The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

New Home

Well, in that case I can say they all had a 1 in their year of birth and death, and were all men.

feargale

New Home wrote: »

Well, in that case I can say they all had a 1 in their year of birth and death, and were all men.

looksee wrote: »

They are all dead?

You think I'd accomodate weak intellects with such a banal test? I may be a soft touch but I'm not Santa Claus

looksee

I think we are being accused of having weak intellects, New Home. I shall sit in a corner and sulk.

New Home

I shall sit with you and keep you company, but instead of sulking I'll be plotting our revenge.

looksee

Ah well in fairness, it was a rubbish answer (mine). Good though

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Where they all Chef of State?

feargale

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Where they all Chef of State?

I need more

New Home

You're very needy, Feargale.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

feargale wrote: »

I need more

Tough!

That's all I've got.


I'm joining the two dunces in the corner.

feargale

New Home wrote: »

You're very needy, Feargale.

What are youse all on tonight? You're supposed to be off the stuff for Lent!

feargale

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Tough!

That's all I've got.


I'm joining the two dunces in the corner.

It's probably as tough as any asked here. I'll give it a while and see if others have a go.

New Home

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Tough!

That's all I've got.


I'm joining the two dunces in the corner.

Oi! This corner is reserved for the dim-witted, or rather, for the weak intellects; the dunces corner is over there, and there's plenty of room!

New Home

feargale wrote: »

What are youse all on tonight? You're supposed to be off the stuff for Lent!

You starteded it!

looksee

Contribution from someone else in the room - they all held a post for the last time (or something)

garancafan

looksee wrote: »

Contribution from someone else in the room - they all held a post for the last time (or something)

They were all foreign ministers. (Which one is the chancer's corner?)

New Home

That one over there, garancafan.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

garancafan wrote: »

They were all foreign ministers. (Which one is the chancer's corner?)

New Home wrote: »

That one over there, garancafan.

Three corners now occupied.

ironwalk

They all served in the governments of more than one country?

(Fourth corner mine?)

garancafan

Polly gone?

Ted_YNWA

They all kept a pet rabbit.

Do I get a corner too.

New Home

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

They all kept a pet rabbit.

Do I get a corner too.

:D:D:D:D

You get a niche, even!

looksee

No, you can get in here with the feeble minded...:D

looksee

I'd give out about people messing, but I started it...:D

feargale

garancafan and ironwalk between them are three-quarters way there.
All served as foreign minister/secretary of state of one country/sovereign state and subsequently became head of state/government of another.

1. Kapodistrias was actually part of the government of three states:
Chief Minister of the Septinsular Republic ( i.e. Ionian Islands ) 1803-1807
Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire 1815-1822
First President of independent Greece 1827-1831 (assassinated)

2. Lindo:
Secretary of State of El Salvador 1840-1841
President of El Salvador 1841-1842
President of Honduras 1847-1852

3. Bismarck:
Foreign Minister of Prussia 1862-1890 ( and also minister president for most of that time.)
First Imperial Chancellor of the German Empire 1871-1890

4. Shevardnadze:
Foreign Minister of the USSR 1985-1991
President of Georgia 1995-2003.



garancafan and ironwalk owe a question each. Others can vacate the naughty step to which they voluntarily removed themselves.

Francisco Morazan of Honduras became head of four different states at different times but was never a foreign minister or secretary of state.

ironwalk

Mine was a stab in the dark based on Bismarck and Shevardnadze.


OK- my question;

What links

King David,
Alexander the Great,
Julius Caesar,
Charlemagne?

New Home

Did they all rule the biggest empire on Earth at the time?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

ironwalk wrote: »

Mine was a stab in the dark based on Bismarck and Shevardnadze.


OK- my question;

What links

King David,
Alexander the Great,
Julius Caesar,
Charlemagne?

First rulers of their domains?

New Home

looksee wrote: »

They are all dead?

This? :pac:

ironwalk

No- not that they all ruled the largest empire of their time

Not that they were the first rulers of their domains.

Yes- they're all dead....but it's STILL not the answer :-)

bonzodog2

Have they all been the ruler of Constantinople?