World History trivia quiz

The Game Room
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  1. The Piranha brothers :smiley:
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
457. If these ever leave the Tower of London, it is said, Great Britain will fall.
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I think we’ve had this one. It’s the ravens.

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

  2. The Kray twins

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[QUOTE=Cunctator]
455. Black Rod

  1. The Kray twins
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Extra credit:

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

First names of the Kray twins: Reggie and Ronnie.

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[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
Technically, the “Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod”.
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Even when Black Rod is a woman? :slight_smile:

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[QUOTE=Cunctator]
Even when Black Rod is a woman? :slight_smile:
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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.

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[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
In such instances, “Bitch with big stick! Run!”
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: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.

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[QUOTE=Governor Quinn]
452. What Canadian third party long controlled Alberta and British Columbia and was prominent in rural Quebec into the late 1970s?
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Read my sig. :smiley:

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[QUOTE=Hypnagogic Jerk]
Read my sig. :smiley:
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Well played, and quite right.

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

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[QUOTE=Cunctator]

Incorrect
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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.

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[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
Extra credit:

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

First names of the Kray twins: Reggie and Ronnie.
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All correct, as were the earlier answers by Cunctator, 5 time champ and OtakuLoki.

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[QUOTE=Hypnagogic Jerk]
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.
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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?
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[QUOTE=Cunctator]
460. Which state voted in 1933 to secede from Australia?
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I’ll take a stab at Tasmania.

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[QUOTE=Cunctator]
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461. Which is the only state to have abolished its upper house of Parliament?
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  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.”
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
463. “We are not amused.” (attrib.)
464. “Paint me as I am, warts and all.”
465. “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?”
466. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
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  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.
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[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
463. Queen Victoria
464. Elizabeth I posing for a portrait shortly after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, I think.
465. 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.
466. Karl Marx in The Communist Manifesto.
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  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
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[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
I’ll take a stab at Tasmania.
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I’m afraid not.

Très amusant. But no.

  1. Oliver Cromwell
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[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]

  1. 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.
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Wrong Thomas, RNATB, it was Thomas a Becket. And it was another question of royal divorce, IIRC.

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[QUOTE=Cunctator]
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464. Oliver Cromwell
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Correct. And 5 time champ is right about Thomas Becket (or a’ Becket, in some older sources).