Trivia Quiz - Part D

Okay, after a suitable delay, I humbly present Part D of the Trivia Quiz. How many can you get correct? 1. Here is the Bopnopper, just before her very first birthday. When this was taken, she was living with her family in: a. Antwerp, Belgium b. Tallahassee, Florida c. The Hotel California d. La La Land 2. Bopnopper is in the left seat in this cockpit, meaning that she is sitting in the seat normally occupied by: a. the Captain, or Pilot in Command (PIC) b. The Co-Pilot, or Second in Command (SIC) c. The Navigator d. The Flight Engineer e. The Bombardier 3. Here is the Bopnopper at the controls of a vehicle which can: a. Dive underwater almost half a mile b. Take satellites into orbit c. Fire some really mean guns at bad guys d. Explore the surface of Mars 4. Sometime around 1090 A.D., Peter the Hermit talked Godfrey into leading the very First Crusade. After some very interesting experiences along the way, Godfrey conquered Jerusalem, being one of the few crusaders to actually "win". Here is the Bopnopper standing on the very castle, built in 970, which Godfrey sold to the Bishop of Liege to finance his Crusade. The little town in the background is: a. Denver, Colorado b. Ho Chi Minh City c. Bouillon d. Hong Kong 5. Here is the same castle, this time looking up at it from the town below. This castle is just one of many the Bopnopper toured which has: a. high-speed internet access b. a drawbridge, a portcullis, a keep, and a well-stocked torture chamber c. termites d. been featured in a Monte Python movie 6. According to the New York City Park Authority, this statue is the most visited monument in Central Park. Here is the Bopnopper, standing beside the statue of the real hero: a. Flipper b. Underdog c. Balto d. Rikki Tikki Tavi 7. In her very first year as an EMT, the Bopnopper was awarded a plaque by the 100-plus member Bridgewater Rescue Squad for being selected as: a. The Grand Poo-Bah b. Rookie of the Year c. The first person to drive an ambulance more than 100 miles per hour. d. The only volunteer who would clean up the ambulance when it got all mooky. 8. Here is the Bopnopper in the glass tunnel at Aquatopia, one of the largest aquariums in Europe, and located a ten-minute walk from her apartment where she lived for more than seven months. Those are real porpoises swimming over her head. Across the plaza from this location is: a. The Eiffel Tower b. Hopkins Glacier c. Mount Olympus d. The Antwerp Central Train Station 9. The Spoelgoede is a world-class Museum of Toys. One of its most prominent features is a room-sized Monopoly Board, where you yourself serve as your playing piece. This museum is located in a European town where lived Margaret of Habsburg during the time she governed the Netherlands and was raising her nephew Charles V (the guy who sent Cortez to steal the Aztec gold). Margaret was the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian and his wife, Mary of Burgundy. Margaret had married Juan, the son of Ferdinand of Spain and Isabella of Aragon -- the royal couple who sponsored Christopher Columbus on his famous voyage. Poor Juan, however, died shortly after the wedding, leaving Margaret a widow. Like the Bopnopper's mom, Margaret loved kids. While living in this little town, just a couple of blocks from today's toy museum, Margaret took in and educated a young English girl named Anne Boleyn. Anne would later return to England and eventually replace Catherine of Aragon (Juan's sister, Margaret's sister-in-law) as the wife of Henry VIII and Queen of England.) In addition to featuring the toy museum, the town Margaret called home is also known for being one end of the very first railroad line laid in Continental Europe, the other end being in Brussels. What is this city? a. Margaretaville b. Moscow c. Mechelen d. Massanutten e. Monopoly 10. The land of the trembling earth is a swampy lake 40 miles in diameter, three feet deep, with trees growing on floating peat islands. This lake is on the border of Florida and Georgia, and is the source of the St. Marys and Suwanee Rivers. The Bopnopper got to canoe into the wilderness, several miles from the nearest landing, and got to see dozens of alligators up close and personal. She also got caught in a thunderstorm out there in the wilderness! The indian name for this land of the trembling earth is: a. Everglades b. Okefenokee c. Arkansas d. Shaker Heights 11. Here is the Bopnopper in Weyers Cave, hiding behind some home-grown...: a. Mary Jane b. Opium Poppies c. Poison Ivy d. Yellow squash 12. In downtown Brussels, there is a statue of the Man from LaMancha and his trusty sidekick, Sancho Panza, off to fight the windmills. This whimsical character created by Cervantes in 1604 is better known as: a. Little Red Riding Hood b. The Wizard of Oz c. Don Quixote d. Mr. Bean 13. In the background in front of the Bopnopper is the "Oudekerk", or Olde Church, in which Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, father of microbiology, and Johannes Vermeer, famous Dutch Master painter, are buried. This city is Delft, Holland. Bopnopper has climbed the tower on the building housing the tombs of William of Orange, and all successive rulers of the Netherlands. This tower is on the building known as: a. The Orange Joose b. The House of Orange c. The Tower of London d. The Nieuwekerk (New Church) 14. Henry VIII first met Anne Boleyn while on a vacation to his hunting lodge