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History Quiz!

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    #542
    Chinafoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    ok let me see..........alright heres a dead easy one.

    what date in 1871 was the paris commune established?


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    #543
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,703 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    May 1st being the guess that's far too obvious to be right ....?


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    #544
    Chinafoot
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    nope it was the 18th of march after Thiers ordered the seizure of the canons at Montemarte.

    ok heres a new one:


    Name the european adviser to the Continental Army in the War of Independence in America?


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    #545
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,371 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    LaFayette?


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    #546
    Chinafoot
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    nope he was a pal of jeffersons. the answer im looking for is.....Von Steuben.


    ok heres a really really simple one.......

    when did the war of independence end?


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    #547
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,371 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    6th(?) December 1921


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    #548
    Chinafoot
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    oh sorry i should've been more clear.......i was staying along the American Revolution line.


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    #549
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    Close enough to knowing.... well, at least as a clue for someone else, I know that the definite English defeat came at Yorktown some time (snif) in 1781, and that the Treaty of Paris granting formal independence came in September (?) 1783....


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    #550
    Chinafoot
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    yup...your go. :D


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    #551
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    YAYY :D I can't believe it!! This deserves a large portion of chocolate cake at least... :) Well, it seems that silly paper I had to write last month wasn't that silly after all....

    OK, let's see... I will take shameful advantage of my turn and lead the contest to my own Spanish camp... on what day did Spanish dictator Francisco Franco die?


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    #552
    Chinafoot
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    november 19th or 20th, (not quite sure) and think it was 1975???

    vague vague memories.....hopefully havent killed all my brain cells!!


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    #553
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    Well done! :) November 20, 1975... should have picked a more difficult one! :D Your turn again ;)


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    #554
    Chinafoot
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    woohoo....guess theres something up there afterall!

    ok.....new question. irish history now.

    in what year did Catholic Emancipation occur?


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    #555
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    Well, I am in luck lately, familiar topics :) Let's see, I am supposed to know this, but I could kick myself, mixing up foundation dates with emancipation bills, with repeal campaigns, snif.... 1829?


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    #556
    Chinafoot
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    well done!:D

    okay staying along the same lines heres a quote:

    "ireland must be kept by persuasion if possible or by force if necessary"

    who said that?

    (looks like this a 2-player game!)


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    #557
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    You got me there! :D (nothing so difficult, bad memory, narrow historical expertise, snif) But if we are still on the same topic, I was going to take a huge guess, and say Sir Robert Peel, although it sounds more like William Pitt before the Act of Union..... bottom, line, I don't know, :D, I suppose it is time for player no. 3 ;)


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    #558
    Waylander
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    Was it William Gladstone?


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    #559
    Chinafoot
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    it was Lord Salisbury.

    ok, heres one a bit farther back.

    in what year did the Normans defeat the Anglo-Saxons?


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    #560
    Victor
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    Originally posted by peachypants
    in what year did the Normans defeat the Anglo-Saxons?
    1066, but probably also during 1067, 1068 1069 .....


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    #561
    Chinafoot
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    1066 is correct.

    your question victor.:D


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    #562
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    Helloooo, Victooorrrrr... :eek: (closest thing resembling yelling into outer space), next question, please, I need my chocolate reward for guessing yet another difficult history question....


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    #563
    Chinafoot
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    ok since it been so long i'll post one.

    when did the Crimean War end?


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    #564
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    Ok, let's try this one... Early in 1856? (February perhaps?? wrong war??)


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    #565
    Chinafoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    now martarg i want you to go and get urself a HUGE slice of chocolate cake!

    congratu-mal-ations!

    ok bébé now hit me! (in the question asking sense of course!)


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    #566
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    Yesss, reward calories :D !! perhaps my memory is not as bad as I thought, but I am being very lucky with your questions... ;)

    OK let's see.... more Spanish History (I need to know the answer, and there aren't that many fields I know about, snif)... Who was king of Spain for a few years after the overthrow of Queen Isabella II in 1868?


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    #567
    Chinafoot
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    oh is it her son with the funny name....Alfonso (XI or XII.....not sure!)

    :confused: :dunno:


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    #568
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    Hmmm, nope, Alfonso XII still had to wait for a few years... OK a few clues: he was an Italian, and his name also begins with A... ;)


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    #569
    Chinafoot
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    nope cant think of it :mad:

    tell!


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    #570
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    Ok, it was Amadeus I of Savoy... :) They tried him as a substitute for Isabella II, but after a few years of a difficult life as a king, he gave up and returned home...

    Let's return to Irish history then.. :) How did the Young Irelander T. F. Meagher get his nickname "Meagher of the Sword"?


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    #571
    Chinafoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    ah this was the speech he gave in July of 1846 in Dublin at the Repeals Association meeting. he used the "sword" as a symbol of resistence.
    dont think Dan O'C was too happy!

    am i right am i right??? :D


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