10. We already heard Ishandlwana (January 21, 1879); the 1880 battle was either Spion Kop, or the ambush in the orchard whose location I can’t recall (both from the First Boer War of 1880-81). General Gordon (Charlton Heston) wasn’t killed until 1885.
23. Wasn’t Wolfe Tone hanged?
30. “Rutabega.” (Just kidding)
34. We had the correct answer, but I’d just like to add that Romans call the monument “The Wedding Cake.”
56. From my office window, I can see Saxe Point, the Coburg Peninsula, and Gotha Point.
#110. 38th Parallel–beyond that point was North Korea.
And some questions:
One of Honours of Scotland has some unusual damage to it. What is the object and how was it damaged?
Who was shot in the Arctic wilderness on February 17, 1931?
What speck on the map nearly brought Britain and France to war in the 1890s?
Where was Princess Margriet of the Netherlands born, and what made it unusual?
Indeed, yes. The “Stone of Destiny” would also have been acceptable. It was heisted by a group of Scottish students in a small rented car. It was recovered at Arbroath Abbey a few months later (or was it a cunning replica?)
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Well, if it’s someone taking charge and making sense after the Lisbon earthquake, it must be the Marquis of Pombal. After the dust had settled, he got down to work and redesigned the new city to replace the 80% or so that was lost. So, in place of all of the medieval Manueline architecture, we have “Pombaline”. [Some great examples of Manueline still exist, however, such as the Monastery of Jeronimus (sp?), and the Moorish quarter of Alfama was also spared]. We have Pombal to thank for all of modern Lisbon’s wide boulevards and parks.
[One can only wonder if political opponents of his ever said: “That Pombal! Every sentence of his consists of a noun, a verb, and November 1st!”]
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Correct, Pombal it is.
This is why I prefer answering the questions, as opposed to asking them.
When you ask the question, you have to know the 2 or 3 parts of the question, plus the answer. When you answer the question, you can often deduce then answer from 1 or 2 parts of the question.
And it is not nearly embarrassing to answer the question wrong, as it is to ask the question wrong.
10. We already heard Ishandlwana (January 21, 1879); the 1880 battle was either Spion Kop, or the ambush in the orchard whose location I can’t recall (both from the First Boer War of 1880-81). General Gordon (Charlton Heston) wasn’t killed until 1885.
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Spion Kop is 1900. I believe you are thinking of Majuba, and, at any rate, while a defeat, it wasn’t as bad as the one I’m thinking of.
Hint: The battle in question did not take place in Africa.
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102: Name the founder of the Asiatic Society (Calcutta, 1784)
103: The same man translated the play Sakuntala to English. Who wrote it?
104: Of which city did Mark Twain write the following: “X is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together”?
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(Sir) William Jones
Kalidasa (although IIRC there’s some debate about this, a la Shakespeare)
I’m guessing here, based on the general subcontinental bent of these questions, but I’m going to say Varanasi.
Sorry about the triple-post action. Hard to review everything at the same time.
Kalidasa is right, although perhaps I should have phrased the question “… to whom is the authorship traditionally ascribed?” or something like this. Tremendous poet, he was - his mastership of the Sanskrit language was just phenomenal.
Varanasi is correct, but Sitnam beat you to it (#173).
only 105 left: Whose face is found on all Pakistani money bills? (Hint: He was the leader of the All India Muslim League throughout the 30s. He died in 1948)
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only 105 left: Whose face is found on all Pakistani money bills? (Hint: He was the leader of the All India Muslim League throughout the 30s. He died in 1948)
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Well, according to Salman Rushdie anyway.
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115. Operation Case White
116. Last?
117. Agincourt
118. I think this is the wrong timeframe, but Cicero?
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72. The Turkish Dreadnought style battlecruiser Yavuz is more famously known by another name. What was it?
What was the name of the other ship that became famous with the ship that would become the Yavuz?
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A couple of hints, here: The Yavuz, also changed nationality when she changed her name the first time. (When first taken into Turkish service Yaviz had been named something like, Yavuz Sultan Selim.)
