Skeleton Trivia for Wednesday, 2024-05-08
Trekking through the north of France is one of my favorite enterprises
Hi Skeleton Crew,
Happy Wednesday! Everyone get ready for a li’l fun with northern French geography today!!
Answers to Last Time
The park in Queens where they had a couple a’ World Fairs is Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. (Ya also got credit for just sayin’ Flushing Meadows or Corona Park.) Who’s flushin’ all these meadows, is what I wanna know. An’ just where the heck are they gettin’ flushed off to??
The character who got a spin-off from that mid-’90s Hercules teevee show is Xena, everyone’s favorite warrior princess.
Today’s Questions
Question 1
The followin’ coat a’ arms represents what historical region in the north a’ France?
This ain’t a formal region a France anymore, ever since it merged with Nord-Pas-de-Calais back in 2016 to create new region a’ Hauts-de-France.
Now, for those a’ youse who ain’t boned up on yer heraldries, I can tell ya that this region’s home to Amiens Cathedral; plus also it’s also the namesake a’ one of the regional languages a’ France (in specific, what linguists refer to as the langues d'oïl) that’s closely related to Walloon ’n’ Norman.
Question 2
Stayin’ in the Hauts-de-France, but now let’s crawl on up the coast towards Belgium to the straightforwardly-named département du Nord. Suddenly we find ourselves in what commune, the third-largest harbor in France, which played an important role in not just one but TWO Oscar-winning films from 2017?
OK then
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