Who painted this?
Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) The Bathers, 1887.
How many wars were concluded in Paris?
This one caused a bit of controversy.
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While numerous treaties have been signed in Paris, only five actually ended wars. - Seven Years War (1763) - American Revolution (1783) - Napoleonic Wars (1814) - Crimean War (1856) - Spanish-American War (1898). |
Russ
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I make it 9 (without a lot of confidence) Most information checked and obtained at: http://www.bartleby.com/65/pa/Paris-Tr.html The Seven Years War : The Treaty of Paris of Feb 10 1763, signed by Britain, France and Spain brought this conflict to an end. The US War for Independence : The Paris Peace Treaty of Sep 3 1783, formally ended the US War of Independence The War of Liberation : The Treaty of Paris of May 30 1814 brought this conflict to an end. Those countries previously conquered by Napoleon fought for the restoration of their lands and this treaty confined France to it's boundaries of 1792. Napoleon abdicated and was exiled to Elba. The Napoleonic War(s) : The Treaty of 1815 was signed in Paris on 20 Nov 1815. This further restricted France to it's 1790 borders and made them pay 700 million francs in reparations. Napoleon had returned from exile, amassed an army and attacked the European coalition in an attempt to pre-empt any strike by them. This culminated in his failed Waterloo campaign. Napoleon was again exiled, this time to St Helena where he died in 1821. The Crimean War : The Treaty of Paris of Mar 30 1856 brought about an agreed cessation to the Crimean War. The Franco-Prussian War : The Preliminary Treaty of Versailles of 1871, and ratified in the Treaty of Frankfurt, brought this conflict to an end. The Spanish/American War : The Treaty of Peace (in Paris) of 10 Dec 1898 formally completed the "Protocol of Peace" truce signed in Washington on 12 Aug 1898 ordering the end to hostilities between the USA and Spain. The First World War : The Treaty of Versailles, signed on 28 June 1919 by Germany on the one hand and by the Allies (save Russia) on the other, the Treaty of Versailles embodied the results of the long and often bitter negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. However, the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the treaty, and the United States merely declared the war with Germany at an end in 1921. The Bosnian War : The Paris Treaty of Dec 14 1995 brought this conflict to an end, signed by the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia as well as other international heads of state. Bosnian Serb nationalist leaders were absent because they were under indictment for war crimes and genocide, and would have been arrested had they come to Paris. |
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After World War I came the Treaty of Versailles; Treaty of Saint-Germain; Treaty of Neuilly; Treaty of Trianon; Treaty of Sèvres, all near Paris.
Treaties were also signed in Paris in 1947 between allied powers and Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland.
Paris was also a venue for treaties in the Vietnam war(s).
A lot depends on your reading of the question, was the Treaty of Versailles a Paris treaty? What does concluding a war mean? Most answers were marked correct.
It's a bum job, who had to do it?
Inspiration from Centretek
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Clive Peter Cook and Dudley Moore From the script of an unreleased version of that old favourite "The Worst Job I Ever Had". CLIVE: She was very big all day, and you know, all night, but the point I'm coming to was that my job was to retrieve lobsters from Jayne's arsehole. 'Cause Jayne, like a lot of Hollywood starlets at the time. . . DEREK: Wait, wait, let me get this straight, you retrieved lobsters from Jayne's arsehole? CLIVE: Did I fucking retrieve them? Yeah. I've got the marks to prove it. DEREK: I'd have though that was a job with a lot of interest. CLIVE: No, well, you're forgetting various factors, you see, Jayne had a huge bum and an enormous capacity for lobsters. And she used to go swimming every day off the beach at Malibu, you know, like the starlets did in those days. . . it was the fashionable thing to be seen with Hedda Hopper topless. . . And Jayne use to go out swimming and what happened was inevitable really, the lobsters flocked up her bum. I mean, I'm not blaming Jayne, I mean she had her personal problems and I'm not going to drag those in. . . |
Demar
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Who are these young ladies?
Bangles.
No-one controlled which cephalopod?
Captain Nemo (Latin for 'no one') controlled the Nautilus.
Alan Walker
What was this young man's main virtue?
Eliot Ness, leader of a nine man team of eager young men working for the US Treasury Department's Bureau of Prohibition in Chicago who were all brave, conscientious and unbribable. They became known as The Untouchables.
For some strange reason the world no longer wants heroes like this, preferring to make heroes out of criminals or wallow in the seedier and violent sides of law enforcers, or if they are not messy enough invent some that are. Does making fictional characters with ready-moulded feet of clay make us feel better? Are we too cynical or stupid to accept the possibility that some people working for the public may actually actually be good people?
