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I got one more entry, thetrooper scored 7 without any researching. If nobody has any requests of extension of dead-line, I will close the contest and present the answers.
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I just got a request from one of our resident grandmasters, so I will extend the deadline to Saturday evening.
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And with some research, trooper added 4 p to reach 11.
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I would really like to know where you get those coat of arms. That's possibly the most certain way to mute me.
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It seems like the person who requested a postponement of the deadline has been prevented to submit anyway, and that all the others have also done theirs.
So this evening is the final deadline then, and answers will be presented tomorrow.
So this evening is the final deadline then, and answers will be presented tomorrow.
El_Tigre
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I submitted my answers, I hope I'm not too late.
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No it is not, and yours was excellent. 29p !El_Tigre said:
Ciceronian also submitted and scored 15.
I will have to take the evening now, but because of the renewed interest I will accept submissions until 15.00 CET tomorrow.
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I think it is time to close the contest.
This means that the winner is El_Tigre, with an impressive score:
El_Tigre 29
Taliesin 24
(Aion 16)
Ciceronian 15
sydhe 13
Till 13
thetrooper 11
Adler17 7
It was quite satisfying to have so many entries, thanks a lot to everybody who took the trouble to submit !
I will present an extensive write-up of the answers later today or tomorrow, El_Tigre can start to prepare his quiz whenever he wants.
This means that the winner is El_Tigre, with an impressive score:
El_Tigre 29
Taliesin 24
(Aion 16)
Ciceronian 15
sydhe 13
Till 13
thetrooper 11
Adler17 7
It was quite satisfying to have so many entries, thanks a lot to everybody who took the trouble to submit !
I will present an extensive write-up of the answers later today or tomorrow, El_Tigre can start to prepare his quiz whenever he wants.
El_Tigre
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I'm already working on a new quiz, but I will need probably until Thursday to
complete it. I have to catch up on the older quizzes, too, to avoid repetitions
and to adjust to the level of difficulty you guys are used to. My apologies...
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Nothing to apologize for, I think I speak for a great when I say that I recognize that it takes time to put together a decent quiz.
And that also gives me one more day to finish the presentation of my answers, for which I am grateful.
And that also gives me one more day to finish the presentation of my answers, for which I am grateful.
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My apologies - again - for procrastinating, but here is finally the answers. This write up is a torso but I simply don't have the time and energy for more so just bear over with me, please. And of course, any feedback in form of comments, questions and additional information is most welcome, as always.
1. Who is this person (3p)?
Nicolaus Copernicus.This picture is a reconstruction based on a skull from a grave found in the cathedral in Frombork this year.
Here is a link in English:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9913250/
2. What event is depicted here(2p)?
The experiment with the Magdeburg hemispheres by Otto von Guericke.
Otto von Guericke
Otto von Guericke (1682-1686) was an important physicist, engineer, natural philosopher,and inventor He also entered the political arena successfully, being mayor of Magdeburg from 1646-1676.
Among his inventions is probably the first air pump, used to study the phenomenon of vacuum and the role of air in combustion and respiration, the most important.
The depicted scene is the first of a series of spectatular experiments by von Guericke on the topic of vacum, performed before Emperor Ferdinand III at Regensburg .
Guericke placed two copper bowls (Magdeburg hemispheres) together to form a hollow sphere about 35.5 cm (14 inches) in diameter. After he had removed the air from the sphere, two teams of eight horses were unable to pull the bowls apart, even though they were held together only by the air around them.
3.Which European politician told the foreign minister of the USSR Viacheslav Molotov to be tougher(2p) and what was the circumstances(2p)?
The Norwegian minister of justice Terje Wold.During a meeting with Molotov he is supposed to have said "You are too soft, mr. Molotov" in response to the Soviet foreign minister pleading for mercy for the famous author Knut Hamsun, a reactionary all his life, whose collaboration with the Nazi regime only was too predictable.
Molotov's request was in vain, Hamsun was prosecuted after the war,and to save national face the Norwegian government arranged for a psychiatric examination of him and a diagnosis instead of just imprisoning him. If anybody wants more details on this topic I will do my best to be of assistance.
