Euro Quiz #44 - Museum Pourri
 

1- In Florence there are two famous David statues - one is a copy - where is the real David and where is the copy?

2- This western European city has a branch of St Petersburg's Hermitage - what city is it?

3- Where are the Elgin Marbles and what are they and who demands their return?

4- This city has a Sex Museum, Hash Museum and Torture Museum?

5- What is the name of the museum loaded with Van Goghs in the middle of Hoge Veluwe National Park?

6- This Munich museum devoted to the life and works and absurdities of someone has been called Germany's Charlie Chaplin and his comedic side kick has one of the world's most eclectic works - name the museum (two hypenated last names! ?

7- At the west end of the Tuileries Gardens near the Place de la Concorde in Paris are two small but distinuished museums - one on the south side and one on the northside - what are they?

8- If you want to see Faucault's original pendulum in Paris where would you go? And where can you see an exact copy of it (currently in mothballs I read due to this place's renovations or some reason). Where does the real deal swing and where does the copy ordinarily swing?

9- This famous Paris museum occupies a grandiose former train station?

10 - How many of the 5 top most visited museums in Europe can you name?

11- What are you favorite European museums? (All answers correct here of course) - well I'll turn it over to Percy to adjudicate the winner and award the prize (plus S & H!).

I know 8 right off the bat..so no hints for now.

Okay I have to leave so a few minor hints

1. Both are in F
2. it is in A

3. Thinks of Britain , Athens and Athens.

4. Same as # 2

5 K-M

7. initials are : G,n,d.J,d, P
and l' O

9 l'O ( not the same l'O as in #7 !!)

10 C'mon you can name 5

Back later bye

Finally, a quiz that I know more than one answer to. I guess I know where my interests lie.

1. The real David is in the Accademia, the copy is in the main Piazza nearby (can't remember the name of the Piazza).

2. Amsterdam

3. London, in the British Museum. Greece of course wants the Parthenon frieze back.

4. I don't know, but my guess is Amsterdam.

7. One of them is the Orangerie.

8. The Pantheon in Paris is where you will find the original.

9. Musee d'Orsay.

10. The Louvre (Paris), the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), the Prado (Madrid), the Uffizi (Florence), the Vatican Museums (Rome). I would say the Musee d'Orsay is up there in visitors as well.

11. All of the above, plus the Borghese Gallery and the Pitti Palace and I'm sure there are others.

Lexma - welcome to the winners' circle - with 5 correct answers (others were partially correct but close but no cigar - yet no one can get more than you correct so you are guaranteed, subject to Percy's official pontification (this word is a hint for Q -10).

7. The other is the Jeu de Paume.

10. Louvre, British Museum, Tate Modern, Vatican, and some other London museum. They are free so well visited I suspect.

1. Palazzo Vecchio

10. The busiest I have visited are: National Gallery--London (just used the toilet but it was REALLY a busy toilet), British Museum, Louvre, and Vatican. Tate Modern was not as busy BUT is has long hours so my evening visit may have been deceptive, and its collection is pretty ugly so undeserving of this honor.

11. Uffizi because it is small and one can see it all.

Tom_mn, that's the one I couldn't remember, the National Gallery. Duh! :)

Lexma90

All anyone can do us tie you BUT if that tie comes from a non-European then the non-European wins!!
Do you live in Europe.?!♡

1. Piazza della Signoria, in front of Palazzo Vecchio - not that close to the Accademia (although a certain type of tour guides like to tell overseas tourists that the one in Piazzale Michelangelo is the original...)

5. Kröller-Müller

Never heard of a German Charlie Chaplin - who is that supposed to be? Karl Valentin maybe?

Yes Karl Valentin is called the German Charlie Chaplin in manhy sources and I did not know that but used it as a clue thinking some may - if you don;t then I think few do.

https://www.pinterest.com/lugogo/cha...erman-chaplin/

Answer would be Karl Valentin and the museum the Valentin-Karlstadt Museum - sources also say Karlstadt was the German Chaplin's side kick in comedies - me I know nothing just wanted to give some clues.

10. Louvre, British Museum, Tate Modern, Vatican, and some other London museum. They are free so well visited I suspect - first 4 correct and yes like tom mn says the National Gallery clocks in at #2 0 being free of course bumps up attendance - like folks like tom (and me) who may just pop into a free museum to have a nice free loo!)

8. The Pantheon in Paris is where you will find the original.>

Nope that's where you'd find the copy once put back in operation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZblCxWfw-c - says under it a copy of the one Faucault did put up here in 1851 to show for all but is indeed in an apse of an old church that is now part of this off-the-radar for many Paris museum - my favroite museum in Paris - old scientific instruments, inventions and Faucalut's original pendulum, sources say.

Was in Paris for a full week last year.
Had a private tour guide and he took me to the Pantheon (which is close to the Luxembourg Gardens)and told me about the copy and original.

Was in Museum de l'Orangerie, and the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume at the Tuileries Gardens,....

then
crossed the Royal Bridge to the Museum d' Orsay ( old Train Station).

Saw both copies of David.
Security guards, guard the original ever since a troubled person from New Zealand took a hammer to David's toes!!

Where in the heck is annhig.
Must be in court again, saying : I object your Honor ."!

Ok, Percy, I think I got your hint for question 10, but I already listed the Vatican Museums....?

I am an 'Murikan. (Or would one say a 'Murikan?)

Yes ,you look a bit like Murikan :) ((F))