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britgrl 29-Aug-09, 10:44	True or False... Benjamin Franklin wanted the national bird to be a kiwi??
obsteve 29-Aug-09, 16:15	is it a trick question? Like perhaps he wanted a different bird, but not a kiwi?
britgrl 29-Aug-09, 16:30	hehehe - It's false... He wanted the national bird to be a turkey! Next: Apes and Monkeys belong to the primates group of mammals.. (True or False?)
coopershawk 29-Aug-09, 19:29	True, assuming by Next: Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II told Mozart that one of his operas had "Too many notes." By the way, it was the wild turkey that Franklin thought should be the national bird. In the wild, the turkey is a more interesting bird. Franklin was definitely not referring to the grotesque overstuffed poultry that usually passes for a turkey on Thanksgiving now, nor to the brand of bourbon  .
rilke 30-Aug-09, 06:34	False In the film "Amadeus", His Majesty was thrilled with Mozart's music; and the quote"Too many notes" was said by one of his Advisers (A German adviser) . Next: There is only one thing in common between Nietzsche and Rilke. Both of them were in love with the same woman?
obsteve 05-Sep-09, 04:09	blimey that's a weird one... I would say false, you both have a wicked moustache... ?
rilke 05-Sep-09, 06:52	True Her name was Lou Andreas Salome; a Russian intellectual who met interesting people such as Ree,Wagner Nietzsche,Tolstoy,Rilke,Andreas,Freud, among many others. Nietzsche was in love with her, but it was a failure. Salome married, and years later met a young poet at the of 21, named Rilke.These two people had a long time affair, until Rilke died. She taught Rilke the Russian language, so he can read Tolstoy. The Book of hours and other writings was part of Rilke's life experience with Russia and its mysticism. F. Dostoevsky and L. Tolstoy met each other ( face to face)? A) True   False
britgrl 10-Sep-09, 20:32	False... only cause the way you asked the question.. hehehe - I have no clue! look forward to the answer tho..   An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain???
obsteve 18-Sep-09, 17:28	depends how much weed he's been smoking...
rilke 19-Sep-09, 05:53	True it is true. I had to look this info on the site. Incredible!! On Dostoevsky and Tolstoy question : False. You got it britgrl. However there is a story told by Dostoevsky's wife Anna; that she said that both of them were invited to a reunion (or party for our convenience) , and Dostoevsky heard rumors that Tolstoy was present at the moment on the same gathering. So this was a great opportunity for Dostoevsky to meet Tolstoy; but he made the decision in not to meeting Tolstoy; and both Fyodor and Anna left the reunion. What a pity! Next question: Franz Schubert was buried ( in Vienna) next to Beethoven (by Schuberts's request) ?
rilke 04-Oct-09, 09:59	yes yes he was. Schubert in his will asked to be buried next to Beethoven's tomb. Is David, the great French painter who painted Napoleon's portraits during the Italian campaign and his coronation as a Emperor; was the same David years ago the painter during The Reign of Terror.
rilke 23-Jan-10, 11:01	True David has been the painter for the French Rev; Reign of Terror and for Napoleon's empire>> Picasso and Matisse were friends and enemies at the same time?
rilke 15-Mar-10, 08:48	True They were competitors; specially Picasso. Raphael is the other great master of the Renaissance along with Da Vinci and Michelangelo ?
obsteve 19-Mar-10, 16:34	True Shakespeare's sister features in Tennessee Williams' play, "The Glass Menagerie", T or F?
rilke 28-Jul-10, 07:59	False " I celebrate myself". From Walt Whitman ? True or False.
j2000 28-Jul-10, 11:39	True The greek philosopher Diogenes lived in a barrel and was visited by Alexander the great True or false?
rilke 28-Jul-10, 14:44	True A great story. Catherine The Great was the grandmother of Alexander I ?
j2000 29-Jul-10, 11:26	True Nobody knows where Isaac Newton is buried?
rilke 29-Jul-10, 13:57	False Spinoza's parents were Jews who lived in Amsterdam ?
j2000 30-Jul-10, 12:22	Deleted by j2000 on 30-Jul-10, 12:22.
j2000 30-Jul-10, 12:23	True Nietzsche was great friends with Richard Wagner all his life?
rilke 30-Jul-10, 14:12	False They were friends first; then he finished his friendship with Wagner. Beethoven and Goethe were friends ?
hebrit 01-Aug-10, 18:15	True If I remember well, they had a nice meeting in the country on a nice sunny day. Wagner married Schumann's daughter ?
rilke 26-Sep-10, 15:20	False Wagner married Liszt's daughter (Cosima). Beethoven and Goethe has a small encounter of a relationship. But later in their lives they will not speak to each other again (personalities did not quite click). Henry the VIII was married 6 times ?
obsteve 28-Sep-10, 06:55	Shakespeare's sister (above) it was true! Jim calls his erudite friend Tom, "Shakespeare"- then meets his sister, hence- "Shakespeare's sister". Henry 8th had 6 wives, true. The new UK Leader of the Opposiiton is Ed Miliband, T or F?
coopershawk 29-Sep-10, 22:58	Ed Miliband T Yes, defeating his brother, David. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the same day, July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence.
rilke 30-Sep-10, 06:49	True Calvin Coolidge is the only American President born on July 4th (born in 1872).
rilke 01-Oct-10, 08:02	True He is the President born on this date. During The African campaign finally Patton met Rommel face to face?
coopershawk 01-Oct-10, 21:16	False I don't think they ever met. And more, my recollection is that Rommel was in Germany the only time their troops met in Africa. Is that correct? "The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights" is an incomplete novel by John Steinbeck, published after his death.
rilke 03-Oct-10, 12:49	True Charles Dickens's novel " A Tale of Two Cities" is concerned with the events in Paris and Berlin before and during the French Revolution?
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