Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion Off Topic How observant are you? The European sequel

here you go James <g>. I tried to make them easy.

Okay, here's a bunch of European questions (at least I tried). Answer them before checking the answers below. And let's here your scores! (no picking!)

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1. Where is the "institutionnal" Capital of Europe?

2. Which city harbors the European Parliament?

3. What are the colors of the Irish flag from left to right?

4. What's the common color used to describe Ireland?

5. What's the nickname of British Police Officers? Why were they called that way?

6. If you're facing the Metropolis Seguras Building, in which city and country are you?

7. How many airports are there in Milan? Name them.

8. Bucarest is the capital of...?

9. How many Muses are there in the greek Mythology? Name them.

10. On which side do trains circulate in France?

11. On which side do metros circulate in France?

12. How many lines are there in the parisian metro?

13. What are the major colors of Delft porcelain items? By the way, where's Delft?

14. and Delphes? Why was this city famous for?

15. where's Mockba?

16. How many regions are there in France?

17. I'm a piece of France in South America. What's my name?

18. What's the full name of the Orient-Express?

19. On a french license plate, what do the last two figures stand for?

20. Main colors used on a bottle of Perrier?

21. How many Teletubbies are there? What's their colors?

22. Bruges, the Belgium city, is famous for?

23. What's the color of London's double decked buses?

24. Jennifer and Nolwenn...Who am I talking about?
(This last one is just for Saskia and Kaethel )

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Okay, now it occures to me it was easy for European residents...So don't beat yourself down, whatever your score is, is great. And Congrats to those who gave those questions a try.

Carole

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ANSWERS

1. Brussels, Belgium.

2. Strasbourg, France.

3. Green, white, orange.

4. Green.

5. The Bobbies. because of the black hat composing their uniform.

6. Madrid, Spain.

7. Two. Linate and Malpensa.

8. Romania.

9. Nine: Euterpe, Calliope, Clio, Thalie, Uranie, Melpomene, Mnemosyne, Polymnie, Erato.

10. Left.

11. Right.

12. Fourteen.

13. Blue and white. In the Nederlands.

14. Greece. The Oracles given by the Pythie of Delphes.

15. Russia.

16. Twenty two.

17. French Guyana.

18. Venice Simplon Orient Express.

19. the french department the car owner lives in.

20. Yellow, green, white and black.

21. Four: red, purple, yellow and green.

22. Its lace.

23. Red.

24. Two singers who respectively won the first and second edition of the french real tv show "Star Academy".

Ok, I managed 9. Clearly, it has been far too long since I was in Europe.

Not bad, Carole; I think I got about 16.

However, the reason English (or rather, London) police officers are called 'bobbies' is after Sir Robert Peel who, as Home Secretary in the early nineteenth century, was responsible for the establishment of a civilian police force, which until that time hadn't existed. This first police force was the Metropolitan Police, still London's police force.

The early officers were known as 'peelers' or 'bobbies' after Peel himself. Both of these terms are still in use, although very infrequently these days.

See here .


Wendy

Like I said, don't beat yourself up, Rivka. I'm sure even Europe residents don't have all the answers here... or have they?

Plus, it's just a game... only with a cultural touch. And 9 isn't bad at all.

Oh, I wasn't beating myself up, Carole! Actually, I was really hoping someone would say something like, "Well, that won't do! I'll have to sponsor your return trip to Europe, so you can know more of these."

Actually, I was impressed that I still remembered the number of French regions.

Wendy,

Whoops! Thanks for the explanation, My teachers always told me it was because of the hat...go wonder. Still, my mistake.

So let's say everybody counts themself one point on question 5, no matter what their answer was.

Rivka,

"Well, Rivka, 9 is real bad. You should really consider going back to Europe in order to improve your knowledge on the subject"...Will that do?

Nonono, Carole! The key word was sponsor.

"Dear Mrs/MsRivka,

I'm afraid our 'back to Europe' Sponsorship Department staff is on vacation at the moment and won't be available before the beginning of September. Maybe you could try sending them an email at: info@getmebacktoeurope.com.

