The New Mini Quiz for the Abruzzo Earthquake Appeal

05/16/2009 - 04:28

:) The first Mini Quiz for Abruzzo has raised well over £300 for our appeal - an amazing amount! Thank you to everyone for your support.To explain the rules to those of you who are new or who have not participated before:-The idea is that you provide a quiz question and a donation - (I am changing the rules slightly here) Your donation can be anything from £2 upwards. State your donation with your question IE For ten pounds who can tell me...? And so on.The important thing is that you participate and that money is raised - This thread is fast moving and fantastic fun.Please join us in making this quiz as successful as the last :bigsmile: So who is first up with a question?http://www.justgiving.com/italy-abruzzo-earthquake

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ok so who can tell me why ronald is a wonderful,caring and absolutely honest person with no guile who runs this place ...and puts up with us ... the correct answer of my choice will be within the first three answers... after that if the answers carry on and i have found no exceptioanl repsonses which satisfy my warped view on life i will only give five pound for the next best... unless of course its spelled correctley and has excellent grammer then it will go back up to ten... an award for spelling will make my initial donation go up by another 2 pounds... if none of the first three posts falls within that category...note my spell check is american english...is there such a thing....and is all this too convuluted... Roanld is not allowed to enternote i did not run a spell check on this... to make it unclear... cause i just read the above i think it will be a donation of twelve pounds if spelt correctley and is ingratiating enough to embaress the person that runs the place of course it all depends on me finding my way back here...

:star:Well done Adriatica for being the first!!! Ronald ...hmmm... now let me see. I haven't really been around long enough to get to know him so probably not best qualified to have a go at this one! Sorry! I'll have a stab with this:- Because he was raised by wolves?Can I add to my original post though that whoever answers correctly (or in this case whoever makes Adriatica laugh the hardest and Ronald squirm the most) will be expected to provide the next question (and donation!)Something about Ronald... Wasn't that a movie? ;)

a wrong... you dont say where the picnic is.....b your thinking of pensioned off canadiansc what is or where is moxies house... cause technically it could be in the right area... but i have a feeling its in the direction from here that one thinks about getting colder not warmer

Jinty I can confirm that over the last four winters I have seen hide nor hair of any woolly Abruzzi at my house.To the best of my knowledge they did not attend the picnic today although the fella sitting to my left was quite hairy!! ;) My guess - Bora Bora??

In reply to by Moxie

'.......I have seen hide nor hair of woolly Abruzzi at my house.'beware! A woolly Lunigiani might be coming your way :bigsmile: !

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well they might but the maremma have told them that they must day in a group and not do anything stupid... and sticcking lenghts of slidey things on their feet ... would definitely make them look silly and might well be dangerous... your definitely getting colder

OK Adriatica- you REALLY need to change your spell check to english...actually so do I....However, I will have to give the question much more thought. tomorrow ..but I' AM thinking it's worth a fiver?J

look i already owe 12 ...now i got to pay more???? ok thenbut someone put me out of my misery soon.... otherwise i am going to have to dig a "pit" for myself again

I searched Google for "pecore, abruzzo, inverno" and the only stories that came up are about sheep being eaten up by bears or wolves...http://newscontrol.repubblica.it/item/509310/orso-sbrana-tre-pecore-in-a...Then I though ok let us just ask Google straight "Dove vano le pecore di Abruzzo in inverno" and I get the answer "nei pagliai" - which obviously raises the question: "What ARE pagliai then...."So back to Google with "pagliai, pecore" which gives nothing much. Then we try Google Images and I get thishttp://www.leditoriale.com/uploads/news/1226434876-1698-pagliare-tione_b...and thishttp://www.leditoriale.com/index.php?page=news&news=149and that is my answer. H) :)

So that is it is it Adriatica? You have been stringing us along for a little stone house?! Hrmmmmph ... I am going to suggest that they consider Bora Bora as a winter holiday destination for this year...Sooooo... we must wait for Adriatica to wake up from his snooze to find out if indeed Ronald was right with thishttp://www.leditoriale.com/index.php?page=news&news=149If so 'The Big R' is next up with a question (and the answer jolly well better not be little stone house!) :bigsmile:

if i could award you the prize i would ... because i seem to be slowing things down here ... i really must give another clue i think... the place they go to has an old reputaion for having loads of pits to store wheat in days long past... hence its name derives from that latin word... the place the sheep depart from is L'Aquila... although other places too but thats the famous route ... and i belive its around a 2444 km walk although with my broken shin i have been unable to ceriry the correctmess of this... along old compacted earth routes... there are quite a few festa that derive from this aincient practice... and i do love my festasi have a feeling as well that alpine sheep do the same sort of thing... but other destinations... did i say one clue ... the little stone houses... and we have a few up in the mountains here ...did not fit enough sheep in... once moxies hairy chappie was inside... but they are very much to do with sheep herding of the past... and i remember a posting with pictures ... maybe from Bruno or Stefano in the past on that