In The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Radio Series, Fit the Seventh - i.e. Christmas Special), an enormous Arcturan Megafreighter is en route to Ursa Minor Beta carrying “a larger number of copies of PlayBeing than the mind can comfortably conceive”.
The second-in-command complains that he's “had three buttons to press in the past 500 light years, and that was just to put the coffee machine onto manual!”
Assuming that the ship left Arcturus and made for Ursa Minor Beta in a straight line without deviating from its course, what is wrong with his statement?
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Arcturus is about 36.2 light years distant from Earth at Right Ascension 14h16m, declination 19.2 degrees, whilst Ursa Minor Beta (the star called "Kochab") is about 83.6 light years distant at R.A. 14h51m, dec. 74.2 degrees. A little spherical trigonometry will tell you that the distance between the two is around 70 light years. So the ship could only have travelled more than 500 light years so far if it had been making a hell of a lot of delivery stops in other star systems! In fact, it's possible to say that the 500 light years is ruled out, just by considering the distances from Earth. Even if the two stars were on opposite sides of the Earth, the distance between them could not exceed the sum of their distances from Earth, i.e. 36.2 + 83.6 = 119.8 light years. Maybe you should give a point to anyone who does it this way, but a bonus point if they get the "70 light years". . |
Mike
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The distance from Arcturus to Ursa Minor beta is 81.3 light years, therefore they could not have travelled 500 light years. |
Demar
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Arcturus is 34 light years from Earth and Ursa Minor Beta is 126.5 light years from Earth, so the maximum distance that they could be from each other is roughly 160.5 light years. So the Megafreighter would have passed UMB hundreds of light years ago. |
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Some difference of opinion as to the distances involved. Has anybody got a tape measure?
Mike
What does the acronym LSMFT stand for?
Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco
Jim
What is this guy obsessed with?
Count von Count of Sesame Street is obsessed with counting.
What word in the English language changes its pronunciation when capitalized?
(If you know more than one please feel free to show off.)
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- polish - job - villa (Pancho Villa, said as 'viya') - natal (the South African city pronounces both 'a's) - male ('ma-lay' is the capital of the Maldives) - reading (the Berkshire town is 'redding') - nice ('niece' in the Riviera) - tone ('to-nay' - like as in 'toenail' is Japan's longest river) - sung (the Chinese dynasty is 'soong') . |
Shekar
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august, colon, herb*, lima, mobile, ravel, baton (as in Baton Rouge, LA), rainier, magdalen (a reformed prostitute, or an Oxford College pronounced maudlin, a word with the same root), ewe, tangier (relatively tangy) and worms were also offered.
* herb is pronounced 'erb in some parts of the English speaking world where people think only the French can cook, but in Britain herbs are herbs.
Russ
An old school dictionary falls open. Between a foreboding of evil and a proverbial thief I find an excuse, a victim, something that was there all along* and a test of a person's conduct or character. I also find four holy people, can you?
Between PRESENTIMENT and PROCRASTINATION (the proverbial thief of time) I found a PRETEXT, PREY, PRIMORDIAL and PROBATION. I found a Priest, priestess, prior and prioress but Alan also found a primate and the Prince of Peace.
*OK Alan, it's an adjective, just grant me some artistic licence.
What is this?
Focke-Wulf FW190. Germany's main propellor driven fighter for the middle of World War II. It was introduced to complement and replace the Me109 which was being outclassed by allied fighters such as the Spitfire. The Spitfire and Fw190 were developed in tandem, with each new version eclipsing its rival for a short period, until the Germans under the pressure of allied bombing ran out of resources and diverted all development into cheap semi-disposible jet and rocket powered aircraft rather than well engineered but expensive piston engine aircraft such as the Fw 190. 20,001 were built.
Where do his memories creep when he is resting from his grey flannel life?
Back to Lady Marmalade's boudoir down in old New Orleans.
Hey Sister, Go Sister, Soul Sister,
Go Sister Hey Sister, Go Sister,
Soul Sister, Go Sister
He met Marmalade down in Old New Orleans
Struttin' her stuff on the street
She said "Hello, Hey Joe, you wanna give it a go?"
Mmm, Mmm.
Itchi Gitchi Ya Ya Da Da
Itchi Gitchi Ya Ya Here
Mocha-choca-lata Ya Ya
Creole Lady Marmalade
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
He sat in her boudoir while she freshened up
The boy drank all her magnolia-wine
On the black satin sheets
oh I swear he started to freak
Itchi Gitchi Ya Ya Da Da
Itchi Gitchi Ya Ya Here
Mocha-choca-lata Ya Ya
Creole Lady Marmalade
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
Hey, Hey, Hey
Touching her skin feelin' silky smooth
The colour of cafe au lait
Made the savage beast inside
Roar until it cried,
More, More, More
Now he's back home doing 9 to 5
Living his grey flannel life
But when he turns off to sleep
Old memories creep,
More, More, More
etc.
