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Manach · 28-04-2003 9:17am

I'll take a swing at this.
A> Jethro Tull?

DapperGent · 28-04-2003 9:57am

Yeah I think that's right.

Somthing to do with seeds wasn't it?

What was the bands famous song? I can't remember.

Manach · 28-04-2003 10:21am

My question:
in 49BC, Caesar is said to have crossed what river to invade Italy?

Mark · 28-04-2003 11:09am

The Rubicon

During World War I, the most famous German ace was Manfred von Richthofen, more often called The......?

DapperGent · 28-04-2003 11:26am

Red Baron.

How and where was the Graf Spee sunk?

Hairy Homer · 28-04-2003 11:39am

The Movie was on TV last week.

Scuttled by its captain (Peter Finch) in the mouth of the River Plate, Montevideo.

DapperGent · 28-04-2003 11:47am

Originally posted by Hairy Homer
The Movie was on TV last week.

Scuttled by its captain (Peter Finch) in the mouth of the River Plate, Montevideo.

Correct.

I've never seen the film (Battle of the River plate isn't it?), is it any good? It's a great story for starters.

Hairy Homer · 28-04-2003 2:23pm

Originally posted by DapperGent
Correct.

I've never seen the film (Battle of the River plate isn't it?), is it any good? It's a great story for starters.

Special effects were not the same in the 1950s but even so, this was clearly done on the cheap. The ships looked like old Airfix models, probably because they were. But it's not a bad yarn.

You'll be wanting a question.

Who was the last Hapsburg king of Spain, who was so inbred (his parents were an uncle and niece) the poor bugger couldn't chew his food properly because of a grotesquely misshapen jaw, and was so infirm he couldn't possibly perform his husbandly duties? No surprises the line petered out after his death, which gave rise to the war of the Spanish Succession.

PHB · 28-04-2003 11:04pm

I think it was Charles the second, (possibly the third)

Hairy Homer · 29-04-2003 10:44am

Mmm. Little bit of hedging there, methinks.

Yes it was Carlos the Second, also known as Carlos the Bewitched. Poor bastard. I blame the parents. And the grandparents. Who were occasionally the same people.

They were a wierd lot those Hapsburgs.

Gi's a question.

richindub2 · 29-04-2003 5:10pm

hmmm, i go away for a week and i miss all the fun tsk :P

seeing as there arent any current questions floating about, how about who was the (rather inept) leader of the whites in the East of the country during the Russian civil war?

DapperGent · 29-04-2003 5:25pm

Only one I can remember was General Denikin but I don't know if he was in the east.

Must.. resist.... urge... to... google so as to appear smart.

Mark · 29-04-2003 5:56pm

seeing as there arent any current questions floating about, how about who was the (rather inept) leader of the whites in the East of the country during the Russian civil war?

Kolchak was in the east wasnt he? Im not sure about this one, him and Denikin as Dapper guessed above are the only ones I know

CCCP^ · 29-04-2003 11:22pm

Admiral Aleksandr V. Kolchak

Mark answered it correctly first, I was just giving the full name. Your go Mark

Mark · 29-04-2003 11:33pm

Thankeh to CCCP for clearing that up.

Easy one for now:

Name the Emperor of Abyssinia in 1935

Hairy Homer · 30-04-2003 9:52am

Haile Selaissie aka Ras Tafari

(excuse the spelling, but I refuse to Google for the correct one) :-)

Hairy Homer · 30-04-2003 9:55am

Being presumptuous here, but then I know I was right for the last one. \

Question: Abyssinia was one of only two African countries that were ruled independently of a European imperial power in the year 1900.

Name the other one.

Manach · 30-04-2003 10:59am

A guess here at Liberia, a state set up by the Americans for ex-slaves?

DadaKopf · 30-04-2003 11:55am

Only country I can think of is Italy, guessing that following WWI, they had it robbed from them by the allied powers.

Hairy Homer · 30-04-2003 12:32pm

Er, I think you misunderstood the question. Italy is not an African country.

Manach is right. Liberia is the answer. All the rest of Africa was at that time owned by the British, French, Spanish, Italians, Germans, Belgians, and Portugese.

Manach · 30-04-2003 1:50pm

Ok, a nasty one from my OU history course.
Name one of the two Greek Citys whose troops fought at the end at Thermoplyae, along side the 300 Spartans & helots, in 490BC.

PHB · 30-04-2003 2:23pm

Againist the Persians?

Athens and Plataea?

Manach · 30-04-2003 3:38pm

It was against the Persians.
Nope - it was Athens and Plataea at Marathon though.
BTW the date should be 480BC, sorry.

simon_partridge · 30-04-2003 3:55pm

There seems to be no question out at the moment so can I have a go -

How many of his 35 years in power did English King Henry II actually spend in England?

DapperGent · 30-04-2003 4:18pm

Originally posted by Manach
Name one of the two Greek Citys whose troops fought at the end at Thermoplyae, along side the 300 Spartans & helots, in 490BC.

Thebes?

Manach · 30-04-2003 4:45pm

Correct, Thebes and Thespia (though only the Thespians were volunteers).
Your turn.

DapperGent · 30-04-2003 6:45pm

What was the name of the man who took over Magellan's voyage after he was killed in the Philippines, later completing the first circumnavigation of the world?

loismustdie · 30-04-2003 9:13pm

sebastian elcano?

loismustdie · 30-04-2003 9:18pm

if that's right the next question is:
what was joseph stalins real name?

Victor · 30-04-2003 9:20pm

Sebastian del Cano

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