Sunday Times Travel Quiz

[owner2]

11d Is this Marseilles or Paris? Any views?

17 This question is a bit ambiguous. Is it road or ferry as this will change the distance of one of the journeys?

26d can't find it on Corbis

30 it's not a/

I've got the other answers if anyone's stuck.

[Compintone]

11d As the question talk about 'immortalising' cities I think it must be Paris as this was the song (later National anthem) of the revolutionaires as they marched on Paris http://www.marseillaise.org/english/background.html

17 I agree, very ambiguous. You can even fly between them (Penzance has an airport but only for charters)

26d - I'm also stuck with this which is annoying as I'm sure I've seen pictures of this before

30 is also tricky. There are lots of references on the web to cooking hair so I guess its'n not this. These tips must come from a survival site or book I guess - not the sort of thing your average journo carries in theri head (we hope!)

33 Havn't got this one yet - the obvious area is a time change (kiribati?) but there is an interesting idea that it is a change from the celcius to fahrenheit temp scales - any ideas?

Cheers

Compintone

[owner2]

I'm going with Kiribati.can't find any reference to temperature change that day on the net.i'd like to look at a newspaper for 2/1/95 but i can't get access at the moment.

[owner2]

do you think 26d could be a modern art gallery or musum somewhere, compintone?

[Brian Ogden]

I think 11d is marseiiles, no17 I feel is by road,I,m struggling on 26d and 30 what have you got for 19 & 32b please 

[Brian Ogden]

Q33 has got to be Kiribati if they changed the international date line by one day then -10 to +14 adds up to 24 hors 

[737700]

I have posted a scan of 26d here:

http://www.mini2.com/gallery/personal/18749/51998.jpg

If anyone is reading this, please click on the link. This building is so famous nobody recognises it.

[owner2]

crazy though this may sound a couple of friends have said the scottish parliament has odd insignia and hieroglyphics on the walls.could this be true??

for 19 i have they all own hotels,although i can't find much on gerry ford the other 3 definitely do.

32b i've got the bahamas.paradise,cat and out are all places there.

[Compintone]

26d is proving tricky!

I don't think it is the Scotish parliament from the photos I've looked at so its back to squre one. Here is what I think we have: It's a 'famous' builing (ha!); it's modern from the type of construction; the carvings do mot look egyptian or mexican; ther is another building in the background with a non vertical side. Not much but someone must know it!

[Quiz_Wiz]

"can't find it on Corbis"......... look harder, it's there!

......last clue - it's a museum!

[owner2]

it's ok.i met a friend who recognised it a couple of days ago.

[quizcath]

NOTE: SUNDAY TIMES POSTED ERRATUM TODAY; Q 19 WILL BE DISCOUNTED.  "GERALD FORD" SHOULD HAVE BEEN "JIMMY CARTER".

11d-I'm sticking with Marseilles

17- agree re: ambiguity.  Worth emailing the Times to clarify? I've calculated road and flying and straight line on a map and each calc brings a different answer.

26d- haven't followed links below but my gut was that it was Smithsonian or something.

30-haven't figured out yet

34- is it just that it's observatories/telescopes? how specific are people getting?

i too have answers for others (although beware; i recall someone posting answers last year and recall finding mistakes so one shouldn't necessarily rely on others' answers!)