GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ

[am Bays]

Q 16 Mexico.....

[magpie in the 80's]

Q 16 Mexico.....

slowly BUT surely the tortise gets another CORRECT

[Psyber]

Q7. What does a vexillogist study? FLAGS

Q5. 'The Absinthe Drinker' is a work by which painter? Lautrec?
Edit: Oh JAS got it already.... and its INCORRECT

Couldn't remember my other option - Manet, but when I checked I found Degas and Picasso had both done one too, but I think Manet was first! And it looks like Manet may have been the one who used "The" in the title.

[magpie in the 80's]

Q7. What does a vexillogist study? FLAGS

Q5. 'The Absinthe Drinker' is a work by which painter? Lautrec?
Edit: Oh JAS got it already.... and its INCORRECT

Couldn't remember my other option - Manet, but when I checked I found Degas and Picasso had both done one too, but I think Manet was first! And it looks like Manet may have been the one who used "The" in the title.

CORRECT ON BOTH PSYBER

EXTRACT FROM WIKI
he painted The Absinthe Drinker (1858-59) and other contemporary subjects such as beggars, singers, Gypsies, people in cafés, and bullfights.

[Psyber]

As I said I think Manet was first in1871, but there are also these, so it is not entirely clear - several had a go:

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Edgar Degas' Absinthe Drinker
Edgar Degas: Picture, part of Natasha's Internet Art Tour pages ... The models in Absinthe Drinker were used in Edouard Manet's painting. ...
http://www.jssgallery.org/Other_Artists ... rinker.htm - 7k - Cached - More from this site
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Absinthe Drinker, by Picasso
click on image to see Manet's painting with the same title. THE ABSINTHE DRINKER. by Pablo Picasso ... et Pierrot — Absinthe Drinker — Déjeuner Sur l'Herbe ...
http://www.geocities.com/picasso0408/absinthe.html - 11k - Cached - More from this site

Perhaps we need an art expert to tell us who was first and a French expert to strictly interpret the French translations of the titles!

One of the problems of WIKI is they don't/can't make the posters back up their statements.


PS: More about absinthe in art.

http://www.oxygenee.com/absintheFAQ4.html
"The surrealist Alfred Jarry, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Toulouse Lautrec, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allen Poe, Picasso, Hemingway and many others all featured it prominently in their works."

[magpie in the 80's]

from some quick research psyber;

manet painted his in 1858/59
degas painted his in 1876
picasso painted his in 1901

[JAS]

Pierrot can mean little Peter and dejeunner sur l'herbe litterally means lunch on the grass.

Regards
JAS

[Psyber]

from some quick research psyber;

manet painted his in 1858/59
degas painted his in 1876
picasso painted his in 1901

Interesting - one of the sources I found said 1871 for Manet - but that still makes him first..

[Psyber]

YET ANOTHER VERSION:

