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The Friday Quiz: Afternoon Snack

Sorry I couldn't get to it this morning, but here's a pair of after-lunch head-hurters to while away the time between now and the French 75s which hopefully await you at 4:59 or so. Without further delay…

1. The ancient Romans mixed unfermented grape juice with the seeds of plants from the genus Sinapis to produce what?

2. The first recorded ruler of this region as an independent entity was Duke Zemuzil, who went to war with Casimir I in 1046, a conflict eventually reconciled by the Holy Roman Emperor. The name of his duchy came from an Old Slavonic word literally meaning "seacoast.”" The area it comprised has been claimed by various powers over the centuries, and is currently split between two countries. Its name survives most popularly in the common name of something which in some places is called the Zwergspitz and has been possessed by many people, including Michaelangelo, Sir Isaac Newton, and Queen Victoria, who had two. What is the name of this region?

First correct answer to either wins a small bowl of cold frozen peas, which are, improbably enough, a popular snack at Chez Wombat. No Googling or Zwergspitzing. One guess at each part per comment, but comment as often as you like.

Posted by BT on June 13, 2008 12:19 PM | Permalink

Comments

2. Dalmation
1. Mush

Posted by: herbivorous | June 13, 2008 01:40 PM

2. Dalmatian, I mean

Posted by: herbivorous | June 13, 2008 01:40 PM

Dalmatia(n) is a great guess. Or maybe not a guess. Sounds right, anyway.

The thing I thought of where it says Michelangelo had one, is a parrot, because I was thinking of Leonardo da Vinci.

So for no good reason at all I'll say Minah bird.

Posted by: boxjam | June 13, 2008 02:57 PM

Oh, and for question 1 I'll guess plaster.

Posted by: boxjam | June 13, 2008 03:01 PM

Dalmatian is a great guess, but wrong. This region is north of Dalmatia.

(Nope, it's not Mynah/Minah bird.

Mush and plaster are both wrong as well.

Posted by: BT | June 13, 2008 03:32 PM

1. a wicked high (or a wicked headache, not sure which); or more plausibly "grappa"

2. corgi -- but that's QE2

Posted by: art | June 13, 2008 09:41 PM

Mynah birds are an introduced species here and apparently a bit of a scourge (we have them in the backyard)

2. Samoyed

1. dye (for togas, methinks)

Posted by: art | June 13, 2008 09:45 PM

1. paint
2. pomerania(n)

Posted by: art | June 13, 2008 09:48 PM

And actually my great great grandparents are from Pomerania (which is currently divided between Germany and Poland)...

Posted by: art | June 13, 2008 09:49 PM

Pomerania is right! Well done Art. Your Baltic rainbow heritage has served you well.

The largest city, by the way, in the former Pomerania, is Gdansk.

#1 is still wide open. I'll just add one word by way of clue: edible.

Posted by: BT | June 13, 2008 11:16 PM

Caprisun

Posted by: james | June 17, 2008 10:13 AM

Mercurochrome

Posted by: Jonathan | June 17, 2008 12:42 PM

Powerbar? Smoothie?

Posted by: herbivorous | June 18, 2008 01:32 PM

Tapenade

Posted by: Jonathan | June 19, 2008 11:18 AM

Steroid Soup

Posted by: Jonathan | June 19, 2008 05:18 PM

Facial Masque

Posted by: Jonathan | June 20, 2008 01:02 AM

See today's quiz...the answer is less ingenious than the guesses.

Posted by: BT | June 20, 2008 02:55 PM

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