Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Try these

Only five, as most answers are more than one word:

1. In 1932, Italian culinary magazine La Cucina Italiana awarded their Best Pasta Sauce prize one chef Sugo Marinetti. (Atlas Obscura) what was the irony? 

2. Name two of the five US overseas territories. 

3. What actually was "antidisestablishmentarianism"? 

4. The Nordic region has these countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, as well as the Faroe Islands and one other country starting with A with a little zero above it?

5. Who wrote Don Quixote?

12 comments:

  1. 3) To disestablish the CoE from the State was/is the desire of many people. One was known to be a disestablishmentarian, and one became a supporter of disestablishmentarianism. if one opposed this then one supported antidisestablishmentarianism.

    5) Miguel de Cervantes

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    1. JH: 3 and 5 the goods!

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    2. "Miguel de Cervantes" Nah, it was another bloke with the same name.

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  2. 2. Guam, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands
    4. Aland Islands

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  3. JH: Eggs sellent. Which leaves n1, which is easy to guess.

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    1. JH: It concerned his attitude.

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    2. had to look this up! The poet it was named for (Filipo Marinetti) was trying to have pasta banned in Italy

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    3. the poet was even sponsored(?) by the magazine that made the award!

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  4. 1) I've just read about him, but I will not give a spoiler.

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  5. In one, gentlemen ... game, set and match.

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  6. Thank you, pretty, pretty thank you for the picture caption.
    And the boys, and the gal, in the back room deserve whatever they want, and tell them I am (virtually, if not virtuously) having the same.

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