BH154: The French Connection
Specialist Quiz Looking Forward to You Know What
Suffering from a damn head cold, which is making me sneeze every few seconds, I've just realised in the fog and haze of nasaloral spray (I know what you're thinking "Nice!), I've had one of my BH quizzes lying dormant in my hard drive yet to be released. Thus, I am letting it go.
It is the first in a series of putative series of nation-based specials, which - funnily enough - will not include such countries as Belgium, Norway, Finland, Estonia, the UK and India. And by the way, it is meant to be extra BHard. Even I didn't know the answer to a single question before I started writing them.
Also, with regards to The Giant deadline (yep, it's still open to all and sundry and yep, I know it has been going on since August), it is now the last day of this month. November that is. In case, you're wondering.
(Please excuse the lack of accents and cedillas. I wrote it in a bit of a rush and you know how us Englanders are so indifferent to them)
BH154: France, or as we say in English, France
1. Which 46-year-old French writer, who made his debut as a film director with the recently released I've Loved You So Long, is the author of eight novels including the 2003 bestseller Les Ames Grises/Grey Souls, published in the US with the title By a Slow River?
2 Which seaside town, a commune and a sous-prefecture of the Vendee departement, is the starting port for the Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race?
3 Which French artist, who finished his studies with the Jesuits at the College de Navarre in 1751 and entered the atelier of the sculptor Michel-Ange Slodtz, spent 11 years in Rome, some of which were in the circle of Piranesi, whose capricci of romantically overgrown ruins influenced him so greatly that he gained the nickname '______ des ruines' and on returning to France was received by the Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture, with a Roman capriccio, The Port of Rome, ornamented with different Monuments of Architecture, Ancient and Modern?
4 One of the leading expatriate figures in Paris between WW1 and WW2, which Maryland-born woman originally published James Joyce's Ulysses in Paris in 1922 while it was banned in the US?
5 Albert Camus said of this man "in the history of French theatre, there are two periods: before ______ and after ______". Which influential theatre director, dramatist, critic and actor (1879-1949) founded the famous Theatre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris and worked at the Georges Petit Gallery where he organised exhibits of artists' works and helped found the Nouvelle Revue Francaise in 1909, along with such writer friends as Andre Gide and Jean Schlumberger? He emphasised training an actor to be a complete person and rejected the Italian stage for something closer to the Elizabethan model.
6 An assistant of Andrzej Wajda, which Polish film director's second film Diabel/The Devil (1972) was banned in his homeland leading to his emigration to France where he made L'Important c'est d'aimer (1975) with Romy Schneider, and has since produced such films as On the Silver Globe/Na srebym globie (1987 - based on a book written by his great-uncle) and Szamanka/The Shaman (1996)?
7 As of 2007, France had four FIA world champions. Alain Prost in F1, Jean-Louis Schlesser in the World Sportscar Championship and Sebastian Loeb in rally driving. Which former ambulance driver from Montpellier became the first Frenchman to become World Rally Champion in 1994?
8 French basketball player Boris Diaw played for Pau Orthez, his country's top league team, before joining the NBA in 2003 when he was drafted 21st overall by the Atlanta Hawks. Which team did he leave the Hawks for in 2005, where he collected the Most Improved Player award for his first season?
9 Which late Capetian King of France was victorious at Bouvines on July 27, 1214, and thus annexed Normandy and Anjou into his royal domains?
10 Named after a region in the west of France, what name was given to the feudal dynastic encounter in 1242 between Louis IX and Henry III of England, having arisen became some vassals of the French king were displeased with the accession of his brother Alphonse as count of Poitou?
11 Known by the title 1st Duc de Magenta, which royalist general, politician and Marshal of France (1808-1893), whose Irish name came from ancestors who had settled in Limerick, served as Chief of State of France from 1873 to 1875 and as the first president of the Third Republic from 1875-79, but resigned due to the 16 May 1877 crisis?
12 Which French manufacturer of optical filters for photography is particularly noted for their 'Creative Filter System', invented by photographer Jean _____ (after whom the company is named) and introduced in 1978?
