Euro Trivia Quiz #12 - Know Your Rivers?

Old Dec 18th, 2014, 11:51 AM
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Euro Trivia Quiz #12 - Know Your Rivers?

Simple - whatd river or rivers flow thru these towns?

FLORENCE- ???

PASSAU, GERMANY ???

rOME

LIECHTENSTEIN - THE GRAND DUCHY AS A WHOLE

AMSTERDAM

DUBLIN

CORK

OXFORD - Yes the Thames but starting at some bridge in Oggsford the Thames north of town is called the ????

KOBLENZ, GERMANY

ZARAGOZA, SPAIN

??? Name the rivers - first to do so correctly wins 20 Luxembourg francs (plus shipping & handling of course)
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Old Dec 18th, 2014, 12:00 PM
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Joan, Mickey, and an Ole Man
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Old Dec 18th, 2014, 12:02 PM
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Old Dec 18th, 2014, 01:42 PM
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And of course the internationally famed novel:

Yellow Rivers by:


Wait, wait for it.

I can't say it after all.
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Old Dec 18th, 2014, 03:30 PM
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Really? Mickey Rivers?

You must be almost as old as I am...so you must remember Johnny Rivers.

...and never forget River City, Iowa, where there is, apparently, a lot of trouble with a capital "T" that rhymes with "P" and that stands for Pool.

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Sorry Ssander, I do remember Johnny Rivers, Secret Service Man.

I catch all sorts of hell here, now I catch it because I'm old.

Mickey Rivers had one the greatest baseball quotes. Reggie Jackson was bragging that he had an IQ of 167 and Rivers asked, "Is that out of one thousand?"
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The Thames north of Oxford is, and always has been, called the Thames.

There was an affectation during the 18th and 19th centuries (in a now dead and generally mocked elitist jargon known locally as VarsitySpeak) of calling the stretch through the city south from Folly Bridge to Iffley Lock the Isis: a kind of overeducated pun derived from the the Latin word (Tamesis) for the whole river.

Interestingly, the same elitist jargon also spawned "soccer" for football. Neither term (or any others from the catalogue, like "rugger" for rugby or "The Giler" for a local street called St Giles) survives in the real world.

Several, though, zomb on in obscure colonial dialects, silly stories told by tour leaders, occasional tabloid headlines when every letter counts and the fading memories of Dulux-dependent elderly tourists who, though unaware what day it is today, can recall with uncanny accuracy the minutiae of the tales they read in 1950s Fodors guidebooks.
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um . . . IMDonehere . . . That would be secret Agent Man . . .
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Right.
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Flanny has invented his own literary genre, Delusional Fantasy. That is where he expects words and events only known to him to be known to others.
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Great Mickey Rivers quote.

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PS: Watched Reggie Jackson play football for Cheltenham HS against my Marple-Newtown tigers (fall of 63-64 year if memory serves, but it may have been the previous year).

Even in rain-soaked mud, he was amazing to watch. Marple-Newtown was great at football but no so much in baseball, so most of us in the stands didn't even know he was an amazing baseball player.
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Old Dec 19th, 2014, 05:36 AM
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More like Les Egouts than rivers!
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What does it matter? It's all just water, isn't it. So what if you call it Liffey? A day later, the water is in the ocean - - yesterday it was Liffey and tomorrow you call it the blinkin' Irish Sea for goddomitey. Not that you could tell it apart from any other water. The stuff is fluid. It all blends together. Pour a glass from the Ebro and one from the Arno and mix them together, then into two new glasses, and what do you have - - Ebno and Arro? Of course not. It's just blinkin' water, like the stuff that the Coca Cola company gets out of the tap in Atlanta and then calls Dasani. May as well call it Liffey.
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The Thames north of Oxford is, and always has been, called the Thames.>

Rubbish - I have a tourist office map with the name Isis clearly written on the write - interspersed with (Thames).
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The Isis is the name given to the part of the River Thames above Iffley Lock which flows through the university city of Oxford, England, past Christ Church Meadow and the focal point of rowing for Oxford University.>

Currently on wikipeda - and this is what the Oxford Tourist Office told me once when I was researching an article I once wrote on Oxford.

Judges stand by Isis as the correct answer to the question.
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The Cognoscenti called Isis, ISIL.
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>>The Cognoscenti called Isis, ISIL.
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