Friday, July 04, 2008

SICILY QUIZ - 3

First of all, the answer to last night's picture question: it is the watchtower at the nature reserve of Vendicari.

Now to tonight's quiz: some incredibly easy and some fiendishly difficult questions for you this time [maybe]:

R Town and province whose patron saint, like that of Modica, is San Giorgio.
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A Prefix to the name of a number of Sicilian Baroque towns taking their name from Acis in Greek mythology. - - -

G Dialect word for a kind of sesame seed brittle made at Xmas.
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U Volcanic island 36 km north-west of Palermo. - - - - - -

S Famous occasion in 1282 when a French officer insulted a Sicilian bride. This resulted in the massacre of the French garrison.
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A Greek mathematician and scientist who "found it" in Siracusa.
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Highlight below for answers:

Ragusa; Aci; ghigghiulena; Ustica; Sicilian; Archimedes

5 comments:

Anne in Oxfordshire said...

Answers :-

1. Ragusa
2. Aci
3. ?
4. ?
5. ?
6. Archimedes

Are we allowed to Google to find the answers?????

Welshcakes Limoncello said...

Feel free to google, Anne!

CherryPie said...

I would really love to visit VENDICARI it looks so intersting :-)

Mmm! Only scored 1 the obvious one...

david santos said...

Ciao Limoncello, come và? Spero tutto bene per te. Buon lavoro. Un abbraccio e un buon fine settimana.

Welshcakes Limoncello said...

Cherrypie, it's a wonderful place.

Ciao, David. Buona settimana!

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