4.Here are 5 persons. What was their names (1 p for each correct identification)?
1. Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654) German composer and organist. Born in Halle, Scheidt studied music in the local gymnasium, later becoming organist in the Marienkirche. In 1608 he went to Amsterdam to study under the famous Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and on his return was appointed court organist by Margrave Christian Wilhelm of Brandenburg. He was later to work with Praetorius and Schütz, and about 1620 he was appointed Kapellmeister, while retaining his position as an organist. In the following years he both enlarged the court musical establishment and wrote a huge amount of quality music, including Ludi Musici, Consertus Sacri and Tabulatura Nova.It was also at this time he built up his well-earned reputation as an expert in organ construction.
In 1625 the margrave left for Denmark to participate in the Thirty Years War and Scheidt had to make a living primarily by teaching. In 1628 the city of Halle appointed him director musices, a position he was only able to hold in 2 years as the consequence of a dispute with the Rektor of the Gymnasium. When peace returned to Halle in 1638 he fully resumed his position of Kapellmeister of the court, a position he was to hold for the rest of his life.
2. Girolamo Frescobaldi(1583-1643)Italian composer and keyboardist. Born in Ferrara as the son of a musician and prominent citizen, Frescobaldi studied with the court organist Luzzaschi about whom he would later in life express gratitude on many an occasion and became organist at the Accadernia della Morte at the age of 14.
At some point he came under the patronage of Guido Bentivoglio, a cleric and member of a powerful Ferrarese family. When Guido went to Rome to take a post at the papal court, he took Frescobaldi with him. Girolamo was admitted to the Accademia di S. Cecilia in 1604 and became organist at S. Maria in Trastevere in 1607. He accompanied Guido to Flanders in 1607-8, where a set of his 5-part madrigals was published. He was summoned back to Rome by Guido's brother Enzo, a Vatican official, and was appointed organist of the Cappella Giulia, St. Peter's, upon his return; he worked also as a member of Enzo's household musica, though he was less than diligent in that post. He married in 1612 after fathering two illegitimate children by his future wife; by 1615 he seems to have left the service of the Bentivoglio family for that of Cardinal Aldobrandini, while the court of Mantua made an abortive effort to engage him in that same year.
The next thirteen years were his most fruitful in terms of output, with the two books of toccatas, sets of ricercars, canzonas, and capriecios, and a collection of ensemble canzonas appearing during this time. In addition, his fame as a keyboardist continued to grow; he took various engagements while keeping his posts at the Vatican and with the Aldobrandini family. He was in the employ of the Medici in Florence, 1628-34, and returned again to Rome, where he resumed playing at St. Peter's, in addition taking a post with Cardinal Francesco Barberini and appearing at the celebrated Oratorio del Crocifisso during Lent; the French viol player André Maugars commented in 1639 on his masterly improvisations at these Lenten performances.
3.Hans Leo Hassler (1564 - 1612)German composer. Born in Nürnberg, as son of an organist, Hassler went to Venice in 1584 to study with Andrea Gabrieli.From 1686 the organist Hassler entered the service of Count Fugger at Augsburg, to whom he dedicated his first collection of Italian canzonettas in 1590. In 1595 Hassler, together with his brothers Jacob and Gaspard was raised to the nobility by the Emperor Rudolph II. In Augsburg he worked for a time at the church of S. Moritz, and in 1600 he became head of the town band. He returned to his Nürnberg in 1601, and at the beginning of the following year was appointed kaiserlicher Hofdiener von Haus aus(Imperial servant of the first order), and commissioned to undertake some commercial journeys on behalf of the Emperor. 1604 he changed his residence to Ulm and there married the daughter of a local merchant (1605). In 1608 he moved to Dresden, where he was appointed court organist by the Elector of Saxony and given charge of the latter's library of music. His remaining years were unfortunately marred by illness; he died of consumption on June 8th 1612 at Frankfort- am-Main, whence he had accompanied the Elector for the coronation of the new Emperor.
4. Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621) German composer. The son of a pastor who had been a pupil of Luther, he became organist at the Marienkirche, Frankfurt an der Oder, in 1585. From 1595 he served the Bishop of Halberstadt as organist, and when his patron became Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, he went with him to Wolfenbüttel and became his Kapellmeister in 1603. This post necessitated much travelling in Germany, which enabled him to earn widespread renown as a conductor of musical performances, an organ consultant, and a knowledgeable expert on practical music and on musical instruments.
Praetorius was a Lutheran church composer of amazing industry. Dominating his output is the 9-volume Musae Sioniae containing 1,244 chorale settings, but he published many others too, altogether including pieces on every conceivable scale from little bicima to massive Polychoral variations with instrumental support. He also wrote much other liturgical music and a set of 312 dances ( Terpsichore ). His 3-volume treatise Syntagma Musicum (1619) is an invaluable compendium of information on German music, musical instruments and performance, based on what he heard and saw in his travels.
5. Johann Herman Schein (1586 - 1630) German composer. Upon his father's death in 1593, Schein's family moved to Dresden, where he entered the Hofkapelle of the Elector of Saxony as a boy soprano. There he also received instruction in music from the Kapellmeister, Rogier Michael, and was exposed to much secular and sacred choral music in Latin, German, and Italian. After a brief time at the University of Leipzig, he continued his studies in music at Schulpforta, an electoral school near Naumberg, from May 18, 1603 to April 26, 1607; his teachers there were Bartholomäus Scheer and Martin Roth. In 1608 Schein received an electoral scholarship to study law and the liberal arts at the Univ. of Leipzig, where he remained until 1612. The following year Schein assumed the position of house music director at Schloss Weissenfels and tutor to the children of Gottfried von Wolffersdorff. On May 21, 1615 he was appointed Kapellmeister to Duke Johann Ernst the Younger at Weimar. The following year he auditioned successfully for the position of Thomaskantor at Leipzig, succeeding Calvisius. There his duties included directing the choral music in the Thomiaskirche and the Nicolaikirche, and teaching fourteen hours a week of Latin and singing in the Thomasschule; his most famous pupils were the poet Paul Fleming and the composer Heinrich Abert. Schein suffered from poor health, and illness restricted his activities during the last several years of his life. He established friendships with Scheidt and Schütz.
What did they have in common(1 p)? They were all prominent composers in the late 16th/early 17th century. And what separates one of them from the other(1 p)?
The nationality; Frescobaldi was Italian, the other four German.
5. What is the name of this military order(2 p)?
The Grunwald Cross Medal (Order Kryza Grunwalda) , a Polish military award created in 1943 and awarded for heroism in World War II.
And what does the two swords symbolize(2 p)?
The title of the order commemorates the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, where a Polish-Lithuanian army with Central- and Eastern European allies defeated the knights of the Teutonic Order and their Bohemian allies.
The Battle of Grunwald by Jan Matejko
It is said that, following the Polish-Lithuanian tactic of delaying the battle (their army was in the forests while the Teutonic Knights was exposed to the sun, Grand Master Ulrich von Jüngingen sent two of his knights to the opponents camp, calling the Lithuanian and Polish dukes Vytautas and Jagiello cowards and throwing their swords in front of them as a provocation.
That was, however, to be the great moment of the Teutonic Knights that day...
6.From which culture are these two artefacts (2 p)?
They are typical Scythian works.
7.With the help of the following four persons, find the name of another person (2p). Additionaly you get 0.5 p extra for each of the persons you can identify.
1. Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author and poet, famous humanist from the early Renaissance and author of the Decameron.
2 Geoffrey Chaucer, English author, poet, diplomat, philosopher and courtier. Best known today for Canterbury Tales, also sometimes credited with being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language.
3.Donatien Alphonse de Sade, better known as Marquis de Sade, controversial philosopher and pornographer who undeservedly (at least in my opinion) has give his name to the sexual pleasure to inflict pain and suffering upon others. I am tempted to come back to this fascinating person later, who I feel is often misunderstood. Among his works are Justine, Juliette and The 120 Days of Sodomand Philosophy in the Bedroom.
