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    #362
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,703 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    A guess at Grandson?


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    #363
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    No, they were both Alcmaeonids, Cleisthenes by birth and Pericles because his father, Xanthippos married one (so by birth technically I suppose!).

    What saint is said to have found the lancea domini after it was supposedly lost by a soldier serving in Egypt?


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    #364
    sci0x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    Saint Mary?


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    #365
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    St Augustine actually...

    Anyway, hows about this one, of what city-state was Gelon the tyrannos of?


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    #366
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,703 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Syraceus?
    Didn't he battle the Cartagians about the same time as the Persian invasions of Greece.


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    #367
    sci0x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    Yeah Gelon ruled Syracuse from 485 to 478.


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    #368
    Manach
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    Slightly further afield,
    Which King of Siam reign was protrayed in "The King and I" / "Anna and the King"


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    #369
    sci0x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    King Mongkut?


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    #370
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,703 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    And it's apparently banned in Thailand, over to you sci0x.


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    #371
    sci0x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    In 770 BC what place was found that was the gateway to Spanish silver?


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    #372
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Are you sure it's B.C. sci0x?


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    #373
    sci0x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    Yeah, it was Gadir.

    Next question: When Syracuse settled by the Corinthians in c734 they were led by what aristocrat?


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    #374
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Archias


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    #375
    sci0x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    Yep


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    #376
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Right, who led the Greek troops out of Persia after Cyrus was killed in his battle to conquer the throne of the Persian Empire in the 300's BC?


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    #377
    sci0x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    Cambyses? seeing that he succeeded Cyrus im guessing that.


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    #378
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    No, what happened was that the Persian Great King (Dareios I I think) died and there was a war of succession; this Cyrus was the younger son and so not the their heir - but he hired 10,000 Greek mercenaries to help him take the throne - and in the battle to decide the throne, Cyrus' army was victorious but he was killed. Thus, there were ten thousand Greek mercenaries down near Issus - the question is who led them home?

    There's a famous historic account about it (hint).


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    #379
    Manach
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    Xenophon - March to the Sea.


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    #380
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Well done, you are up Manach.


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    #381
    Manach
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    In the battle of Cannae in the summer of 216 BC, exactly how many elephants were present on the Carthaginian's side?


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    #382
    sci0x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    37 war elephants


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    #383
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,703 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Nope, try again? How many pacyderms which Hannibal brought across Alps fought in the battle ...


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    #384
    shock
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    none


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    #385
    Manach
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    Correct, they had all died off by then .
    Your question ......


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    #386
    shock
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    Staying with statistics:
    In operation Market garden in WW2, how many anti-tank guns did the British have at Arnhem Bridge?


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    #387
    miju
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,486 ✭✭✭miju


    i'm gonna be stupic and say 2 but i'd say it was 4

    ah feck it i'll go for 2 (i'm very very wrong aint i)


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    #388
    shock
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    Yes you are.


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    #389
    Jim
    Registered Users Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    im assuming you mean the PIAT's.

    if so, 32?


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    #390
    shock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 129 ✭✭shock


    No i'm talking about the 6pdr anti-tank guns.


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    #391
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    None?

    Call me silly but I'm wondering how the RAF could para-drop a six pounder anti tank weapon without it getting terminally damaged.


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