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10 points go to you, Onyx_is_Radiant.



I'll give you 4 points for that addition, Arcy.



Also right, so another 4 points to Lil_Spawn.

Onyx_is_Radiant: 35
Arcy: 17
Lil_Spawn: 4
Shadow Crusnik: -10

Question 5:
Who said "let them eat cake"?

Easy one!
Marie-Therese, wife of France's Louis XIV.
Marie Anntoinette said, "let them eat an egg-based bread" -when fully translated.
Marie-Therese said, "let them eat cake" 100 years before Marie Anntionette.

It seems that since the shift from Neo-Anime to Neo-Anime 2.0, the average I.Q of it's members has doubled.

An excellent answer with plenty of trimmings. Plus 15 points.

The first problem is that is wasn't cake, it was brioche (the original French is Qu'ils mangent de la brioche). According to Alan Davidson's "Oxford Companion to Food", "Eighteength-century brioche was only lightly enriched (by modest quantities of butter and eggs) and not very far removed from a good white loaf of bread". So, the remark might have been an attempt at kindness: "If they want bread, give them some of the good stuff".

Except Marie Antoinette didn't say it. The line had been in use in print as an illustration of aristocratic decadence since at least 1760. Jean-Jacques Rousseau claimed he'd first heard it as early as 1740.

Lady Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette's most recent biographer, attributes the remark to the Queen Marie-Thérése, wife of Louis XIV, but it is also entirely possible that it was made up for propaganda purposes.


Onyx_is_Radiant: 50
Arcy: 17
Lil_Spawn: 4
Shadow Crusnik: -10

Question 7:
Which of the following is a Chinese invention?
[i]a) Glass.
b) Rickshaws.
c) Chop Suey.
d) Fortune Cookies.[/b]

I'm not exactly sure which they did invent, but I do know that fortune cookies were invented in the US...

Well, some glass is formed naturally, so that rules that out.

Rickshaws were first used in Paris, I think, though they went by a different name. The Rickshaw is credited to be invented in America.

I do believe the right answer is Chop Suey.

Blimey, forgot about this thread... I'm a right moron some times.


4 points to you, and I might as well add an extra 2 points since you since you specified it was made IN the US, as a-posed to it being simply an "American invention".

Fortune cookies were invented in America, probably by a Japanese (not Chinese) immigrant, Makato Hagiwara, the landscape designer who designed the Golden Gate tearoom in San Francisco around 1907. At first, they were small Japanese buns with thank-you notes inside.


10 points for a correct answer, and an additional 2 for saying that the rickshaw is an American invention.

There are many fanciful stories of Chop Suey being an American invention, but it is a Chinese dish. Chop Suey is a dish local to Toisan in sounthern Canton. They call it tsap seui, which means 'miscellaneous scraps' in Cantonese. Most of the early immigrants to California came from this region, hence the idea of it being invented in America.

Glass is not Chinese. The earliest-known glass artefacts are from ancient Egypt in 1350 BC. The earliest Chinese porcelain dates from the Han dynasty (206 BC - AD 220).

The rickshaw was invented by an American missionary, who used it to carry his invalid wife through the streets of Yokohama in Japan in 1869.


Onyx_is_Radiant: 50
Arcy: 29
Kylii Kyfirus: 6
Lil_Spawn: 4
Shadow Crusnik: -10

Question 8:
Who invented champagne?

It was invented by Dom Perignon. Well the method to make it was, so they pretty much credit him. And it was actually named after the region it was made in. There is no specific person I believe, because sparkling wine was before champange, but he just altered the method

Nope, it was actually Christopher Merret in the 1660's.

Yes but that's Sparkling Wine. Champange is Sparkling wine but its a type of sparkling wine. Check again Arcy

Actually, Sparkling Wine was first produced in the 1500's. Sparkling Champagne, or just Champagne, was produced by Merret.

(Live I tell you!. LIVE!!!!)

(relax I think we're waiting for Chaz's answer.)

And sorry Arcy, but it was Chirstpher Merrot. You see he developed, and documented the second fermentation technique that is not only the most traditional technique of wine making but also the most widely accepted. And he did this 30 years before the work of Don Perignon, but Don is thought by many to be the inventor of champagne; albeit its most used technique was already on paper before he made it.

You mean sorry "Spawn", and ok