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    #212
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    One was Stalin and the other was a famous Russian also but for different and better reasons - think Shakespeare.


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    #213
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,671 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    I'm guessing Prokoviev the composer, it's his 50th something anniversery this year.


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    #214
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Yes both Stalin and Prokofiev died on the 5th March 1953.

    You're up Manach.


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    #215
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,671 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Fairly simple one.
    What is the name of the Greek muse of History.


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    #216
    Gorgeous George
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭Gorgeous George


    Clio


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    #217
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Good guess troll boy ;)


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    #218
    Gorgeous George
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭Gorgeous George


    How about Kleio.:cool:


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    #219
    PHB
    Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    Ok, I'm thinking this questions are getting a little odd :)

    So new rule :

    If the question isn't anwsered in 24 hrs you post the anwser then post another question :)

    - Dave


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    #220
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Well technically that makes it troll boy's go but he hasn't posted in a while so I will post a question to get us restarted...I'm sure no one minds.:D

    What city was the first capital of Greece - when not dependent on an outside state? Hint, it is NOT Athens.


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    #221
    Gorgeous George
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭Gorgeous George


    Be my guest horseman. My guess is Piraeus.


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    #222
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Nope.:D


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    #223
    PHB
    Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    So the anwser is?


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    #224
    Zachary Taylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭Zachary Taylor


    Delphi?


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    #225
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,671 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Byzantine?


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    #226
    PHB
    Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    Ok new question :

    What was the name of the cultural movemnet in Weimar Germany which mixed art and architecture?


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    #227
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Bauhaus


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    #228
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Nafplion / Nasplion was the answer to mine, sorry about the wait.


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    #229
    Mark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    Right I'll shtick in a question to keep the flow going:

    What weapon provided a link between Constantine the Great and Emperor Charlemange?


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    #230
    DapperGent
    Registered Users Posts: 4,838 ✭✭✭DapperGent


    I think I remember reading something about this.

    Was it some kind of spear that was allegedly used to stab christ on the cross and was originally possesed by a roman centurion?

    I can't for the life of me remember it's name.


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    #231
    Mark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    The Spear of Christ will do Dappination :). Was on tv the other day, thought Id feck it in.

    Yer question


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    #232
    DapperGent
    Registered Users Posts: 4,838 ✭✭✭DapperGent


    Whoop-de-do! I'm smrt. S-M-R-T.

    Which American port was totally destroyed by a hurricane in September 1900?


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    #233
    bringitdown
    Registered Users Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭bringitdown


    Galveston, Tx.

    Damn discovery channel... shouldn't know this.


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    #234
    DapperGent
    Registered Users Posts: 4,838 ✭✭✭DapperGent


    Correct. Your question.

    Incidentally there is a great book on that event Isaac's Storm: The Drowning of Galveston, even if you're not interested in Meteoroloy it's a brilliant book, the reconstruction of events is masterful and it reads more like a thriller than a history book.

    Two thumbs up from Dapper.


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    #235
    bringitdown
    Registered Users Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭bringitdown


    Prolly been asked before .... and an easy one:

    What was the last country to declare war on Germany in WWI?


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    #236
    FirA_Serjio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭FirA_Serjio


    is it USA???


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    #237
    DadaKopf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    mnh. Italy. Hehehe.


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    #238
    bringitdown
    Registered Users Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭bringitdown


    Both the USA and Italy are wrong.... keyword - 'declare'!


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    #239
    PHB
    Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    Please give the anwser


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    #240
    bringitdown
    Registered Users Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭bringitdown


    - Okay kinda to the point round here, anyhew:

    Honduras declared war on Germany .... July 19, 1918, the last nation to do so.

    Someone else have a go!


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    #241
    Zachary Taylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭Zachary Taylor


    This is something that was bothering me for a few days because I couldn't remember the answer but I have it now.

    The Dillon Family (John Blake - United Irishman, John - Irish Party MP, James - Cumann na nGaedheal TD and Minister for Agriculture in, I think, the first Inter-Party Government) all ran a family business, now closed, in Ballaghadereen, Co. Roscommon, a famous shop. The shop was named after one of their wives.

    What was the name of the shop?


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