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Rocky Weak Label

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

Chlorine killed my uncle there, so in his honour, I'll say Chlorine.

YES!! well done. discovered by Karl sheal (spelled wrong) weaponised by Fritz haber and then introduced into the water supply after, which saved thousands or maybe millions of lives killing pathogens!

Ted_YNWA

Beasty wrote: »

So I guess they were either assassinated, overthrown or died of stagefright when being sworn in. That points towards Latin America or Africa for me, but who and where are the basic facts I'm struggling with:pac:

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Yep, you have all the facts there bar the name.

I won't be online much over the next few days, you can have it Beasty.

It was Pedro Lascuráin

On 19 February 1913, General Victoriano Huerta overthrew Madero. Lascuráin was one of the people who convinced Madero to resign the presidency while he was being held prisoner in the National Palace and claimed that his life was in danger if he refused.

Under the 1857 Constitution of Mexico, the vice-president, the attorney general, the foreign secretary, and the interior secretary stood in line to the presidency. As well as Madero, Huerta had ousted Vice-President José María Pino Suárez and Attorney General Adolfo Valles Baca.[3] To give the coup d'état some appearance of legality, he had Lascuráin, as foreign secretary, assume the presidency, who would then appoint him as his interior secretary, making Huerta next in line to the presidency, and then resign.

The presidency thus passed to Huerta. As a consequence, Lascuráin was president for less than an hour; sources quote figures ranging from 15 to 56 minutes.[4] To date, Lascuráin's presidency is the shortest in history, even briefer than that of Venezuelan politician Diosdado Cabello in 2002.

Huerta called a late-night special session of Congress, and under the guns of his troops, the legislators endorsed his assumption of power. A few days later, Huerta had Madero and Pino Suárez killed. The coup and the events surrounding it became known as La decena trágica ("the tragic ten [days]").

OldGoat

Wonder if he got a Presidential pension for life? Nice work if you can get it.

IrishZeus

Who was the first person to vote in an election from space?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

IrishZeus wrote: »

Who was the first person to vote in an election from space?

A guy called Wolf (can't recall his first name) from Mir

IrishZeus

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

A guy called Wolf (can't recall his first name) from Mir

Correct - David Wolf in 1997.

New Zealand was the 1st country to allow women to vote/ grant suffrage.

what was the last to do so?

IrishZeus

rusty cole wrote: »

New Zealand was the 1st country to allow women to vote/ grant suffrage.

what was the last to do so?

Saudi Arabia.


Although technically, there is still one country where women cannot vote. Name it?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

rusty cole wrote: »

New Zealand was the 1st country to allow women to vote/ grant suffrage.

what was the last to do so?

You're supposed to ask a question when you've got a previous one right.

That was probably Saudai Arabia.

looksee

No harm in a few stray questions, keeps the momentum going

feargale

OldGoat wrote: »

Wonder if he got a Presidential pension for life? Nice work if you can get it.

Well if the pension were linked to time served it would probably afford him a bag of taytos per annum.

P.S. Is it taytos or taytoes?

Ok I see,

funnily enough I thought it was Switzerland. which is funny because you could legally die there with assistance before you could vote if you were female.
I'd read that in at least two books before and found it very strange.

feargale

IrishZeus wrote: »

Saudi Arabia.


Although technically, there is still one country where women cannot vote. Name it?

Vatican. No technical about it.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

A follow on. Who is reputed, although sometimes disputed, to have been the shortest serving monarch?

IrishZeus

feargale wrote: »

Vatican. No technical about it.

Correcto

looksee

Of anywhere?

feargale

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

A follow on. Who is reputed, although sometimes disputed, to have been the shortest serving monarch?

I doubt it's Lady Jane Grey. She got a few days.
Louis XVI's son?
The Hapsburg fella who succeeded Franz Josef and tried to set himself up as king of Hungary after WWI and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Louis XVI's son. Name and regnal number clinches the deal.

feargale

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

Louis XVI's son. Name and regnal number clinches the deal.

Louis XVII

I would have thought he lived quite a while after his father's execution!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

feargale wrote: »

Louis XVII

I would have thought he lived quite a while after his father's execution!

My apologies. You were so near I misdirected. He married Louis XVI's daughter - his cousin.

feargale

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

My apologies. You were so near I misdirected. He married Louis XVI's daughter - his cousin.

We seem to be at cross purposes.

Louis XVI was executed 21st January 1793.

Wikipedia:"Louis XVII (27 March 1785 – 8 June 1795), born Louis-Charles, was the younger son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette.