transumanzabecause yo are so close and Puglia is the region... your answer has reulted in me at long last getting out of this quagmire... and will add my 20 pounds... to the just giving collection as soon as i stop writing... well before the night is out... its a really interesting part of abruzzo history tied in with puglia... the actual city i was looking for was Foggia... which is the link to why i asked i guess... in aincient times both L'aquila and Foggia suffered from destructive quakes... Onna also is very much to do with this tradition ... the little village which is more or less a symbolic emblem in Italy anyway for the tragedy the pits... foggia gets its name... well as far as i know from its agricultural background and is the capital of the wheat plains of italy... at least as far as the south is concerned and it was stored in Pits within the city...the Puglians then started taxing the sheep men of abruzzo for the sheep they brought and obviously the traditional movement of sheep to the plains of Puglia for winter began to die out... before that however the local agriculture in Puglia suffred as they cleared huge tracts of land to allow the sheep to graze...reminds me a bit of the wild west films where cattle barons hated the sheep herders... what is relevant for modern times i suppose is that many of these aincient tratturi are now bing re opened for walkers and cyclists... even horse riding...anyway anne... according to rules posted by moxie... its up to you to get this thread( is that the right term now) back on track and earning moneyWELL DONEj

In reply to by adriatica

:star: Thanks again Adriatica for your brilliant question - That's my new thing learnt for today.Brave attempt Big R! Little stone house indeed hrmmmph.The floor is yours Anne...

If Adriatica approves your answer then he gets to put his money in the pot and then you (if you are right) provide the next question and the next donation.Ie For two pounds who can tell me such n such... and so it goes on :) Thanks for joining the fray Anne ;)

In reply to by Moxie

Next question please.Ready and waiting with my contribution to the earthquake appeal clutched in my little paw (?trotter) :bigsmile:

We can, given the layout, have two questions running concurrentlySo both Anne and Mr C can put up a question! :) More money for the pot!! Wahooooooo!Answerererers... Please reply to the question rather than starting a post underneath - thanks!

A question (£2 per answer to the Earthquake Appeal please):What do you call a fish without any eyes? :steve:

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

A fsh ?

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Correct!You're far too smart for a simple chap like me ;) Still - £2 more the appeal :) Do you have a question for us Jinty?

OK. While Annec is trying to poison her family:Another question. Both parts must be correct and £2 to the Earthquake Appeal per attempt please.1) What do you call a cross-channel swimmer without any limbs?and2) What was the name of the man dug out of the bog in Ireland?

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1) Bob2)Pete (peat)

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Correct again Jinty! Did we go to the same school :bigsmile: ?Still - another £2 to the appeal.

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Only if you went to girls only convent?My favourite one is What do you call a girl who puts her bills on the fire?

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Just read your kind offer properly - and could have stung you for loads - serves me right for being a smarty pants - so £10.00 for whoever gets mine right to make up for my stupidity!

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...I am the only one brave enough to answer this one don't you madam?Answer - Turn the packet upside down and all the umm... illegitimates? fall out! :O TuneTuneTuneChuneWhat is this? (For a fiver)

In reply to by Moxie

It's said in a Scottish (glaswegian) accent"You turn the packet upside down and all the wee (people whos mummies and daddies weren't married) fall out!!Still £10.00 to go but I fear it may not be the last....TuneTuneTuneChuneHelp you breath more easily?

Clever ol' Moxie :bigsmile: A question from you now? How about something with an Italian theme like: What did Buffalo Bill call his pistol J) J) ?

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tunetunetunechuneWhat is this? Jinty was a wrong a six wrong people in the wrong pub :bigsmile:

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It is a brain teaser dearest tune tune tune chune - It's like one of those silly things you used to find in the Daily MailMox

The thing, among many, that worries me about this site is that the postings and replies all get muddled up in some strange order :( .Perhaps if there was a 'quote' button it might make more sense ;) but it all seems a jumble to me now.Anyway, back to Jinty's question.Who hid under a weighbridge in Marche to escape in WW11?Alan Whicker? Otherwise I don't know!

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

I think you can/ are supposed to respond to a particular comment directly without quoting so you click reply to the post you are referring to - keep forgetting myself but beginning to get used to it...It's Annec question...but it certaintly wasn't my dad cos he was in Sicily on a ship not in Marche under a bridge?

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Indeed I understand that. :bigsmile: But what happens is that:A postsB repliesC then repliesD then replies to A and is inserted between A & B soB's reply to A is now separated by D's reply and makes no sense etc :~ Not ideal me'thinks :(

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It's the same format as my OU (open university) forum and it gets VERY untidy - You read the last post (well you think it's the last post) but then you realise that somone has replied to an earlier post "further up" ....... but you get used to it...SIGH...

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I've added paging by default (a new page every 30 comments) and also you can personalise it any way you prefer.however - could I suggest that you start a new post for every question?it is enough you tag them with "abruzzo quiz" and we will be able to collect them under a category automatically. also it will be easier to understand what is the question we are dealing with without having to go through lots of pages, etc -