Saturday, April 9, 2011

answers to "next quiz"

Me in my apartment.
Answers to the previous quiz:  A-2, B-4, C-1.  Or 1-C, 2-A, 4-B, if you will.  There was no prison pictured.

No, the synagogue and the library are not by the same architect, though they look extremely similar.  The synagogue is on the site of the old Semper synagogue, destroyed on 9 November 1938.  No windows to break on its god-awful replacement.

Prize once again goes to Constance, who claims to have used her computer to help solve it.  But this is all on computer, so is that cheating?  Dad also figured out one of them.  Besides the glory, Constance, what would be an appropriate prize?

Haven't thought up another quiz for this time.

Recently spent some time with a German book called "Jewish Wit," or something like that.  First published in 1960 with the express purpose of trying to bring Germans and Jews closer together.  650 pages of humor from (or about) all ages, including the Nazi time:

A Jew goes to the courthouse and asks the clerk if he can get his name changed legally.  "Only in extenuating circumstances," says the clerk.  "What is your name?"

"Adolf Stinkfuss," says the Jew.

"Oh, I see.  And what do you want to change it to?"

"Moritz Stinkfuss."

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