Euro Potpourri Quiz #24
 

Back by overwhelming popular demand from here and abroad! And time to get tougher questions!

1- Albert Speer, convicted of war crimes after WW 2 ended spent his 20-yer sentence in this West Berlin prison?

2- This Czech Republic thermal resort that once drew royals and rich folks from all over Europe, was called Carlsbad under German control - what is its name today?

3- Ann Arbor, Michigan, a quintessential university town, has as a sister city this German college town just south of Stuttgart?

4- Austrian trains that run between Salzburg and Innsbruck via a large slice of German are called what kind of Zugs?

5- Kleine Schiedegg is a famouds place in the Berner Oberland - what does the name Kleine Schiedegg mean in German?

6- Why are many Italians now paying for two cups of coffee in a caffe when they are only drinking one? (Not tipping!)

7- This Shrine in San Giovanni Rotondo, southern Italy, is the second-most visited Catholic shrine in the world. Who do pilgrims flock to pay homage to here?

8- After the salt water Zuider Zee was dyked off from the sea it gradually became fresh water and is now known by what name?

9 Every June 16th Dublin celebrates this day that coincides with the events of one day in James Joyce's famous novel - what is the novel and what is this day, featuring pop crawls thru town, called?

10- Lyon France is located where two main rivers converge - what are the rivers?

8- Ijsselmeer.

10- Rhône and Saône

FYI 5- should be Kleine Scheidegg

Albert Speer, convicted of war crimes after WW 2 ended spent his 20-yer sentence in this West Berlin prison
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Speermint glum

1. Spandau
2. Karlovy Vary
6. They are paying for the next person who can't afford a hot drink
9. Bloomsday - Ulysses

Pvoyageuse looks like a second time champ as only 4 answers remain to be given - she had 4 so is assured of a tie and to win the prize of two years free posting on Fodor's!

IMD as usual takes home the Ignoble Prize!

Additional factoid: Who was the last prisoner held at Spandau? This person was one of the last to be held prisoner at the Tower of London.

3. Tuebingen.
7. Padre Pio or St Pio of Pietrelcina.

Only unanswered question is #4 - these trains are called "Corridor Zugs" because they go thru a coridor of Germany but are Austrian-run trains - at one time they did not serve German towns but now I believe they do.

Kleine Scheidegg is the little dividing corner.
Kleine Schiedegg would mean little sh*t corner.

#4 are not called Zugs but Züge.

wow - did not mean to say that - sources I consulted said Schiedegg meant watershed - Kleine Schiedegg was Little Watershed but assume quokka, a German is spot on right.

In Italy you see pcitures of Padre Pio in many buses, taxis, public transportation as he must be a patron saint of those types or travel?

There are also Padre Pio shrines in the U.S. to this very controversail saint who finally was sainted after years of some unsavory allegations.