World History trivia quiz

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[QUOTE=Alive At Both Ends]
211. Your Grace.

It was actually Richard II, not Henry VIII, who switched to “Your Majesty”.
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I thought “Your Grace” was for dukes…?

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[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
I thought “Your Grace” was for dukes…?
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It is used for non-royal dukes, and it’s also used for Anglican bishops. It used to be for kings as well.

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[QUOTE=Cunctator]
Re question 210 - I thought the title was Lord Warden (not Lord Admiral) of the Cinque Ports.
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From my tour of Chartwell, Churchill’s country home, some years ago, I remembered it as Lord Admiral (he had a big heraldic banner for it hanging in one room).

IIRC, it was Henry VIII who first took the form “Your Majesty,” but if not, I stand corrected.

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
IIRC, it was Henry VIII who first took the form “Your Majesty,” but if not, I stand corrected.
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I’m sure I’ve read more than once that it was Richard II, but I can’t find an online cite. Wikipedia says it was Henry, but that’s hardly proof of anything. I’ll look in my history book collection.

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Just don’t go looking for more questions that way! :wink:

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I’ve found this on the BBC website, where it says of Richard:
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Richard’s personal confidence was growing. At court, he insisted on being called Majesty. No-one could look the king in the eye and all deferred to him in a public and effusive way.
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
From my tour of Chartwell, Churchill’s country home, some years ago, I remembered it as Lord Admiral (he had a big heraldic banner for it hanging in one room).
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Sir Robert Menzies, Churchill’s successor in the role, used the term Warden. The Wikipedia article gives both, but implies that the main title is Warden.

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Identify the following British politicians:

  1. Name the “Gang of Four”.

  2. The only politician to be Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

  3. The last Liberal Party member to serve at Cabinet rank.

  4. The last Liberal Unionist MP; one son was executed as a traitor, and he himself lost his seat in the 1945 General Election.

  5. The last National Liberal MP; possibly best remembered for storming out of a television interview over the subject of his retirement.

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[QUOTE=Governor Quinn]
469. The last Liberal Party member to serve at Cabinet rank.
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Wasn’t Paddy Ashdown briefly a member of the Thatcher government?

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  1. Stanley Baldwin?
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Really Not All That Bright: Incorrect.

Elendil’s Heir: Incorrect.

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  1. Winston Churchill
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[QUOTE=An Gadaí]
468. Winston Churchill
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Incorrect. No service as Foreign Secretary.

One clue, for both questions guessed at: the answer to 468 is later than previous guesses have been, and the answer to 469 earlier.

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  1. Jim Callaghan
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[QUOTE=Antonius Block]
468. Jim Callaghan
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Correct.

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Here are the still-unanswered questions of mine, and the answers…

*89. This French finance minister was a key supporter of the American Revolution (Hint: a town in Vermont, not Montpelier or Burlington, is named after him).

  1. Hitler said he’d rather do what than ever meet with Spain’s Generalissimo Francisco Franco again?

  2. A painting of [Blucher and the Duke of Wellington’s Waterloo] meeting is still featured in what notable British building?

  3. What was the codename of the operation which killed [Reinhard Heydrich]?

Who said it? Bonus points for context.
186. “Winston Churchill would skin his own mother to make a drum with which to beat his own praises.”

  1. These pair of twin-brother freedom fighters were later honored on Vietnamese postage stamps.

  2. What inverted nickname did Great Britain’s then-prime minister earn from [Gen. George “Chinese”] Gordon’s death?

Who most notably said it? Bonus points for context.
270. “Everyone likes flattery, and when dealing with royalty, you must lay it on with a trowel.”
273. “Who is this man who is neither one thing nor the other?”

  1. Warships of this country visited U.S. ports during the Civil War.

  2. This German commerce raider did the most damage and had the most remarkable voyage during WWI.

  3. A Scottish parliamentarian recently caused a stir in referring to the British Union Flag (or Union Jack) as “the ________'s ________.”

  4. A military aide to the British sovereign is called what?

Who said it? Bonus points for context.
345. “It seems to me to be quite effectively concealed.”
347. “Two nations… the rich and the poor.”

  1. He was the first Governor-General of Canada.

  2. Emperor Hirohito intervened in the deliberations of this body to bring about the Japanese surrender in 1945.

  3. He was Hitler’s personal photographer.

  4. What was Albert Speer’s first paid task for Hitler?

  5. Churchill decided to mark the Commons’s being damaged during the Blitz in what way?

  1. Vergennes
  2. Have several teeth pulled out
  3. The Palace of Westminster, in the long public lobby between the Commons and the Lords chambers
  4. Anthropoid
  5. David Lloyd George, struck by the young man’s ambition
  6. Tay Son
  7. William Gladstone, the “Grand Old Man” of British politics, became briefly known as the “Murderer of Gordon” (from GOM to MOG) by those who thought he had been too slow in coming to Gordon’s aid with a relief expedition.
  8. Disraeli, describing his dealings with Queen Victoria
  9. Churchill, when presented with the card of Alfred Bossom
  10. Russia, as a gesture of support but also to keep free of iced-in Russian ports for the winter
  11. SMS Emden
  12. “The Butcher’s Apron”
  13. An equerry
  14. Churchill, grumbling when his wife Clementine tried to comfort him after his 1945 electoral loss by saying it “might be a blessing in disguise”
  15. Disraeli, in one of his novels
  16. Lord Monck
  17. Supreme War Council
  18. Heinrich Hoffman
  19. Designing and building a new balcony at the Reichschancellery from which Hitler could give speeches
  20. Leaving the damaged and chipped stone arches around the doorway intact, as they remain to this day
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[QUOTE=Governor Quinn]
468. The only politician to be Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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William Whitelaw?

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Already answered in post 755.

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
Already answered in post 755.
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Whoops.

Let’s have a question while we’re here.

  1. This curved dagger (with an even more curved sheath) is prominently displayed on the national flag of Oman. [I will accept several spelling variations]

  2. The first car (the one designed by Karl Benz) had how many wheels?

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  1. Scimitar
  2. Three