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History Quiz!

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    #602
    Chinafoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    boabdil????:confused:


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    #603
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    :D Yep ... your turn again, now please make it easy.... ;)


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    #604
    Chinafoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    ok heres one you'll probably find easy!

    name the islands owned by Spain until 1885 when a German protectorate was established?


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    #605
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    You'd think so, wouldn't you? :o The pretentious answer is that with so many islands owned by Spain over the centuries, one gets confused :D (my apologies to all oppressed peoples throughout the world) ... considering that I never majored in Spanish history, and that colonial territories were a list of names I usually forgot as soon as exams were over, I must say that I don't know... if no-one takes their guess, you can go on to the next question.... :rolleyes:


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    #606
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,703 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Yap Islands?


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    #607
    Chinafoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    Originally posted by Manach
    Yap Islands?

    nope! anyone else want a try?


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    #608
    Victor
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    Originally posted by peachypants
    nope! anyone else want a try?
    I had an idea but was wrong. I googled and was surprised at which ocean the islands were located in.


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    #609
    Chinafoot
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    the answer is......The Marshall Islands

    American History now:

    During the Watergate scandal, what defence did Nixon try to argue to avoid appearing in front of a Grand Jury and to avoid handing over Whitehouse tapes?


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    #610
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Originally posted by peachypants
    the answer is......The Marshall Islands

    American History now:

    During the Watergate scandal, what defence did Nixon try to argue to avoid appearing in front of a Grand Jury and to avoid handing over Whitehouse tapes?

    Executive privilege.

    ie I'm too important to be asked a lot of silly questions.


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    #611
    Chinafoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    correct! :D

    you're up Hairy.


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    #612
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    OK Let's try a parochial one.

    The Irish constitution has a mechanism whereby an unelected person can be appointed to the cabinet by first being appointed to the senate as a Taoiseach's nominee.

    Who was the last Senator in the cabinet?


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    #613
    Victor
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    Àggh. It was some guy about 1970 under a FG/ Labour coalition. I think he had Foreign Affiers (or was it still External Affairs back then).


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    #614
    Chinafoot
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    prendergast???? major guess!


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    #615
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Originally posted by Victor
    Àggh. It was some guy about 1970 under a FG/ Labour coalition. I think he had Foreign Affiers (or was it still External Affairs back then).

    Nearly right. Foreign Affairs. FG Labour Coalition. But (slightly) more recent than that.
    Not Prendergast


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    #616
    Chinafoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    well i havent a breeze.....:confused:


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    #617
    Hairy Homer
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    Senator James Dooge (affectionately known as Deputy Doog) appointed Foreign Minister by Garret Fitzgerald in the 1980s.

    At least I think he's the most recent. I don't remember another similar appointment since.

    Does this mean I get to ask another question?


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    #618
    Chinafoot
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    yep....go again.


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    #619
    Hairy Homer
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    Originally posted by peachypants
    yep....go again.

    OK. Who was the Palestinian guerilla whom Oliver North challenged to single combat anywhere on the globe during the investigation into the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s.


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    #620
    eoinm
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    Abu Nidal, AFAIK it eventually morphed into an urban myth concerning Bin Laden.

    do you follow up this with another q?


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    #621
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    Yep, whoever gets the right answer, gets to ask the next question... ;) (rare privilege in my case, snif....)


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    #622
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Originally posted by martarg
    Yep, whoever gets the right answer, gets to ask the next question... ;) (rare privilege in my case, snif....)

    Only if it's the right answer. Eoinm you are correct. It was Abu Nidal.

    You're up.


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    #623
    eoinm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭eoinm


    cool, so on a vaguely related theme Franz Ferdinands assassin (not the band, the archduke) belonged to which group?


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    #624
    martarg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 209 ✭✭martarg


    Is "anarchists" too general? :dunno: To be a little more specific, I have a vague notion that he was a Hungarian....


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    #625
    eoinm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭eoinm


    ohh sorry, I ment group in the sence that the IRA are a group


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    #626
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    IT was the Black something wasn't it?

    Black Hand?

    [/wittering]


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    #627
    eoinm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭eoinm


    yep, thats the one
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hand


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    #628
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Whoo Hoo!

    I'm up again!!

    The Ballyseedy massacre of republicans by the Free State army (tie several IRA prisoners to a landmine, retreat safe distance, detonate) in the Civil War which is commemorated by a massive sculpture outside the Ballyseedy Castle Hotel and annual ceremonies, was carried out in retaliation for a booby trap explosion a few days previously which killed and maimed several Free State soldiers (no commemoration that I know of) in which quaintly named Kerry village?


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    #629
    eoinm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭eoinm


    Knocknagashel (sp)

    the joys of having a republican primary school teacher


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    #630
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    It was actually Knocknagoshel but I'll give you that. :-)


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    #631
    eoinm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭eoinm


    ok then, dodgy spelling aside.

    Where was Irelands first co-operative movement?


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