WP Quiz #1
 

I actually like PQ's quiz.

So here another one - all about Belgium, of course... What better start ?
Winner gets a free beer when we meet.

1. How many languages are official in our country ?
2. What is the name of our actual king ?
3. Who said that the Belgians are the most courageous people of the region ?
4. Name 2 typical belgian dishes
5. Name 3 belgian artists
6. What is the highest point of Belgium (697 meters if my memory is ok)
7. Name 3 well know battles that occured on our soil
8. How many airports do we have and where (no freight - must have passengers) ?
9. How many inhabitants in Belgium (error 5% accepted)
10. What is our motto ? (France being Liberté égalité fraternité)

Mvg (met vriendelijke groeten).

1- German, Flemish and a weird kind of country French (as my French relative call it)

2- Boudoin? wrong

3- Napoleon? You are speaking of Flemish Belgians right?

4 -Patat friten
Beer

5=Jonny Hallyday
Herge -tintin - racist - Nazi sympathizer
Brueghel?

6- Waterloo monument??

7- Waterloo - Battle of Bulge (I'm still fighting it)- Ypres

8- Zaventem
Charleroi
Antwerp

9- 6.495.999

10- We surrender?

Bonus question - What Belgian feature could be seen from the first men and subsequent men and women when going around the Earth?

What is the symbol of Belgium - a small kid pissing!

3 Julius Caesar in "De bello gallico". Also see "Asterix in Belgium"...

PQ has 3 correct ones and funny answers.

1. good
2. Baudoin died on 31 07 1993. But was king.
3. Nope and nope.
note : I'm talking about Belgians, flemish and Walloons are our first names
4. nope. dishes I said...
5. Johnny is not belgian, was born in Belgium.
Breugel ... maybe
Georges Remi was indeed a stinking guy... choose another one !
6. Excellent ! wrong of course but excellent !
7. OK. More of course...
8. ok but at least one more.
9. wrong.
10. bad joke - saw a lot of those on joke4us...

Bonus question is a great one.

Manneken pis is more the symbol of Bruxelles.

quokka correct.
'De omnis allis Belgi fortissimi sunt' was too much of a give away...

However I should never been obliged to translate the next sentence. Basically we are (were ?) uneducated, with no earthly possession, thus had nothing to lose ... Barbarians !

1. three: Dutch, French, German
2. King Philippe
3. Caesar (?)
4. konijn met pruimen, stoofvlees met bier, waterzooi
5. Stromae, Axelle Red, Luc Tuymans (painter)
6. Baraque Fraiture
7. --
8. four: Brussels, Brussels South (Charleroi), Antwerpen Oostende
9. 12 million
10. Eenheid maakt macht / L'union fait la force

1. French, Flemish and German
2. Filip/Philipe
3. WoinParis ;)
4. waterzooi, stoemp
5. Django ReinHart, Jacques Brel, Toots Thielemans
6. Signal de Botrange
7. Waterloo, several battles at Ieper, battle of the Bulge
8. 3?
9. 11 million(ish)
10. Eendracht maakt macht, or wij haten Nederlanders.


Yes I have studied our southern neighnour somewhat.

4- moules et frites? Belgian waffles?

PROTEST # 5
WIKI
Hallyday's father, Léon Smet (1908–1989), was Belgian; his mother, Huguette Clerc (1920–2007), was French. Born in Paris,

Judges - if his mum was Belgian and he were born in Belgium does not that qualify him as being at least as much Belgian as Frog?

2. Baudoin died on 31 07 1993. But was king.>

I only knew Leopolds and Baudoin - I was in Brussels the day after he died and the front page of a newspaper had a picture of the Mannequin Pis crying!

I've also read that the king is the only real Belgian!

Belgium such a small country but lots of neat attributes - at least amongst the Flems.

Prost!

Some specialists here !

I'd say 11 millions like hetismij.
And Botrange/

Still one airport missing

We got battles from WW2, WW1, Napoleon, let us get some centuries earlier with a very famous Englishman in charge.


Konijn met pruimen gave mme hunger too.


I love the motto from hetismij - you defintely got me...
Cotelette à l'berdouille or boulet liégeois are not bad either...

Protest invalid. The father was indeed belgian but abandoned his son. His mother took care of him.
He is French... Tragic for us, he is a great artist.

Simenon (Maigret !) Emile Verharen (always thought he was flemish and wrote in flemish)and some more...

http://www.poetica.fr/poeme-1945/emi...a-la-belgique/

airport- Must be somewhere around Liege- Liege?

Artist- James Ensor. Procession of Christ into Brussels 1889 is a masterpiece of Expressionism. A favourite of mine.

Isn't Walloon a Belgian dialect?

Many atrocities committed by Leopold 1 in the Congo. He was as evil as Pol Pot, Stalin, and Hitler.

Many of his atrocities witnessed by great writer Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness.

The Lion Mount is as nefarious as Auschwitz. Read The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald.

Thin

Walloon is a language.

Lion Munt marks the end of Napoleon why nefarious ?

Bon

So this was my first quiz. Not sure I'll do a second.

Or maybe about atrocities.