13 David Belle (b.1973) is considered the founder of which discipline or sport?
14 Lending his name to a monastery where a number of noted illuminated manuscripts were produced in c.1000, who became the first bishop of Limoges sometime during the 3rd century and was according to a lost vita of Saturnin, first bishop of Toulouse, which Gregory of Tours quotes in his History of the Franks? His feast day is June 30.
15 French people often refer to Metropolitan France by what nickname because of the geometric shape of its territory?
16 With Bernardino Osio as its current Secretary-General, which international organisation of 37 nations (plus three observers) that use a Romance language was created in Madrid in 1954 and has its HQ in Paris?
17 Which chateau, named after a small village in the Indre-et-Loire departement, was built on the site of an old mill on the River Cher sometime before its first mention in writing in the 11th century? Its current manor was designed by the Renaissance architect Philibert Delorme and has Diane de Poitiers' gardens in its grounds.
18 Which French Gothic Revival architect (1814-79), famed for his "restorations" of medieval buildings, was considered by Sir John Summerson to be one of "two supremely eminent theorists in the history of European architecture" with Leon Battista Alberti? His restorations include Notre-Dame de Paris, to which he added such grotesques as Le Stryge/The Vampire; Saint-Nazaire Castle in Carcassonne, Narbonne Town Hall, and such castles as Roquetaillade in Bordeaux, Pierrefonds and Chateau de Vincennes, Paris.
19 Designated a Ramsar site in December 1968, which vast plain is Western Europe's largest river delta (technically an island, as it is surrounded by water) and is located south of Arles between the Mediterranean Sea and the two arms of the River Rhone delta? It is also the lowest point in France (2m/6.5ft below sea level)?
20 Which conflict (1683-84) between Louis XIV and Charles II's Spain was fueled by the French king's long-running desire to conquer new lands, many of them comprising part of the Spanish Netherlands along France's northern and eastern borders, and as such was a direct sequel to the War of Devolution and the Franco-Dutch Wars?
21 Which French sculptor, painter and filmmaker, who died in May 2002, was particularly influenced by Gaudi's 'Park Guell'; the garden complex convincing her to one day create her own garden work that would combine both art and nature, and in 1961 became known around the world for her Shooting paintings - works consisting of a wooden base board on which containers of paint were laid then covered with plaster and then raised so she could shoot at it with a .22 calibre rifle?
22 First located at Lyon in 1879 and handed over to the state and transferred to Paris in 1885, which museum of Asian art is located at 6, place d'lena in the 16th arrondissement and is named after its industrialist founder, Emile Etienne ______?
23 What year is associated with the 'Diplomatic Revolution of ____', a term applied to the reversal of longstanding diplomatic alliances which were held until the War of Austrian Succession and then reversed in the Seven Years' War, with France forging an alliance with the Hapsburgs after centuries of animosity?
24 Which 350km-long portion of the Antarctic coast between Pourquoi Pas Point and Point Alden is one of five districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands and since January 1956 has had a permanently staffed French research base at Dumont d'Urville Station, the capital (winter population 33; 78 in summer) that is named after coast's discoverer Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville, who gave it his wife's name?
25 Based on a Charles Spaak short story, which 1935 French historical romantic comedy was made by Jacques Feyder immediately after his dark psychological drama Pension Mimosas because he wanted to relax by producing a farce far removed from the present day, setting it in 1616 in the Spanish-occupied town of Boom and featuring Francoise Rosay as Cornelia de Witte, Madame la Bourgmestre?
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Answers to BH154
1 Philippe Claudel 2 Les Sables-d'Olonne 3 Hubert Robert 4 Sylvia Beach (b. Nancy Woodbridge Beach) 5 Jacques Copeau 6 Andrzej Zulawski 7 Didier Auriol 8 Phoenix Suns 9 Philip II Augustus 10 Saintonge War (named after Saintes) 11 Marshal MacMahon or Patrice de Mac-Mahon or Marie Edme Maurice de Mac-Mahon 12 Cokin (Jean Coquin) 13 Parkour 14 Saint Martial 15 "L'Hexagone" 16 Latin Union 17 Chateau de Chenonceau 18 Eugene Viollet-le-Duc 19 The Camargue 20 War of the Reunions 21 Niki de Saint Phalle (b. Catherine-Marie-Agnes Fal de Saint Phalle) 22 Musee Guimet 23 1756 24 Adelie Land 25 Carnival in Flanders/La Kermesse heroique
Suffering from a damn head cold, which is making me sneeze every few seconds, I've just realised in the fog and haze of nasaloral spray (I know what you're thinking "Nice!), I've had one of my BH quizzes lying dormant in my hard drive yet to be released. Thus, I am letting it go.
