Quizz !

Old Oct 22nd, 2017, 10:52 AM
  #1  
Original Poster
 
Join Date: Mar 2015
Posts: 1,713
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Quizz !

Long time no quizz. Let us fo it on a very important subject : Belgium.

1. When did the battle of Waterloo take place ?
2. Who won ?
3. When was Belgium created (year) ?
4. Who said that we are the bravest fighters ?
5. What was the nickname of our good king Alnert 1er (and of his wife) ?
6. How many official language do we have ?
7. Who is our actual king ?
8. Name 2 traditional belgian dishes
9. Name some very well known Belgians (apart from our kings or politicians) : sport, litterature ..
10. What can a mitraillette be in Belgium ? (machine gun) ?

Bonus question : where is the Waterloo beer brewed ?
pariswat is offline  
Old Oct 22nd, 2017, 11:00 AM
  #2  
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 78,320
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
1-1812
2- British
6- three
7- Some Bedouin?
8- Patates frites; gauffres (waffels)
9 - Johnny Hallyday and Eddie Mercxy and Mother Theresa?

Good to see quizzes back!

11- Who is the only 'real Belgian'?
PalenQ is offline  
Old Oct 22nd, 2017, 11:28 AM
  #3  
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 17,892
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
9. The inimitable Toots Thielemans. Likewise Django Rheinhart. Jacques Brel. Plastic Bertrand. Milo. K's choice. Adamo. Clouseau. Audrey Hepburn.
Also Poirot. Kuifje (Tin Tin). Suske en Wiske.

Lotsand lot of famous Belgians. Just most people think they are French (or English)!
hetismij2 is offline  
Old Oct 22nd, 2017, 11:49 AM
  #4  
Original Poster
 
Join Date: Mar 2015
Posts: 1,713
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
PQ I give you 2.5 points
Hetismij I am impressed.

Audrey was born in Brussels but was British and johnny is french. Sborn in Bruxelles too but left as an infant.

I love the Beduin ! !
pariswat is offline  
Old Oct 22nd, 2017, 12:17 PM
  #5  
 
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 7,919
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Mother Theresa was Albanian.
bvlenci is offline  
Old Oct 22nd, 2017, 12:25 PM
  #6  
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 78,320
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
zut - got Mother T mixed up with Jeanine Deckers - the 'Singing Nun'!
PalenQ is offline  
Old Oct 22nd, 2017, 12:44 PM
  #7  
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 27,607
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
1. PQ is wrong about the date. The Battle of Waterloo was 1815, after Napoleon's escape from Elba.

2. The battle was won by the British general the Duke of Wellington, with the timely assistance of allies. (From Brunswick?)
thursdaysd is offline  
Old Oct 22nd, 2017, 01:32 PM
  #8  
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 4,863
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
9. Hercule Poirot
Trophywife007 is online now  
Old Oct 22nd, 2017, 02:09 PM
  #9  
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 15,390
Likes: 0
Received 11 Likes on 4 Posts
Bonus question:

in your basement?
Nikki is offline  
Old Oct 22nd, 2017, 02:31 PM
  #10  
 
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 1,831
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
7 - Philippe
8 - waterzooi, carbonade flamande
9 - René Magritte, Georges Simenon
MaineGG is offline  
Old Oct 22nd, 2017, 03:02 PM
  #11  
Original Poster
 
Join Date: Mar 2015
Posts: 1,713
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
All recent answers correct !
Wellington was made duke after the battle if I remember correctly and stood firm all d'y against Napoleon until the evening when Blucher came to the rescue. We consider them as Prussian.

1815 18 of June.

The beer is brewed (partly or totally ?) in the ´ferme de mont Saint-Jean on the battlefield and which served as hospital after the battle.

I had carbonades flamandes this week and am reading a good Maigret !