outside Hartfield, England. The Bopnopper got to spend a couple of nights in that very hunting lodge, which is shown in the background below, possibly in the very room where Henry and/or Anne stayed. Within a short driving distance is Ashdowne Forest, the inspiration for the Hundred Acre Wood, made famous by A. A. Milne in his Winnie the Pooh stories. Milne and his son Christopher Robin Milne lived a short walk from Henry's hunting lodge. This place is named: a. Henry Cabot Lodge b. Howard Johnson's Lodge c. Bolebroke Castle d. Boleyn Manor e. Tigger's Roo 15. The monument below is dedicated to the firefighters and EMT personnel who lost their lives in the 9/11 incident. This monument is located in: a. New York, on the fire station across the street from the site of the World Trade Center b. Germany, on the famous Berlin Wall c. Lu Hong Chu, on the Great Wall of China d. Little Rock Arkansas, on the famous Wall Mart 16. Here is Bopnopper and her Mom, outside Liege, Belgium. They have just finished touring the historical facility whose entrance is in the background, and known as the: a. Rembrandt Museum b. Blegny Coal Mine c. Interbrew Stella Artois Brewery d. Louvre 17. Just a few steps from the above entrance, this shoe is located in the children's playground in front of the: a. Blegny Coal Mine b. Staten Island Ferry Landing c. Miami Beach Planetarium d. Kremlin 18. When the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian of Austria married Mary of Burgundy, she was living in this Flemish city shown below, which amazingly has been spared the ravages of the many wars fought since the 1400s and thus is today a quintessential Medieval town, complete with city walls, windmills, and original architecture from the 1300s. This city features a huge chocolate museum. It was the birthplace of Margaret of Habsburg. Amazingly, in the 1950's the Bopnopper's grandparents received as a wedding gift two plates featuring scenes from this city. This city is: a. Bruges, or Brugge b. Amsterdam c. Salzburg d. Las Vegas 19. While preparing for the wedding, Maximilian's personal secretary had a little too much to drink in the town pub, and got into a fight with some of the local natives and ended up dead. To honor his faithful servant, Maximilian decreed that for all eternity, the town must keep swans on its canals to remember him by. Swans are appropriate, because the secretary's name was: a. Peter Longneck b. John Webfoot c. Big Chief Whitefeather d. Elizabeth Swann 20. The American city of Saint Louis, Missouri, is named in honor of Louis IX, who was King of France during the 1200's. Louis the Ninth lived in the royal palace on the Ile de la Cite, in Paris. Louis built his own personal church, known as Sainte-Chapelle, next door to his palace. Look up "Sainte Chapelle" in Wikipedia for some nice photos. Built almost 800 years ago, two-thirds of the original stained-glass windows are still standing in their original mountings. Here is the Bopnopper standing in front of Sainte Chapelle, which is the first example of definitive Gothic architecture, inspiring countless Gothic cathedrals. One of the most famous Gothic cathedrals was started a few decades later, less than two blocks from Sainte-Chapelle, and took generations to complete. It is known as: a. Westminster Abbey b. Notre Dame Cathedral c. Thomas Road Baptist Church d. The Taj Mahal 21. Back home in Virginia, the Bopnopper is shown here hiking in the Madison Run Wilderness Area. She is in the Shenandoah National Park, standing on the famous...: a. The Appalachian Trail b. The Pink Panther's Trail c. Vapor Trail d. O.J. Simpson Murder Trail 22. A few feet away from the above photo, fittingly enough, Bopnopper is sitting on a mound of stone known as: a. Rock Hudson b. Mount Everest c. Rocky Balboa d. Black Rock 23. In the city of Ypres, Bopnopper got to tour the Langemarke Cemetery (German) and Tyne Cot Cemetery (Allied), where some of the more than half a million (yes, you read correctly, half a million!) soldiers lost their lives in less than six weeks of battle in and around this city in World War I. Bopnopper got to visit an authentic preserved WWI trench emplacement, as well as the field hospital bunker where Canadian field surgeon Lt. Col. John McCrae wrote his famous poem, "In Flanders Fields...". Bopnopper also got to ride through the famous Menin Gate. If you look up Ypres in Wikipedia, you will note at the bottom it refers you to the Picanol Wikipedia entry. Here is the Bopnopper at the Picanol facility. Picanol: a. is a Belgian fast food chain b. is the name of a famous captain of a federation starship c. is the world's largest manufacturer of weaving and textile equipment d. is the European equivalent to Thomas the Tank Engine 24. The next three pictures show Bopnopper at: a. the South Pole b. Times Square c. Picadilly Circus d. the Palace of Versailles 25. Here is Bopnopper in the most famous room in this facility. This room is known as the Hall of...: a. Valor b. the Mountain King c. Fame d. Mirrors 26. This famous portrait of Whistler's Mother is hanging in a famous Paris museum that used to be a train station. No, it's not the Louvre. It is: a. The Glass Menagerie b. The Rockefeller Center c. Ben and Jerry's d. The Musee D'Orsay 27. And finally, here is the Bopnopper on a famous bridge, the...: a. Bridge over the River Kwai b. The Bridge over Troubled Waters c. The Brooklyn Bridge d. The Dental Bridge