A Tail of Two Cities Trivia Quiz

Answer: Eugène Petit

As well as being an architect, Eugene Petit was also a respected artist, specialising in still life work. Some of his best known paintings feature dogs, both hunting and retrievers.
The Art Noveau movement was at its height during the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth.
Émile Gallé was famous for his Art Noveau work in glass, and Robert de Montesquiou was his Patron.
Louis Majorelle was known for his fine furniture and interior design work.

Answer: Royal Marines

The origins of the Royal Marines Regiment can be traced back to the 1660s, and they have been actually known by that name since the early 1700s.
There are around three hundred pets buried in Hyde Park, most of which are marked with tiny headstones bearing names, sometimes species and dates.

Answer: Mountain rescue dog

Barry was one of the mountain rescue dogs kept by the Swiss Great St. Bernard Hospice in the Alps. Ever since his death in 1814 there has always been a dog named Barry among the rescue dogs, in his honour.
Although Barry's memorial plaque is in the Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques in Paris, his actual body was stuffed and mounted when he died, and is now on public display at the Natural History Museum of Switzerland, in Berne.

Answer: False

In 2010, the small village of Stainton by Langworth, in Lincolnshire, became the first place in England to allow pets and owners to be interred side by side.
The site is a "Green Cemetery" and is one of the few British cemetaries that is not "hallowed ground" and has no religious affiliation or denomination, but is open to anyone who wants an "eco-friendly" or "green" funeral and/or burial.

Answer: Saint-Saëns

Camille Saint-Saëns lived from 1835-1921, and during his life was awarded the Grande Croix of the Legion d'Honneur by the French government.
The "Carnival of the Animals" was first performed in 1886, and although Saint-Saëns was afraid the piece would damage his reputation, as it was "frivolous", it was a great success, and has remained popular ever since.

Answer: Victor Henri Rochefort

Originally a journalist and playwright, Rochefort became involved in politics and was arrested, imprisoned, and even transported for his ideology.
His nickname "le Price des polémistes" translates into English as "the prince of press controversy".

Answer: Rin Tin Tin

As a pup, Rin Tin Tin was rescued from a World War I battlefield and taken home to the United States by a soldier named Lee Duncan.
He trained his new pet, and got him work in various films, before Rinty (as he was affectionately known) died in 1932.
Although originally buried in Lee Duncan's back garden, when financial difficulties forced him and his family to sell up, Lee took his pet's remains with him and arranged for them to be interred in the Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques. He felt that this was "sending Rinty home", since it was in France that he had found him as a lost pup.
Rin Tin Tin appeared in over twenty five films during his career and even has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Answer: Cats

The cemetery provides shelter and food to a large number of cats - they are not feral as such, but are "unowned" and wander freely around the cemetery grounds.
They have a "kennel" with a cat flap, and are fed daily. They are watched over and fed by a charity welfare group, and are often happy to come and greet (and be petted and fed tidbits by) visitors.

Answer: Marguerite Durand

Marguerite founded "La Fronde" in 1897, and the Congress For The Rights of Women took place at the Paris World's Fair in 1900.
She would take her pet lion for walks on a lead, through the streets of Paris, and named him Tiger.

Answer: True

Pet Memorial Day is held on the second Sunday in September each year.
The Association has members in at least fifteen different countries, and has official standards and guidelines that members must follow when providing care for people's deceased pets.