History Quiz

[USViking]

menger la merde!

Maybe I'd better take it back.

When ya' got one really mad at you the only escape is to grovel.

 

[freeandfun1]

Tudor.

It changed... well, it's a long story, but it basically has to do with the end of the War of the Roses, which was a long civil war between two different families who claimed the English throne. I believe it was in the 1500's.

Sorry, incorrect.

 

[freeandfun1]

I think Coburg, changed to Windsor because original was German.

You've got part of the name..... and the reason, well, that's close enough.

It was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and they changed it in 1917 due to WWI and the Germanic connotation the name projected.

 

[Said1]

Lawrence of Arabia, how did he die?

I know, too easy!

 

[5stringJeff]

Lawrence of Arabia, how did he die?

I know, too easy!

He quit breathing?

 

[USViking]

Lawrence of Arabia, how did he die?

I know, too easy!

Vroom-vroom-screech-crash (on two wheels).




Question:
Nelson Rockefeller- how did he die? (Whadda way to go).


I gotta go to the gym. My muscular and skeletal systems are atrophying from sitting in front of the computer on boards like this for, oh, 12 hours a day.

Some one better be sure there's a question waiting for me when I get back.

 

[KarlMarx]

Vroom-vroom-screech-crash (on two wheels).




Question:
Nelson Rockefeller- how did he die? (Whadda way to go).


I gotta go to the gym. My muscular and skeletal systems are atrophying from sitting in front of the computer on boards like this for, oh, 12 hours a day.

Some one better be sure there's a question waiting for me when I get back.

In the middle of a passionate interlude with his mistress

 

[Said1]

In the middle of a passionate interlude with his mistress

Your turn!

 

[supermarine]

Since marx wont post a new question, i will.


QUESTION
At which Concentration camp did Anne Frank die.
If you need identification of who this girl is, her diaries were written while she and her family were in hiding in Amsterdam from the Nazis, and were later published after world war 2 by her father.

 

[Said1]

Bergan - Belsen, of typhus.

 

[supermarine]

correct, your turn

 

[Said1]

correct, your turn

What Latin American country moved their capital city in the (I think) 1960's, and what is the name of the new capital?

 

[KarlMarx]

What Latin American country moved their capital city in the (I think) 1960's, and what is the name of the new capital?

Brazil and Brazillia?

 

[Said1]

Brazil and Brazillia?

Ding, ding! Your turn.

 

[KarlMarx]

Ding, ding! Your turn.

What was "the Enigma" and what was it used for?

 

[freeandfun1]

What was "the Enigma" and what was it used for?

Wasn't Enigma a machine used for encription? The U-Boat movie.... I also saw a show on this on the history channel.

 

[supermarine]

yeah, ur right, ur turn

 

[freeandfun1]

The governor of which state sent National Guard troops and a tank to settle a border dispute with a neighboring state? The incident occurred in July 1931, and is known as “The Toll Bridge War”.

And for a bonus, name the Governor!

 

[KarlMarx]

Wasn't Enigma a machine used for encription? The U-Boat movie.... I also saw a show on this on the history channel.

Correct, the Enigma was the encryption machine used by the German Navy U-Boat command to coordinate attacks on allied convoys in the Atlantic.

 

[freeandfun1]

The governor of which state sent National Guard troops and a tank to settle a border dispute with a neighboring state? The incident occurred in July 1931, and is known as “The Toll Bridge War”.

And for a bonus, name the Governor!

Where did everybody go???