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Reply Thu 1 Dec, 2005 12:31 pm
Found them in your unreliable memory, eh? Okay that sounds fair.
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Paaskynen
 
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Reply Thu 1 Dec, 2005 02:06 pm
Yep, I already concluded that the answer about universal suffrage is probably Kuwait who did not give women the vote until 2005.
I could not remember te title of the Opera, had to look it up, was La Muette de Portici.
The adoption of the Euro was in fact in 2002 (I can't believe I got that wrong!!!) :-(
Probably, there are more mistakes in the list. Anyway, it will teach the kid to always double check Internet sources.
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Francis
 
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Reply Thu 1 Dec, 2005 02:22 pm
Nice job Paaskynem!

However two of them can be viewed otherwise...
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hanban
 
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Reply Fri 2 Dec, 2005 02:07 am
Hi there
Thanks for all the help guys!
And, yes, I will double check for myself!

Much appreciated!
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Paaskynen
 
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Reply Fri 2 Dec, 2005 04:39 am
Francis wrote:
Nice job Paaskynem!

However two of them can be viewed otherwise...


I am interested to know which ones.

I also found out my guess about Cabaret was wrong. It should be John van Druten.
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username
 
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Reply Fri 2 Dec, 2005 05:15 am
van Druten based his script on a book by Christopher Isherwood.
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hanban
 
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Reply Fri 2 Dec, 2005 08:05 am
Gutted!
lost the quiz!
Switzerland wasnt the last country in the EU to give women the vote....it was Lichtenstein!
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