Dear listeners, RRI invited you to another contest testing your knowledge of Romania, entitled Legends of Buzau. This was a contest about an area in the southern part of Romania, which locals proudly refer to as Little Romania, due to the great diversity of its landscape. It is a picturesque area, full of legends recalling the times of yore, which you could discover throughout our contest.
We have received 388 correct answers to the questions of our contest. We thank you very much for your interest and invite you to also participate in other RRI contests. As you may know there’s an on-going contest this time devoted to the county of Brasov.
The contest about Buzau County was organised with the support of sponsors and partners, to whom we thank once again. The prizes are courtesy of ‘Casa cu Tei’ guesthouse in Sarata Monteoru, the ‘Casa Matei’ guesthouse in Berca, the ‘Tata Lice’ guesthouse in Chiojdu, and the ‘Varlaam’ guesthouse in the village of the same name.
We have two grand prizes available, two trips for two, for eight nights, with full board in several guesthouses in Buzau county, early in the summer of 2010. The trips are between May 29th– June 6th, and between June 5th and June 14th.
We also have several prizes, gifts from Buzau, for the winners of lesser prizes, courtesy of our partners and sponsors in Buzau. They are the Buzau County Council, the Buzau and Vrancea Archbishopric, the County Museum, the Buzau branch of the Union of Fine Artists, the Pietroasa Research and Development Station for Vine Growing and Wine Making, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, ROMET S.A. Buzau Group and Eximprod Group S.A. Buzau.
From our programs, RRI’s site and the Facebook and Twitter profiles you could find the answers to the contest’s questions.
The contest came to an end on March 31st 201, post date, your answers have reached us and we have designated the winners. But before finding out who the winners are, let’s repeat the questions you had to answer:
What are Buzau’s neighbouring counties?
The correct answer was: Prahova, Brasov, Covasna, Vrancea, Braila and Ialomita.
Where is the Pietroasele treasure, known as the Hen with Golden Chicks, on display?
The correct answer: the National History Museum of Romania.
Where is the only petroleum mine in Europe located?
The correct answer: Sarata Monteoru.
Please mention four more tourist attractions of Buzau county.
You could choose from among various attractions: the muddy volcanoes of Berca, the Sarata Monteoru spa, the Eagle Lake, also known as the Bottomless Lake, the salt caves of Meledic, the Living Fire in Lopatari, the Buzau valley and also the valleys of the rivers Bisca Mica and Bisca Mare, as well as Penteleu Peak, the wine cellar circuit, including Pietroasele, Zoresti, Merei, Breaza, Naeni and Sahateni, the Amber Museum in Colti, the Roman castrum of Pietroasele, the troglodyte caves of Alunis-Colti, and Nucu-Bozioru, the Dacian sepulchres and the Church carved in one boulder in Naeni, the fortified monasteries of Vintila Voda and Bradu, the Ciolanu and Ratesti Monastery, the open air sculpture camp in Magura and so on.
Now let’s see who the winners are and we’ll start with the smaller prizes that went to 50 RRI listeners: Nikolaus Türk and Werner Spinnenhörn, both from Germany, Georg Pleschberger, of Austria, Volodimir Kovali, from Ukraine, Mihail Brenev, Liudmila Dementieva and Iulia Stepanova, all 3 from Russia, Lazo Arsovski, of Macedonia (FYROM), Francisco Llerena Vega, Peru, Romanians Alexandru Peterescu, of Spain, Luiza Carol, of Israel, and Adrian Ioana, Zhou Wenxiang, He Guoliang, Xue Sanyang, Yu Hongyan, all 4 from China, Lohmus Ramsurn, Mauritius, a listener of the French language programs, Julien Auguereau, Laurence Prieur, Evélyne Tiers, Christian Rémy, all 4 from France, Abdel Karim Najim and Mohamad El-Hansali, both from Morocco, El-Barka Abdel-Baset, Samir Bechka and Moustafa Benloulou, all 3 from Algeria, Mina Mikhail, Egipt, Simona Lessi, Stefano Sala, Antonio Abbate, Grace Bertoldo, Annamaria Pietropaolo, Luigi Andreone, Giovanna Paduano, Andrea Gioda, Paolo Ferraris, Maria Luisa Oleggini, Vittoria Poggia, Vincenzo Capozzi, Raffaele Galanti, Panella Immacolata, Marina Castelli, Antonella Monti, Marco Di Leo, Cinzia Rosetti şi Mario Boemi, all 19 from Italy, Brian Kendall and Michael Wing from Great Britain, Hans Verner Lolike of Denmark and John Rutlegde from the US listeners of RRI’s English language broadcasts.
