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History Quiz!

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,764 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Arsemageddon


    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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,764 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    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!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Arsemageddon


    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.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 9,831 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


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


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,830 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Hmm, Woodrow Wilson?

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 9,831 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Afraid not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,369 ✭✭✭Guffy


    I actually think i know one....

    Grant?


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 9,831 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    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.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 9,831 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,369 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Sorry missed the confirmation.

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


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,830 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Julius Caesar

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Julius Caesar

    Venite, rosearosea, - tempus tuam interogare est.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,830 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    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.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,830 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    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.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    feargale wrote: »
    Pliny at the eruption of Vesuvius.

    No.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,830 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


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

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Arsemageddon


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    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.

    Correct.:)
    Friar John Clyn, a Franciscan writing in Kilkenny 1348 about the Great Plague. See here for a paper on him.
    The pestilence was rife in Kilkenny in Lent, for, from Christmas Day to the 6th day of March eight friars preachers died of it. Scarcely one alone ever died in a house. Commonly husband, wife, children, and servants, went the one way, the way of death. And I, Friar John Clyn, of the Order of Friars Minor, and of the convent of Kilkenny, wrote in this book those notable things, which happened in my time, which I saw with my eyes, or which I learned from persons worthy of credit; and lest things worthy of remembrance should perish with time, and fall away from the memory of those who are to come after us, I, seeing these many evils, and the whole world lying, as it were, in the wicked one, among the dead, waiting for death till it come, as I have truly heard and examined, so have I reduced these things to writing; and lest the writing, should perish with the writer, and the work fail together with the workman, I leave parchment for continuing the work, if haply any man survive, and any of the race of Adam escape this pestilence and continue the work which I have commenced.’ Then follows one paragraph for 1349, containing the death and eulogy of Sir Fulco de la Frene, and then the copyist's brief entry: ‘Here it seems the author died.’
    Your turn.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Arsemageddon


    I was a barrister, politician, judge, writer and a dualist. To this day I remain the only judge to have been removed from my post by both Houses of Parliament.

    Who am I?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    I was a barrister, politician, judge, writer and a dualist. To this day I remain the only judge to have been removed from my post by both Houses of Parliament.

    Who am I?
    Sir Jonah Barrington.:) Now, to make it a little more difficult/complex, how can his life and times be connected to King William IV, the BBC and David Cameron?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    Sir Jonah Barrington.:) Now, to make it a little more difficult/complex, how can his life and times be connected to King William IV, the BBC and David Cameron?

    Two days on..............
    The connections arise through a sequence of events surrounding Sir Jonah’s most famous encounter with another noted duellist, Richard Daly, whose life was saved by the diamond brooch he always wore – Barrington’s musket ball hit it and ricocheted.

    Daly was a dandy, a member of the Hellfire Club, an actor/theatre impresario (Smock Alley) and seducer of young actresses. One of his conquests was Dorothea Bland, the daughter of Francis Bland (1736 – 1778) eldest son of an important landed family in S. Kerry who had been disinherited for throwing up an army career to marry an actress and go on the stage.

    Dorothea soon became pregnant by Daly who then dumped her; she crossed to England to have her child. She likened her overseas trip to “crossing the River Jordan’ which brought about her stage name of “Mrs. Jordan.” She was a success on the London Stage and from 1790 lived with William, Duke of Clarence, third son of George III who accepted his son’s relationship with “Mrs. Jordan”.

    Their children, ten in total, took the surname ‘FitzClarence’. William in 1830 became William IV upon the death of his brother George IV because his two older brothers predeceased him without surviving legitimate issue. David Cameron is descended from one of William/Dorothea’s daughters, Elizabeth FitzClarence.

    Sir Christopher Bland, former chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC (among other business interests) was the senior member of Kerry’s Bland family until his death earlier this year.

    Claire Tomalin’s book ‘Mrs. Jordan’s Profession’ is a good read.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    This one should suit current posters.

    It was a landmark ruling in its day (1970's Ireland). In a reserved judgement the trial judge awarded the maximum allowable to the plaintiff in this civil action. Of the three key witnesses for the defence he said “I have come to the conclusion that all three were telling lies about this matter…..” He also strongly criticised both the evidence and role of the Defence’s medical witness.
    Who were the defendants?
    What was the basis of the action?


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 9,831 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Would it be the tort case of Byrne v Ireland, where the State was held liable for the first time for actions of its personel?


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