What started out euphemistically as a device for cleaning trenches and later became a piece of big city office equipment?
John T Thompson's submachine gun, conceived as a “trench broom”, which later became known as the Chicago typewriter, but more generally simply as a tommy gun.
Give both locations for the fool's veracious beverage.
From Danny Kaye's film, The Court Jester
Witch: Listen. I have put a pellet of poison in one of the vessels.
Hawkins: Which one?
Witch: The one with the figure of a pestle.
Hawkins: The vessel with the pestle?
Witch: Yes. But you don't want the vessel with the pestle, you want the chalice from the palace!
Hawkins: I-I don't want the vessel with the pestle, I want the chalice from the what?
Jean: The chalice from the palace!
Hawkins: Hm?
Witch: It's a little crystal chalice with a figure of a palace.
Hawkins: Th-the chalice from the palace have the pellet with the poison?
Witch: No, the pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle.
Hawkins: Oh, oh, the pestle with the vessel.
Jean: The vessel with the pestle.
Hawkins: What about the palace from the chalice?
Witch: Not the palace from the chalice! The chalice from the palace!
Hawkins: Where's the pellet with the poison?
Witch: In the vessel with the pestle!
Jean: Don't you see? The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle.
Witch: The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!
Jean: It's so easy, I can say it!
Hawkins: Well then you fight him!
Witch: Listen carefully. The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Hawkins: Where the pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Jean: Good man!
Witch: Just remember that. ...
Hawkins: I've got it! I've got it. The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true, right?
Witch: Right. But there's been a change. They broke the chalice from the palace.
Hawkins: They broke the chalice from the palace?
Witch: And replaced it with a flagon.
Hawkins: Flagon.
Witch: With a figure of a dragon.
Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.
Witch: Right.
Hawkins: Did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?
Witch: No! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon, the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon, the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
Witch: Just remember that.
Peter
Who is this?
Julius Nyerere.
Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere. (1922-1999) Commonwealth elder statesman. Chief Minister of Tanganyika under British rule in the year before independence, then Prime Minister in 1961, in 1964 he became President of Tanzania (a union of Tanganyika and the island of Zanzibar).
English David, Dutch Lud, Welsh Clive, French Jean-Pierre, English Tom. What are the next two names in this series?
English Bob and English Bob
World Fresh Water Angling Champions
1985 - Dave Roper (England)
1986 - Lud Wever (Netherlands)
1987 - Clive Branson (Wales)
1988 - Jean-Pierre Fouquet (France)
1989 - Tom Pickering (England)
1990 - Bob Nudd (England)
1991 - Bob Nudd (England)
And several people got that!
Neil
What is this?
A 1935 Duesenberg J Victoria Convertible by Rollston. (Demar and Alan agree)
Monday's child was very clever, but why was the holy lady peeved on Wednesday morning?
Wednesday morning papers didn't come.
From The Beatles "Lady Madonna", British number 1 in March 1968 "Monday's child has learned to tie his bootlace......... ........Wednesday morning papers didn't come."
Friday night arrives without a suitcase.
Sunday morning creep in like a nun.
Monday's child has learned to tie his bootlace.
See how they run.
Lady Madonna, baby at your breast.
Wonder how you manage to feed the rest.
See how they run.
Lady Madonna, lying on the bed,
Listen to the music playing in your head.
Tuesday afternoon is never ending.
Wednesday morning papers didn't come.
Thursday night your stockings needed mending.
See how they run.
Demar
Five men, all between 10 and 99 years old inclusive, were talking about their ages:
Alf: Ed is 27.
Bob: I'm 81.
Carl: Bob is 61.
Dave:
(i) Alf is 57
(ii) What Carl says is false.
Ed:
(i) Bob is older than Alf
(ii) Dave is exactly 30 years younger than Carl.
All remarks made by anyone 50 or over are true, unless his age is a perfect square, when they are false. All remarks made by anyone under 50 are false, unless his age is a perfect cube, when they are true.
Find all their ages.
A 57; B 64; C 81; D 51; E 27.
B can't be 81 and truthful, so B untruthful, so B is 64 or <50.
So C untruthful, so C is 64 or 81 or <50.
So D truthful, so D is 27 or 50+ and A is 57.
So A truthful, so E is 27, so E truthful, so B > A, so B is 64.
E is truthful, so D = C-30, so C=81 and D=51.