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Les escargots - The Great Escape Quiz

Les escargot team have crawled into a tasty looking compost bin, only to find it is a time machine in disguise. Whisked off to the 25th century (where snails are the rarest delicacy in the galaxy) by a mad professor intent on having them for his supper.

A multiple-choice quiz by skumma. Estimated time: 8 mins.

Author
skumma

Time
8 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
283,344

Updated
Jul 23 22

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
449

Question 1 of 10

1. The snails all start crying and fearing a flooded time machine, the mad professor relents. He agrees if they can answer his questions he will let them go. Can you help them escape? "Right, so you think you are all very clever?" says the prof. "Then tell me, what was the name of the horse Napoleon rode at Waterloo?"
"I know that" says Redviking, "it's on the tip of my tongue. Oh, what was it called?" Hint

Marengo

Vizir

Desiree

Arabesque

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Question 2 of 10

2. Bordas snail looks round and says to the team "This machine doesn't seem very sturdy - it's made out of old tin cans!"

"Aha!" cried the mad professor "You're right but tell me this - who is the French confectioner who invented the first method of airtight food preservation in the early 19th century?" Hint

Nicolas Appert

Martin Dole

Louis Pasteur

Benoit de Conserve

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Question 3 of 10

3. "There is another way out", said the professor. " All you have to do is climb over this little wall and you can set my machine to take you back". Julie looks annoyed, '"Oi! who are you calling small?" All of a sudden Kathypovey snail (normally one of the quiet ones) started leaping in the air and squealing loudly which frightened all the others. "What's wrong?" they cried in snailly unison. "Ooh! Aaargh-Ooh!" was the only response, as she jumped six inches into the air.

Mysfloss rushed to the rescue. "Push that piece of paper under her next time she jumps" he yelled. As quickly as they could, the snails followed his order. She jumped, landed squarely on the paper and slowly crawled towards the others. "What happened?" she dazedly asked, her little horns all bent and a little bit frazzled.

Do you know the answer? Hint

The wall was made from copper

The wall was made from tin

The wall was made from aluminium

The wall was made from platinum

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Question 4 of 10

4. The professor ponders carefully on his next question. These snails are getting the better of him and catching sight of Knight, who is still comforting Kathy - Eureka! He has a brainwave. "So, my little escargots," asks the professor, "There is a cheese in France that is traditionally made in a heart shape. What is it?"
Knight doesn't know. Kathy is still too frazzled to think. Xgunny is too busy wondering how to get over the wall that separates the team from the prof. The rest look confused. He asks Houndfromhell, "What is the name of that cheese?" Hint

Neufchatel

Pont l'Eveque

Roquefort

Brie de Meaux

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Question 5 of 10

5. "I've got a very sad love story for you two" growls the prof. "A couple called Laorens and Saubade fell in love. Their parents were against it so they met secretly in a cave at the edge of the ocean. One day, lost in their love, a wave reached the cave and swept them out to sea. What's the place called?"
"I used to know that" says Xgunny, (the romantic snail) "Now where is it?" Hint

Mont Saint Michel

The cave of Lascau

La Rochelle

Grotte de la chambre d'amour

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Question 6 of 10

6. "Okay my clever tasty little escargots let me ask you this! The Stade de France, this is where France won the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Just tell me who scored the final goal?"
Mervster starts to slither into snail heaven as he dreams about the game, against Brazil, Skumma nudges him in the shell and he mutters..."I just need some help to remember his name. Do you know who it was?" Hint

Thierry Henry

Patrick Viera

Zinedine Zidane

Emmanuel Petit

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Question 7 of 10

7. The prof. is determined this bunch of snails will not get the better of him. He turns to Mari and says, "You all know of Jeanne d'Arc from history class at school, but can you tell me where she was born?" Hint

Orleans

Domr�my-la Pucelle

Perpignan

Grenoble

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Question 8 of 10

8. "So, you think you know everything!" yells the prof, jumping angrily up and down. He nearly trod on half of them! He glared at Mervster and demanded,

"Toulouse, 27 April 2005. what special event happened then?" Hint

Stade Toulousain, the local rugby team has just lifted the European Rugby Cup

The Mayor has just been announced as Prime Minister

Toulouse has just been named as European city of culture for 2011

Maiden flight of the Airbus A380 'superjumbo'

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Question 9 of 10

9. The prof is getting agitated. Julie tries distracting him. "You could eat souris d'agneau-it's much tastier than snails!" she says.