I heard some european FoLC (don't ask me what that is) were often gathering on the Old Continent, maybe they have special networks that could help you in your quest?

Yours sincerely,

Cyad"

Oy, oy, oy... 15. But the shame is that I got the number of French regions wrong. I also had no clue about the question about airports in Milan, but then that's normal for me.

Kaethel (wondering if Cyad is going to confiscate her French ID now...)

Well, I got 6 right. Two I guessed at - I arbitrarily picked "left" than "right" for the French trains & metro. I knew "bobby", but had no idea why. Luckily, you gave us that one. The other three I knew were #4 (Ireland - green), #8 (Bucarest) and #13 (Delft).

Can you tell I'm not European? (The only country in Europe I've ever been in was Spain... and I missed the question about Madrid! )

- Vicki

11. (I hope it makes Rivka feel better... lol.)

Not Mnemosyne, but Terpsihori (spelled in Greeklish).

Thanks for the questions 9 and 14

AnnaBtG.

You're kidding me, right Kaethel? <jk, well...>

What's the use? You'd still got your "French/ European" driving license or passeport anyway...Besides, only the European participants that didn't reach the average score of 11 (you may have noticed questions 5 and 24 didn't really count ) get their ID confiscated (LOL+ eg).

But, as I kind of mucked up questions 5 and 9, along with forgetting Germany... and for those who don't wanna get a free point so easily, here are two other questions you can try:

5.2 "Neun und neunzig Luftballons" is a song interpretated by...?

9.2 Each year, in which German city does the most important and reknowned 'Bier' Festival take place?

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As usual, no picking. And here you go for the...
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ANSWERS:

5.2 Nina Hagen (hope I orthographed it right).

9.2 München...or Munich if you prefer.

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Now, back to replying...

Not at all! And this things happen you know .

Geez, Terpsichore! How could I have mistaken her for Mnemosyne? And here you go with that word 'thanks' again <g>, but you' re welcome !

Carole

Carole, just in case you're wondering why I edited your post, a word just slipped in which shouldn't have been there (ie it was over PG13). I'm sure it was entirely unintentional. Anyway, I've edited it slightly so that it's now something harmless, but has the same intended meaning.


Wendy
Forum Moderator

?????

I don't mind at all, on the contrary. I'm glad you did it, 'cause I tried to remember my original reply and I'm absolutely clueless about this 'word'. And seeing what it got me into, I guess I don't even wanna know.

Carole (who thinks she'll go back to safer activities like...working).

PS: Wait, I had it on my last re-reading. And, yes, purely unintentional, but you did a real great 'slighty' job.

Actually, Carole, I think you inadvertantly did us a favour, as the mbs censor should have picked up said word. Now we have a headsup that it's not, we can make darn sure it is in the future. <g>

LabRat (who suggests that a really, really safe activity would be keywording... <g> )

Another FoLC species I'm not aware off? But glad I could help, another favour I can help you with?

Keywording sounds good to me but, does that actually means you got Keywording-part6 I sent you?

And in order to keyword, I actually need a fic list to stuck my teeth into...

Carole

PS: BTW, leaving for vac' (real ones, not ones where I go back to the office) on thursday so...hurry up?

Done.

LOL. The settings for the messageboards include a function which automatically replaces any banned words with asterisks, so they don't get through. The F-word is an obvious one, so not sure why it got missed, but we're working on it and it should be included shortly.

Nope. <g> My records show me still waiting for batch #6, plus two outstanding from batch #5. Can you email them to me again and I'll get you out batch #7? Thanks!

I've had a couple of incidents over the last couple of weeks of my email being squirrely for one reason or another, so guess your email got lost during one of those periods.

LabRat

oh geez!

Can you remember me what part five and six where all about? it seems I lost part of my data. It stops at Part 4 "date with a stranger". That plus the keyword list I also lost.
Thanks in advance,


Carole