Europe Quiz # 60 ( Monday)
 

Watching the Oscars and doing this quiz..

First try to answer those that you can right off the bat... ( if any :) ) this is the Honor System),... then look at your notes if you have been to these places, look in your travel book and finally and last, you can google because you still have to read and learn, and this should be a learning experience.

1. In 1814 Norway and Sweden were in a Union
In1905 they regained their independence.
Sweden gives out the Nobel Prize for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Literature.

How come Oslo Norway gives out the Peace Prize only.?

2. Peter the Great of Russia went to the Netherlands to learn ship building.
He came mainly to this one place in the Netherlands, and there is now a Peter the Great Museum here, three statues of him.
One of the statues is of him building a ship disguised as a carpenter.

What Place did he come to in the Netherlands and name the place.?

3. In the lovely town of Hoorn in the Netherlands is a statue of a man who was once admired..... then it was learned that this high ranking officer of the East India Company was a brutal murderer who killed many people in Jakarat.

His monument was taken down then put back up again in 2011, to let the people decide and remember his past deeds.

Who was this man ?

4. There is a list of 10 places in Paris that offer the best views of Paris.
( I will give you one of the places: Les George at Pompidou Centre., you can have a nice wine or cuppuccino here and just admire the views,)

Name three other places. They must be on the list I have.?

5. This mountain in Switzerland is not the highest but it is the most awesome.
The best views are from Zermatt.
A cogwheel train take up high up a mountain for great views and there is a hotel here. (I I had lunch here !!).

Name the mountain. ?

6. This Church/ Cathedral in Geneva has the original chair used by John Calvin (one of the founders of the Reformation Movement), from which he gave many of his speeches
You cannot sit in this chair as a rope is stretched across the chair.

Name the Church that houses this Chair.

7. This castle is the largest Red Brick Castle in Europe.
Name the Castle and the country .!

8. This Church is the largest Red Brick Church in the World.
Name the Church and the Location.

9. This Church is the Highest Red Brick Church in the World and the 2nd highest Red Brick Structure in the world.
Name the Church? Name the Location ? What is the highest Red Brick Structure.?

10. In Geneva there is a wall in bas-relief depicting the Four Founding Fathers of the Protestant Reformation.
Name the 4 Founding Fathers.? Where is this wall located in Geneva

5. Matterhorn - but the cogwheel railway goes to Gornergrat on the opposite side of the valley

7. Marienburg/Malbork, Poland

8. St Mary's church in Gdansk, Poland

9. Highest brick spire: St Martin, Landshut, Germany
Highest brick vault: St Mary/Marienkirche, Lübeck

4- roof-top cafe at Le Monde Arabe

roof-top cafe at Galeries Lafayette department store

Observation deck Tour Montparnasse

Third floor Eiffel Tower

The only one I could come close to except the Matterhorn.

Geneva: St. Pierre

The wall is located on the grounds of the University of Geneva

The Fathers: Calvin, Knox. Beza, and Farel

I'll do the Dutch ones again I guess.

2. Zaandam
3. Jan Pieterszoon Coen who also has a tunnel named after him.

Don;t know exactly where Peter the Great studied ship building but imagine it must have been a hoot. How do you disguise yourself as a workman when you have bright red hair and stand almost seven feet tall? And speak Russian?

Remember clearly form my history prof's lecture well over 30 years ago - of how Peter started to open Russia to the west (against the wishes of the aristocracy/palace guards determined to hang onto the middle ages) and that learning ship building (and creating a modern navy) was a key component. But he just said Netherlands - no specific town.

1. The short answer is because Alfred Nobel wanted it that way. I have been told by Swedes that Sweden was considered to have a tainted past with military intervention, so Norway was better suited.

4. Steps of Sacre Coeur
Top of Eiffel tower

5. Matterhorn

10. These are the 4 founding fathers of Calvinism, not the Reformation. Interesting that Martin Luther is not a part of the Reformation Wall memorial.

guokka: Your answers are all correct.
( Yes I went up the Gornergrat !)

I also want he highest brick structure in the world.

PalenQ you are correct for # 4 ) your answers are on the list)

Dukey1: for # 6 you are right the chair is in St. Pierre.
for # 10 , yes you got them all and the location too.

hetismij2: I was counting on you for the Netherland questions.
Yes.. number 2 and # 3 are correct.

tom_mn : You got number 1 right.

( Yes it was Calvinism but Reformation Wall was an easier target . :)

Nice to see some Netherlands questions from somewhere other than Amsterdam. Hopefully they can encourage people to explore other places.
The questions posed for other countries certainly have piqued my interest in some places.

quokka got half of number 9 correct.

Since we named the 2nd tallest Red Brick Structure in the world, we might as well try to name the tallest Red Brick Structure in the world.

Your comments are good nytraveler! Thanks.

So far quokka 3.5 Dukey1 has 3

hetismij2: Why did Peter I come to the Netherlands to learn ship building !!

C'mon give me the tallest Red Brick Struck in the World. :)

also for # 4 - the top of the Arc de Triomphe and yes the steps of the Sacre Couer up on Montmartre.

PalenQ here is a few more from the list of best views of Paris:

Saint Jacque Tower.

Belleville Park ( Paris's highest park)

Roof top bar of the Holiday Inn.

Percy - he was touring Europe incognito (hah!) looking for support against the Ottoman Empire.
He had always had an interest in shipbuilding, and through the mayor of Amsterdam he was able to work on an East India ship in Zaandam.
He used the skills later to build the Russian navy, and employed several Dutch people in the process.
He also learned about city building in Manchester.

oh dear, I could only do no 4 - places with the best view of Paris.

on the rest, I'm a dunce.

can we go back to Italy please, Percy.

[and congrats on another great quiz. I'm learning a lot!]

More on Italy will becoming up soon!!!

hetismij2:
You are right in all you say but the answer I wanted most was for you to be able to blow your horn ( haha)

and say "Because the Dutch were the best shipbuilders in the world then ( and I am sure still are) :)

Peter the Great said that the Dutch were the best shipbuilders .

Still waiting for the completion to answer # 9

If Dukey1 gets it he wins, if quokka gets it she/he wins !

Well the Dutch certainly still build fine yachts and super yachts - Steve Jobs had his built here, but never got a chance to enjoy it, but ships generally are built in cheaper countries nowadays.
DH worked on naval defence systems before he retired. That is something the Dutch do still lead the world in, even if the company is now French owned.

9 - guess The Kremlin Moscow?

Sorry PalenQ.

This structure is not in Europe.!!!!

But since we have a question (#9) for the 2nd
highest structure....that being the St. Martins Church...I thought we might as well know what the highest is also.

Ok go get ' em guys.

The highest brick structure in the world is the delightful smoke stack from a former smelter in Anaconda, Montana. Not sure how red it is, though.

http://stateparks.mt.gov/anaconda-smoke-stack/