Euro Travel Quiz # 102
 

1- Thomas Gray's Elegy in a County Churchyard is often said to have been written in this English town's St Giles Church?

2- From Bruges, Belgium you can take a boat or bike or drive or walk the several miles from the city to its ancient port, called XXXXXXXXX?

3- What European city has Europe's longest metro tunnel at 25.4 miles long?

4- Jagermeister is a favorite German booze - how is the word Jagermeister translated in English?

5- The Paris Observatory is in this somewhat overlooked by tourists Parisian park - the Paris Meridian Line ran right thru it?

6- This city is staging from May 2015 to the end of October 2015 a World's Expo with 140 countries represented?

7- When finished in 2017 this will be Europe's longest rail tunnel at 35 miles - in fact the world's longest I believe - where is it?

8- What is currently Europe's longest rail tunnel? And how long is it?

9- Luxembourg City has a popular tourist attraction in old tunnels hewn out over the ages in ite cliffs of a gorge it overlooks - what are they called?

10 - The Jungfrau Massif has three major peaks - what are they?

4. Jägermeister or Jaegermeister is the master hunter or chief hunter. An old title for the servant in charge of the hunting grounds at principal courts.

6. Milan

7. Gotthard base tunnel

10. Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau (Eiger is just a name, the other two translate to "Monk" and "Virgin")

Jagermeister is a favorite German booze - how is the word Jagermeister translated in English?
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The collected sweat from the oldest living hockey player. Imported from the Czech Republic.

>The collected sweat from the oldest living hockey player. Imported from the Czech Republic.

Rather the collected tears of happiness from my favourite soccer team, Eintracht Braunschweig, when they won the German championship. That was, by the way, in 1967 and their greatest success ever - club and city still cherish the memory. Eintracht were soccer pioneers because they were the first club in Germany to put their sponsor's advertising on the team jerseys. Guess who was the sponsor...

6. Rho - Pero (Province of Milan)

7. The tunnel is actually finished and will pass from Alptransit Gotthard to the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS), after completion of signalling works (ECTS2).
The 2 tubes go from Rynaecht (Canton of Uri) to Pollegio (Canton of Ticino).
For capacity reasons, the maximal speed of passenger trains il limited at 125 miles/hr whereas the minimal speed of freight trains must be at least 60 miles/hr

8. From the BLS website:
The Lötschberg base tunnel is currently the most modern, secure and technically complex rail tunnel in the world.
It was designed with twin single-track tubes to ensure optimum reliability, but for financial reasons, only one of the tubes was fully equipped, while the second was left largely as a shell. The two tubes are connected by transverse tunnels at 333-metre intervals, meaning that each main tunnel serves as the evacuation tunnel of the other. All systems are duplicated in the tunnel. This “twin installation” means that operations can continue in the event of any technical problems.
Construction key figures:
Base tunnel length 34.6 km
Total of tunnelled tubes and galleries 88.1 km
with cross-passages: 91.8 km
Axial distance between tunnel tubes 40 m
Number of cross-passages between tubes 104
Elevation at Frutigen north portal 776.5 m.ü.M.
Elevation at highest point 828.2 m.ü.M.
Elevation at Raron south portal 654.2 m.ü.M.
Min. gradient 3 ‰
Max. gradient 13 ‰
Total of excavated material: 16.6 Mio. tonnes
(= approx. 830,000 lorry loads)
Investment volume 4 billion CHF

9. Kasematen?

10. do you mean Eiger (old family name)- Moench (monk) - Jungfrau (virgin)?

1. Stoke Poges
2. Zeebrugge

2- Zeebrugge will be accepted because it is also but the one I'm looking for is much closer to Bruges than Zeebrugge and the name is shorter too!

But yes Zeebrugge is considered by judges to be acceptable.

Seems like all are correct now except #3, an obscure fact for sure!

9. Bock Casemates - the only one on your list I've actually visited!

3. Madrid!

Si, Madrid which also has the 2nd longest metro tunnel according to the list I referenced.

#5 and the other town for #2 still to be answered.

If you wanted to split hairs, I would say that not one mile of that longest metro tunnel is in the city of Madrid :-)

Oh gee a quiz.

It is a National holiday here, been out of the house all day. :)

for #5
are you talking about the Marco Polo Gardens and the

Observatory Gardens, which is straight south from the Luxembourg Gardens and Palace.

#5 - no we need the name of the park - separate park not part of the Luxembourg Gardens park - where the Paris Observatory is located - it may also be called Observatory Gardens but this park has its own proper name.

Parc Montsouris is the park I was looking for:

http://equipement.paris.fr/parc-montsouris-1810

2. Damme?

4. Actually, the producer of Jägermeister named it that way in the 30ies in deference to nazi bigwig Hermann Göring who had added the title of "Reichsjägermeister" to his impressive list of other usurped titles.

Eintracht Braunschweig were the first Bundesliga football team to wear their sponsor's logo on their jerseys, as said above. As the German football association at that time did not allow advertisments on jerseys, the club resorted to changing the club logo to the Jägermeister logo and had it put on the jerseys without the liquor's name. The rule was scrapped a short time later.

I was going to say Park Montsouris but it is such a not really mentioned name.

I was there last year , walked from one end to the other.

Good work PalenQ.

I was there last year , walked from one end to the other.>

If north to south then up one big hill or if the other way downhill all the way if I recall correctly!

Hi PalenQ

Yes it is north to south.

I started at the Luxembourg Place and did the Luxembourg Museum ( next door), then walk the Luxembourg Gardens..

visited the two main fountains, the Medici and the Leda Fountain.

Then the long walk through the Marco Polo Gardens and the Observatory Gardens and Fountain to the Paris Observatory.

You pass some nice places like

the famous old French Montaigne school
the Moissan Museum ( Nobel Prize winner )

the Museum of Minerology

and a few others

There was only four of us walking down this long stretch.

Missed it! Been out of internet range in Mecklenburg-Voorpommern for a week.
No internet there at all, no public WiFi, and couldn't even onnect on the phones, roaming. As soon as we were back in "west Germany" we could connect again. Very odd.

Nice to have an internet break.!!