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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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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

Rosamund Clifford
Rosamund Clifford
Tale Spinner

Jul-13-2006 01:59

Merci, Breitkat, let's celebrate the Bastille Day with our new quiz. Squirrel's Fantine reminded me that Hugo was the first writer I read apart from children's books, so today's theme will be the French literature. True or false?

1. Jean Valjean is a character in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".
2. "The Count of Monte Christo" was written by Alexandre Dumas the son.
3. "Red and Black" is a novel by Stendhal.
4. Nemo is the captain of Nautilus.
5. Madame Bovary's name is Marguerite.
6.Valmont is the protagonist of "Dangerous Liaisons".
7. Charles Perrault is famous for his fairy tales.
8. George Sand was famous for her love affair with the composer Liszt.
9. "Father Goriot" was written by Jean Jacques Rousseau.
10. Francoise Sagan was only seventeen when she wrote "Bonjour Tristesse" (Hello sadness).


Bonus:
Georges Simenon, author of novels featuring the most famous French detective Maigret, was Belgian.

Greyling
Greyling

Jul-13-2006 02:33

1. False
2. Tossing a coin...true?
3. True
4. True
5. False
6. True
7. True?
8. False
9. False?
10. True?
Bonus: True

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jul-13-2006 02:53

1. False
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. I'd only be guessing, but it sounds right >> True
6. True
7. True
8. True? although Chopin rings a bell... (that's no allusion to Qu. 1)
9. no idea
10. no idea
Bonus. No idea.
Well I finished in a flurry of confusion there :)

Emerald Drew
Emerald Drew
Old Shoe

Jul-13-2006 10:44

1. False
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. False
6.True
7. True
8. False
9. False
10. True
Bonus: True

Serena Siren
Serena Siren
Well-Connected

Jul-13-2006 21:09

Look the Daily Pub Thread has its very own sticky!!! Now I won't have to look for it anymore :)

Seeing as I know very little about French Literature, I will guess true for all in the hopes that I'll get around 50% correct :P



Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jul-13-2006 21:29

Woo hoo stuck to the top. So it should, this must nearly be the most posted to thread on the site :) Having gone back and checked some of my answers, seems I don't know jack about French literature either! :s

Rosamund Clifford
Rosamund Clifford
Tale Spinner

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