Euro Quiz # 107 - Potpourri!
 

1- In what London park can you see flamingos as well as a stately royal house with YHA youth hostel attached?

2- ?????? is the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as "a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design"

What's is this main peak called?

3- To get a bird's eye view of Florence you can take a bus a few miles uphill to ????????? and take in this much raved about view over all of Florence laid out below - there are also some Roman ruins here. What is the name of this place?

4- Around the turn of the century in Paris, along the banks of the Marne River and Seine there were popular places called Guinguettes - a few remain today in Joinville-le-Pont - what is a Guinguette?

5- Before the Berlin Wall fell what were the two most popular border crossing places into the East called? And what was the maudlin nickname for one of them - the Palace of ??????.

6- In Frankfurt's bohemian Sachenhausen district - a nightlife ghetto - was is the famous local alcohol drink served in numerous taverns (not beer nor Schnapps!)?

7- In what Paris underpass did Princess Di die in that horrific car crash?

8- Christiana is said to be Copenhagen's 2nd most visited place after Tivoli - not sure if that is true but it is very popular with locals who flock here. What is Christiana and what are its origins? (Repeat question since no one got it before.)

9- In Amsterdam just off the Leidesplein is a famous city-owned youth center with live music many nights - infamous in the 80s when it was one of the only places where folks could go and buy and smoke cannabis - what is the name - English or Dutch - of this venerable youth center (which attracts all ages).

10 - Where is the Giant's Causeway located and what is it?

1. Regents
3. Fiesole
4. bar/cafe/dance hall
7. Place de l'Alma
10. Northern Ireland -

3, 4, 7 correct

Regents park may fit that description come to think of it but the park I'm thinking of is in South Kensington, not far from the Whole Foods Market.

10 - 1/2 right - what is it?

Thanks for participating (and correcting me on a mistake last time!)

no 2 is Athur's seat, you can actually see it from my house.
5. I was in berlin a few months ago and I have no idea

10. basalt

1, Holland Park?? though the YHA is no longer there

3, 4, 7, 2, 1 all correct and 10 too - though I was thinking of something like stepping stones for giants:

https://www.google.com/search?q=gian...=1600&bih=1075

Part of 5 is checkpoint charlie.

Christiania is a self proclaimed independent commune.

Yes 8 - Christiana about the last remnants of 70s communes - known now for its Pusher Street selling cannabis on table tops and acclaimed restaurants and pubs with cheap beer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania

https://www.google.com/search?q=Chri...=1600&bih=1075

5 is 1/2 right! The other is an S-Bahn station with the nickname Palace of ?????

That was interesting, I looked it up.

I remember Julie Andrews walking around East Berlin in the movie "Torn Curtain" looking for the Friedrichstrasse Post Office.

#5 Friedrichstraße, and the Palace of Tears.
Checkpoint Charlie has already been mentioned, that was the border crossing for foreigners. We West Germans had to use Heinrich-Heine Straße.

#6 Ebbelwoi (high German: Apfelwein), also called "Stöffsche"

I thought the scharfes (ß) was officially eliminated from German?

We West Germans had to use Heinrich-Heine Straße.>\\interesting - I was going to say entry point for foreigners but was not sure but then why was the Friedrichstrasse station called the Palace of the Tears if only foreingers? Just curious and thanks for the insight!

Last time I entered the DDR thru Freinderichstrasse way before the wall fell I was whisked into a little room with a bright bright light overhead and everything in my day pack searched for what seemed like hours - kind scary and now folks just waltz thru the station non-stop.

Tom_mn, we saw plenty of scharfes in Germany last week.


No one going to have a go at question 9?

#9 think candy bar! Or our galaxy!

I guess I should have typed "scharfes S."

I remember reading somewhere that it was going to be eliminated as a simplification effort.

Gee it is nice to come in at the end if the day and read all the good answers.
I have been to 5 of the places mentioned.

Copenhagen at one time was trying to evict those at Christiania...maybe they still are.

I shall answer 9 then. Melkweg, or Milky Way.

>I thought the scharfes (ß) was officially eliminated from German?

No it wasn't and isn't going to, despite common opinion even among Germans, and spelling rules still apply, also despite common opinion. After a long vowel it's always ß not double-s, for example in "Straße" or "Maß". The vowel in front of a double-s is pronounced short. Easy, actually.

Only the Swiss have eliminated this letter altogether.

Thanks for the explanation quokka.