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What was the Central Asian capital city of the Great Khans, to whom all the other Mongol khans paid tribute?
Ulan Bator -
What Burmese man served as Secretary General of the United Nations?
U Thant -
In the Sino-Japanese war, Japan robbed China of control over what tributary kingdom?
Korea
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Italy.
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Hungary?
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I would have thought this would be Hawaii, but that’s more than one island. When I lived there, they were always pointing out how they were farther from anywhere than anywhere else.
Danimal is correct as to Organization Todt, George II (and yes, it was at Fontenoy), Voltaire (already correctly guessed by someone else, though), Thieu and Oradour.
An Gadai is correct as to the Balaclava.
More militaria.
- This French defeat marked the beginning of the end of their Indochina rule.
- The Suez Crisis of 1956 followed concerted military action by what three countries?
- What did Bismarck say he’d do if the British landed their army on the Continent?
- This was “Breaker” Morant’s celebrated/notorious mounted unit.
- This coastal city was the strategic focus of the Russo-Japanese War.
- Britain, the United States and Israel
- The Light Brigade?
- Vladivostok
- The Bushveldt Carbineers.
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This French defeat marked the beginning of the end of their Indochina rule.
Dien Bien Phu -
The Suez Crisis of 1956 followed concerted military action by what three countries?
Britain, France and Israel. The U.S. stayed neutral in the matter.
Correct. And 5 time champ is correct as to his two answers.
RNATB, alas, is incorrect as to his three answers.
- Port Arthur.
Quite so.
Correct as to 383 and 384. Not correct on 382 (I think; Ulan Bator did not become the Mongol capital until after the lesser khanates fell).
Cunctator nailed 380, the Tale of Genji.
RNATB missed 382 and 383.
- Samarkand, Tamerlane’s capital.
Did Tamerlane have lower Mongol khanates owing fealty to him? Do Tatars even count as Mongol? If so, then I suppose I must accept Samarkand as a right answer (though RNATB gave it first). Samarkand wasn’t what I had in mind, though; I was thinking of the 13th-century capital of the Great Khans.
Karakorum?
re. 382: I am not sure of my answer, I just tried to qualify my guess by mentioning Samarkand’s connection with Tamerlane. Otherwise the answer you are looking for might be Xanadu (Now Shang-Tu, I think).
- This British king purposefully excluded his wife from his coronation.
- This royal house trained cheetahs to assist in hunting.
- Einstein held this government post when he did much of his early writing.
- Machiavelli’s first name was _______.
- Emperor Hirohito intervened in the deliberations of this body to bring about the Japanese surrender in 1945.
- Patent clerk
- Niccolo
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George IV (His wife was Caroline of Brunswick, IIRC)
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The Diet
391: The Indian Mughal dynasty
Cunctator has 379. Siam Sam is wrong on all three counts.
- Bismarck said that he would call a policeman and have him arrest it.
- Sarai