Euro quiz # 77 (Mon 3/16)... Pose Your Own Questions
 

Like last week this is a partcipatory quiz - pose one or two questions of your own - I'll start:

1 -Of EU nations list the three with the lowest highest elevations - in order. (Monaco, Vatican, etc don't qualify - proper countries in the EU and UN).

2- ??? Pose your questions!!!

2. How is called the highest situated mountain hotel (NOT hut!) in the Alps, in which country and in which part of this country does it be?

1. Denmark, Netherlands, Estonia?

Lets try Netherlands, Ireland, Denmark.

The trouble will be about measuring sea level to get this right, I understand the Swiss use the Med and the Germans use the Baltic which lead to at least one bridge being out by 300mm..

3) Highest EU country then?

1- first two are correct and in order - another country is in third.

3 - France - Mont Blanc (or does it straddle the border with Switzerland?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...pean_countries

after looking I was half right for # 3

.... to clarify, highest on average, not just some sticky up bit :-) and Andora is not in EU.

3. Spain?

4. What are those ladderlike contraptions fixed to the bathroom walls of most European apartment rentals? A serious of parallel rods, usually white or stainless steel.

series, I mean!

Tom, towel warmers. Great for drying out your socks overnight.

flpab: Yes, I had to ask what they were, but forgot to ask how to turn it on. Seems frivolous when the kitchen sinks never have disposers.

Radiators!!!!

I too would hazard that Spain is the highest elevation on a whole - a big plateau but not sure - Switzerland would be the logical guess but much of that country is rather low.

5. when the new London Bridge replaced an older London Bridge a few decades or so ago what happened to the old London Bridge that was falling down? Where is it now?

5. Too easy, leaving that one.

6. What European airline announced today that they will start flying transatlantic flights in 2020 from/to up to 14 cities on each continent?

6. Ryan Air is my guess and only a guess.

Austria has the highest mean elevation I think.

London Bridge is in Lake Havasu, Arizona, having been sold.
It isn't true that the buyer thought he was getting Tower Bridge.

3. Peeked, Spain is 4th right after Albania.

6. Yes, Ryanair, will they come thru with the 10 pound one ways they promised (plus tax)?

Ryanair announced that last year.
I would rather stay in Europe than contemplate flying the Atlantic with O'Leary's torture machine.

7. excluding Iceland and Russia what European capital cities have a- the northernmost capital city and the southernmost and westernmost ones. I had to look up the northernmost to be sure!

will there be pay toilets on the trans-Atlantic European flights?

7. Finland, Malta, Portugal.

Third highest lowest elevation would be Belgium ?

No pay toilets ! I've already decide to wear bermuda swimsuits and 'forget' myself on my seat if it ever becomes pay toilets...

Third highest lowest elevation would be Belgium ?- nope the Ardennes are small mountains. One of the smallest EU countries and I think one of the most densely populated.

Yep been to Lake Haversu City many time and walk and drive across the London Bridge.

See what money can buy !! :)

https://www.google.ca/search?q=londo...ih=984&dpr=0.9

2. How is called the highest situated mountain hotel (NOT hut!) in the Alps, in which country and in which part of this country does it be?>

Still looking for this - I'll take a stab - it's on the Bernina Pass - at Bernina Ospiz (or Alpe Grumn?), Switzerland - Hotel Bernina? All a guess but few hotels higher than this one I think.

1. Third lowest elevation.. maybe Malta?

Albania is not in the EU.

I still think Austria has the highest mean elevation within the EU, as I said upthread.
It has mountains and no coast to lower the elevation so much.

hetismij you are right.

1- Malta is the third lowest in highest elevation.

2. How is called the highest situated mountain hotel (NOT hut!) in the Alps, in which country and in which part of this country does it be?>

In order to help you: it's NOT in Switzerland (Gornergrat, the highest Swiss hotel is at 3090m/10140ft only), the one that I mean is at 3212 metres/10540ft.

Ok neckervd - what is the highest hotel - seems no one knows!?

Hotel Grawand in Italy
http://www.grawand.com/en/
closest bus stop: Kurzras/Maso Corto
closest railway station: Naturns/Naturno (Itinerary Bolzano/Bozen/Bulsaun - Merano/Meran/Meraun - Glurns/Glorenza/Gluorn - Pass dal Fuorn/Ofenpass/Passo del Forno - Klosters/Claustra - Zurich)
closest airport: Bolzano/Bozen