Unutterably Silly Quiz

[Shayne Parkinson]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

2. Wellington?

Oh, you're close. Go a bit further north.

[poohbear_nc]

Auckland?

Christchurch?

[Shayne Parkinson]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Auckland?

Christchurch?

Christchurch is south

Auckland is correct. Rather a romantic response from Kipling, but I'm sure Auckland was a lot more peaceful back then.

[poohbear_nc]

I owe my guesses to Jeopardy ... a final Jeopardy question referred to a city almost directly opposite to London on the globe, named after a general ... Wellington ....

[Shayne Parkinson]

Just one to go, and with a rather large clue, so I'll leave it going for a few more hours.


Quotes about places. One point for the place, and one for the speaker/writer.

Note: some of these are almost certainly apocryphal, but they're commonly associated with a particular speaker/writer.


1. "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." Mark Twain
Issybird, 2 points.

2. "Last, loneliest, loveliest, exquisite, apart." Kipling referring to Auckland.
Poohbear 2 points.

3. "When I die, Dublin will be written in my heart." James Joyce.
Bookpossum 2 points
Points also awarded for an earlier (and better known) version:
Calais, said by Mary I. Pdurrant, Bookpossum 1 point each.

4. "I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble." Augustus
drjd 2 points

5. "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." Dr Johnson
Pdurrant, Bilbo1967 1 point each.

6. "An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris." Nietzsche.
Pdurrant, Orlok 1 point each.

7. "Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go."
- A 20th century American writer, from a southern state. He and Harper Lee were friends from childhood. A character in To Kill a Mockingbird is based on him.
Pdurrant, 1 point

8. "If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks."Baz Luhrmann
drjd, Bilbo 1 point each

9. "There are many people in the world who really don't understand--or say they don't--what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!" John F. Kennedy
Bookpossum, Issybird 1 point each

10. "Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth." Prince Charles
drjd 2 points


Bonus question: this one is a country rather than a city

"There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter." Billy Connolly
Orlok, 2 points


Points:
drjd 5
Bookpossum 4
pdurrant 4
Issybird 3
Orlok 3
Bilbo1967 2
Poohbear_nc 2

[Bilbo1967]

8. Baz Luhrmann?

[Shayne Parkinson]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

8. Baz Luhrmann?

The very man! Another point to you.

[Shayne Parkinson]

I'll leave this open until tomorrow (my time), just in case anyone wants to try for the last four points.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by Shayne Parkinson

Four points still available.

6. "An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."
- A 19th century European philosopher and scholar speaking of the capital city of a country bordering his own.

Nietzsche?

[Bookpossum]

3. Thomas Mann, Lubeck? "Buddenbrooks" is the book, I'm guessing.

[Shayne Parkinson]

Originally Posted by orlok

Nietzsche?

Nietzsche is correct! Another point for you.

[Shayne Parkinson]

Originally Posted by Bookpossum

3. Thomas Mann, Lubeck? "Buddenbrooks" is the book, I'm guessing.

Sorry, no.

I visited the city in question last year, and walked the streets in memory of the writer in question (and his most famous work). I stopped for lunch at a certain pub, and had a gorgonzola sandwich.

[Bookpossum]

Originally Posted by Shayne Parkinson

Sorry, no.

I visited the city in question last year, and walked the streets in memory of the writer in question (and his most famous work). I stopped for lunch at a certain pub, and had a gorgonzola sandwich.

Oh drat - I was feeling all clever there!

The sandwich doesn't help either unless we are talking an Italian city and author. Florence, Turin, Milan?

[Bookpossum]

Sound of a penny dropping. Was it James Joyce and Dublin? And Ulysses of course.

[Shayne Parkinson]

Originally Posted by Bookpossum

Sound of a penny dropping. Was it James Joyce and Dublin? And Ulysses of course.

Ding ding ding! That's it! Your previous answer was indeed very clever, but this one has the extra virtue of being correct.

Davy Byrne's, where Leopold Bloom had a gorzonzola sandwich - and so did I. My husband's inside, photographing me taking a photo, which seems appropriately self-referential.