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I was wondering if the Stamporama members would enjoy the quizzes and I am happy to share them with the membership. This is not a contest or competition. The quizzes are solely for your enjoyment.
Each quiz will consist of five quiestions and will be posted around the first of the month along with the answers to the previous month’s quiz. Below are the quiz questions for August. I have also attached an example of a quiz question and the answer. Some answers will be short and some will be long as I have a tendency to sometimes get a little “wordy”.
August Philatelic Quiz:
Q1. Who is the first named woman to be depicted on a United States postage stamp?
Q2. What is the longest running stamps series in the world?
Q3. What United States commemorative postage stamp has an “unfinished bridge” variety?
Q4. What American stamp was printed by Thomas De La Rue of London?
Q5. What is wrong with the design of the United States 1932 Winter Olympics Issue, Scott 716?
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I want to play, but have a question. You indicate "Each quiz will consist of five quiestions " Do the 5 questions lead to 1 answer for the quiz? Or does the quiz consist of 5 questions that must be answered to win the monthly quiz, if you catch my drift?
Sounds like fun.
Mel
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Each question is independent. I don't expect the members to post responses. These are trivia questions and only meant to increase one's enjoyment of stamp collecting. This is not a contest and there are no winners or losers and certainly no prizes, except maybe spending some enjoyable time researching the answers.
Enjoy,
Fred
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For question #1, Did she kiss a man with wooden teeth?
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Hi Ernie,
Happy to see you are looking at the quiz. For #1, could be!
I don't want to provide any information or answers until I post the answers around the first of the month. Posting information during the month may discourage those members who haven't had a chance to look at the questions yet from the fun of trying to find the answers.
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Fred Skvara
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10-4 Fred!
No worries... I've been conversing with another member on a couple of these.
Thank you for jumping out there. Nice to liven things up a bit.
Ernie
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Let me throw in a question about the Peale stamp:
What is the skeleton behind the curtain, and in which museum is it now located?
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Q2: isn't the Norwegian posthorn definitives the longest running series?
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Hi Greadon,
Thank you for your interest in the quiz.
The skeleton in Peales museum is of a mastodon that Peale excavated himself and which now resides in Darmstadt, Germany, in the Hessisches Landesmuseum.
I will have no comments about the the quiz questions until I post the answers around the first of September.
Regards,
Fred
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Correct.
Echos of that mastodon keep showing up in Philly's smaller museums. There was some hope that it would make a triumphant return. When I changed flights in Frankfurt a few years ago, I made sure I had enough time to take the bus to Darmstadt to see it.
In the midst of Covid, there was an exhibit at the Smithsonian commemorating Humboldt. The mastodon made its way there, and was repaired and restored. But Covid complications prevented its triumphant return to its original site in Philadelphia.
The Peale painting also has a mastodon tooth in the front right corner. The painting shows his original museum, which was the first to arrange its material according to Linnaeus' principles.
The painting is an artifact of the era around 1776 when artists, naturalists, clergy, and politicians were often the same people. Specialization came later. There was some talk about using the mastodon as a national symbol. I assume the dead turkey was a nod to Franklin's proposal for it, rather than the bald eagle (the one bird from the original museum that has survived) as the national emblem.
The mastodon was also an early case for the possibility of extinction. Jefferson held out: he famously hoped that the Lewis and Clark expedition would bring back a live one. But that did not happen. Mastodons were too big to hide, so their absence was evidence that god did let creatures go.
Buffon, a French naturalist who contemplated the possibility of evolution well before Darwin, claimed that anything in the Americas would be smaller and weaker than anything in Europe. When Mastodon bones were found, Jefferson sent some to France as a counterexample, and assertion of American strength and vitality.
Occasionally, Philly's Academy of Natural Sciences trots out Jefferson's fossil collection, and sometimes includes a nod to the political motive behind them.
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@agathawatson- thanks for posting the quizzes and the answers. Very well done! Wondering if you would mind if some of the questions/answers were used in club newsletters? I would include attribution if you would let me know how you would like to be mentioned….
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We are all aware that one of the major benefits of stamp collecting is its ability to foster curiosity and learning. All stamps have a story to tell and uncovering that story often leads to many entertaining hours. When I was the editor of my local stamp club’s newsletter, I started inserting a philatelic quiz in each issue. The answers, along with images and background information, was given in the next issue. I found putting the quizzes together and researching the answers to be an extremely rewarding experience and reinforced, for me at least, what an enriching hobby is stamp collecting.
