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Posted by Katy R (U14748743) on Friday, 20th May 2011
Hi everyone
Today's quiz question is:
In Roman mythology who is the Roman God of Flowers? And who is their Greek counterpart?
Good Luck
Katy
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Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Friday, 20th May 2011
Flora was feminine, as far as I was aware - as was Chloris, her Greek version. Her remit extended beyond flowers - drinkers of alcohol were also under her erstwhile protection.
Well done - Flora is the correct Roman goddess of flowers and her Greek counterpart is Chloris.
Your turn. . .
Katy
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Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Friday, 20th May 2011
Which other mainfestations of Roman superstition were famously destroyed by a Vandal, apparently since they were being used to attack his government?
The Sibylline Prophecies?
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Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Friday, 20th May 2011
That'd be them, right enough Daniel-K.
Your turn ...
Probably an easy one: under what circumstances did the Romans close the doors of the Temple of Janus and under what circumstances keep them open?
Open when at war, closed when at peace.
Yep. Your go Ur-Lugal.
Since no-one has tried this on last week's quiz thread, I think I'll save myself the trouble of thinking up a new one!
The prototype Parcels and Miscellaneous Van built by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1919 is usually known by the name of one of its "passengers". It also carried out two other high-profile repatriations. Identify the three people concerned.
The Unknown Warrior was carried to Victoria Station in 1920 in transit for Westminster Abbey. Previously it had carried he bodies of Edith Cavell, shot in Brussels in 1915 for helping Allied soldiers to escape, annd Charles Fryatt, captain of the SS Brussels, who was court-martialled and executed in 1916 despite being a civilian. The case excited a furore in Britain equal to that of the Cavell case.
Well done!
Away you go.
Another funeral train question then, the "Lincoln Special" which bore Lincoln's body back from Washington to his home in Springfield, Illinoisin 1865 included another "passenger" who had been disinterred in order to accompany Lincoln to his final resting-place. Who?
A beloved pet?
One of the "coincidences" between Lincoln and Kennedy was that they both lost a son whilst president - could he have been the other corpse?
Indeed it was - although the Lincolns had four sons, only one of whom, Robert, survived into adulthood (and who was to be present or nearby at the assassinations of James Garfield in 1881 and William McKinley in 1901), it the their third son, Willie, who had died in the White House, aged 11, probaly of typhoid, three years earlier, whom Mrs Lincoln had disnterred so he could accompany his father back to Springfield and be buried beside him.
Your go, Ur-Lugal, apologies for making you wait.
Which member of Lincoln's immediate family is not buried in the Lincoln Memorial, to continue the present melancholy theme
The son who survived, Robert?
Poor Mrs Lincoln seemed to have just about gone off her head following her husband's assassination, and had to be committed in the end.
Bob's your uncle! Away you go,!
Oooh, does this mean I get to set the next question? Goody! I never usually have the right answer!!
OK - let me think...
(Back soon, need a cuppa to put History Brain in!) (Not that you won't be able to answer it in a jiffy, I know, chiz, chiz....)
Well, typically, I can't think of anything tough, so I'll just do a batch of easy ones. Here goes:
"Royalty and food and drink"
(1) Which royal got closer to 'a sweet fortified wine originally made in Greece and now produced mainly in Madeira' than he might have liked?
(2) Which monarch ate one jawless fish too many (or several too many!)?
(3) Which monarch was a Citrus sinensis (with apols to Sellar and Yeatman!)?
(4) Which royal was whose 'fat friend'?
(5) Who was it that which monarch did not want to 'let starve'?
(6) Which queen wore potato flowers in her hair?
(7) Which queen had a concoction of eggs, butter, flower and sugar named after her?
(8) Which empress had anorexia?
(9) Which queen gave her lover her jewellry to drink?
(10) A soup of which vegetable was named after which royal mistress, inspired by what item of attire she wore?
Bonus point:
- Which (fictitious!) queen ate a pie she really, really shouldn't have eaten.... (think Mr W.S. whose historical plays are discussed on this board.)
Have fun!