4. Laura Batti, Italian actress who played in some of Pasolini's films and was a close friend of his.
And the solution is Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, writer and film director(1922-1975).
Pier Paolo Pasolini
The controversial Pasolini often made films depicting social rebels and outcasts while frequently using inexperienced actors. He was also an ouvert homosexual before this was acceptable in most societies (he was expelled from the Italian communist party because of it). The three first pictures in this quiz refers to the fact that Pasolini made films out of the Decameron, Canterbury Tales and The 120 Days of Sodom. I think no true cineast should miss those!
8.Here are the coat of arms of four cities. Name the cities(1 p each), and find out what connects them (2 p)
1.Wismar, Germany
2.Szczecin, Poland
3.Riga, Latvia
4. Bremen, Germany
They were all members of the Hansa League, and also all Swedish dominions. Wismar, Szczecin, and Bremen became Swedish possessions after the Thirty Years War, while Riga came under Swedish rule in 1621 as a result of one of the Polish-Swedish wars (1620-1622)
9.What is the name of this cartoon (1 p) and who made it (1 p)?
Explain who all the people are on it (2 p)
"Die Fechtstunde."(The Fencing Lesson) by Johann Gottfried Schadow.
Shamelessly copied and pasted from another website
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Dating this print is difficult because it could apply to a broad time during the Napoleonic wars. The period just prior to Bonaparte's first abdication is selected from internal evidence. By 1814 the strong Prussian incursions into France were the principle threat, so a petite and dancing Napoleon is shows fencing with a strong and heavy Prussian officer. Each are backed by national types: Napoleon by an infantryman, one of his marshals, and a satire of an effete Talleyrand; the Prussian could be Blücher backed by a Dutchman, an Alsatian, and a Russian on horseback. Judging between the two combatants stands an English sailor, commander of the seas and self-assured victor in the wars. Comments by each is delicately engraved in the top margin.
10.The Soviet Union participated for the first time in the Chess Olympiads in 1952. What was remarkable with the team they sent to that event (2 p)?
The reigning world champion was not selected for the team. Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995) is without doubt one of the alltime greatest in the history of chess, not only for his sporting achievements, but also because of his theoretical contributions to the development of the game.
Mikhail Botvinnik
In 1952 though, Botvinnik's results had been indifferent, and the Soviet Sporting Comitee was only willing to include him if he signed a declaration promising to achieve the best score on the top board. Obviously he couldn't do such a thing, so the Soviet team went to the Olympiad without arguably the best player of the planet.This desicion might easily have been one the Comitee had to regret, since Botvinnik's replacement, the otherwise brilliant Paul Keres played indifferently and jeopardized the expected Soviet victory (they one, but only by 1.5 points and Keres only scored +1).
Botvinnik was to get his revenge - twice. In the following Soviet championship he scored 4 out of 5 against the players who had particpated in the Olympiad ("I wanted to show that I didn't play worse than our Olympic men"-Botvinnik) and in the next Olympiad (Amsterdam 1954) he had the best result on top board.
Bonus question:
Which town is these four pics associated with (2 p)?
Lillehammer, Norway.
The first picture is a depiction of a famous scene from the Norwegian civil wars in the early 13th century. Two men from one of the leading fractions, Birkebeinerne (the birch legs) brought the young throne pretender Håkon Håkonssson to safety in Nidaros (today Trondheim). They went skiing over a area that includes today's Lillehammer, and the event is commemorated in a yearly ski race here. And the coat of arm of Lillehammer is in fact a birkebeiner:
The second picture is the Mossad agent Sylvia Raphael. 1973 saw one of the most dramatic episodes in my town's history.Some agents from Mossad killed the Moroccan waiter Ahmed Bouchiki, mistaking him for the leader of the Black September organization, the one beyond the München Massacre.
The third picture shows dentist Anders Sandvig, who besides being one of Norway's first dentist and also with a certain international reputation also founded the open air museum Maihaugen. For more information about this, go to:http://www.maihaugen.no/default.aspx?id=250
And finally the Olympic rings, since Lillehammer was the host of the 1994 Winter Olympics. I remember it well, crazy days (Why not the Chess Olympiad instead??
