History Quiz!

Healio

Apologies new to the board, i meant to say the Gulf War in 1990/1

Victor

World War II actually

"smart" bombs - Fritz X
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/annex/an41a.htm
http://www.fact-index.com/r/ra/radio_control.html
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-s/cl42-l.htm

cruise missiles - V1

short range ballistic missiles - V2

Corcaigh

what was the German codename for the operation to take Moscow in 1941?

Chinafoot

Barbarossa??

Corcaigh

No, close but that was the invasion of the Soviet Union. It was operation Typhoon.

martarg

Next question, Corcaigh???

Corcaigh

erm what was the name of the ship Sir Francias Drake sailed in on his 3 year voyage circumnavigating the globe?

Capt'n Midnight

The Golden Hind

Corcaigh

aye that's the one

Capt'n Midnight

Back in 1928 there was a record breaking flight with Irish connections and unlike the much more famous earlier ones on this route it was done into the head wind.

What were the connections ?

Corcaigh

i'm not sure what ye mean by connection. Diplomatic ties? or something like irish-americans? Or something different? I'm gonna say Argentina anyway

Capt'n Midnight

Perhaps I should have asked, why would Irish people have had an interest in the flight ?

Corcaigh

lol **** i misread flight as fight. And i dont have a clue

eoinm

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Back in 1928 there was a record breaking flight with Irish connections and unlike the much more famous earlier ones on this route it was done into the head wind.

What were the connections ?

it was the Bremen flight, they flew from Baldonnel to somewhere in Canada and there was an irish crewman too. Ohh the plane was German.

Capt'n Midnight

Bingo COLONEL JAMES C FITZMAURICE

Capt'n Midnight

What is the link between Thomas Alva Edison's shameful marketing scheme and the King of Abyssinia ?

billy the squid

The King of Abysinia was a victim?

Capt'n Midnight

billy the squid wrote:

The King of Abysinia was a victim?

No of course not. But close...

Capt'n Midnight

Edison used the electric chair to "demonstrate" that DC was safer than AC.

When the first electric chair arrived in Abyssinia they realised there was no electricty... So seeing as how it was well built the King used it as his throne.
cf. Sword of Damacles

http://www.ccadp.org/electricchair.htm

Berger

What is a primary and a secondary source?

HAH no one will get this.

Chinafoot

Berger wrote:

What is a primary and a secondary source?

HAH no one will get this.

eh...a primary source is a direct link to the event/period in question from the point of view of somebody who has taken part or witnessed....., such as photographs, diaries, memos, government records, interviews, video footage etc.

secondary sources are an indirect link which usually gives somebody else's point of view. simply put, the person wasnt there at the time. best example being your textbooks.

isnt that one of the first things you're taught in history class?

ionapaul

Where / when was the greatest naval battle - by that I mean greatest number of vessels rather than number of combatents or tonnage.

Manach

Salamis - the Greeks v Persians, about 480BC?

ionapaul

Manach wrote:

Salamis - the Greeks v Persians, about 480BC?

Thats it!

How about this: what renaissance naval battle featured the greatest number of galleys in action? Not too far from Salamis really. The commander of one side was the illegitimate son of an Emperor!

Manach

Ah sure, didn't I learn the poem for the Intercert - Lepanto, 1571.

So, my question - Name the type Navy Air Arm Fleet aircraft which sunk the Italian Fleet in Taranto Bay in 1940.

Capt'n Midnight

Fariey Swordfish biplanes

Manach

Correct - I am reading about that raid in "Swordfish: The Story of the Taranto Raid " at the moment .

Your Question.

Capt'n Midnight

where was the first use of a foreign air force to bomb one's own territory including the bombing of a city full of defenseless civilians ?

Manach

Offhand I'd guess it was during the Spanish Civil War, by the forces under command of General Franco against the Republicans?

Capt'n Midnight

It was a decade earlier but there was a major Spanish connection indeed.