World History trivia quiz

The Game Room
701
  1. The Piranha brothers :smiley:
702

I think we’ve had this one. It’s the ravens.

703
  1. A sex scandal involving this Cabinet minister shook the British government in the early 1960s.
    John Profumo
704

  1. Black Rod

  2. The Kray twins

705

Extra credit:

Technically, the “Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod”.

First names of the Kray twins: Reggie and Ronnie.

706

Even when Black Rod is a woman? :slight_smile:

707

In such instances, “Bitch with big stick! Run!”

I don’t there had been a female Black Rod when I was in school, so this was never addressed during History.

708

:slight_smile:

There may not have been in the UK. In the Australian Senate the Usher of the Black Rod is currently a woman. Some of the state parliaments could well have women in the role too.

709

Read my sig. :smiley:

710

Well played, and quite right.

(Social Credit, for those reading the thread years from now.)

711

I don’t think anyone gave the right answer, so I checked on Wikipedia, and it turns out it’s happened much more often than I thought. So the answer is no less than six times.

712

All correct, as were the earlier answers by Cunctator, 5 time champ and OtakuLoki.

713

As I noted earlier.

Australian states:

  1. Which state voted in 1933 to secede from Australia?
  2. Which is the only state to have abolished its upper house of Parliament?
714

I’ll take a stab at Tasmania.

715
  1. Nebraska. :wink:

Who said it? Bonus points for context.

  1. “How can anyone hope to rule a nation with over 400 kinds of cheese?”
  2. “We are not amused.” (attrib.)
  3. “Paint me as I am, warts and all.”
  4. “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?”
  5. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
716
  1. Queen Victoria
  2. Elizabeth I posing for a portrait shortly after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, I think.
  3. Henry II referring to then-Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas More, who refused to go along with his scheme to steal all the Church’s stuff. I’ve always heard it as “turbulent priest”, though.
  4. Karl Marx in The Communist Manifesto.
717
  1. Yes
  2. No
  3. Oooooo, so close, but no cigar
  4. Yes, although the ghost of Friedrich Engels tells me he insists on coauthor credit
718

I’m afraid not.

Très amusant. But no.

  1. Oliver Cromwell
719

Wrong Thomas, RNATB, it was Thomas a Becket. And it was another question of royal divorce, IIRC.

720

Correct. And 5 time champ is right about Thomas Becket (or a’ Becket, in some older sources).