Euro Trivia Quiz #16
 

Back by popular demand! Today's Euro Trivia Quiz: Places and Towns

1- Name the 5 Cinque Terre towns and in order from one end to the other.

2- What are the five English towns that comprised the Cinque Ports or Five Ports?

3- Hadrian's Villa is near this Italian town and the famous Villa d'Este (known for its fantastic water gardens and splish-splashing fountains).

4- Name three of 'Mad' Ludwig's castles the mad king had built in the mid to late 1800s?

5- Gritty town in whose basilica traditionally kings and queens of France were buried and still are?

6- French city where French kings and queens were traditionally crowned in its cathedral.

7 - Place in Switzerland where James Bond's On Her Majesty's Secret Service was partyly filmed in its Piz Gloria, a mountain top building with famous revolving restaurant.

8- French city where Malcolm Miller gives tours through its world-famous cathedral.

9- Van Gogh and Cezanne and other Impressionists painters hung out in the late 1800s - Van Gogh shot himself here and died in his room in the local inn.

10- Small French town in the Gatinais where many Chinese now flock to see where many of the famous Chinese revolutionary figures gathered in the 1920s (Wiki says: "The list of those who passed through XXXXXXX reads like a revolutionary Who's Who, including Deng Xiaoping and Zhou Enlai.

First to name all winners gets a free year of posting on Fodor's!

2, Dover, Hastings, New Romney, Hythe and Sandwich.
5, St Denis
6, Reims
9 Auvers-sur-Oise. No gun was ever found. Some think he was shot, rather than shot himself. The exact site of the shooting is also open to debate.

Yes I am bored.

Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, and Palenq

1. Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza, Monterossa al Mare. 2. Tivoli. 5.St Denis. 6. Reims 8. Chartres.

Yes letsgeaux has won the contest.

The three unasnwered questions are:

10- Montargis, about an hour by train southeast of Paris, near the Loire River - a cute little town that makes a nice off-beat day trip from Paris - now attracts many Chinese paying homage to one of the incubators of the Chinese Revolution.

7- The Schilthorn, Switzerland - on it is Piz Gloria the crag-top building with the revolving restaurant on its top - as featured in the movie, shot when Piz Gloria was not fully done.

4- Ludwig Castles - Neuschwanstein; Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee, the "Bavarian Versailles".

Weren't my answers good enough for you?

2 was the Cinque ports, not Tivoli incedentally.
So letsgeux was wrong.

right - the judges were forgiving but should not be - especially in Christmas season - two champions - hetismij2 and letesgeaux share the prize - one year's free posting on Fodor's! Plus shipping and handling of course.