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Correct.
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Ah, but the expedition endured! Correct, anyway.
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Correct. They’d step on the heads of convicted bad guys. Ewwww.
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Roald Amundsen.
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Norge.
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You got me there!
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The guy was one of the last remaining men in Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed “race to the South Pole” party. He knew he was a goner and didn’t want to be a burden on the rest of the party, so he walked out into the night and was never seen again.
Correct on 355, and 356. 358, you’ve got the circumstances mostly right - he was the first of the pole party to die, he was weakening faster than the others, and apparently decided to remove himself from being a burden in their attempt to walk back out of the interior.
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? Owens
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Frobisher? (There was a PBS special several years ago, about the finding of three crewmembers bodies preserved in the permafrost. Apparently the whole crew was driven insane by metal contaminents used for the solder of their tinned food.)
George II
Incorrect. But that is, oddly enough, the correct answer to a still-unanswered question from earlier in the thread. 
These are both wrong, though the NOVA special you’re talking about was about the three known graves from the expedition.
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Lawrence “Titus” Oates
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The Franklin Expedition
Both correct, Governor Quinn.
I did not see this in time, or else I’d have guessed it. But ya know what? I’ve never really heard of this. I don’t think it was common. Beheading seem to have been the rule.
I looked at my copy of Brewer’s. In the entry under the phrase ‘to cry Peccavi’ it notes the standard attribution to Napier. It then goes on to say that this is incorrect and that the pun was actually the work of:
- Anne
I learned about the head-squashing a few years ago in a documentary about elephants. Seemed like a well-researched, reputable show, FWIW.
Cunctator is correct about Queen Anne being the last British ruler to veto a bill.
Oh, I’m not doubting you. That just doesn’t seem to be widely known here. I suspect it was used only for special occasions. Mostly it’s been beheadings. But King Taksin was put in a velvet sack and beaten to death with sandalwood in 1782; the reason for that method was the belief that royal blood should not touch the ground.
In recent times, it’s been by machine gun. They switched to lethal injection a few years ago.
- This chainsmoking author and dissident became president of Czechoslovakia after the collapse of the USSR.
- The Shah of Iran sat upon the ______ Throne.
- The Emperor of Japan sits upon the ______ Throne.
- Korea used to be called the ______ Kingdom.
- While under British rule, Sri Lanka was called ______.
360 Vaclev Havel.
361 peacock
362 Chrysthanamum (no way I can spell that right)
364 Ceylon
All correct.
- Hermit
Righto.
C’mon, sportsfans, you can/should be asking more questions, too!
- This new type of hat was introduced during the Crimean War.
- This article of clothing was named after a British general of that era, who allegedly invented it.
- This nation experimented in the 19th C., unsuccessfully, with circular gunboats.
- When a new pope has been elected, these two words traditionally begin the announcement in St. Peter’s Square.
- This was the Nazi labor and public works organization.
Well, ya stumped me on that quintet. I should know the answer about the new Pope- “We have a new Pope” in Latin?
Voltaire
With what line did Voltaire often close his correspondence?
Voltaire dedicated a church on his estate to whom, because he believed that no other church was so dedicated.
Voltaire dubbed this person “merde in a silk stocking”
Voltaire had an estate here, a short distance from the Swiss border, in case he needed to flee France quickly.
Voltaire wrote a dictionary of this.
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The cardigan, named for the 7th Earl of Cardigan.
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Habemus Papam (“we have a Pope”).