Who is the only person to receive both the Victoria Cross and the Iron Cross?
William Manley. The VC was for saving lives during a battle in the Maori Wars; the Iron Cross was for caring for wounded during the Franco-Prussian War.
Who is the only person to receive both the Victoria Cross and an Olympic gold medal?
Philip Neame. The VC was for defending against a German attack on the Western Front during WW I; the Olympic medal was for shooting in the 1924 Olympics.
Who is the only person to receive the Victoria Cross based solely on the recommendation of the enemy, with no allied witnesses?
Lloyd Trigg, pilot of a bomber which attacked a German U-boat during WW II. Trigg’s plane was shot down with no survivors. The U-boat was sunk; survivors were picked up the next day and the CO made the recommendation.
Who is the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor?
Dr Mary Walker, for medical service during the Civil War.
If we are talking about an adult male lion, it wins - one almost killed an adult male tiger at the San Francisco Zoo (told me by a keeper of the small cats).
The tiger is a sprinter which kills by biting the neck. The mane defeats that technique.
The lion fights by standing its ground and using its massive forelegs and claws.
In the SF case, by the time they were able to separate them, the tiger was in very poor condition, but they managed to patch it up.
This WAS my favorite question when it was posed to me about 20 years ago, when there were just 100 or so schools playing major college football and it was called Division I and all was right with the world:
What four Division I football team names neither end in ‘S’ nor include a color?
Nowadays, of course, we have this FBS nonsense, with about 500 conferences and 12,000 schools all playing in the top level of the NCAA. (Also, all popular songs sound the same and there’s all these fancy computers and whatnot and you kids need to get off my lawn.) There are now seven FBS teams that meet this criterion. So, how many of them can you name? (Note: two are essentially the same, differing only by the typographic preferences of their respective schools.)
Answer 20 years ago: Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Illinois Fighting Illini, North Carolina State Wolfpack, Navy Midshipmen
Additions since then: Nevada Wolf Pack, Umass Minutemen, Marshall Thundering Herd
Just for starters, there was the Alabama Crimson Tide, the Tulane Green Wave, the Syracuse Orangemen, the Stanford Cardinal, the Tulsa Golden Hurricane… [/spoiler]
Can’t the answer be that sometimes the tiger wins and sometimes the lion wins? You can’t make this call by one example.
Also, wouldn’t the fighting skill level vary anyway? I’m an adult male human and there are a lot of other adult humans that I can beat up while there are a lot of others that can do the same to me.
Finally, IIRC from the Nature series of my youth, don’t adult male lions just sit around swatting flies with their tails while the females hunt and bring back food? Are they really fit enough to fight a tiger that has to hunt regularly? I would think that a lioness would stand a better chance.
ETA: :smack: didn’t realize this was the trivia thread. How did we get on this subject anyway?
My lord! If only there was some information somewhere about what happens when lions fight tigers. I have no idea where anybody would have collected that information though.
The spot to which you refer (Hawks Rest) is 28 miles from the nearest road, according to the author of the book Hawks Rest, whom I interviewed about it.
That is the farthest from a road that you can be in the lower 48 states. It’s MUCH farther in Alaska.
If you extend the Division I definition to any Division I sport, the North Dakota Fighting Sioux would be in there too. They’re D1 in hockey, but not in football.
