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The Earful Tower: Paris

Eiffel: How well do YOU know the Eiffel Tower?

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

E is for the Eiffel Tower, the most iconic landmark in France, probably Europe, and maybe the world. 

This podcast episode features 10 facts about the tower, but you're going to have to try and guess them first. There are 10 points at stake, good luck.

Featured is the voice two people very dear to me. 

Become a Patreon member of The Earful Tower here to support this show and get extras.

The music in this episode is from Pres Maxson.

Click here for our walking tours of Paris.

Transcript

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0:00.0

In the most visited city in the world, there is one iconic structure, which happens to be the most visited paid monument in the world, defining the skyline, defining the city, stretching 330 metres into the sky, that's over a thousand feet, and opened in 1889, did you really think that E

0:25.9

could be for anything besides Eiffel? That's right. E is for Eiffel Tower. My name is Oliver G. This is

0:35.2

the Eiffel Tower. And let's start with some music from Press Maxim. So of course, he was always going to be for Eiffel, right?

1:12.2

Well, maybe not. You'll hear more about that in a second.

1:14.8

I want to talk about that music from Press Max and 2, but first, strap in.

1:19.6

In fact, you should almost press pause because this is a quiz.

1:23.9

I wanted to bring, we didn't know how to do the Eiffel Tower in a fun way, so we thought

1:28.2

why not revive the pub quiz that we did during lockdown later and I. And so what you're going

1:33.4

to hear now are 10 questions, getting kind of progressively more difficult. And here are the rules.

1:39.2

If you can answer out loud in the three or four, five seconds that I give you, and correctly

1:44.0

you get a point.

1:45.2

So there's 10 points up for grabs. If you have to wait for one of the hints that I give,

1:49.7

and then you get it right, you can have half a point. So there's a maximum of 10. I have a feeling

1:55.4

some of you Paris geniuses are going to get 10. But even if you're new to the city, new to the channel, you'll still be able to have some fun

2:02.4

and have some good guesses in there.

2:04.0

It's written in a way that you can guess even if you've got no idea.

2:08.1

Now, not all the questions are going to be read out by my wife, lovely Lena and me.

2:13.1

We have a special guest.

2:14.3

I think for the first time it's a guest who's never been to Paris before.

2:19.5

Very special for me. A bit different from you. You'll be hearing that about halfway through.

2:25.8

So before we get into the quiz, let's listen to what Press has to say. If you knew around here,

2:30.5

Press Maxen is our maestro and he matches the music to the episode usually

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