Duke of Clarence in the Malmsey
Henry I
William the Orange
Almanley's "fat friend" - whose identity Beau Brummell inquired about - was George IV, still Prince Regent at the time.
Charles II "Do not let poor Nellie (Nell Gwynne) starve".
Mozart's childhood sweetheart - Marie Antoinette.
At this point, my knowledge peters out. THe next 3 defeat me completely, the only royal mistress soups I can think of are named after Mme de Pompadour, and that was her title rather than anything she wore.
As for the bonus, well, I'd need to be as tight as Anne Dronicus to try that one.
I'll have a stab at a couple: the dessert, Charlotte (russe)
The profligate queen - Cleopatra giving Antony a pearl dissolved in wine.
I'm mulling over the soup.
I'll have a go at the missing ones:
7) Queen Charlotte, wife of George III
8) Elizabeth of Austria, wife of Franz Joseph, who was obsessed with her 20-inch waistline.
10) Madame Pompadour who supposedly invented that student bedsit standby, tomato soup, although she added onions and garlic!
and the bonus, as Ur-Lugal hinted at, is the Queen of the Amazons who, in "Titus Andronicus", ate a pie, baked by TA, with her own previously murdered sons as the filling. Yummy!
FIve-star question, Jenny. More please!
Well, as usual, the answers are all flooding in correctly - but that's what one expects here!!!!
The soup is a tricky one, and I'll fess up that I only saw it when I was checking one of the other ones (and found a fascinating list of 'dishes named after famous people' listing that was v. entertaining!)
Pompadour is definitely along the right lines (ie, Louis XV), but not quite her....
I can give you another clue about the veg - it was white (like the item of fashion attire it was supposed to resemble apparently!)
Oops- just realised, (7) is wrong.....I wasn't thinking of Charlotte.....
Also, I think that Charlotte has breadcrumbs in it as well, doesn't it? (years since I made it!).
But you're definitely getting close!
Can I be really cheeky, folks, and sneak one more in? I'll forfeit my go if I ever get to set the qustion again next time!
I was trying to think of a single tougher one, and couldn't earlier on, hence all the easy ones.
But one did occur to me, though, as ever, the ones I think are tough don't usually prove to be for you lot!
Anyway, here goes....
Continuing the sad theme of historical widows who go mad when their husbands are assassinated, like poor Mrs Lincoln, who is the widow who also went mad, round about the same time as Mrs Lincoln, when her husband was slain in America (or - clue! - 'the Americas')?
She headed back home, and was insane for decades, dying, I think, finally, in the early 20th Century.
Her only compensation was a beautiful house by the sea to live in.....
Another stab - Creme du Barry, made from cauliflower and resembling her wig. OK, I admit it, I googled all Louis's paramours until I got one that fitted the bill..
Is the queen Victoria as in Victoria sponge?
Doesn't Victoria sponge have jam?
You're right of course, Delia.
Can I be really cheeky, folks, and sneak one more in? I'll forfeit my go if I ever get to set the qustion again next time!
I was trying to think of a single tougher one, and couldn't earlier on, hence all the easy ones.
But one did occur to me, though, as ever, the ones I think are tough don't usually prove to be for you lot!
Anyway, here goes....
Continuing the sad theme of historical widows who go mad when their husbands are assassinated, like poor Mrs Lincoln, who is the widow who also went mad, round about the same time as Mrs Lincoln, when her husband was slain in America (or - clue! - 'the Americas')?
She headed back home, and was insane for decades, dying, I think, finally, in the early 20th Century.
Her only compensation was a beautiful house by the sea to live in.....Β
Carlotta, widow of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico springs to mind.
"Another stab - Creme du Barry, made from cauliflower and resembling her wig. OK, I admit it, I googled all Louis's paramours until I got one that fitted the bill"
Yup, spot on (but are we allowed to google the answers??!)
Also, quite right about Carlotta, poor woman (she lived for sixty years after her husband's death - horrible horrible horrible. Not surprising she went mad.)
Victoria sponge - jam, hmm, well, OK, you're right. Forgot about the jam....
As ever, it's hopeless trying to challenge you lot!!
As Magnus always used to say "It's only a bloody game"
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