...it's not dark yet, but it's gettin' there...
D-Rod, Tuning Spork, and Leif are tied for the lead with $1500; Shelly has $1000; Victor has $700; Law Fairy has $500; Maximum Leader, KG and Blu have $300 each; Matt of Overtaken By Events and Trint have $200 each; Drake Steel, TBinSTL and SkippyStalin have $100 each.
The category is "Vexatious Vexillology," for $400.
Bzzt!
What is seven rows of gold fleurs-de-lis, alternating seven and six fleurs long, on a white background?
Posted by: Leif on Aug. 28, 2006Bzz!
What is three vertical stripes of solid color, red, white and blue, in that order, with red on the left?
Posted by: The Law Fairy on Aug. 28, 2006Since others have already got it, I won't bother with guessing the Bourbon white standard again; instead, I'll just be pedantic and point out that the tricolor in Law Fairy's answer, the flag of the French Republic in continuous use since Louis-Phillipe's July Revolution of 1830, actually has the blue stripe on the hoist, not the other way other way around.
Posted by: Dave J on Aug. 28, 2006But, that wasn't Law Fairy. That was The Law Fairy. :P
Posted by: Tuning Spork on Aug. 28, 2006Now, if the question had been "Which flag flies most in France?" the answer could have been shortened by leaving off the fleurs de lys.
Wait until they surrender to Hizbollah. That'll teach 'em.
Posted by: shelly on Aug. 29, 2006Dave, yes, but from 1790 to 1794 they were reversed. I was just throwing it out there as a random guess. I figured the way it is now was too obvious/easy.
Spork, you mock, but we'll see how you feel when one of annika's commenters starts pretending to be *you*...
Posted by: The Law Fairy on Aug. 29, 2006Yeah, Spork! Take THAT!!!
Posted by: The Law Fairie on Aug. 29, 2006nice job leif. pick the next category.
you all might get a kick out of the old french naval ensign
Posted by: annika on Aug. 29, 2006Sweet! Worthless knowledge comes out on top again.
Let's finish Anal Bum Covers.
Posted by: Leif on Aug. 29, 2006Yes, The Law Fairy, but the Restoration wasn't 1790-94. It was 1814-15 and then after the Hundred Days from 1815-1830.
The Count of Chambord, as the legitmist pretender, only failed to become King Charles XI in 1871 because he refused to accept the tricolor. And France has been a republic (of sorts) ever since.
Posted by: Dave J on Aug. 29, 2006Henri V, I mean. Charles, Phillipe, Louis, whatever. ;-)
Posted by: Dave J on Aug. 29, 2006I know that wasn't the restoration... but the clue said "La Restauration" which may have been a coy way of saying... I dunno, something.
Hey, just trying to think creatively...
Posted by: The Law Fairy on Aug. 29, 2006your are confusing restorations. there was the one in england, and there was the one in france, called the bourbon restoration, after Napoleon's abdication from roughly 1814 to 1830, (with a short interruption during napoleon's 100 days.)
Posted by: annika on Aug. 29, 2006oops, sorry, i see Dave J already gave the history lesson, plus the english restoration was in the 1600s
Posted by: annika on Aug. 29, 2006Allez, ma petit. L'heuruse attende.
Posted by: shelly on Aug. 29, 2006