Euro Travel & Trivia Quiz #163
Apr 21st, 2017, 10:41 AM
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Euro Travel & Trivia Quiz #163
Welcome back to the Euro Travel & Trivia Quizes - a long hiatus - anyway here are today's questions.
1- Where is Napoleon's body?
2- Name three people buried in Paris' Pere La Chaise Cemetery?
3- The Deutsches Eck Monument to German Unity lies at the confluence of what two rivers in what city?
4- The Jungfrau Massif is one of the most famous Alpine range of peaks - name two of the individual peaks making it up?
5- What S-Bahn Station in Germany was once nicknamed The Palace of Tears?
6- The James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service was party filmed on which Alpine outpose?
7- A village high above Lucca claims to be the home of Pinnocchio?
8- What is the Mistral?
9- In the 1950s and 60s in France between what cities did the famous Cevegnal train roll?
10- This city just east of Rome is known for its Travertine mine?
Good luck - first to answer most correctly first gets one free week on posting on Fodor's!
1- Where is Napoleon's body?
2- Name three people buried in Paris' Pere La Chaise Cemetery?
3- The Deutsches Eck Monument to German Unity lies at the confluence of what two rivers in what city?
4- The Jungfrau Massif is one of the most famous Alpine range of peaks - name two of the individual peaks making it up?
5- What S-Bahn Station in Germany was once nicknamed The Palace of Tears?
6- The James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service was party filmed on which Alpine outpose?
7- A village high above Lucca claims to be the home of Pinnocchio?
8- What is the Mistral?
9- In the 1950s and 60s in France between what cities did the famous Cevegnal train roll?
10- This city just east of Rome is known for its Travertine mine?
Good luck - first to answer most correctly first gets one free week on posting on Fodor's!
Apr 21st, 2017, 01:22 PM
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2, 3, 5, 7, 10 done perfectly
9- Pvoyaguess is right but the two main starting and ending stations are what I was after- the classic Cevegnol of 50s and 60s which I believe was a spiffy TEE - Trans-European-Express and not necessarily today's fancy train in name only.
1- Is right but the eficice Napoleon is buried in has a name - his stuffed pet dog is next to the tomb (last time I visited in the 1800s!)
9- Pvoyaguess is right but the two main starting and ending stations are what I was after- the classic Cevegnol of 50s and 60s which I believe was a spiffy TEE - Trans-European-Express and not necessarily today's fancy train in name only.
1- Is right but the eficice Napoleon is buried in has a name - his stuffed pet dog is next to the tomb (last time I visited in the 1800s!)
Apr 21st, 2017, 01:39 PM
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Alec has #4 right but not 6
Pal, I'm surpised you didn't know the Mistral was once the name of a rather famous SNCF rail service>
Well I certainly did know that -ran between Paris and Marseilles and Nice. Named after the wind. Was going to ask as question but thought just to ask about the famous Mistal of song and poem.
Pal, I'm surpised you didn't know the Mistral was once the name of a rather famous SNCF rail service>
Well I certainly did know that -ran between Paris and Marseilles and Nice. Named after the wind. Was going to ask as question but thought just to ask about the famous Mistal of song and poem.
Apr 21st, 2017, 01:48 PM
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ah hetismij has it all - I mistakingly said it blew up the valley but hetismij is correct:
>The mistral (Catalan: Mestral, Greek: Μαΐστρος) is a strong, cold, northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Gulf of Lion in the northern Mediterranean, with sustained winds often exceeding 66 km/h (41 mph), sometimes reaching 185 km/h (115 mph)??
wonder those flamingos in the Camargue don't get blown away!
>The mistral (Catalan: Mestral, Greek: Μαΐστρος) is a strong, cold, northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Gulf of Lion in the northern Mediterranean, with sustained winds often exceeding 66 km/h (41 mph), sometimes reaching 185 km/h (115 mph)??
wonder those flamingos in the Camargue don't get blown away!
Apr 21st, 2017, 01:57 PM
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I was taught about the Mistral, and Sirroco, Levante etc in Geography several centuries ago.
Having experienced it and be totally miserable for days on end, it isn't something I am likely to forget.
No doubt Californians feel the same about the Santa Anas.
Having experienced it and be totally miserable for days on end, it isn't something I am likely to forget.
No doubt Californians feel the same about the Santa Anas.
Apr 21st, 2017, 02:10 PM
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Some cars are named after famous winds, such as
VW Scirocco (warm Med wind)
Maserati Mistral
VW Bora (north wind in Ancient Greece)
Maserati Khamsin (dusty wind in N Africa and Arabia)
Maserati Ghibli (Lybian wind)
VW Scirocco (warm Med wind)
Maserati Mistral
VW Bora (north wind in Ancient Greece)
Maserati Khamsin (dusty wind in N Africa and Arabia)
Maserati Ghibli (Lybian wind)
Apr 22nd, 2017, 09:52 AM
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What's the word you were trying for with 'outpose' in #6? Outpost?
Are you referring to the revolving restaurant Piz Gloria on the Schilthorn?
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I like travel quizzes but the problem of course is that unless you are asking them face to face, it is too easy to just Google an answer. OK, you expect people to not 'cheat', otherwise what is the point.
But I've tried in the past to think of a travel quiz question you could ask for which Google does not have the answer. That I think is a far harder thing to do.
Try this one PalenQ. What is the name of the sculpture that was carved into the rock on a path along the coast between two Scottish villages on the east coast of Scotland, that is connected to a well known Montreux, Switzerland attraction. Please use Google.
Are you referring to the revolving restaurant Piz Gloria on the Schilthorn?
List finished?
I like travel quizzes but the problem of course is that unless you are asking them face to face, it is too easy to just Google an answer. OK, you expect people to not 'cheat', otherwise what is the point.
But I've tried in the past to think of a travel quiz question you could ask for which Google does not have the answer. That I think is a far harder thing to do.
Try this one PalenQ. What is the name of the sculpture that was carved into the rock on a path along the coast between two Scottish villages on the east coast of Scotland, that is connected to a well known Montreux, Switzerland attraction. Please use Google.
Apr 22nd, 2017, 01:45 PM
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List finished? Yes outpost.
Yup
And no I have no idea about your question - I do these for fun and in a few hundred of them few have seemed to Google - no one ever gets all of them right and most seem to just answer what they know.
Actually these are in fun - but to bring to light things folks may want to see and did not know about.
Cheers!
a question for you to try to Google the answer - what are those small short poles lining so many Amsterdam streets - especially along canals -to prevent illegal parking?
Yup
And no I have no idea about your question - I do these for fun and in a few hundred of them few have seemed to Google - no one ever gets all of them right and most seem to just answer what they know.
Actually these are in fun - but to bring to light things folks may want to see and did not know about.
Cheers!
a question for you to try to Google the answer - what are those small short poles lining so many Amsterdam streets - especially along canals -to prevent illegal parking?
