Saturday 13 November 2010

EU COMPETITION (First leg of Second Year)

E.U. Competition # 3 (First Leg of Second Year) 333333333333333333333333333333

Here are this fortnight's questions:

1.-If PRAG is for Prague and LUG for Lugano, which THREE locations have the following 3-letter codes: MAD, BUD, HAM?
2.-Now for THREE dogs and THREE horses. Whose dogs were these:  ARGOS, SNOWY, GROMIT? Whose horses were these: BUCEPHALUS, BABIECA, MARENGO? 
3.-I would finally like to invite you to visit a most interesting website  where you can see maps and actually read amazing old books and documents. Are you ready?   www.wdl.org/en/browse/item_type.html     Just tell me  in which language THREE of the following documents/books  were written? Just THREE of them!
                 Epic poem 'Parzival'
                 Columbus manuscript
                 'A Book Concerning the Nature of Things'
                 'Selected Fables for Children by La Fontaine'
                 'Declaration of Independence of the United States'
                 'Winds of the Four Directions'
                 'Manifesto to the Czechoslovak People in America'
                 'The Bible of Johannes Gutenberg'
                 'Journal of Magellan's Voyage'
                 'Codex Gigas'
I'll be with you again in two weeks! And be good! Remember that you can send your answers to iescampanar10@gmail.com  
SOLUTION:

  1. MAD=Madrid   BUD= Budapest    HAM=Hamburg
  1. Argos:In Homer's the Odyssey, Argos is Odysseus' faithful dog.Snowy:Snowy(French: Milou) is an Adventures of Tintin characters. He is a white Wire Fox Terrier. Gromit:Wallace and Gromitare the main characters in a series consisting of four British animated short films and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations.  All the characters are made from moulded plasticine modelling clay on metal armatures, and filmed with stop motion clay animation.
Bucephalus:Bucephalusor Bucephalas was Alexander the Great's horse and one of the most famous actual horses of antiquity.
Babieca:Babieca is one of the most famous horses in history. As El Cid's charger the story of his life has become surrounded in myth and legendwith the passage of time.
Marengo:Marengo(c. 1793 - 1831) was the famous war mount of Napoleon I of France. Named after the Battle of Marengo, through which he carried his rider safely, Marengo was imported to France in 1799 as a 6-year-old.
  1. Epic poem ‘Parzival’: Middle High German; Columbus manuscript: Spanish; Winds of the Four Directions: Chinese; Fables of La Fontaine in French; Codex Gigas in Latin; The Bible of Gutemberg in Latin; Magellan's Voyage in French; the Manifesto in Czech; The Declaration of Independence in English; the Book Concerning the Nature of things in Latin.

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