http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/absinth ... meline.php

"Middle Ages Wormwood drink used as a cure for flatulence. 1
1792 Dr. Pierre Ordinaire writes a recipe for absinthe, and becomes one of the first to promote the virtues of the wormwood drink.
1797 Henri-Louis Pernod opens his first absinthe distillery in Switzerland.
1805 Henri-Louis Pernod opens larger absinthe distillery in Pontarlier, France.
1840s French soldiers fighting in Algeria in the 1840s drank absinthe as a preventative against malaria and other diseases. This sparked the first big surge in absinthe's popularity in France. 1
1844 Paul Marie Verlaine is born. [More Info]
1850 Henri-Louis Pernod dies.
1859 Manet paints The Absinthe Drinker.
1859 Baudelaire meets Manet.
Nov 1871 Verlaine and Rimbaud form relationship. Become inseperable for many years.
1876 Degas paints L'Absinthe
1878 8 million liters of Absinthe imported in the United States.
1887 Van Gogh paints "Still Life with Absinthe".
1891 Rimbaud dies in France.
1895 Maignan paints "The Green Muse".
1901 Picasso paints The Absinthe Drinker, oil on canvas, and Woman Drinking Absinthe, oil on canvas.
Aug 11, 1901 Pernod plant in Pontarlier catches fire when struck by lightning. The fire burns for four days.
1905 Absinthe banned in Belgium.
Aug 28, 1905 Jean Lanfray murders his wife while supposedly drunk on many liquors, including and especially absinthe.
May 15, 1906 Vaud legislature in Switzerland votes to ban absinthe
Feb 2, 1907 Grand Conseil of Switzerland votes to ban the retail sale of absinthe and its imitations.
Jul 5, 1908 Absinthe oficially banned in Switzerland (Article 32 of federal constitution).
1910 French production of Absinthe reaches 36 million liters anually. (Pharmacotheon)
1911 Picasso paints Glass of Absinthe, an "analytic cubist" oil on canvas.
1912 Picasso paints Bottle of Pernod and Glass, a "synthetic cubist" oil on canvas.
1912 Absinthe banned in the United States. (Pharmacotheon)
1913 Charles Foley's one-act play Absinthe performed for the first time at the Grand Guignol in Paris.
1914 Picasso creates Glass of Absinthe, a painted bronze sculpture.
1915 Absinthe banned in France by Chamber of Deputies.
Mar 16, 1915 Absinthe officially banned in France.
1990 Wormwood extracts found to be as effective in supressing malaria as chloroquine

References

1. Pendell D. Pharmako / Poeia. Mercury House, 1995."

I guess that's enough as a sideline about the matter. I just got curious.

[magpie in the 80's]

AS THEY SAY PSYBER "NEXT PLEASE"

[magpie in the 80's]

Pierrot can mean little Peter and dejeunner sur l'herbe litterally means lunch on the grass.

Regards
JAS

our own safooty "HUMAN LANGUAGES DICTIONARY". well done JAS

[JAS]

Pierrot can mean little Peter and dejeunner sur l'herbe litterally means lunch on the grass.

Regards
JAS

our own safooty "HUMAN LANGUAGES DICTIONARY". well done JAS

Haha...just what I remebered from school...in this hemishpere, in the 60's/70's French was not optional...bloody hated it but it's had it's uses.

Regards
JAS

[JAS]

Q22. How about Egypt ? Can't think of any others with ET

Regards
JAS

[johntheclaret]

Q47 Crystal Palace ??

[magpie in the 80's]

JAS
Q22. correct

JTC
Q47. incorrect

[The Real Number 3]

q 47: Isnt it one of the Sheffield Clubs? Im guessing Sheffield Wednesday

[Mr66]

Q/15 - Canterbury
Q/24 - Buddy Holly
Q/25 - St.Pancras
Q/28 - Alan Shearer
Q/32 - Nine
Q/35 - A Parking ticket
Q/37 - Boy George
Q/45 - Seventeen
Q/47 - Fulham
Q/48 - Champagne(Sparkling Wine) & Peach juice or puree
Q/50 - Pain.

[johntheclaret]

q 47: Isnt it one of the Sheffield Clubs? Im guessing Sheffield Wednesday

"London" Club TRNo3

PS, Sheffiled Wednesday is called so because it was started by a group of Butchers who could only play on Wednesdays. This was the half day closing day.

[magpie in the 80's]

q 47: Isnt it one of the Sheffield Clubs? Im guessing Sheffield Wednesday

incorrect number 3

[magpie in the 80's]

Q/15 - Canterbury
Q/24 - Buddy Holly
Q/25 - St.Pancras
Q/28 - Alan Shearer
Q/32 - Nine
Q/35 - A Parking ticket
Q/37 - Boy George
Q/45 - Seventeen
Q/47 - Fulham
Q/48 - Champagne(Sparkling Wine) & Peach juice or puree
Q/50 - Pain.

all correct mr.66 BUT why did you leave out Q21, 23