There were 3rd prizes who went to 27 RRI listeners: Daniela Verdelli, Paola Petroni, Cesare Formisano, Gianluigi Naj, Gianangelo Rosati, Giuseppe Cialdini, all 6 from Italy, Marcel Goerke, Germania, Serhii Pahomenko, Ucraina, Mihail Kobrin, Belarus, Vasili Karpov, Rusia, Carlos Campos Aldana, Cuba, Jorge Raul Ocegueda Robles, of Mexico, Romanians Mihaela Enache, of Franţa, and Vasile Constantinescu of Canada, Li Meng, Han Shenglin, Xue Fei, all 3 from China, René Pigeard and Paris Danièle, both from Franţa, Ismaila Barry, of Guinea, a listener of the French language programs, Abdel Kader Hasan Abdel-Kader Eid, of Egypt, Noureddine Adwan, Jordan, Mohamad Muhaigni of Yemen, Uzma Sehr of Pakistan, Mick Edwards of Great Britain, Rune Berg of Norway Faisal Abid of India.
Rune Berg of Norway gave us his reason to participate in RRI’s contest; his message is extremely relevant to the present:
“I am always motivated on competitions and am also very interested in places where nature gives extraordinary experiences. I have for instance been to Iceland and had a bath in the hot water there…and seen the small volcanoes there. When I read about the landscape of Buzau, I was very excited ….It’s not many places left in Europe like this. I hope I will be able to go there one day!”
Anyway we ensure you that the muddy volcanoes of Berca, one of the Buzau attractions, are not at all dangerous!
The 2nd prize went to 23 people: Cristina Pedulla, Giorgio Borsier, Giovanni Sergi and Giulio Pagani, all 4 from Italy, Fritz Andorf, Germany Alexandr Shanghii of Russia, Amela Omerspahic, from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jorge Luis Sánchez Gallardo of Cuba, Francisco Solórzano of El Salvador, Juan Franco Crespo of Spain, Romanian Victor Focşa of Ukraine, Yang Tietong, Zhou Chao, He Xige, all 3 from China, Sandrine Monllor and Serge Tombeur, both from France, Amri Mohamed Tahar of Tunisia, a listener of the French language programs, Fouad Laghzizer and Buchra Haddadi, both from Morocco, Tarek Laidi of Algeria, Aaron Tiu of the Philippines, Martin Rogan and Toby Wing of Great Britain.
There were 15 first prizes consisting of a drinking water filter offered by the ROMET SA group of Buzau. The first prizes went to the following RRI listeners: Olexandr Ponomariov and Larisa Hmarska, both from Ukraine, Amady Faye of Senegal, and Rachad Affo of Benin, both listeners of the French language programs, Vasili Guliaev and Nikolai Larin, from Russia, Michael Ngogo of Tanzania, Deepa Chakraborty from India, Nasir Aziz from Pakistan, all three listeners of the English language programs, Idriss Bou Oudina and Abdelillah Izzou, from Morocco, Goumidi Mohamad and Abdel-Hamid Djebbari, from Algeria, Abu Bakr Abul Magd and Mohamad Abdel Rahim, from Egypt.
“In 1999, it was the first time ever I contacted the English Service of RRI and this process continues. Taking part in quiz competition of SW Radio Stations is one of my favourite hobbies. The thing which motivates me to take part in this competition as follow :- (i) First of all testing luck. (ii) If I win the contest then first time ever I will be able to see the heart of Europe "Romania”. This is the message of Nasir Aziz from Pakistan. Even if he did not win the Grand Prize he came within an inch of winning it.
We also have 11 SPECIAL prizes (a painting, a sculpture, a Galle vase, a small box with souvenirs from Buzau county offered by the Union of Fine Artists, by painter Rodica Vasiliu from Buzau, Eximprod Group SA and the publication “Realitatea Economica” of Buzau. The prizes went to the following RRI listeners: José Manuel Mármol Cuevas of Spain, Jörg-Clemens Hoffmann from Germnay, Elamir Ghattas of the US, listener of the French language programs, Liudmila Smirnova from Ukraine, Cristina Riso from Italy, Serghei Lobatzeev of Russia, Thein Soe of Malaysia, Gong Baojun of China, Romanian Constantina Badea of France, Ivana Janjic of Serbia and Maurice Etrillard of France.
Here is what Thein Soe of Malaysia wrote: “I am glad to inform you that I am enjoying interesting contests and informative programs because RRI is the only source to gain any knowledge or information about Romania or the Romanian people. That’s why I have been a listener of RRI for 1 year and I find your station one of the best on air. “
And now the big moment of today’s show: The big winners who have participated in the contest and won a trip to Buzau area between May 29th – June 6th and 6th – 14th June are Ralf Urbanczyk, of Germany, and Stefano Citterio, of Italy. Congratulations! We’ll be waiting for you to come to Buzau this summer!
The prizes will be sent to you by mail, and we kindly ask you to confirm by e-mail, fax or snail mail the reception of the prize. Thank you once again for trying your luck and participating in our contest in such great numbers.
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2010-09-06
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