I mean, to be fair, it may not be his fault that Euler et al. were unable to get water there. I mean, it may be! He may have underfunded the endeavor and micromanaged and argued with them until they threw up their hands. But it took so long to get solved after his death that the location may actually have made it difficult.

The pop quiz is total Fritz, though. You see it over and over again when people meet with him.

Yeah, Casanova sounds great. He's on my list now.