I was actually thinking of the gotcha as the Aleutian Islands Japanese-US battles in WWII…
What player, born in Mobile, Alabama, led the National League in home runs with 44 homers in 1963, while wearing uniform number 44?
The answer is both Hank Aaron and Willie McCovey, who tied for the title
, in a rather amazing coincidence of same home town, same uniform number matching holme run total…
Since this is just more tedious detail about Britain’s Civil War, with its confusing ever-shifting alliances, I’ll spoil it.
The 8th Earl was beheaded in 1661; his son the 9th Earl was beheaded in 1685. Their grandfathers William Douglases were themselves grandfather and grandson.
Note that just ten years before King Charles II ordered the 8th Earl’s head removed, it was that same 8th Earl who had personally placed the Crown on Charles, making him King of the Scots.
Oddly enough, neither of them are Jamestown.
What famous Englishman won a Nobel Prize and had a half-brother who, though not winning a Nobel, was even more famous?
Andrew Huxley and?
… and Austen Chamberlain, 1925 Peace Laureate. His half-brother, Neville ‘I have returned from [Munich] Germany with peace for our time’ Chamberlain was more famous (infamous?).
What Nobel Laureate lived in the small town of Condon, Oregon* as a child?
- 2010 pop. 682.
What famous person died on November 22, 1963?
What famous person was born on February 12, 1809?
What famous person was born on February 12, 1809?
Is there an echo in here?
I started posting it first. But since the new https upgrade has somehow broken posting from Firefox on the desktop, I had to open the thread on my phone, retype and resend my reply.
Actually, there’s three answers to that one.
Sure, sure, whatever you say, Darren.
(This is too well-known to be in doubt, but to provide closure for alien archaeologists in the far future who are trying to reconstruct late human history from an SDMB archive, I’ll provide a Spoiler anyway.)
U.S.A.'s #2 city name translates as ‘the City of the Angels’, though its earliest name was apparently ‘The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciúncula.’
The common name of Thailand’s capital is Krung Thep which translates as ‘City of angels.’ (The full name translates as ‘City of angels, great city of immortals, magnificent city of the nine gems, seat of the king, city of royal palaces, home of gods incarnate, erected by Vishvakarman at Indra’s behest.’)
Who was the winner of the 1977 Australian Open men’s singles tournament?
Who won the top prize at the 1992 World Snooker Championship?
That’s not really a case of two different answers, it’s a case of one answer that has two different names that can refer to it (there are actually at least two more names for the city: Byzantium, which was the original name of the place, and New Rome, which was briefly the official name of the place after it had been made capital of the Roman Empire, but which didn’t stick because people preferred using Byzantium or Constantinople). In semiotic terms, the signifiers are different, but the signified are the same.
Unfortunately, modern research has made this slightly wrong, but:
He was probably the most famous writer that his country has ever produced, and he died on 23rd April, 1616. Who was he?
(Unfortunately, it is now believed that one died on 22nd April, 1616. Nevertheless, it is still true that one died about 10 days before the other.)
One could ask the same question about the film Running Man, which was released the same year.