"Oh! really,"sneers the Prof, "souri d'agneau? What is that?" Hint

lamb stew

lamb ragout

mouse of lamb

lamb shank

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Question 10 of 10

10. The final question and the professor sets his machine to take them back to their time and home. "There you are. I keep my word" said the Professor.
"No hang on mate, this is Arizona not France. You've tricked us again" exclaims Hound. "You are wrong, it is France. Name it and I will open the door and let you all go."

Fonty snail takes a closer look out of the window and says "Ye-es it looks familiar, is it by any chance the second largest canyon in the world and known as.."

So where are we? Hint

Grand Canyon du Verdon/Gorges du Verdon,

Gorges Profondes

Grand Canyon du Bleu/Gorges du Bleu,

Grand Canyon du Jaune/Gorges du Jaune

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. The snails all start crying and fearing a flooded time machine, the mad professor relents. He agrees if they can answer his questions he will let them go. Can you help them escape? "Right, so you think you are all very clever?" says the prof. "Then tell me, what was the name of the horse Napoleon rode at Waterloo?" "I know that" says Redviking, "it's on the tip of my tongue. Oh, what was it called?"

Answer: Desiree

The other three were also owned by Napoleon, but he rode Desiree at Waterloo. Bonaparte had a great love for horses, particularly Greys and White Arabs. Marengo, immortalized in many paintings, was captured after the battle and his skeleton is on display at The Army Museum in London.

2. Bordas snail looks round and says to the team "This machine doesn't seem very sturdy - it's made out of old tin cans!" "Aha!" cried the mad professor "You're right but tell me this - who is the French confectioner who invented the first method of airtight food preservation in the early 19th century?"

Answer: Nicolas Appert

Nicolas Fran�ois Appert (1750-1841) opened the first commercial cannery in the world, and also invented the Bouillon cube. Known as 'the father of canning', his method, also known as appertization, consisted of putting food in thick glass containers and immersing them in boiling water for a period of time.

3. "There is another way out", said the professor. " All you have to do is climb over this little wall and you can set my machine to take you back". Julie looks annoyed, '"Oi! who are you calling small?" All of a sudden Kathypovey snail (normally one of the quiet ones) started leaping in the air and squealing loudly which frightened all the others. "What's wrong?" they cried in snailly unison. "Ooh! Aaargh-Ooh!" was the only response, as she jumped six inches into the air. Mysfloss rushed to the rescue. "Push that piece of paper under her next time she jumps" he yelled. As quickly as they could, the snails followed his order. She jumped, landed squarely on the paper and slowly crawled towards the others. "What happened?" she dazedly asked, her little horns all bent and a little bit frazzled. Do you know the answer?

Answer: The wall was made from copper

Mysfloss explained, "The chemicals in the snail mucus combine with the copper to create an electro-chemical reaction, which produces a charge - in exactly the same way as sulphuric acid reacts with lead in a car battery. Used in many human gardens to deprive us snails of food" he sighed.

4. The professor ponders carefully on his next question. These snails are getting the better of him and catching sight of Knight, who is still comforting Kathy - Eureka! He has a brainwave. "So, my little escargots," asks the professor, "There is a cheese in France that is traditionally made in a heart shape. What is it?" Knight doesn't know. Kathy is still too frazzled to think. Xgunny is too busy wondering how to get over the wall that separates the team from the prof. The rest look confused. He asks Houndfromhell, "What is the name of that cheese?"