Like :
How many 'negroes' died in the cotton plantations ?
When did apartheid start in SAF and when did it end in US ?
What did it mean when Genghis Khan planted a red tent in front of a city ?
How many people did Pol Pot kill ?
How many Jews ended up in ovens ?
How many Armenians were leeft to starve by Turks ?
Which tribe is now extinct thanks to cowboys : Seminoles, Apaches, Sioux ?
How many women were raped in Berlin in May 1945 ?
How many frenchwomen were raped by US and British liberators ?
What did the Mayas and Incas do with their prisoners ?
Was Lindberg a true nazi ?
Was Marylin Monroe killed by CIA ?
Where is My Lai ?
How many people can be killed by one naplam bomb ?
How many deaths in Aleppo ?

On the topic of Belgians, you already know we are slaughterers, nazis and love our murderous kings - and aah forgot to mention - are the ones who started the genocid between Huttus and Tutsis.

And Merry Christmas.
I would have preferred to stay on topic of cartoons and food, like some nice people did on this thread, but it is too much to ask from Fodors' other regulars.

Sorry that the thread went South, but it should not keep you from doing another quiz.

I know it's not a dish, but maybe a few speculoos will help to restore some of that Christmas spirit.

Thanks cowboy.

Speculoos is indeed excellent. esp in a cup of coffee, the trick is to take it out just before it is so wet that it falls overboard back into the coffee. And you have to dig it with a spoon - embarrassing moment.

Ah Speculoos- always buy some for my sister-in-law who loved them when in Holland - buy them at my local Aldis.

Please WoeinParis - more quizzes -I found it fun trying to answer for a change.

What about that 4th Belgian airport?

Answer to Bonus question - Belgian autoroute system that has near continuous lights its whole length -making it stand out at night from high above the earth from orbiting satellites. Right?

getting back to a lighter vein, who is the most famous Belgian in the UK?

Q- Who was the only Belgian singer to have a #1 hit on U.S. billboard charts?

Was as famous as Johnny Hollyday for a while, more so in the U.S. as Hollyday is fairly unknown here!

A wild guess-Vincent Kompany?

No - never heard of him - everyone in the 60s (too young for Wo I think) heard of this gal and her world-famous song!

"?????????" reached the Top 10 in 11 countries in late 1963 and early 1964, topping the chart in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It reached the Top 5 in Norway, Denmark, Ireland and South Africa, with the song making it into the lower reaches of the Top 10 in the Netherlands, West Germany, and the United Kingdom.

A wild guess-Vincent Kompany?>>

lol, sundried, i hadn't thought of him.

I was thinking of a certain Belgian detective with the extravagant moustaches!

Bonus question is ok.
4th airport is Liège - a nice city after all.

Hercule Poirot is the most well known fictional belgian detective. And for me Suchet is the best actor impersonating him.

In the charts : Jacques Brel I hope ?
:
No a gal... Annie Cordy ? I saw her in Waterloo - everyone in Belgium wants here as his/her mother in law. A great person.

I'll do a quiz nr 2 if people who love bashing refrain...

In the charts : Jacques Brel I hope ?>

Nope the Singing Nun and Dominque!

Please do again!

Sorry for anything I said -it was not intended to be critical but in good nature.

Last comment on this thread.

Cheers!

You know I like you PQ.

whew! me you 2!

I didn't know Liège airport is still used for passengers. This means our small country has five airports, and not four.

It is actually developing from what I heard.

5 airports seems normal since we have 5 governments, haven't we ?

Isn't Walloon a Belgian dialect?
I thought it interesting while we toured the area. They said people are insulted easy if you speak the wrong language.

http://www.509thgeronimo.org/battlef...iumbattle.html

My Dad was awarded a silver star here. He said it was because he was the only one with a tommy gun and he had to cover his comrades. He was wounded there also. They trucked them in and they had no warm clothing. We went there and geez they were sitting ducks but such a nice monument was erected by the village for them and he received thank you letters till he was old from people of the region.

Love the frites and beer. Beer was like a pork chop in a bottle so food in my mind.

Hercule Poirot is the most well known fictional belgian detective. And for me Suchet is the best actor impersonating him.>>

agreed. WoinP. Is he as popular in Belgium as he is in the UK? At one time there was a Poirot story running on TV almost every afternoon. The dialogue in one of my favourites contains this gem :

Delivery Man: Morning, Sir, I've got a parrot for Mr "Poy-rot".
Hercule Poirot: No no no! Poirot. It is pronounced "Pwa-roe".
Delivery Man: I beg your pardon, Governor. I've got a "pwa-roe" for Mr "Poy-rot".

moules frites is my culinary favourite.

Macross. I am sure your father did more than just use his tommy gun. But people risking their lives to save others are usually quite humble.
Anyway we have never had something like ' US go home in Belgium'. And Americans as we call you are well loved. If you ask my children they should tell you US are ok guys that must be respected if for no other reason than the sheer number of young ones sleeping under immaculate white crosses.
Otoh We ll see in some years how much damage your president will have brought.

Ann no unfortunately Suchet is quite unknown here. I am not even sure the series has been dubbed. I certainly saw them on Dutch or Flemish channels meaning in original with subtitles in Netherlands. Double exercise !

One of the most famous Belgians here at least is Eddie Merckx- multiple Tour de France winner and one of top cyclists of all time.

Yes. And Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters. Both great tennis women.

I met her several times - she has an association called Justine for kids which gives holiday to families of a kid having cancer.

Very nice person. Like most Belgians obviously.

. Like most Belgians obviously.>

In ten years of doing bike tours in Belgium I have to agree! So many times locals helped out our cyclists with various needs. But we only went Oostende-Bruges-Gent-Antwerp-Dordrecht so in Flemish area. Assume Walloons just as nice?