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1. Who is this person (3p)?
Nicolaus Copernicus.This picture is a reconstruction based on a skull from a grave found in the cathedral in Frombork this year.
Here is a link in English:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9913250/
2. What event is depicted here(2p)?
The experiment with the Magdeburg hemispheres by Otto von Guericke.
Otto von Guericke
Otto von Guericke (1682-1686) was an important physicist, engineer, natural philosopher,and inventor He also entered the political arena successfully, being mayor of Magdeburg from 1646-1676.
Among his inventions is probably the first air pump, used to study the phenomenon of vacuum and the role of air in combustion and respiration, the most important.
The depicted scene is the first of a series of spectatular experiments by von Guericke on the topic of vacum, performed before Emperor Ferdinand III at Regensburg .
Guericke placed two copper bowls (Magdeburg hemispheres) together to form a hollow sphere about 35.5 cm (14 inches) in diameter. After he had removed the air from the sphere, two teams of eight horses were unable to pull the bowls apart, even though they were held together only by the air around them.
3.Which European politician told the foreign minister of the USSR Viacheslav Molotov to be tougher(2p) and what was the circumstances(2p)?
The Norwegian minister of justice Terje Wold.During a meeting with Molotov he is supposed to have said "You are too soft, mr. Molotov" in response to the Soviet foreign minister pleading for mercy for the famous author Knut Hamsun, a reactionary all his life, whose collaboration with the Nazi regime only was too predictable.
Molotov's request was in vain, Hamsun was prosecuted after the war,and to save national face the Norwegian government arranged for a psychiatric examination of him and a diagnosis instead of just imprisoning him. If anybody wants more details on this topic I will do my best to be of assistance.
4.Here are 5 persons. What was their names (1 p for each correct identification)?
1. Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654) German composer and organist. Born in Halle, Scheidt studied music in the local gymnasium, later becoming organist in the Marienkirche. In 1608 he went to Amsterdam to study under the famous Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and on his return was appointed court organist by Margrave Christian Wilhelm of Brandenburg. He was later to work with Praetorius and Schütz, and about 1620 he was appointed Kapellmeister, while retaining his position as an organist. In the following years he both enlarged the court musical establishment and wrote a huge amount of quality music, including Ludi Musici, Consertus Sacri and Tabulatura Nova.It was also at this time he built up his well-earned reputation as an expert in organ construction.
In 1625 the margrave left for Denmark to participate in the Thirty Years War and Scheidt had to make a living primarily by teaching. In 1628 the city of Halle appointed him director musices, a position he was only able to hold in 2 years as the consequence of a dispute with the Rektor of the Gymnasium. When peace returned to Halle in 1638 he fully resumed his position of Kapellmeister of the court, a position he was to hold for the rest of his life.
2. Girolamo Frescobaldi(1583-1643)Italian composer and keyboardist. Born in Ferrara as the son of a musician and prominent citizen, Frescobaldi studied with the court organist Luzzaschi about whom he would later in life express gratitude on many an occasion and became organist at the Accadernia della Morte at the age of 14.
At some point he came under the patronage of Guido Bentivoglio, a cleric and member of a powerful Ferrarese family. When Guido went to Rome to take a post at the papal court, he took Frescobaldi with him. Girolamo was admitted to the Accademia di S. Cecilia in 1604 and became organist at S. Maria in Trastevere in 1607. He accompanied Guido to Flanders in 1607-8, where a set of his 5-part madrigals was published. He was summoned back to Rome by Guido's brother Enzo, a Vatican official, and was appointed organist of the Cappella Giulia, St. Peter's, upon his return; he worked also as a member of Enzo's household musica, though he was less than diligent in that post. He married in 1612 after fathering two illegitimate children by his future wife; by 1615 he seems to have left the service of the Bentivoglio family for that of Cardinal Aldobrandini, while the court of Mantua made an abortive effort to engage him in that same year.
