History Trivia Thread Reducks

[Maladict]

Ok, fair enough.


Where is Leonardo da Vinci's famous Vitruvian Man, illustrating the proportions of the human body, kept? Either the museum or the city will do.

[Martinus]

Gonna do a wild guess - Louvre, Paris?

[Caliga]

The Vatican?

[Razgovory]

My guess is Milan.

[Maladict]

Not Paris, Milan or the Vatican.

[chipwich]

Zagreb.

[Caliga]

New York?

[Maladict]

Nope

[Martinus]

Florence?

[Viking]

It's only a piece of parchment. It's not like it's something some army would carry off. I would have guessed the monastary where he died near paris... but that's not a city, plus I can't remember it's name .

He lived in Milan, Venice and Paris. Milan and Paris have been guessed.

Venice.

[Maladict]

It's only a piece of parchment. It's not like it's something some army would carry off. I would have guessed the monastary where he died near paris... but that's not a city, plus I can't remember it's name .

He lived in Milan, Venice and Paris. Milan and Paris have been guessed.

Venice.

Yes, although he only stayed very briefly and did not create the drawing there.
Also, he lived in Amboise, not Paris. And of course in Vinci, Florence and Rome.
It's not parchment but paper and the French would most definitely have carried it off if it had been in the city in 1797. As it happened, the Accademia did not acquire it until 1815.
It's only rarely on display, I missed out on seeing it by a day back in 2002.

[Viking]

Ok,

sooo...

Melbourne, Sidney, Hobart and Brisbane are named after British statesmen, Darwin after a British scientist and Perth after a British City. Who/What is Adelaide named after?

[Sahib]

Princess Adelaide

[Admiral Yi]

It's an abbreviation of the Scottish "I dinna get laid."  Rankers of the highland regiment posted there considered it a hardship post because of the lack of female convicts to rape.

[Viking]

Princess Adelaide

Adelaide was not a princess, though the standards of this thread would require you to say what she was princess of. You answer is almost half a hair short of answering with "Adelaide".