Answer: Neufchatel

The professor didn't realize that Houndfromhell's grandmother was rather fond of Neufchatel. A soft, slightly crumbly, mould-ripened cheese made in Neufchatel-en-Bray, a region of Normandy. Legend has it that the young Norman women made it in this shape to discreetly show their feelings for English soldiers in the middle Ages.

"Ooh! Isn't that a lovely story", Mari says to Daboosh.

5. "I've got a very sad love story for you two" growls the prof. "A couple called Laorens and Saubade fell in love. Their parents were against it so they met secretly in a cave at the edge of the ocean. One day, lost in their love, a wave reached the cave and swept them out to sea. What's the place called?" "I used to know that" says Xgunny, (the romantic snail) "Now where is it?"

Answer: Grotte de la chambre d'amour

The cave is near Anglet, a town in the Atlantic Pyrenees between Bayonne and Biarritz, not far from the Spanish border.

6. "Okay my clever tasty little escargots let me ask you this! The Stade de France, this is where France won the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Just tell me who scored the final goal?" Mervster starts to slither into snail heaven as he dreams about the game, against Brazil, Skumma nudges him in the shell and he mutters..."I just need some help to remember his name. Do you know who it was?"

Answer: Emmanuel Petit

The 1998 FIFA World Cup, was held in France from June 10 to July 12 . France won their first title, and became the first host nation to win the tournament since Argentina in 1978. The Stade de France was built especially for the World Cup.

Answer: Domr�my-la Pucelle

Jeanne was born in Domr�my-la Pucelle, a small village on the frontier of the duchy of Lorraine, where her parents; Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Rom�e owned about 50 acres of land and ran a farm. She had three older brothers (Jacquemin, Jean, and Pierre) and a younger sister (Catherine).

8. "So, you think you know everything!" yells the prof, jumping angrily up and down. He nearly trod on half of them! He glared at Mervster and demanded, "Toulouse, 27 April 2005. what special event happened then?"

Answer: Maiden flight of the Airbus A380 'superjumbo'

Toulouse is the international headquarters of Airbus. In a city with an approximate population of 800,000, Airbus and the aeronautic industry is a very important local employer.

The maiden flight of the A380 was the result of fifteen years of testing, research, development and work by many thousands of people. It is very important for the local economy that the plane is successful, and despite a few delays and technical problems after the maiden flight, the first commercial flight took place over two years later on.

9. The prof is getting agitated. Julie tries distracting him. "You could eat souris d'agneau-it's much tastier than snails!" she says. "Oh! really,"sneers the Prof, "souri d'agneau? What is that?"

Answer: lamb shank

Le souris is the tip of le gigot (leg of lamb). The butcher will only sell them to you if he can be sure of selling the rest, which will then be called gigot raccourci (shortened leg of lamb).

"Rather a leg of lamb than a tail of snail!" says Lizzie.

10. The final question and the professor sets his machine to take them back to their time and home. "There you are. I keep my word" said the Professor. "No hang on mate, this is Arizona not France. You've tricked us again" exclaims Hound. "You are wrong, it is France. Name it and I will open the door and let you all go." Fonty snail takes a closer look out of the window and says "Ye-es it looks familiar, is it by any chance the second largest canyon in the world and known as.." So where are we?

Answer: Grand Canyon du Verdon/Gorges du Verdon,

"Drat you are right again" sobs the professor, who has seen his dream of escargots in garlic, herbs and white wine vanish.
Fonty snail explains: "Also known as the Gorges du Verdon, situated in the South east of France in the region Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, the canyon is nearly 20 kilometres long and over 300 metres deep. The limestone gorge takes its name after the wonderful turquoise-green colour of the water running through it.|

"I know because the French for green is 'vert'", interrupts Rvallejo, "but what could we do here?"

"Well we could try kayaking, climbing, fishing or even paragliding" replies Fonty, but noticing the escargots are disappearing into their shells "or we could just sit and enjoy the wondrous views the Parc Naturel R�gional du Verdon has to offer while munching on our packed lettuce, which the prof is going to provide, yes?"

"Hurray!" shout les escargots.

With thanks to all team members, past and present.

Source: Author skumma

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