Do You Know Where I'm Coming From? Quiz

Answer: France

Gex is located near France's eastern border with Switzerland. The new French law, passed in February 2016, requires stores to give the unsold food to charities, or to donate it for livestock feed or compost. According to the British paper "The Guardian", the law will have little more than a symbolic effect, because food stores are responsible for only 11% of wasted food. The change is important because the decomposition of food waste is a major contributor to greenhouse gases.

This is one of a number of ecological measures being taken. Supermarkets in our area voluntarily stopped providing plastic single-use checkout bags several years ago. As of March 2016, they are officially banned throughout France.

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Answer: Melbourne and Adelaide

Nairne in the Adelaide Hills is on the Princes Highway, formerly the major route between Adelaide and Melbourne. It was also a hub for milling the wheat grown in the fertile hills area. (One of the sad effects of the mills is the felling of most of the large old gum trees in the area - when they were gone the flour mills closed.) It is a quiet town in gentle rolling country, at the foot of Mt Barker Summit, a traditional Aboriginal sacred place. The town now serves largely as a dormitory for commuters to Adelaide and nearby Mt Barker township.

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Answer: Newfoundland and Labrador

St. John's is the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador. This small city
(150,000 people) was first established in 1503, by Sir Humphrey Gilbert who claimed the area for the English Crown. The island of Newfoundland itself was first discovered (by a European; the aboriginal Beothuk people had lived there since time immemorial), by John Cabot, a Genoese explorer employed by King Henry VII,in 1497.

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Answer: The number of letters in the name of the first Mayor of Boston to own a car, James Michael Curley

James Michael Curley was a 4-term mayor of Boston, who also served a term as governor of Massachusetts and twice in the US House of Representatives. Extremely popular with Irish Americans, he also served time in Danbury Prison for a felony conviction during his last term in office.

This was not his first prison term - he was elected to the Board of Aldermen while serving time on a fraud conviction. His criminal background was part of his popularity, as he was seen as a Robin Hood type. His death in 1958 led to one of the largest funerals in the city's history.

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Answer: Atlanta, Georgia

During the American Civil War (1861-1865), Union General William Tecumseh Sherman was engaged in a four-month long siege of the city Atlanta. On September 1, 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood made the decision to retreat from Atlanta, ordering all public buildings and possible assets to the Union Army destroyed. On the next day, Mayor James Calhoun surrendered Atlanta to the Union Army, and on September 7, General Sherman ordered the city's civilian population to evacuate. On November 11, 1864, in preparation of the Union Army's march to Savannah, Sherman ordered Atlanta to be burned to the ground.

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Answer: Stockton Beach

Stockton Beach runs all the way from Port Stephens to Newcastle in New South Wales (about 32kms) along the Stockton Bight. The Sygna was on its maiden journey when a huge storm beached the ship. Part of the Sygna's stern remains on this stunning, white sand beach. Sadly, recent storms have greatly reduced the rusted remains, soon they will be gone.

The Sygna's bow was re-floated and after sitting in Port Stephens for two years, it was towed to Taiwan and scrapped. I remember, as a teenager, going to see this huge ship and marvelling at what mother nature can do.

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Answer: The only "royal" harbour in the UK

The only true answer among them is the designation of "royal" harbour.

In 1821, King George 1V visited Ramsgate and the harbour, and renamed it the "Royal Harbour", the only one in the United Kingdom.

It is NOT one of the cinque ports (they are Hastings, Rye, Hythe, Dover & Sandwich). It was a main embarkation point for the Napoleonic wars, and the harbour actually took 100 years to complete.

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Answer: St Lawrence

St Lawrence lived and died in the 3rd century in Rome. He was sentenced to death because he distributed the Church money to the poor. According to a legend, when Lawrence was lying on the grill for a long time, he remarked cheerfully: "I am well-done. Turn me over." Because of it, he is considered the patron saint of cooks and chefs.

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Answer: Birmingham

The Bullring only has one bull - a lifesize statue outside the large shopping mall in the city centre. Cadbury's began in Bournville, Birmingham, and is the location of Cadbury World. They give out free chocolate as you walk around. The oldest cinema is The Electric. They don't sell popcorn; they have cake and an absinthe fountain, which you can enjoy on leather sofas at the front and back of the cinema!

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Answer: A mixture of red wine and soda

Sangria is a mixture of red wine and a sweetener, with lots of ice and fruit, though different areas in Spain have slightly different recipes. In tourist areas, all sort of spirits are added to it, but it is not sangria.

Sangria means 'bleeding' in Spanish.

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