The next thirteen years were his most fruitful in terms of output, with the two books of toccatas, sets of ricercars, canzonas, and capriecios, and a collection of ensemble canzonas appearing during this time. In addition, his fame as a keyboardist continued to grow; he took various engagements while keeping his posts at the Vatican and with the Aldobrandini family. He was in the employ of the Medici in Florence, 1628-34, and returned again to Rome, where he resumed playing at St. Peter's, in addition taking a post with Cardinal Francesco Barberini and appearing at the celebrated Oratorio del Crocifisso during Lent; the French viol player André Maugars commented in 1639 on his masterly improvisations at these Lenten performances.
3.Hans Leo Hassler (1564 - 1612)German composer. Born in Nürnberg, as son of an organist, Hassler went to Venice in 1584 to study with Andrea Gabrieli.From 1686 the organist Hassler entered the service of Count Fugger at Augsburg, to whom he dedicated his first collection of Italian canzonettas in 1590. In 1595 Hassler, together with his brothers Jacob and Gaspard was raised to the nobility by the Emperor Rudolph II. In Augsburg he worked for a time at the church of S. Moritz, and in 1600 he became head of the town band. He returned to his Nürnberg in 1601, and at the beginning of the following year was appointed kaiserlicher Hofdiener von Haus aus(Imperial servant of the first order), and commissioned to undertake some commercial journeys on behalf of the Emperor. 1604 he changed his residence to Ulm and there married the daughter of a local merchant (1605). In 1608 he moved to Dresden, where he was appointed court organist by the Elector of Saxony and given charge of the latter's library of music. His remaining years were unfortunately marred by illness; he died of consumption on June 8th 1612 at Frankfort- am-Main, whence he had accompanied the Elector for the coronation of the new Emperor.
4. Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621) German composer. The son of a pastor who had been a pupil of Luther, he became organist at the Marienkirche, Frankfurt an der Oder, in 1585. From 1595 he served the Bishop of Halberstadt as organist, and when his patron became Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, he went with him to Wolfenbüttel and became his Kapellmeister in 1603. This post necessitated much travelling in Germany, which enabled him to earn widespread renown as a conductor of musical performances, an organ consultant, and a knowledgeable expert on practical music and on musical instruments.
Praetorius was a Lutheran church composer of amazing industry. Dominating his output is the 9-volume Musae Sioniae containing 1,244 chorale settings, but he published many others too, altogether including pieces on every conceivable scale from little bicima to massive Polychoral variations with instrumental support. He also wrote much other liturgical music and a set of 312 dances ( Terpsichore ). His 3-volume treatise Syntagma Musicum (1619) is an invaluable compendium of information on German music, musical instruments and performance, based on what he heard and saw in his travels.
5. Johann Herman Schein (1586 - 1630) German composer. Upon his father's death in 1593, Schein's family moved to Dresden, where he entered the Hofkapelle of the Elector of Saxony as a boy soprano. There he also received instruction in music from the Kapellmeister, Rogier Michael, and was exposed to much secular and sacred choral music in Latin, German, and Italian. After a brief time at the University of Leipzig, he continued his studies in music at Schulpforta, an electoral school near Naumberg, from May 18, 1603 to April 26, 1607; his teachers there were Bartholomäus Scheer and Martin Roth. In 1608 Schein received an electoral scholarship to study law and the liberal arts at the Univ. of Leipzig, where he remained until 1612. The following year Schein assumed the position of house music director at Schloss Weissenfels and tutor to the children of Gottfried von Wolffersdorff. On May 21, 1615 he was appointed Kapellmeister to Duke Johann Ernst the Younger at Weimar. The following year he auditioned successfully for the position of Thomaskantor at Leipzig, succeeding Calvisius. There his duties included directing the choral music in the Thomiaskirche and the Nicolaikirche, and teaching fourteen hours a week of Latin and singing in the Thomasschule; his most famous pupils were the poet Paul Fleming and the composer Heinrich Abert. Schein suffered from poor health, and illness restricted his activities during the last several years of his life. He established friendships with Scheidt and Schütz.
What did they have in common(1 p)? They were all prominent composers in the late 16th/early 17th century. And what separates one of them from the other(1 p)?
The nationality; Frescobaldi was Italian, the other four German.
