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April 4, 2001 By: Betty Ramsey, LEOASC The location tonight was The German Romantic Road Packing Round 1. The prime tourist activity on this road is seeing MEDIEVAL TOWNS & CASTLES 2. The Romantic Road is located largely in BAVARIA 3. When was the Romantic Road designated as such? AFTER WORLD WAR II 4. The Road ends at Fussen at the foot of the Bavarian ALPS 5. Which town is not on the Road HAMBURG 6. Originally much of the Road was ROMAN TRADE ROUTE Food: Maultchen (sp?) is GERMAN RAVIOLI Current Events: German State of Bavaria recently challenged the Constitution on GAY COUPLES MARRYING Entertainment: The ten day Kinderfest in July celebrates CHILDREN Geography: Founded in 14 BC the largest city on the Road is AUGSBURG Sports: The town of Fussen is a popular area for what sport? HAND GLIDING General Question Round Nordlingen is a WALLED city. Teipelo, an Italian painter, painted the fresco is Wurzburg called THE FOUR CONTINENTS Minnesanger are MEDIEVAL POET-MUSICIANS Burg and Schloss mean CASTLE These porcelain figures are popular in this area. HUMMEL German Medieval towns have wrought iron signs in front of INNS This Italian directed a movie about Ludwig of Bavaria VISCONTI The castle of Wurzburg is called RESIDENZ The Medieval organization in Banmantheim (sp?) was the TEUTONIC KNIGHTS Fuggers and welsers are WEALTHY FAMILIES Which town is built in a meteor crater? NORDLINGEN Who owned (some castle) since the 1200's HARBURGS Pictures: 1. Dinlelbuhl which of these is not located here? ST JAMES CHURCH 2. Hohrneschwangau (sp?) Castle 3. Augsburg 4. Rathaus The Romantic Road is located in area 5 on NTN's map. Sorry I missed the last few on the picture round. It's not easy trying to take notes & play four boxes. There were only three of us, Paul, BOOMER/ZPYCPY, Ellie, ELLIEM and yours truly, Betty, playing my boxes & Juan's. As I said yesterday, the good news is he is now a supervisor, but the bad news is he won't be able to play Tuesday or Wednesday for a while. Have a great weekend! Betty PT's E Trop LV, NV PS Please forgive the spelling errors. |