There were surely shorter reigns e.g. the aforesaid Lady Jane Grey.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

feargale wrote: »

We seem to be at cross purposes.

Louis XVI was executed 21st January 1793.

Wikipedia:"Louis XVII (27 March 1785 – 8 June 1795), born Louis-Charles, was the younger son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette.

There were surely shorter reigns e.g. the aforesaid Lady Jane Grey.

We are. This person reigned for minutes and married the daughter of Louis XVI.

feargale

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

We are. This person reigned for minutes and married the daughter of Louis XVI.

Ok. I have it.

Louis Antoine of France, Duke of Angoulême (6 August 1775 – 3 June 1844) was the eldest son of Charles X of France and the last Dauphin of France from 1824 to 1830. He was technically King of France and Navarre for less than 20 minutes[1] before he himself abdicated, due to his father's abdication during the July Revolution in 1830. He never reigned over the country, but after his father's death in 1836, he was the legitimist pretender as Louis XIX.

Thanks.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Phew! That's it. Well done.

feargale

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

Phew! That's it. Well done.

Now I'm not sure if I have played myself out of the obligation to post a question, or if I'm in the same position as Australia's women footballers last night who were deemed winners despite the Brazilian opposition having been erroneously denied a penalty.

looksee

Shocking lack of imagination from the French, calling all their kings Louis. Anyway, its an answer (we all knew it was cogged ) so you're up feargale!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

looksee wrote: »

Shocking lack of imagination from the French, calling all their kings Louis. Anyway, its an answer (we all knew it was cogged ) so you're up feargale!

Heinrich LXXII, Prince Reuss of Lobenstein and Ebersdorf beats them hands down though.

New Home

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

Heinrich LXXII, Prince Reuss of Lobenstein and Ebersdorf beats them hands down though.

I was just about to say that!





:pac::pac::pac:

feargale

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

Quick one.


Who wrote Moby Dick?

Herman Melville

I'm trying to think of one. Later. Go ahead somebody.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

feargale wrote: »

Herman Melville

I'm trying to think of one. Later. Go ahead somebody.

That was answered on 4th April!!!

Up Donegal

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

A follow on. Who is reputed, although sometimes disputed, to have been the shortest serving monarch?

Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria, who stood only 5' (1.52 m) when in her 30s:):) (according to Wikipedia)

feargale

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

That was answered on 4th April!!!

Sorry. I don't know how that came about. Maybe because I'm in zombie mode with a headcold.

Here's a proper one. Which country has a coin engraved with the following:

Nemo me impune lacessit ("No one provokes me with impunity")?

IrishZeus

feargale wrote: »

Sorry. I don't know how that came about. Maybe because I'm in zombie mode with a headcold.

Here's a proper one. Which country has a coin engraved with the following:

Nemo me impune lacessit ("No one provokes me with impunity")?

Scotland

feargale

IrishZeus wrote: »

Scotland

That didn't last long. You must have been buying haggis.

It's engraved on the edge of the Scottish pound. It was originally on the bawbee at the behest of Charles II.

Up Donegal

Address the haggis

IrishZeus

Up Donegal wrote: »

Address the haggis

Which nation invented haggis?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

IrishZeus wrote: »

Which nation invented haggis?

As we now know it it was the Scottish but the Romans has what can only be described as an early form of haggis and the Norse cooked up something similar,

IrishZeus

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

As we now know it it was the Scottish but the Romans has what can only be described as an early form of haggis and the Norse cooked up something similar,

That’s what I was looking for - you’re up

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

What links Eyes wide shut, The big sleep and Overboard?

IrishZeus

Just guessing - all movies based on novels?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

IrishZeus wrote: »

Just guessing - all movies based on novels?

Afraid not.

New Home

Soundtrack composer?

EDIT: Scrap that - last film before each of the directors died?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

New Home wrote: »

Soundtrack composer?

EDIT: Scrap that - last film before each of the directors died?

Neither.

New Home

Darn.

OldGoat

I found something new, well new to me anyway and so I'm stealing the opportunity to post a question.
What is the "Bortle" scale used to measure?

looksee

I didn't know so I looked it up - that is really interesting and kept me occupied for a while!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Having a son who is very in to astronomy, it's a measure of the brightness of the sky.

OldGoat

Yep, thats what it is. Just love the name and I've been saying it out loud in a style reminiscent of Blackadder saying "Bob".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1QywDPkDjg

New Home

It would seem that "some people" have insiders information... :mad:


:D:D

New Home

One question to keep the thread going. Who was Tom Frost's old girlfriend?