5. What is the name of this military order(2 p)?
The Grunwald Cross Medal (Order Kryza Grunwalda) , a Polish military award created in 1943 and awarded for heroism in World War II.
And what does the two swords symbolize(2 p)?
The title of the order commemorates the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, where a Polish-Lithuanian army with Central- and Eastern European allies defeated the knights of the Teutonic Order and their Bohemian allies.
The Battle of Grunwald by Jan Matejko
It is said that, following the Polish-Lithuanian tactic of delaying the battle (their army was in the forests while the Teutonic Knights was exposed to the sun, Grand Master Ulrich von Jüngingen sent two of his knights to the opponents camp, calling the Lithuanian and Polish dukes Vytautas and Jagiello cowards and throwing their swords in front of them as a provocation.
That was, however, to be the great moment of the Teutonic Knights that day...
6.From which culture are these two artefacts (2 p)?
They are typical Scythian works.
7.With the help of the following four persons, find the name of another person (2p). Additionaly you get 0.5 p extra for each of the persons you can identify.
1. Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author and poet, famous humanist from the early Renaissance and author of the Decameron.
2 Geoffrey Chaucer, English author, poet, diplomat, philosopher and courtier. Best known today for Canterbury Tales, also sometimes credited with being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language.
3.Donatien Alphonse de Sade, better known as Marquis de Sade, controversial philosopher and pornographer who undeservedly (at least in my opinion) has give his name to the sexual pleasure to inflict pain and suffering upon others. I am tempted to come back to this fascinating person later, who I feel is often misunderstood. Among his works are Justine, Juliette and The 120 Days of Sodomand Philosophy in the Bedroom.
4. Laura Batti, Italian actress who played in some of Pasolini's films and was a close friend of his.
And the solution is Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, writer and film director(1922-1975).
Pier Paolo Pasolini
The controversial Pasolini often made films depicting social rebels and outcasts while frequently using inexperienced actors. He was also an ouvert homosexual before this was acceptable in most societies (he was expelled from the Italian communist party because of it). The three first pictures in this quiz refers to the fact that Pasolini made films out of the Decameron, Canterbury Tales and The 120 Days of Sodom. I think no true cineast should miss those!
8.Here are the coat of arms of four cities. Name the cities(1 p each), and find out what connects them (2 p)
1.Wismar, Germany
2.Szczecin, Poland
3.Riga, Latvia
4. Bremen, Germany
They were all members of the Hansa League, and also all Swedish dominions. Wismar, Szczecin, and Bremen became Swedish possessions after the Thirty Years War, while Riga came under Swedish rule in 1621 as a result of one of the Polish-Swedish wars (1620-1622)
9.What is the name of this cartoon (1 p) and who made it (1 p)?
Explain who all the people are on it (2 p)
"Die Fechtstunde."(The Fencing Lesson) by Johann Gottfried Schadow.
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:Dating this print is difficult because it could apply to a broad time during the Napoleonic wars. The period just prior to Bonaparte's first abdication is selected from internal evidence. By 1814 the strong Prussian incursions into France were the principle threat, so a petite and dancing Napoleon is shows fencing with a strong and heavy Prussian officer. Each are backed by national types: Napoleon by an infantryman, one of his marshals, and a satire of an effete Talleyrand; the Prussian could be Blücher backed by a Dutchman, an Alsatian, and a Russian on horseback. Judging between the two combatants stands an English sailor, commander of the seas and self-assured victor in the wars. Comments by each is delicately engraved in the top margin.
10.The Soviet Union participated for the first time in the Chess Olympiads in 1952. What was remarkable with the team they sent to that event (2 p)?
The reigning world champion was not selected for the team. Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995) is without doubt one of the alltime greatest in the history of chess, not only for his sporting achievements, but also because of his theoretical contributions to the development of the game.
