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    #1232
    knucklehead6
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    Tacoma.

    Manach, take the stand


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    #1233
    knucklehead6
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    Ok, we'll go with a Who Am I?

    I was assigned to POW, but before I took up my position a relation was given command so I was moved elsewhere.

    I stayed in the same career, moving on up through the ranks and was intrsumental in helping to decide the course of action during some unpleasantness down south during the 80's

    I have a building named after me, and actually got to see it too, before I died.


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    #1234
    pinkypinky
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    Jack Leslie?

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    #1235
    knucklehead6
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    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Jack Leslie?

    No


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    #1236
    pedroeibar1
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    POW = Prince of Wales? Wild guess it's the 1800's an possibly a Churchillian connection?


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    #1237
    knucklehead6
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    pedroeibar1 wrote: »
    POW = Prince of Wales? Wild guess it's the 1800's an possibly a Churchillian connection?

    POW is Prince Of Wales,
    Not 1800's,
    You could say there would be a churchill connection alright, but not a family member.


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    #1238
    pedroeibar1
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    Sir Terence O'Neill? He was Irish guards before politics ......


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    #1239
    knucklehead6
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    pedroeibar1 wrote: »
    Sir Terence O'Neill? He was Irish guards before politics ......

    Nope. This guy wouldn't really have ventured into politics, apart from the politics of his senior service.


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    #1240
    Arsemageddon
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    I'm going to guess Henry Leach. He was first Lord of the admiralty during the Falklands War. His father was captain of HMS Prince of Wales when she was sunk in WW2 so perhaps Leach junior first served on that ship?


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    #1241
    knucklehead6
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    Arsemageddon wrote: »
    I'm going to guess Henry Leach. He was first Lord of the admiralty during the Falklands War. His father was captain of HMS Prince of Wales when she was sunk in WW2 so perhaps Leach junior first served on that ship?

    Correct!!


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    #1242
    pedroeibar1
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    Arsemageddon wrote: »
    I'm going to guess Henry Leach. He was first Lord of the admiralty during the Falklands War. His father was captain of HMS Prince of Wales when she was sunk in WW2 so perhaps Leach junior first served on that ship?
    I'd never have got him. When I saw "Senior Service" I immediately thought RN and Mountbatten.


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    #1243
    Arsemageddon
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    pedroeibar1 wrote: »
    I'd never have got him. When I saw "Senior Service" I immediately thought RN and Mountbatten.

    I never would have got it without you deciphering POW.

    Someone else can take the next go, I will be away this week.


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    #1244
    Manach
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    Name the first US President to be given a speeding ticket, while in office.


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    #1245
    pinkypinky
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    Hmm, Woodrow Wilson?

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    #1246
    Manach
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    Afraid not.


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    #1247
    Guffy
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    I actually think i know one....

    Grant?


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    #1248
    Manach
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    Correct - President Grant as fined for speeding on his buggy: http://dcist.com/2012/10/dc_police_once_gave_the_president_a.php


    Guffy's turn.


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    #1249
    Manach
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    As 3 days has passed, the Quiz is now open to any poster.


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    #1250
    Guffy
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    Sorry missed the confirmation.

    Who was the first Roman to lead an expedition to Briton?


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    #1251
    pinkypinky
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    Julius Caesar

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    #1252
    pedroeibar1
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    55BC and the tide went out! de Bello Gallico V


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    #1253
    pedroeibar1
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    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Julius Caesar

    Venite, rosearosea, - tempus tuam interogare est.


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    #1254
    pinkypinky
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    Alright, I'll go back to my Roman history roots for this one.

    What tribe did Boudicca lead in a revolt against Claudius Caesar?

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    #1255
    pedroeibar1
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    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Alright, I'll go back to my Roman history roots for this one.

    What tribe did Boudicca lead in a revolt against Claudius Caesar?

    Iceni.


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    #1256
    pinkypinky
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    Well, it is Friday night & I've had 2 glasses of wine. Had to go easy.

    No doubt Pedro will have something ridiculously hard concocted for us next.

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    #1257
    pedroeibar1
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    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Well, it is Friday night & I've had 2 glasses of wine. Had to go easy.

    No doubt Pedro will have something ridiculously hard concocted for us next.
    No, I'll make it easy.
    First, Iceni yes, but did Boudicca actually exist? We’re depending on Tacitus and other Roman writers (i.e. publicists) who possibly ‘created’ her to fit their purposes. Nothing like creating a hero/ine who then has manners put on him/her, viz the story of the daughters. If she existed her name probably was not Boudicca - an interesting word, cognate with Buadh (as Gaeilge) / victory.

    Pedro loves the Myles na gCopaleen story in a similar vein on the veracity of Irish legends - in a digat Dev / O’Rahilly and the DIAS when he wrote that it was a great success, having proved there was no God and two St. Patricks!). So for the question......

    Who wrote the following, where and in relation to what event:-

    "While waiting amongst the dead for the coming of death, I have set down in writing. And lest the writing should perish with the writer and the work with the workman, I leave the parchment for the work to be continued…..


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    #1258
    feargale
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    pedroeibar1 wrote: »
    Who wrote the following, where and in relation to what event:-

    "While waiting amongst the dead for the coming of death, I have set down in writing. And lest the writing should perish with the writer and the work with the workman, I leave the parchment for the work to be continued…..

    Pliny at the eruption of Vesuvius.


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    #1259
    pedroeibar1
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    feargale wrote: »
    Pliny at the eruption of Vesuvius.

    No.


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    #1260
    pinkypinky
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    Pliny the elder didn't actually survive the eruption of Pompeii. :(

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    #1261
    Arsemageddon
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    pedroeibar1 wrote: »
    No
    Who wrote the following, where and in relation to what event:-

    "While waiting amongst the dead for the coming of death, I have set down in writing. And lest the writing should perish with the writer and the work with the workman, I leave the parchment for the work to be continued…..

    That quote is from a monk/friar in Kilkenny who compiled annals. he is writing about his impending death after becoming infected during the Black Death.

    His name is on the tip of my tongue. I'm desperately fighting the urge to google it.


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