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    #1682
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    agent graves wrote: »
    the president of the united states

    how many american presidents have been assassinated?

    4


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    #1683
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    agent graves wrote: »
    the president of the united states

    how many american presidents have been assassinated?

    Four. Garfield, Lincoln, McKinley, Kennedy

    Who assassinated President Garfield?


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    #1684
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    feargale wrote: »
    4

    Name the Irishwoman who attempted to assassinate Benito Mussolini.


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    #1685
    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,439 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    feargale wrote: »
    Name the Irishwoman who attempted to assassinate Benito Mussolini.

    Violet Gibson.

    I'll let Donegal_man's question go ahead.


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    #1686
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Four. Garfield, Lincoln, McKinley, Kennedy

    Who assassinated President Garfield?

    Charles Guiteau?


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    #1687
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Charles Guiteau?

    Correct.


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    #1688
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Five of the eight people convicted in relation to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln were natives of one and the same state. Name the state.


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    #1689
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    I know at least two were Maryland so going with that


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    #1690
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    I know at least two were Maryland so going with that

    Correct. Sorry, the correct number is four, Herold, Mudd, O'Laughlen and Mary Surratt.
    Booth was also born in Maryland.
    Surratt was a convert to Catholicism, O'Laughlen and Mudd were also Catholics and a few others were Catholic ( Jesuit ) educated, not greatly surprising given Maryland's religious history, but it gave rise to one of the more colourful conspiracy theories, which persists in the internet and elsewhere.
    Surratt was a cousin of F. Scott Fitzgerald's father.
    And O'Laughlen? I can find little on his ancestry, except that his family had been in America for a few generations, but I would be surprised if he didn't have Clare connections.
    Your turn, Fear Connallach.


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    #1691
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    The origin of Booth's line "sic semper tyrannis" is attributed to whom?


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    #1692
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    The origin of Booth's line "sic semper tyrannis" is attributed to whom?

    Brutus while he was sticking it into his boss.
    It's the state motto of Maryland.


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    #1693
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Brutus while he was sticking it into his boss.
    It's the state motto of Maryland.

    Both correct, take it away


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    #1694
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    What was the surname of the two Maryland cousins, one of whom became the first Roman Catholic bishop and archbishop of the United States of America, the other being the only RC and last surviving signatory of the American Declaration of Independence?


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    #1695
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    feargale wrote: »
    What was the surname of the two Maryland cousins, one of whom became the first Roman Catholic bishop and archbishop of the United States of America, the other being the only RC and last surviving signatory of the American Declaration of Independence?

    No takers?


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    #1696
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    I know the latter was Charles Carroll so gonna guess his cousin was Bishop Carroll


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    #1697
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    I know the latter was Charles Carroll so gonna guess his cousin was Bishop Carroll

    Correct, Charles and John Carroll, descended from Laois chieftains.


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    #1698
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Maybe since I only really got half the answer I should post half a question. :D

    Which Prime Minister introduced the so called "Intolerable Acts" which helped to precipitate the War of Idependence?


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    #1699
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Maybe since I only really got half the answer I should post half a question. :D

    Which Prime Minister introduced the so called "Intolerable Acts" which helped to precipitate the War of Idependence?

    Pitt the Elder?


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    #1700
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Pitt the Elder?

    After him


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    #1701
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Lord North? ( well, it wasn't Mae West or Sean South anyway. )


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    #1702
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Lord North? ( well, it wasn't Mae West or Sean South anyway. )

    The very fellow. PM from 1770 - 1782. Brought in the Coercive Acts of 1773, which the Americans called the Intolerable Acts as a punitive measure following the Boston Tea Party.


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    #1703
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    What is the most northerly country which has never won a medal in the Winter Olympics?


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    #1704
    Guffy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,042 ✭✭✭Guffy


    feargale wrote: »
    What is the most northerly country which has never won a medal in the Winter Olympics?

    Greenland?


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    #1705
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    gufc21 wrote: »
    Greenland?

    No. Greenland doesn't compete.


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    #1706
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    It's not us is it :confused::confused:


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    #1707
    Guffy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,042 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Iceland


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    #1708
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    gufc21 wrote: »
    Iceland

    Correct.


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    #1709
    Guffy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,042 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Feck....

    Er... what is the most northerly town? Say pop over 1,000


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    #1710
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    gufc21 wrote: »
    Feck....

    Er... what is the most northerly town? Say pop over 1,000

    Longyearbyen in Svalbard


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    #1711
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    gufc21 wrote: »
    Feck....

    Er... what is the most northerly town? Say pop over 1,000

    Longyearbyen in Svalbard


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