I was wondering if the Stamporama members would enjoy the quizzes and I am happy to share them with the membership. This is not a contest or competition. The quizzes are solely for your enjoyment.
Each quiz will consist of five quiestions and will be posted around the first of the month along with the answers to the previous month’s quiz. Below are the quiz questions for August. I have also attached an example of a quiz question and the answer. Some answers will be short and some will be long as I have a tendency to sometimes get a little “wordy”.
August Philatelic Quiz:
Q1. Who is the first named woman to be depicted on a United States postage stamp?
Q2. What is the longest running stamps series in the world?
Q3. What United States commemorative postage stamp has an “unfinished bridge” variety?
Q4. What American stamp was printed by Thomas De La Rue of London?
Q5. What is wrong with the design of the United States 1932 Winter Olympics Issue, Scott 716?
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I want to play, but have a question. You indicate "Each quiz will consist of five quiestions " Do the 5 questions lead to 1 answer for the quiz? Or does the quiz consist of 5 questions that must be answered to win the monthly quiz, if you catch my drift?
Sounds like fun.
Mel
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Each question is independent. I don't expect the members to post responses. These are trivia questions and only meant to increase one's enjoyment of stamp collecting. This is not a contest and there are no winners or losers and certainly no prizes, except maybe spending some enjoyable time researching the answers.
Enjoy,
Fred
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For question #1, Did she kiss a man with wooden teeth?
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Hi Ernie,
Happy to see you are looking at the quiz. For #1, could be!
I don't want to provide any information or answers until I post the answers around the first of the month. Posting information during the month may discourage those members who haven't had a chance to look at the questions yet from the fun of trying to find the answers.
Regards,
Fred Skvara
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10-4 Fred!
No worries... I've been conversing with another member on a couple of these.
Thank you for jumping out there. Nice to liven things up a bit.
Ernie
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Let me throw in a question about the Peale stamp:
What is the skeleton behind the curtain, and in which museum is it now located?
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Q2: isn't the Norwegian posthorn definitives the longest running series?
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Hi Greadon,
Thank you for your interest in the quiz.
The skeleton in Peales museum is of a mastodon that Peale excavated himself and which now resides in Darmstadt, Germany, in the Hessisches Landesmuseum.
I will have no comments about the the quiz questions until I post the answers around the first of September.
Regards,
Fred
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Correct.
Echos of that mastodon keep showing up in Philly's smaller museums. There was some hope that it would make a triumphant return. When I changed flights in Frankfurt a few years ago, I made sure I had enough time to take the bus to Darmstadt to see it.
In the midst of Covid, there was an exhibit at the Smithsonian commemorating Humboldt. The mastodon made its way there, and was repaired and restored. But Covid complications prevented its triumphant return to its original site in Philadelphia.
The Peale painting also has a mastodon tooth in the front right corner. The painting shows his original museum, which was the first to arrange its material according to Linnaeus' principles.
The painting is an artifact of the era around 1776 when artists, naturalists, clergy, and politicians were often the same people. Specialization came later. There was some talk about using the mastodon as a national symbol. I assume the dead turkey was a nod to Franklin's proposal for it, rather than the bald eagle (the one bird from the original museum that has survived) as the national emblem.
The mastodon was also an early case for the possibility of extinction. Jefferson held out: he famously hoped that the Lewis and Clark expedition would bring back a live one. But that did not happen. Mastodons were too big to hide, so their absence was evidence that god did let creatures go.
Buffon, a French naturalist who contemplated the possibility of evolution well before Darwin, claimed that anything in the Americas would be smaller and weaker than anything in Europe. When Mastodon bones were found, Jefferson sent some to France as a counterexample, and assertion of American strength and vitality.
Occasionally, Philly's Academy of Natural Sciences trots out Jefferson's fossil collection, and sometimes includes a nod to the political motive behind them.
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@agathawatson- thanks for posting the quizzes and the answers. Very well done! Wondering if you would mind if some of the questions/answers were used in club newsletters? I would include attribution if you would let me know how you would like to be mentioned….
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