Euro Travel Quiz #101 - Potpourri!
May 14th, 2015, 11:02 AM
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Euro Travel Quiz #101 - Potpourri!
1-" XXXXXX and XXXXXXX - where seeing is not believing! Welcome to Edinburgh's oldest visitor attraction, delighting visitors since 1835. Rated top Attraction in Scotland and #2 Attraction in UK in inaugural TripAdvisor awards 2013!"
Q- The above from the official site of this popular long-running attraction located right close to Edniburgh Castle? What is the official name of it now?
2- This Paris park has the same name as an EU country?
3- Name 5 cities that you could ride the high-speed Thalys to from Paris?
4- The ancient footpath linked London and other places in SE England with one of England's most famous pilgrimage meccas (think Becket) - name the footpath and city it ended at? (Much of it is still around today if you want to re-create the pilgrimage - some of it is paved roads you can drive on too.)
5- In Edinburgh the Royal Mile runs between which two famous landmarks and what famous church is about half-way down it?
6- This stinking market is London's famous fish market?
7- This department store overlooking Amsterdam's main square is the largest in The Netherlands - name the square it is on and the name of the store?
8- What are three Eurostar (Channel Tunnel trains London to Brussels or Paris) passenger train stations in England?
9- Though Paris, ironically, doesn't have a Madame Tussauds wax museum (at least to my knowledge) it does have a famous wax museum - what is its name?
10 - What European country's capital sits at the highest elevation above sea level?
Good luck!
Q- The above from the official site of this popular long-running attraction located right close to Edniburgh Castle? What is the official name of it now?
2- This Paris park has the same name as an EU country?
3- Name 5 cities that you could ride the high-speed Thalys to from Paris?
4- The ancient footpath linked London and other places in SE England with one of England's most famous pilgrimage meccas (think Becket) - name the footpath and city it ended at? (Much of it is still around today if you want to re-create the pilgrimage - some of it is paved roads you can drive on too.)
5- In Edinburgh the Royal Mile runs between which two famous landmarks and what famous church is about half-way down it?
6- This stinking market is London's famous fish market?
7- This department store overlooking Amsterdam's main square is the largest in The Netherlands - name the square it is on and the name of the store?
8- What are three Eurostar (Channel Tunnel trains London to Brussels or Paris) passenger train stations in England?
9- Though Paris, ironically, doesn't have a Madame Tussauds wax museum (at least to my knowledge) it does have a famous wax museum - what is its name?
10 - What European country's capital sits at the highest elevation above sea level?
Good luck!
May 14th, 2015, 12:09 PM
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first 5 are correct! Andorra is listed as the highest in elevation capital city but as proper countries go it is Madrid - 5 right!
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May 15th, 2015, 07:27 AM
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Neckervd brings up an interesting point. Do you call something what is convenient for you or what it is? Language is a delicate subject in many places in Europe due to historical, cultural or economic differences. It shows some respect for the people in the area to use the names they use.
Last year we went to Belgium and it was a very touchy regional subject as to whether you used Dutch or French. We did not want to insult anyone but at times we simply weren't sure which proper was correct.
Catalan is founded in Provençal, not Spanish. And the Catalans like to claim that not only do they speak Catalan but a grander version of Castilian that other Spaniards, particularly Madrileños.
So Neckervd can be as angry as he/she wishes but there are often implications way beyond his/her indignation.
Last year we went to Belgium and it was a very touchy regional subject as to whether you used Dutch or French. We did not want to insult anyone but at times we simply weren't sure which proper was correct.
Catalan is founded in Provençal, not Spanish. And the Catalans like to claim that not only do they speak Catalan but a grander version of Castilian that other Spaniards, particularly Madrileños.
So Neckervd can be as angry as he/she wishes but there are often implications way beyond his/her indignation.
May 15th, 2015, 08:23 AM
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I'm not angry at all. For us here in Switzerland it's quite normal to use our 4 national languages and we are even indulgent with tourists who use all kinds of malapropisms. Here nobody minds if you write Lucerne instead of Luzern, Murren instead of Muerren, Lake Geneva instead of Lac Léman, Sitten instead of Sion, or if you write about the "3 Italian Lakes north of Milan" although 2 of them are at least partially in Switzerland.
For us, it's a human right to use any language; lingual nationalism à la Franco or à la Duce (who ordered even to change names on tombstones from German one's into Italian one's) is horrible and ridiculous at the same time.
For us, it's a human right to use any language; lingual nationalism à la Franco or à la Duce (who ordered even to change names on tombstones from German one's into Italian one's) is horrible and ridiculous at the same time.
May 15th, 2015, 01:38 PM
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Like us Michiganders are said to speak the 'perfect' American English - that's what we are taught and what a bunch of crapola - lots here think that we have no dialect - talk about provincial!