It is the first in a series of putative series of nation-based specials, which - funnily enough - will not include such countries as Belgium, Norway, Finland, Estonia, the UK and India. And by the way, it is meant to be extra BHard. Even I didn't know the answer to a single question before I started writing them.
Also, with regards to The Giant deadline (yep, it's still open to all and sundry and yep, I know it has been going on since August), it is now the last day of this month. November that is. In case, you're wondering.
(Please excuse the lack of accents and cedillas. I wrote it in a bit of a rush and you know how us Englanders are so indifferent to them)
BH154: France, or as we say in English, France
1. Which 46-year-old French writer, who made his debut as a film director with the recently released I've Loved You So Long, is the author of eight novels including the 2003 bestseller Les Ames Grises/Grey Souls, published in the US with the title By a Slow River?
2 Which seaside town, a commune and a sous-prefecture of the Vendee departement, is the starting port for the Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race?
3 Which French artist, who finished his studies with the Jesuits at the College de Navarre in 1751 and entered the atelier of the sculptor Michel-Ange Slodtz, spent 11 years in Rome, some of which were in the circle of Piranesi, whose capricci of romantically overgrown ruins influenced him so greatly that he gained the nickname '______ des ruines' and on returning to France was received by the Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture, with a Roman capriccio, The Port of Rome, ornamented with different Monuments of Architecture, Ancient and Modern?
4 One of the leading expatriate figures in Paris between WW1 and WW2, which Maryland-born woman originally published James Joyce's Ulysses in Paris in 1922 while it was banned in the US?
5 Albert Camus said of this man "in the history of French theatre, there are two periods: before ______ and after ______". Which influential theatre director, dramatist, critic and actor (1879-1949) founded the famous Theatre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris and worked at the Georges Petit Gallery where he organised exhibits of artists' works and helped found the Nouvelle Revue Francaise in 1909, along with such writer friends as Andre Gide and Jean Schlumberger? He emphasised training an actor to be a complete person and rejected the Italian stage for something closer to the Elizabethan model.
6 An assistant of Andrzej Wajda, which Polish film director's second film Diabel/The Devil (1972) was banned in his homeland leading to his emigration to France where he made L'Important c'est d'aimer (1975) with Romy Schneider, and has since produced such films as On the Silver Globe/Na srebym globie (1987 - based on a book written by his great-uncle) and Szamanka/The Shaman (1996)?
7 As of 2007, France had four FIA world champions. Alain Prost in F1, Jean-Louis Schlesser in the World Sportscar Championship and Sebastian Loeb in rally driving. Which former ambulance driver from Montpellier became the first Frenchman to become World Rally Champion in 1994?
8 French basketball player Boris Diaw played for Pau Orthez, his country's top league team, before joining the NBA in 2003 when he was drafted 21st overall by the Atlanta Hawks. Which team did he leave the Hawks for in 2005, where he collected the Most Improved Player award for his first season?
9 Which late Capetian King of France was victorious at Bouvines on July 27, 1214, and thus annexed Normandy and Anjou into his royal domains?
10 Named after a region in the west of France, what name was given to the feudal dynastic encounter in 1242 between Louis IX and Henry III of England, having arisen became some vassals of the French king were displeased with the accession of his brother Alphonse as count of Poitou?
11 Known by the title 1st Duc de Magenta, which royalist general, politician and Marshal of France (1808-1893), whose Irish name came from ancestors who had settled in Limerick, served as Chief of State of France from 1873 to 1875 and as the first president of the Third Republic from 1875-79, but resigned due to the 16 May 1877 crisis?
12 Which French manufacturer of optical filters for photography is particularly noted for their 'Creative Filter System', invented by photographer Jean _____ (after whom the company is named) and introduced in 1978?
13 David Belle (b.1973) is considered the founder of which discipline or sport?
14 Lending his name to a monastery where a number of noted illuminated manuscripts were produced in c.1000, who became the first bishop of Limoges sometime during the 3rd century and was according to a lost vita of Saturnin, first bishop of Toulouse, which Gregory of Tours quotes in his History of the Franks? His feast day is June 30.
