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History Quiz!

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    #1022
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,681 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    You are correct - your turn.


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    #1023
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Siegfried Sassoon?

    -Sorry so Late-:pac:


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    #1024
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,966 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    What was bought by a Syrian scrap metal dealer ?


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    #1025
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Is that a riddle or a History question?

    Eh.... An Atom Bomb?


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    #1026
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,681 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    QE I?


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    #1027
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Nope and nope

    it was something wonderful


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    #1028
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    The holy Grail?


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    #1029
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,966 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    no, it was a tad bigger


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    #1030
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Spear of Christ?


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    #1031
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,966 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    No it much, much bigger than that, wasn't made of wood and really existed.


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    #1032
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Noah's Ark?

    Or was it the an alternative ending of "A wonderful life"?


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    #1033
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,966 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    It wasn't made of any organic material and was smaller than the dimensions given for Noah's ark.

    It was a harbour related thing from a long time ago.

    And no it wasn't the Killling Spree version of it's a wonderful life :D


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    #1034
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Was it one of the wonder of the worlds?


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    #1035
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Colossus?


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    #1036
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,966 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    And I didn't have to mention the camels.

    Correct jank , your question.


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    #1037
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    When Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union what was immediately different about him from his predecessors

    And no it wasn't the birth mark.:pac:


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    #1038
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    He was a reformist. His predecessors stuck to the old soviet doctrine more rigidly.


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    #1039
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,966 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    He hadn't fought in the great patriotic war


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    #1040
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    He hadn't fought in the great patriotic war

    Damn, i think you're right.:D

    I'm reading a book about postwar europe and it mentioned that fact. Only remembered when i saw it there.


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    #1041
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    No, not the answer I am looking for.


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    #1042
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Although good effort.


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    #1043
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,966 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    He had a lot less hair ?


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    #1044
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    First soviet leader who was'nt born before the 1917 revolution?


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    #1045
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    First soviet leader who was'nt born before the 1917 revolution?

    Correct! Your go!


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    #1046
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    In what region was the First Punic War fought?


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    #1047
    jank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Was it the Indian sub continuent?


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    #1048
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,681 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Was it in the Meditaranian Basin, around Sicily?


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    #1049
    zesman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭zesman


    Tunisia?


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    #1050
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,966 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    all the good guesses gone so I'll say Greece


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    #1051
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    In what region was the First Punic War fought?

    The western mediterranean generally, more specifically Sardinia, Sicily etc.


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