The singing nun was indeed sister Dominique who left the orders Later. She ended up gay and broke as all the rights of the song remained for the church.
pariswat is offline  
Old Oct 22nd, 2017, 03:15 PM
  #12  
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 4,416
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
The Singing Nun was pursued for unpaid tax by Belgian authorities even though all the profit from the song went to her Order, the Dominicans. The Order refused to get involved in the legal wrangling of their former member. She tried a comeback, with a jazzy rendition of her songs, available on YouTube, but was a commercial failure. Eventually she and her supposed partner committed suicide through overdose and are buried together.
#3 1830 at the Belgian Revolution?
#4 Julius Caesar, about Ambiorix and his men?
Alec is offline  
Old Oct 22nd, 2017, 03:25 PM
  #13  
 
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 5,564
Received 12 Likes on 7 Posts
#8 moules frites and delirium beer (my fav)
Macross is offline  
Old Oct 22nd, 2017, 03:32 PM
  #14  
 
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 4,642
Likes: 0
Received 12 Likes on 1 Post
9. Adolph Sax
joannyc is offline  
Old Oct 22nd, 2017, 03:34 PM
  #15  
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 27,607
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
Ah yes, the "B" I was thinking of was Blucher. We should also remember that Wellington's army (while "infamous") included "17,000 Dutch and Belgian troops, 11,000 from Hanover, 6,000 from Brunswick, and 3,000 from Nassau". Turns out Wellington was made a duke in 1814. I finally visited his house the last time I was in London. Very impressive.
thursdaysd is offline  
Old Oct 23rd, 2017, 12:32 AM
  #16  
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 20,911
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
2: 1832 was the Treaty of London internationally recognising Belgium's independence.

I have this nagging feeling that I have heard about the nicknames for Albert and his Queen, but it's gone.
PatrickLondon is offline  
Old Oct 23rd, 2017, 02:23 AM
  #17  
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 25,422
Received 4 Likes on 4 Posts
When did the battle of Waterloo take place ?
2. Who won ?The Brits and the Prussians
3. When was Belgium created (year) ? 18??
4. Who said that we are the bravest fighters? Asterix
5. What was the nickname of our good king Alnert 1er (and of his wife) ?
6. How many official language do we have ?Three (sort of French, sort of Dutch and sort of German)
7. Who is our actual king ?
8. Name 2 traditional belgian dishes Moules Frites
9. Name some very well known Belgians (apart from our kings or politicians) : sport, litterature .. Don't know any kings of Politicians. Van Damn, Poirot, TinTin, that's it
10. What can a mitraillette be in Belgium ? (machine gun) ?
bilboburgler is offline  
Old Oct 23rd, 2017, 02:28 AM
  #18  
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 25,422
Received 4 Likes on 4 Posts
The Iron Duke, an interesting guy, he had his men lie down over the ridge from the French so that they were not killed during the day, this was thought a little "wrong" after all who cared about the men?

The battle in the "little farmhouse" is stuff of legend and the "Sharpe" novels covers it pretty well.

"Sir, I have lost my leg" "Yes B'god Sir so you have" probably one of his better lines.

His work in Portugal was his great work he converted large parts of Portugal into series of rings of a fortress coming out of Lisbon and basically starved the French army back into Spain, using very few British and Portgeuse troops.
bilboburgler is offline  
Old Oct 23rd, 2017, 02:36 AM
  #19  
Original Poster
 
Join Date: Mar 2015
Posts: 1,713
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Thanks for all who answered !

1. 1815, correct
2. Wellington (or Welleseley) and Blucher.*
3. 1830 ****
4. Julius Caesar : De omnis Gallis, Belgi fortissimi sunt **
5. see under.
6. 3 (German, French and Flemish (ok, Dutch))
7. Philippe de Belgique
8. Good ! you know our products ***
9. Excellent ***
10. still ongoing

Bonus question : where is the Waterloo beer brewed ?

* : I thought he was made Duke after Waterloo, my fautl, thanks Thursday.
** : the rest of the sentence of Julius is devoid of any interest. He says we are fiercer because we had no contact with civilization, so we have nothing to lose. True barbarians...
*** : I had forgotten about Saxe. I was expecting some more sport figures, like in tennis.
**** : Patrick, no Belgian knows about the treaty London in 1832 ;-)

Albert was 'le Roi Chevalier' the knight King due to his attitude during WW1. You'll see him on postcards with a Hadrain helmet for example. His wife, Elisabeth (from Bavaria) was called 'la Reine Infirmière' as she was a nurse in the belgian troops.
pariswat is offline  
Old Oct 23rd, 2017, 02:42 AM
  #20  
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 49,560
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
>

Ferme St-Jean
StCirq is offline  

Thread Tools
Search this Thread

Contact Us - Manage Preferences - Archive - Advertising - Cookie Policy - Privacy Statement - Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information -