15 French people often refer to Metropolitan France by what nickname because of the geometric shape of its territory?
16 With Bernardino Osio as its current Secretary-General, which international organisation of 37 nations (plus three observers) that use a Romance language was created in Madrid in 1954 and has its HQ in Paris?
17 Which chateau, named after a small village in the Indre-et-Loire departement, was built on the site of an old mill on the River Cher sometime before its first mention in writing in the 11th century? Its current manor was designed by the Renaissance architect Philibert Delorme and has Diane de Poitiers' gardens in its grounds.
18 Which French Gothic Revival architect (1814-79), famed for his "restorations" of medieval buildings, was considered by Sir John Summerson to be one of "two supremely eminent theorists in the history of European architecture" with Leon Battista Alberti? His restorations include Notre-Dame de Paris, to which he added such grotesques as Le Stryge/The Vampire; Saint-Nazaire Castle in Carcassonne, Narbonne Town Hall, and such castles as Roquetaillade in Bordeaux, Pierrefonds and Chateau de Vincennes, Paris.
19 Designated a Ramsar site in December 1968, which vast plain is Western Europe's largest river delta (technically an island, as it is surrounded by water) and is located south of Arles between the Mediterranean Sea and the two arms of the River Rhone delta? It is also the lowest point in France (2m/6.5ft below sea level)?
20 Which conflict (1683-84) between Louis XIV and Charles II's Spain was fueled by the French king's long-running desire to conquer new lands, many of them comprising part of the Spanish Netherlands along France's northern and eastern borders, and as such was a direct sequel to the War of Devolution and the Franco-Dutch Wars?
21 Which French sculptor, painter and filmmaker, who died in May 2002, was particularly influenced by Gaudi's 'Park Guell'; the garden complex convincing her to one day create her own garden work that would combine both art and nature, and in 1961 became known around the world for her Shooting paintings - works consisting of a wooden base board on which containers of paint were laid then covered with plaster and then raised so she could shoot at it with a .22 calibre rifle?
22 First located at Lyon in 1879 and handed over to the state and transferred to Paris in 1885, which museum of Asian art is located at 6, place d'lena in the 16th arrondissement and is named after its industrialist founder, Emile Etienne ______?
23 What year is associated with the 'Diplomatic Revolution of ____', a term applied to the reversal of longstanding diplomatic alliances which were held until the War of Austrian Succession and then reversed in the Seven Years' War, with France forging an alliance with the Hapsburgs after centuries of animosity?
24 Which 350km-long portion of the Antarctic coast between Pourquoi Pas Point and Point Alden is one of five districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands and since January 1956 has had a permanently staffed French research base at Dumont d'Urville Station, the capital (winter population 33; 78 in summer) that is named after coast's discoverer Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville, who gave it his wife's name?
25 Based on a Charles Spaak short story, which 1935 French historical romantic comedy was made by Jacques Feyder immediately after his dark psychological drama Pension Mimosas because he wanted to relax by producing a farce far removed from the present day, setting it in 1616 in the Spanish-occupied town of Boom and featuring Francoise Rosay as Cornelia de Witte, Madame la Bourgmestre?
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Answers to BH154
1 Philippe Claudel 2 Les Sables-d'Olonne 3 Hubert Robert 4 Sylvia Beach (b. Nancy Woodbridge Beach) 5 Jacques Copeau 6 Andrzej Zulawski 7 Didier Auriol 8 Phoenix Suns 9 Philip II Augustus 10 Saintonge War (named after Saintes) 11 Marshal MacMahon or Patrice de Mac-Mahon or Marie Edme Maurice de Mac-Mahon 12 Cokin (Jean Coquin) 13 Parkour 14 Saint Martial 15 "L'Hexagone" 16 Latin Union 17 Chateau de Chenonceau 18 Eugene Viollet-le-Duc 19 The Camargue 20 War of the Reunions 21 Niki de Saint Phalle (b. Catherine-Marie-Agnes Fal de Saint Phalle) 22 Musee Guimet 23 1756 24 Adelie Land 25 Carnival in Flanders/La Kermesse heroique
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