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Trivia Quiz # 141

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Posted by: golddust

OK everyone, you had a week off so time to put the head gear on.

Clue #1:
I am one of two.


Posted by: forwardone

Let me kick this one off with....Romulas


Posted by: jojomataketa

Tit ?


[Like in tit for tat]


Posted by: golddust

No, not Romulas forwardone.


Posted by: golddust

Not tit for tat, Jojo.


Posted by: golddust

Clue # 2:

I survived tremendous peril.


Posted by: golddust

Everyone, today is my daughter's big 13th birthday, so I will be going out for a bit and will check for answers later this evening.



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Posted by: jojomataketa

Captain James T. Kirk

and many happy returns to your teenager!


Posted by: bigwoo

The Kon-Tiki expeditions ??


Posted by: golddust

Sorry Jojo, not Cap't Kirk and not the Kon Tiki Expedition bigwoo.


Posted by: golddust

I want to correct the first clue to this:

"I am one of three."

So Sorry. Everyone gets another guess. Clue #2 is the same.


Posted by: jojomataketa

Porthos


Posted by: golddust

Not porthos, Jojo.


Posted by: jojomataketa

Sir Winston Churchill


[The other two were Roosevelt and Stalin]

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/53500/53629iOQN_w.jpg

http://pinetreeweb.com/winston-1896.jpg
http://www.uppercanadahistory.ca/1812/18123p1.gif


http://www.mbe.doe.gov/me70/manhatt...otsdamLarge.jpg


Posted by: Old_Cat

George ("Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome)


Posted by: golddust

Sorry Jojo and Old_Cat, these are not the answers I am looking for.


Posted by: golddust

Clue # 3:

All three of these are the same object.


Posted by: clifton

That's getting interesting


Posted by: golddust

Clue #4:
All 3 objects are called by the same name, but are located in different parts of the world.

(Clues 3 and 4 are meant to help you or confuse you, hehe, but I am actually only interested in identifying one of these, as per Clue #1, but if you identify all three of these objects I will accept this as a correct answer).


Posted by: NelsonN

Taj Mahal?


Posted by: golddust

Sorry NelsonN, not Taj Mahal.


Posted by: golddust

Clue #5: The average height of these objects is about 90 feet, the average weight is about 150 tons.


Posted by: golddust

Clue#6:

All of these objects traveled by ocean at least in part, to their final destinations.


Posted by: NelsonN

La Niña, Pinta, y la Santa Maria.


Posted by: golddust

Wow, sorry folks, let's see if this can be narrowed down a little.

Clue # 7:
All of these objects were gifts from one country to another.


Posted by: Old_Cat

Statue of Liberty ?


Posted by: golddust

Not the Statute of Liberty Old_Cat.

Clue#8: All of these objects were buried in sand for 2,000 years.
(this is the last clue about "all" of these objects)


Posted by: bigwoo

Cleopatra's Needles ??


Posted by: golddust

Ra-Ra, bigwoo. We have a Winner. Congratulations!
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Cleopatra's Needles are a trio of obelisks, each is made of red granite, stand about 21 metres high, weighs about 180 tons and inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs. Although the needles are genuine Ancient Egyptian obelisks, they are somewhat misnamed as none has any connection with queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt.

There are 3 Cleopatra's Needles; in London on the Victoria Embankment near the Golden Jubilee Bridges. It was presented to the United Kingdom in 1819 by Mehemet Ali, the Albanian-born viceroy of Egypt, in commemoration of the victories of Lord Nelson at the Battle of the Nile and Sir Ralph Abercromby at the Battle of Alexandria in 1801.
One in Paris at the Place de la Concorde. The center of the Place is occupied by the giant Egyptian obelisk decorated with hieroglyphics exalting the reign of the pharaoh Ramses II. It once marked the entrance to the Luxor Temple. The viceroy of Egypt, Mehemet Ali, presented the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk to France in 1826. King Louis-Philippe had it placed in the centre of Place de la Concorde in 1833 near the spot where Louis XVI and Marie Antionette had been guillotined in 1793, and the last one is in -
Central Park in NYC. It was after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 that Ismail Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt, first mentioned the gift of one of the Obelisks to the United States in the hope of cultivating trade relations, but it was formally given in a letter dated May 18, 1879 by his son Tewfik Pasha. And even then it wasn’t erected in Central Park until January 22, 1881. Railroad magnate William H. Vanderbilt financed the project and the formidable task of moving the Obelisk from Alexandria.

Paris http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ris-Obelisk.jpg Central Parkhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...entral_Park.jpgLondonhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped....london.arp.jpg


Posted by: Old_Cat

Congrats, bigwoo

Very interesting quiz, golddust

Quote:
Originally Posted by golddust
Clue#8: All of these objects were buried in sand for 2,000 years.
(this is the last clue about "all" of these objects)


But... I did't find that Cleopatra's Needles were buried in sand for 2,000 years.


Posted by: nunulka

Well done, bigwoo! http://gfx.real-time.cz/upload/8013475929950255.gif


Posted by: clifton

Wow, that was a hard one Congrats, Bigwoo!


Posted by: forwardone

golddust and clifton, your quizzes just get better and better. Nice one golddust.

bigwoo, congrats on getting the correct answer.


Posted by: bigwoo

Great Quiz this week!

Thanks Golddust and everyone!!!!!



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Posted by: golddust

Quote:
Originally Posted by Old_Cat
Congrats, bigwoo

Very interesting quiz, golddust



But... I did't find that Cleopatra's Needles were buried in sand for 2,000 years.


Hey Old_Cat,

Quote:
The obelisks were moved to Alexandria and set up in the Caesarium — a temple built by Cleopatra in honor of Mark Antony — by the Romans in 12 BC, during the reign of Augustus Caesar, but were toppled some time later. This had the fortuitous effect of burying their faces and so preserving most of the hieroglyphs from the effects of weathering.....
and.... It was dug out of the sand in which it had been buried for nearly 2,000 years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra's_Needle

...gave me the impression they were all either completely or partially buried for 2,000 yrs, but I apologize if this clue was misleading.


golddust


Posted by: jojomataketa

Big'un, Bigwoo, nice phallic symbols!

Here is another:

http://www.amazinghumor.com/pics/0073.jpg



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