We are into the home stretch. Only 6 more challenges to go for this first phase. And still the challenges are not too much more difficult than they were at the beginning. I wonder what Day 19 will bring for The Da Vinci Code Quest on Google?
As before, I've updated my website with all of your comments and suggestions. Please keep them coming!
Good luck on the remaining challenges...
(And no, I'm not stupid. I definitely won't be posting the results of the last challenge until after the final deadline. I fully expect, actually hope, it to be more difficult than the rest. I'd rather not see the top 10,000 be determined solely by luck or chance.)
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Day 19
Same as the last 3 except this its a 6 x 6 grid.
The Question
in the book Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells, we spend a half-hour in this city.
Name the location.
Answer: HERCULANEUM
Another question after solving the 6 x6 grid is:
During his Itlaialn Journeys of 1867, William Dean Howells spends this lenght of time in POmpeii ?
Answer: a day
another question...
In "Italian Journeys" by Williams Dean Howells, the *picturesque*, the *improbable*, and what else is found in Ferrara?
answer: pathetic
Another Question
According to Grant Allen's Paris, who was Leonardo's scientific painter counterpart in Upper Italy?
Mantegna
Question in William Howells book.."what city did he think was the most beautiful" Answer..Genoa
ERNEST LEWIS WROYE THE ITALIAN RENNASENCE IN ENGLAND COMMENCED VIRTUALLY IN 1425
leonardos da vinci Head o Medusa in the uffizzi gallery in florence has the catalogue number 1159
Day 20: Restoration
Q: According to The Numismatic Chronicle, during whose reign were the rare fleur-de-lis groats of Stirling struck?
A: James II (type capital eye-eye, not one-one, for James' suffix)
day 20 : Restoration
Question : In a Florentine Revery, our first impression is what ?
Answer : harmony
see the web page : http://books.google.com/books?q=A+Florentine+Revery+our+first+impression&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0
JB
What words divided by tons appear in The Numismatic Chronicle?
Day 20
What Flourtine business was not highly regarded?
Pill Selling
Which painting in the Royal Uffizi Gallery in Florence is a diminutive copy of the celebrated one by Leonardo da Vinci:
The Holy Virgin and St. Anna
What words divided by tons appear in The Numismatic Chronicle
Answer: hoc opvs dei
http://books.google.com/books?vid=0CTgFoFKs5ndiBIS99&id=0W_5ikdys7gC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=What+words+divided+by+tons+appear+in+The+Numismatic+Chronicle
day 19
During his Italian Journeys, William Dean Howells tours a kitchen with gigantic coppers for boiling this
Anwer : broth
Thanks to anonymous for the answer on the question : What words divided by tons appear in The Numismatic Chronicle
Answer: hoc opvs dei
BUT WHERE DID YOU FIND IT, I CAN'T FIND IT ANYWHERE
Day 21:
Q: Petrarch sent three presents to the Bishop of Cavaillon. What was the second present?
A: A flat drake
(via Google Book Search: I searched on "Petrarch's Lives", which produced "Life of Petrarch" by Campbell as the search result, then I searched the question from there.)
Which volume of The Eclectic Review featured Jones's Greek and English Lexicon?
I didn't find the answer!!!
Day 20 CURATOR
Q : what does John Morison call the Bane of Youth
A: Fashionable Amusements
Which volume of The Eclectic Review featured Jones's Greek and English Lexicon?
I didn't find the answer!!!
Possible Anwer : vol. XXIII
Day 21 :
Question : Petrarch sent three presents to the Bishop of Cavaillon.
What was the first present?
What was the second present?
What was the third present?
Answer (fisrt) : fish
Answer (second) : a flat drake
Answer (third) : epistle
The "gaudy flower" is tulip.
Day 21:
According to Vol. XXIII of The Eclectic Review, the tones of whose voice are meagre, shrill, and dry?
Answer: Mr. Southey
Q: According to Vol. XXIII of The Eclectic Review, the number of christians in oochin china is how many?
A: I've no clue, i found the book under google book search "the eclectic review 1847" but nothing on cochin, china, or numbers of christians combo. help?
The question read something to the effect of:
Whose famous birthplace did Petrarch visit on his way from Parma to Verona?
The answer: Virgil
Day 21 - according to Vol. IV in The Eclectic Review what author has "fervid imagination and wonderful power"?
Answer: Mr. Ruskin
Day 20
The question I got was;
"Petrarch gave three presents to the Bishop of Cavaillon. What was the first present?"
Answer - fish.
Hey Bonehead Resler. Are you aware that this is a contest? Why don't you quit posting answers and making it easy for people to cheat.
Leonardo da Vinci's painting of The Adoration of the Magi hangs in the Royal Uffizi Gallery in Florence. What is its catalogue number in the 1890 catalogue of the museum?
cannot find anywhere and its extremely frustrating!
Dear Anonymous,
Re your posting:
"Leonardo da Vinci's painting of The Adoration of the Magi hangs in the Royal Uffizi Gallery in Florence. What is its catalogue number in the 1890 catalogue of the museum?
cannot find anywhere and its extremely frustrating!"
I hear ya! Google Book Searh is a pretty cool tool once you figure out how to use it.
1. Go to Google Book Search (http://books.google.com/)
2. Enter: "Royal Uffizi Gallery Catalogue 1890" in the search box
3. The first search result is the book you want: "Catalogue of the Royal Uffizi Gallery in Florence". 4. Click on the the link to that title.
5. On the left hand side of the new page is a search box under the phrase "Search within this book".
6. Enter "Da Vinci The Adoration of the Magi" into that search box
7. Voila! Click the link to page 208 and you have the catalogue entry for that piece of art. The four digit number in bold, 1252, preceedimg the entry is the catalogue number, and the answer to your question. Excelsior!
14, yes, 14 pre-placed symbols!!!
DAY 21 - Which volume of The Eclectic Review featured Jones's Greek and English Lexicon?
http://books.google.com
search for "The Eclectic Review" "Jones's Greek and English Lexicon" <--secret is in the quotes
Search showed one book. Click on that link then on the index link. BAM! There is your answer.
The Question
In The Italian Renaissance in England, author Lewis Einstein discusses Florentine Bankers and the Wars of which King?
Answer: Edward
Day 23.
Put the puzzle together, click on the obvious locations on the puzzle (9 of them).
The Classical Sequence?
It's "The Square Numbers".
:)
The squares
Chivalry is the answer to the question "According to The Eclectic Review, what is justly considered as an entirely poetical invention?"
Day 23
After puzzle of the map
The Question
What is the name of the city?
Answer: Paris
p.s.
From Russia With Love...
Day 23 : too easy
the city is PARIS (my city ;-) )
answer of the question about a classical sequence of numbers : square
(everythings with "square" seem to work)
Day 20
Question: Leonardo da Vinci's painting of The Adoration of the Magi hangs in the Royal Uffizi Gallery in Florence. What is its catalogue number in the 1890 catalogue of the museum?
Answer: 1252
Day 21
According to Vol. XXIII of The Eclectic Review, the only way to win the mind over to religion is by shewing it to be what?
the greater good
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