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History Quiz!

Mark · 2003-04-22 11:04:51

In order to try and liven the place up a bit I propose a quiz! Rules are simple, I ask a question- Whoever gets it right asks a question, who gets that right asks a question and so on and so forth! As for Rules: * No Muppetry (Tbh I dont expect any but it has to go down) * Please dont spam. * Lets not go for impossible…

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#512 04-02-2004 10:50am
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Re: Prisoners - Basil the Bulgar Slayer of Byzantine,
I vaguely remember him from a National Geographic book and I sort of admired his command style

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#513 05-02-2004 2:09am
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PHB - Actually that date did came from my Nation School history book and it truly is one of the easiest dates to remember !

Manach - Bingo - Your question.

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#514 06-02-2004 12:27am
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"To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate terms of peace in the White House" - who spoke these words?

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#515 06-02-2004 2:05am
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Well it wern't Admiral Yamamoto and I don't think it was the Canadians 'cos they actually did go to the white house, and burned it down (1812?) so I'll say Benedict Arnold

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#516 06-02-2004 10:07am
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Actually wasn't indeed Admiral Yamamoto the answer I was looking for.
Your question.

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#517 06-02-2004 11:35pm
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LOL - definitely subliminal

BTW it was the Safavid empire (~ Iran)

By what name was Mustafa Kemal ,president of Turkey from 1923-38 better know as.

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#518 06-02-2004 11:39pm
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Attaturk (sp?).

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#519 07-02-2004 12:24am
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Attaboy (Ataturk - umlaut on the u)

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#520 08-03-2004 1:34pm
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sorry to butt in but is googling allowed in these quizes

or do you know that much about history (me impressed!)

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#521 08-03-2004 11:06pm
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Not for the first 24 hours ...

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#522 19-03-2004 8:23pm
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sorry to butt in but is googling allowed in these quizes

/me gargles with rage

The last point:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=92298

I take a rather dim view of googling you see.

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#523 19-03-2004 11:47pm
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Opens a history book on a random page..

Well people argue about when the second world war started - If looked at as part two of a European Civil war, then both Germany and Italy had invaded other countries in the same month the Spanish Civil war ended and Italy, Germany and Russia all had involvement in that too.

While some could argue that more resolve by the internatinal community in that civil war could have hemmed in the ambitions of the dicatators there was an earlier event where this could have been done.

Shortly before the Spanish Civil war ineffectual sanctions (no oil or coal banned etc.) were applied to one of these powers by the league of nations because of a fairly one sided incursion. They did not work and a ruler had to go into exile in Britain - who was he ?

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#524 21-03-2004 8:53pm
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King Zog of Albania?

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#525 21-03-2004 10:00pm
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No that one was a little later on
Zog was a nice bloke by all accounts - legend has it he used to drink out of a skull of a virgin who killed herself etc.
[edit] Right european power though.

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#526 22-03-2004 1:36pm
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Halie Salasie ?

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#527 22-03-2004 7:23pm
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That's him - and the final stage of the carve up of Africia between the Europeans

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#528 23-03-2004 6:07pm
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My question is :
Who was the last English King to die in battle and name the battlefield?

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#529 25-03-2004 6:00pm
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Richard the III at Bosworth

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#530 25-03-2004 6:06pm
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Exactly, your question...

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#531 05-04-2004 10:31am
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Sorry about delay. Racking my brains to think of something.

OK Here goes:

To the nearest cent, what is the value in euro currency of the old Irish Half Crown, in circulation until 1971?

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#532 05-04-2004 10:34am
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Originally posted by Hairy Homer
To the nearest cent, what is the value in euro currency of the old Irish Half Crown, in circulation until 1971?

€0.16

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#533 05-04-2004 4:19pm
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Cha Chingg!!!

Correct.

Your question?

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#534 27-04-2004 7:44pm
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dont suppose anyone wants to start this up again????

anyway if anyone does heres a french history question:

name the girl arrested outside the lodgings of Robespierre and found to have a dagger?

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#535 28-04-2004 8:26pm
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eh is it gravier?

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#536 29-04-2004 12:25am
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nope.....heres a big clue..........."vroom vroom beep beep"

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#537 29-04-2004 3:50pm
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Hmm... Charlotte Corday?

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#538 29-04-2004 10:35pm
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nope.......do ya give up?

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#539 30-04-2004 4:16pm
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cecile renault.

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cecile renault.

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#541 30-04-2004 7:01pm
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Tough one... I tried good ol' google ( after taking my guess, I can never resist the impulse of finding out something I don't know), and I couldn't find anything without the actual name ... next question? (I have promised myself a good reward the day someone asks a question I can actually answer.... )

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