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jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jan-4-2005 18:37

See if there is interest for this.

1. Each day I will post 10 questions, at random times of the day.
2. Each Quiz runs exactly 24 hours.
3. The first person that has all 10 questions right, wins. Or if no one has all questions right, the best one wins.
4. You can only post answers ONCE for the same quiz.
5. No cash involved. Just glory. :)

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Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jul-11-2006 16:24

ok :)

1. Muppet Treasure Island
2. Grease
3. The Sound of Music
4. My Fair Lady
5. The Producers
6. Mary Poppins
7. Rocky Horror Picture Show
8. Oklahoma
9. Chicago
10. A Chorus Line
11. The Phantom of the Opera

Breitkat gets it with 10/11... kudos to RC for getting A Chorus Line first :)

Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Jul-12-2006 00:41

In honour of a rather famous French holiday coming up shortly, my associates and I present the following:

VIVE LA MARSEILLAISE!!!

1. French citizens celebrate July 14th for what specific reason?

2. Before the Euro, what did France use for its currency (both bills & coins, please)?

3. France's most famous street, the Champs Elysees, translates to what in English?

4. Who is the current President of France?

5. Where does the Tour de France officially start and end this year?

6. What famous Frenchman is considered the father of microbiology?

7. Which French cities have hosted Olympic Games?

8. When was France's most famous university, La Sorbonne, founded?

9. What famous Frenchman developed a reading system for the blind?

10. What's the French name for the English Channel?

BONUS -- Where exactly would one go to celebrate the namesake for July 14th, and why?

Greyling
Greyling

Jul-12-2006 01:17

1. The fall of the Bastille
2. (French) Francs, with 100 centimes making 1 franc
3. The Elysian fields
4. Jacques Chirac
5. Start:? Finish: Paris
6. Louis Pasteur?
7. Albertville is the only one I remember, but I'm almost willing to bet it's been in Paris as well at some point
8. Oh, it's old - sometime in the 15th century?
9. Braille
10. Can't remember
BONUS ?


Rosamund Clifford
Rosamund Clifford
Tale Spinner

Jul-12-2006 04:14

1. The fall of the Bastille (the beginning of the French Revolution)
2. Francs, centimes
3. The Elysian Fields
4. Jacques Chirac
5. Strasbourg(?), Paris
6. Louis Pasteur
7. Paris, Chamonix, Albertville, Grenoble
8. 12th century
9. Louis Braille
10. La Manche




Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jul-12-2006 16:58

ok 1. I'm going to go with the 'end' of the French Revolution, and the beginning of the Republic, coz I'm sure I rem. reading somewhere that it was one year after the fall of the Bastille that they celebrated the above.
2. Francs, centimes (I always think of Fantine selling her hair)
3. Elysian Fields
4. Chirac
5. Started in Strasbourg this year. Ends where it always ends, Paris on the Champs-Élysées
6. Pastuer
7. Paris. Wow I'm thick here.
8. No Idea.
9. Braille
10. Didn't know that.
Bonus: the old Bastille site has an Opera House (Bastille Opera probably) on it now... maybe you'd go to the opera...?

Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Jul-12-2006 18:15

Oh la la, you guys are doing fantastique!! So far Rosamund is in the lead with 9 answers correct! Squirrel is right behind her with 6, and Greyling is very close also with 5 1/2! I never knew we had so many francophiles! I'll leave this up a little longer to see if there are any more takers....

Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Jul-12-2006 18:20

Zut, alors, I miscounted. Greyling actually is in Second Place with 6 1/2! Je suis desolee pour ca! (So sorry!)

Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Jul-13-2006 00:48

D'accord, here we go.

1. July 14th is known as Bastille Day in France. It celebrates the fall of the Bastille Prison, and the start of the French Revolution. It's the French equivalent to America's Fourth of July.

2. The French used French Francs for bills, and Centimes for coins. Coins were also called sou, so that would have been accepted as well.

3. All three of our quizzees got this one right. The Champs Elysees translates to Elysian fields, and dates back to Roman times.

4. Our pubbers also all got this one correct! Jacques Chirac is the current President of France.

5. Squirrel got this one dead on. This year, the Tour begins in Strasbourg, and ends, as it does every year, on the Champs Elysees in Paris. While the Tour always ends in Paris, the starting point and the route change each year.

6. Our pubbers got this one spot on as well! Louis Pasteur is considered the father of microbiology.

7. Fantastique, Rosamund! You got this one perfectly! While Paris has hosted the Summer Games, Albertville, Grenoble, and Chamonix have all been host to the Winter Games.

8. La Sorbonne is France's oldest university, and one of the oldest in Europe and the world. It was founded in the 10th Century.

9. Greyling, Rosamund, and Squirrel, all got this one right also. Louis Braille developed a system of reading for the blind which is still in use today, despite all of our modern technical innovations.

10. Formidable, Rosamund! The French name for the English Channel is La Manche. It means "the sleeve".

Bonus--Squirrel was on the right track when he said that the OLD Bastille site has something else there today. The actual Bastille Prison was destroyed in 1789, so the answer I was really looking for is technically NOWHERE. It has been lost to history. The square where the prison once stood is still located in Paris, and is a popular site for tourists.

Breitkat
Breitkat
Pinball Amateur

Jul-13-2006 00:52

Congratulations, Rosamund!! (Hands you a Tricolor, a baguette, and a wedge of brie.) Happy Bastille Day, tout le monde!!

Greyling
Greyling

Jul-13-2006 01:04

Yay, happy Bastille Day to you too!! :) - and James if you see this Happy Birthday tomorrow ;)

Mais juste une petite chose - they had 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 francs as coins as well if we're talking right before the Euro took over ;)

Oki, Vive La France :D

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