Mikhail Botvinnik
In 1952 though, Botvinnik's results had been indifferent, and the Soviet Sporting Comitee was only willing to include him if he signed a declaration promising to achieve the best score on the top board. Obviously he couldn't do such a thing, so the Soviet team went to the Olympiad without arguably the best player of the planet.This desicion might easily have been one the Comitee had to regret, since Botvinnik's replacement, the otherwise brilliant Paul Keres played indifferently and jeopardized the expected Soviet victory (they one, but only by 1.5 points and Keres only scored +1).
Botvinnik was to get his revenge - twice. In the following Soviet championship he scored 4 out of 5 against the players who had particpated in the Olympiad ("I wanted to show that I didn't play worse than our Olympic men"-Botvinnik) and in the next Olympiad (Amsterdam 1954) he had the best result on top board.
Bonus question:
Which town is these four pics associated with (2 p)?
Lillehammer, Norway.
The first picture is a depiction of a famous scene from the Norwegian civil wars in the early 13th century. Two men from one of the leading fractions, Birkebeinerne (the birch legs) brought the young throne pretender Håkon Håkonssson to safety in Nidaros (today Trondheim). They went skiing over a area that includes today's Lillehammer, and the event is commemorated in a yearly ski race here. And the coat of arm of Lillehammer is in fact a birkebeiner:
The second picture is the Mossad agent Sylvia Raphael. 1973 saw one of the most dramatic episodes in my town's history.Some agents from Mossad killed the Moroccan waiter Ahmed Bouchiki, mistaking him for the leader of the Black September organization, the one beyond the München Massacre.
The third picture shows dentist Anders Sandvig, who besides being one of Norway's first dentist and also with a certain international reputation also founded the open air museum Maihaugen. For more information about this, go to:http://www.maihaugen.no/default.aspx?id=250
And finally the Olympic rings, since Lillehammer was the host of the 1994 Winter Olympics. I remember it well, crazy days (Why not the Chess Olympiad instead??
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Ciceronian
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Good quiz and great write-up luceafarul!
though for not solving 4: Scheidt, Schein and Hassler are all household names to me, and I have often played their pieces on the organ! But I had never before seen their pictures. If samples of their music had been posted, I would have been able to solve it.
Richard Cribb
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Thanks a lot.Ciceronian said:
Well, I understand that you were a bit handicapped this time due to a busy schedule and difficulties with getting access to a computer, so I think considering that you scored well.
And it is quite typical that we sometimes miss the most evident, I have done this a couple of times myself. I really thought that a couple of those pictures, like that hillarious one of Schein, were relatively well known, but evidently not.
I was a bit reluctant to post samples of music, since I feel it would have been a bit too specific for most, but perhaps it would have been the right thing to do - it is a great idea anyway!
Adler17
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And I saw the picture of Copernicus before. But I did not remember that.
Adler
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Aion
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Actually I thought of Lillehammer, but I didn't have a clue who the persons were. I have been there, BTW, it's a nice place
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Really? When? And for how long?Aion said:Actually I thought of Lillehammer, but I didn't have a clue who the persons were. I have been there, BTW, it's a nice place
Aion
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luceafarul said:
Well, like two hours actually
I was in Norway with my father and brother during the summer of 2003. We came over Denmark and drove all the way north up to the Finnish border, so we didn't have that much time to spend at each location. In Lillehammer we stopped to have lunch and had a look at the Storgata.
Ciceronian
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I've driven past Lillehammer with my parents, we were in a camping van on the way back from the North Cape. We took three weeks from there to Trondheim, from there we just drove back home quickly via Lillehammer, Oslo, Göteborg, Kopenhagen and Hannover.
El_Tigre
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Doh, I should have recognized at least one person in Nr. 7! 
Again, thanks for all the effort you put into the quiz! I learned a lot,
especially about those composers I never heard before...
Anyway, I'm working on my questions right now, but it is more time consuming
than I thought. I'm done with 7 questions right now, and I already know the last
3, but I have to edit some pictures before I can post the quiz. Tomorrow...
Again, thanks for all the effort you put into the quiz! I learned a lot,especially about those composers I never heard before...
Anyway, I'm working on my questions right now, but it is more time consuming
than I thought. I'm done with 7 questions right now, and I already know the last
3, but I have to edit some pictures before I can post the quiz. Tomorrow...
