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    #2162
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    "Silly Billy" makes me think of William IV

    Correct.
    1. King William's College, Castletown, founded 1833. They wrote to K. W. asking for a few bob. He replied that he had no spare cash but would have no objection to having the new school named after him. Decent old chap!
    2. Ballydesmond, founded as Kingwilliamstown in the 1830s and renamed in 1951.
    3.The epithet Silly Billy is said to have been first applied to Sailor Bill aka K. W..
    4. Clarence House, the present royal residence of Chaws and Camilla was built for the Duke of Clarence who was later crowned King William IV.


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    #2163
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Which title of the Irish peerage created by William IV for one of his many children by Dorothea Jordan died out in 2000?


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    #2164
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Earl of Munster?


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    #2165
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    What is the link between an Earl of Munster and the Menin Gate and what (bonus point) is unique about it?


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    #2166
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    piuswal wrote: »
    What is the link between an Earl of Munster and the Menin Gate and what (bonus point) is unique about it?

    Tell us and post another question.


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    #2167
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    The 7th and last Earl's grandfather was Brigadier General Charles FitzClarence who won a VC at Mafeking during the Boer War.

    He was killed in the vicinity of Ypres on Nov 12th 1914.

    His body was never found and so is commemorated on the Menin Gate.

    He is the highest ranking officer list on the Menin Gate Memorial.

    Question; how did the Menin Gate get its name?


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    #2168
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    piuswal wrote: »
    The 7th and last Earl's grandfather was Brigadier General Charles FitzClarence who won a VC at Mafeking during the Boer War.

    He was killed in the vicinity of Ypres on Nov 12th 1914.

    His body was never found and so is commemorated on the Menin Gate.

    He is the highest ranking officer list on the Menin Gate Memorial.

    Question; how did the Menin Gate get its name?

    Tell us again. Post again.


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    #2169
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    The gate is on the Menin Road exit from Ypres to Menin or Menen

    Where is Menin?


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    #2170
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    piuswal wrote: »
    The gate is on the Menin Road exit from Ypres to Menin or Menen

    Where is Menin?

    No idea. Somewhere in Belgium. Or maybe Turkey. Tell us and post one we might be able to answer.


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    #2171
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Belgium

    all yours


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    #2172
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    What is the name of the tiny sliver of neutral territory, amounting to about one square mile, which was a condominium jointly administered by Holland and Prussia from 1816 to 1830, and by Belgium and Prussia from 1830 to 1919, when it was handed over to Belgium pursuant to the Treaty of Versailles?


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    #2173
    Wx
    Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭Wx


    Neutral Moresnet


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    #2174
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Wx wrote: »
    Neutral Moresnet

    Correct. Sorry for delay. I didn't see your post. You're up.


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    #2175
    Wx
    Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭Wx


    What do Neutral Moresnet and Prussia have in common!


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    #2176
    komodosp
    Registered Users Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭komodosp


    They don't exist any more!

    On what island did the Dodo live?


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    #2177
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    komodosp wrote: »
    They don't exist any more!

    On what island did the Dodo live?

    Mauritius.

    Mauritius is named after a ruler of which country?


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    #2178
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Mauritius.

    Mauritius is named after a ruler of which country?

    Netherlands


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    #2179
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Netherlands

    Correct. Question?


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    #2180
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    How was Balthasar Gérard influential in Maurice of Nassau's life?


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    #2181
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    He assassinated his father!


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    #2182
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    piuswal wrote: »
    He assassinated his father!

    Quite right, your turn :)


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    #2183
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    How many US Presidents were assassinated?


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    #2184
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    piuswal wrote: »
    How many US Presidents were assassinated?

    Four.

    Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley ( of Dervock and Rathlin ) and Kennedy.

    How many U.S. state capitals are named after people who became president of the USA?


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    #2185
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    ditto - 4


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    #2186
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    piuswal wrote: »
    ditto - 4

    Correct.


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    #2187
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    How many world capitals are named after US presidents?


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    #2188
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    piuswal wrote: »
    How many world capitals are named after US presidents?

    Two, Washington and Monrovia. (?)


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    #2189
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    all yours


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    #2190
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    piuswal wrote: »
    all yours

    Name the four African countries which were independent in 1932.


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    #2191
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Ethiopia

    Liberia

    Egypt

    South Africa


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