The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

New Home wrote: »

Soooo.... you can also find it on the internet!

But the question was where would it be used.

New Home

Darn. Caught out again!

IrishZeus

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I read it (well, a translation) years ago.

Gaius Plinius Secundu.

Correcto - known as Pliny the Elder. First translated by his nephew Pliny the Younger. (I think!)

feargale

Quazzie wrote: »

England, Thailand, Vietnam, Russia, France, Italy, Switzerland and Afghanistan.

What have they all got in common?

When you say England and not UK I think it must have something to do with sport. Mountaineering?

Quazzie

feargale wrote: »

When you say England and not UK I think it must have something to do with sport. Mountaineering?

Not got to do with sport.

BIG HINT:

It's got to do with the name

feargale

Quazzie wrote: »

England, Thailand, Vietnam, Russia, France, Italy, Switzerland and Afghanistan.

What have they all got in common?

A number of them have the word for land in their name including Afghanistan and I think Vietnam but others not.

It wouldn't be something so banal as all of them containing the letter A?

Quazzie

feargale wrote: »

A number of them have the word for land in their name including Afghanistan and I think Vietnam but others not.

Getting closer with that

feargale

Quazzie wrote: »

Getting closer with that

"Free"? Thailand = Free land. France from frank = free.

Quazzie

feargale wrote: »

"Free"? Thailand = Free land. France from frank = free.

The Thai in Thailand doesn't come from the word Free... well not directly anyways

TheBoyFromAus

Quazzie wrote: »

Getting closer with that

Is each one meaning the land of those people. i.e. Land of the English, Land of the Suisse, Land of the Afghans?

Quazzie

TheBoyFromAus wrote: »

Is each one meaning the land of those people. i.e. Land of the English, Land of the Suisse, Land of the Afghans?

That's close enough. They all were named after indigenous people or tribes who lived there.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Quazzie wrote: »

That's close enough. They all were named after indigenous people or tribes who lived there.

Italy comes from the land of the young cattle or calves.

Quazzie

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Italy comes from the land of the young cattle or calves.

Italy was named after the Vitali tribe. They were often represented by a calf, so maybe that's where you are confused

TheBoyFromAus

What was unusual about the filming of cult film' The Crow'?

keane2097

TheBoyFromAus wrote: »

What was unusual about the filming of cult film' The Crow'?

Your man who starred in it died during it did he?

New Home

That part of it was filmed after the main actor had died, and some scenes with the main character were assembled from snippets of other scenes/outtakes?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Quazzie wrote: »

Italy was named after the Vitali tribe. They were often represented by a calf, so maybe that's where you are confused

I'm not confused at all. Ancient Greek Ἰταλία, or Italia is literally Land of bulls.
The tribe derived their name from their presence in southern Italia. But sources obviously differ. Three books here confirm it as Tribe named for region rather than region named for peoples.

But, no matter, just my pedantic nature.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

TheBoyFromAus wrote: »

What was unusual about the filming of cult film' The Crow'?

It's nearly harder to say what was usual.

The death was filmed and the footage used in the subsequent official enquiry.

feargale

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I'm not confused at all. Ancient Greek Ἰταλία, or Italia is literally Land of bulls.
The tribe derived their name from their presence in southern Italia. But sources obviously differ. Three books here confirm it as Tribe named for region rather than region named for peoples.

I also always understood Italy to mean "calf land" but from a pre-Latin language of the peninsula, maybe Etruscan.

Furthermore I would question Switzerland. The name derives from Schwyz, one of the original three cantons. The inhabitants of Schwyz could not be called a tribe, anymore than the inhabitants of Luxembourg City (which gave its name to the country) could be so called.

From Wikipedia:
The toponym Schwyz itself was first attested in 972, as Old High German Suittes, ultimately perhaps related to swedan ‘to burn’ (cf. Old Norse svíða ‘to singe, burn’), referring to the area of forest that was burned and cleared to build. The name was extended to the area dominated by the canton, and after the Swabian War of 1499 gradually came to be used for the entire Confederation.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

feargale wrote: »

I also always understood Italy to mean "calf land" but from a pre-Latin language of the peninsula, maybe Etruscan.

Furthermore I would question Switzerland. The name derives from Schwyz, one of the original three cantons. The inhabitants of Schwyz could not be called a tribe, anymore than the inhabitants of Luxembourg City (which gave its name to the country) could be so called.

From Wikipedia:
The toponym Schwyz itself was first attested in 972, as Old High German Suittes, ultimately perhaps related to swedan ‘to burn’ (cf. Old Norse svíða ‘to singe, burn’), referring to the area of forest that was burned and cleared to build. The name was extended to the area dominated by the canton, and after the Swabian War of 1499 gradually came to be used for the entire Confederation.

I have seen a couple of sources that have inverted the etymology of some countries to country named for peoples, when it's the other way round. Strangely both are American.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

'Salem's Lot
Ulysses
Pride & Prejudice
Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets
Oliver Twist


A connection please.

looksee

Are they all second books?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

looksee wrote: »

Are they all second books?

Yes, indeed they are. Well done.

Your next question please.....

New Home

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Yes, indeed they are. Well done.

Your next question please.....

Now you know how the rest of us feel, Autumn Harsh Cloud.

looksee

What is the name Gros Michel associated with?

New Home

Shot in the dark - is it the name given to Mont San Michel, a bit like Skellig Michael is the greater of the Skelligs (I think)?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

looksee wrote: »

What is the name Gros Michel associated with?

Being a naturalist and well acquainted with the McCann family and Fyffe bananas, I instantly think of Bananas.

New Home

Like I said, mine was a shot in the dark without night-vision goggles.

looksee

And of course Srameen has it!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

What have the following in common?

Bill Gates
Michael Collins (astronaut)
Leonardo de Vinci
Keanu Reeves
Oprah Winfrey
David Bowie.