History quiz
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When did the following battles take place?
1. Maldon
2. Waterloo
3. Trafalgar
4. Gettysburg
5. Britain
6. Retreat from Mons
7. Midway
8. Mons Badonicus
9. Jenkins Ear
10. North Cape
When did the following battles take place?
1. Maldon
2. Waterloo
3. Trafalgar
4. Gettysburg
5. Britain
6. Retreat from Mons
7. Midway
8. Mons Badonicus
9. Jenkins Ear
10. North Cape
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Ha.
Date: 2010-10-19 06:09 pm (UTC)2. Waterloo, Quatre Bras, and vicinity, not forgetting Hougoumont; Flanders, basically, barring road to Brussels.
3. Spanish waters.
4. Mostly Cemetery Ridge, aptly. Pennsylvania.
5. Largely above Kent.
6. Between the Mons Canal and the Marne, esp nr Le Cateau. In short, Flanders.
7. PTO, waters nr Midway Is.
8. Ha. Probably nr Bath.
9. Mostly W Indies.
10. Norwegian waters.
Bugger. Read where for when.
1. 990s.
2. 1815.
3. 1805.
4. 1863.
5. 1940.
6. 1914.
7. 1942, I think.
8. Ha, again. No one agrees (or if it ever was).
9. 1740s, along w W of Austrian Scsn.
10. Boxing Day 1943.
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Date: 2010-10-19 06:16 pm (UTC)2. 1815
3. 1805
4. 1863
5. 1940
6. During WWI! ;)
7. 1943
8. Is this even historical? Some time around 500 AD, I suppose.
9. I can't even remember what this was all about, although I do vaguely associate it with the British colonies in the Americas.
10. There was a battle up there? But it's fucking freezing.
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Date: 2010-10-19 06:33 pm (UTC)2. 1815
3. 1805
4. 1863
5. 1940
6. 1915
7. 1943
8. 570ish
9. 1740
10. Possibly the 1740s.
But I have to say, if we get chocolate it will be entirely on G's account, he's the war buff!
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Date: 2010-10-19 06:40 pm (UTC)1815
1805
1863
1940
1914
1942
?
1875
1944
I take it you wanted years not day dates too.
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Date: 2010-10-19 07:17 pm (UTC)2. At sea
3. Also at sea
4. Gettysburg [are these trick questions?]
5. Er Britain perhaps!
7. Midway
8. Mount Bladon
9. No idea
10. North Cape maybe!
I'm not very good at this sort of thing!
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Date: 2010-10-23 10:47 am (UTC)Answers and marks here:
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Date: 2010-10-19 07:47 pm (UTC)1) 986
2) 1813
three) 1846
four) 1864
five) 1940
six) 1916
7) 1943
eight) 386
nine) rather, I know this one well -- at least which war it was -- now which war was it? hmm 1827?
10) never heard of it! The average of the above appears to mean that it was 1408 -- but that doesn't seem right! I plumped for 1804.
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Date: 2010-10-19 11:05 pm (UTC)Bizarrely, the one date that has always stuck in my mind (apart from the obvious ones) is the death of Tiberius Gracchus - 133 BC. Don't ask me why.
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Date: 2010-10-20 08:37 pm (UTC)1. Maldon = 991? Or thereabouts?
2. 1815. Summer-ish.
3. 1805. Autumn-ish.
4. 1863?? or another one of those mid nineteenth century type years?
5. 1940. Summer to Autumn!
6. 1914 I guess. If this is the one with the angels.
7. 1942?? or another one of those mid twentieth century type years?
8. Do we actually know this one? How about 495 as a very random guess.
9. Now it's getting obscure. 1734. Another random guess.
10. Again with the obscurity. North cape of what? This started off relatively easy. Dunno. How about 1942 again, that's a good year for battles.
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Date: 2010-10-22 02:34 pm (UTC)1: 780X
2: 1815
3: 1805
4: 1865
5: 1940
6: 1915
7: 1943
8: 550X
9: 1710
10: 1917
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I shall make a feeble attempt
Date: 2010-10-22 04:29 pm (UTC)2. 1815 (when Napolean did surrender)
3. 21 October 1805
5. 1940-41
6. 19someteen
7. Aargh! So much for school history. WWII.
8. Is that the one with ?Olaf and the Welsh? Am I completely making that up? A very long time ago.
9. It didn't. Jenkin's Ear was a war, not a battle.
10. Unless I don't know about some obscure Norwegian/Soviet squabble, then WWII.
Yep. That was quite a feeble attempt.
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