All questions are taken from this year's blog postings.
Answers at the end… but no peeking, please!
a) The most decorated American soldier of the First World War.
c) Timothy McCarthy
8: Which people did the Nazis considerneither Aryan nor totally degenerate?
a) Dropping an atomic bomb on Berlin
b) The Anglo-Malawi War of 1895
17: How long did it last?
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Answers at the end… but no peeking, please!
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| 'Hey, were's Stubby?' |
1: Who was Sergeant Stubby of the American102nd Infantry Division?
a) The most decorated American soldier of the First World War.
b) The last American casualty of the FirstWorld War.
c) A dog
2: Who shot Ronald Reagan?
a) James Brady
b) John Hinckley Jnr
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| 'Honey, I forgot to duck!' |
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| Hans Litten. But who was he? |
3: Who was Hans Litten?
a) Hitler’s Reich Justice Minister
b) A Jewish lawyer who prosecuted Hitler
c) The leader of Munich’s undergroundresistance movement.
4: What was Abraham Lincoln watching whenhe was assassinated?
a) Our American Cousin
b) Little Dorrit
c) Revolution, 1789
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| Man? Woman? Neither? |
5: Who was Chevalier D’Eon?
a) A man
b) A woman
c) A hermaphrodite
6: When Dutch slave girl, Maria vonMeetelen, refused to convert to Islam, what did the Moroccan sultan do?
a) Have her stabbed to death
b) Bury her alive
c) Let her marry another slave
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| 'We are not amused.' |
7: When burglar Michael Fagan broke intothe Queen’s bedroom at Buckingham Palace, what did the Queen say?
a) What are you doing here?
b) Would you like a cigarette?
c) My, how young you look, Philip.
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| 'Yes, I know I'm not blonde.' |
a) The Slavs
b) The Danes
c) The Turks
9: How did female pirates Mary Reid andAnne Bonny escape execution?
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| So... what was my fate? |
a) By committing suicide
b) By getting pregnant
c) By a daring escape from prison
10: What was the fate of the last dodo?
a) Killed by hunters
b) Captured and taken to a menagerie inRotterdam
c) Eaten at a banquet
11: Charles Joughlin survived the Titanicby what means?
a) Getting completely drunk
b) Swimming to an upturned life-raft andflipping it over
c) Clinging to an iceberg until a rescueship arrived.
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| It sank. But what happened to him? |
12: Who was the only British Prime Ministerto be assassinated?
a) Spencer Percival
b) Spencer Compton
c) George Grenville
13: What was Witold’s Report?
a) A secret investigation into PresidentNixon
b) A ‘lost’ Viking saga recently discoveredin Iceland
c) An account of daily life insideAuschwitz
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| Emperor. But of where? |
14: Emperor Norton I claimed to be thelegitimate ruler of which territory?
a) Austro-Hungary
b) California
c) San Remo
15: Churchill wanted to hasten the end ofWorld War II by which means?
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| Hmm, bomb, assassination, or biological? |
b) Assassinating Hitler
c) Waging biological warfare on Germany
16: What was the shortest war in history?
a) The Anglo-Sudanese War of 1894
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| Over before it began |
c) The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
And for a bonus point…
17: How long did it last?
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| Happy Christmas |
a) 38 minutes
b) 39 minutes
c) 40 minutes and 16 seconds
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AND THE ANSWERS ARE: 1c, 2b, 3b, 4a, 5a, 6c, 7b, 8a, 9b, 10c,11a, 12a, 13c, 14b, 15c, 16c, 17a.
Happy Christmas one and all! And thanks to everyone for following my blog! It will continue on 3 January, 2012.
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Newly published US edition |
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