Lefty Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Well done TC. I had three of your picks plus Catherine Parr, I forgot Anne of Cleves & Catherine Howard. I'm cross with myself because many years ago this question came up in a quiz & I resolved to remember their names. I didn't think it would take 30+ years for the question to come up again. And when it did the old grey cells failed me... What a life Henry lived! Six wives at a time when marriage was for life. And what a fantastic bonus he left the world thanks to his voracious appetite for women. i.e. he broke the hold of the Catholic Church over every aspect of life with the establishment of the Anglican Church. Without that the Pope would still be the most powerful man alive today & things like the internet would never be allowed under their watchful eye. Three questions about the above list: 1) Which wife is he reported to have loved the most? 2) Who was the ugly one? 3) Who was the mother of the next most important monarch in British history? ugly one was Anne of Cleves Mother of next king, Jane Seymour Loved most, Catherine Parr or Jane Seymour Quote Link to comment
Snick Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 But it wasn't posted there so the *joke* would have been lost. Not much of a joke but I couldn't resist. The correct answer is the Straits of Gibraltar, a fact I have carried around in my head most my life. yes Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 ugly one was Anne of Cleves Mother of next king, Jane Seymour Loved most, Catherine Parr or Jane Seymour First one is correct as already established. The "mother of the next most important monarch in British history" was Anne Boleyn. Anne's daughter was Elizabeth, soon to become Elizabeth I. Henry's other daughter was Mary Queen of Scots who finished up being executed by Elizabeth. You are correct that Jane Seymour was the mother of the next king though. Her son Edward inherited the throne at the age of 9 but he died at 15. The last one I can concede on the basis it was an unanswerable question. Jane Seymour is the only one of the six wives to be buried alongside Henry which can be taken as a sign of his affections but how can we ever know? The answer I was after having read it in a biography was Catherine of Aragon, Henry's first wife. Now I can't find the text & considering it was speculation based on stories from the 16th century any wife would do. Any apart from Anne of Cleves that is. Her marriage was never consummated, quite an indictment considering Henry wanted to stick his dick in anything that took his fancy. Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Kind of a trick question here; which 2 counties have the largest English-speaking legislative bodies? Hint; The USA is not one of them. Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 India and UK Yes! Usa is third Quote Link to comment
pdogg Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 I notice NOT ONE of you has even ATTEMPTED to answer my City of Everett poser. As Lefty might well be inclined to say - PUSSIES! I'm not a pussy; I'm a dick! My wild guess: The City of Everett was the largest fake city ever, by fake I mean little houses glued to board. It debuted at the New York World's Fair in 1964. It can now be found at Cooper Union. Quote Link to comment
pdogg Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 It's Washington State, now in Seattle. Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Now what was the original name of The City of Everett, what was it the first to do, and where would you find it NOW? Cities are not referred to as "IT", they don't DO anything & they don't move location. What you are referring to is something that has been named "The City of Everett". It must be a space shuttle or a warship or something like that. Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 All I can say about this question is that you probably have not noticed THE elephant in the room... It's either a travelling circus or it's something very large. Is it the world's longest locomotive? Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Elephant..... pachyderm..... jumbo.... is it a 747? Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 What was its original name? No idea.... Air Force One? What was it the first to do? Hmmm.... fly non stop across the Pacific? Fly around the world? Make some inaugural flight to somewhere? Where is it now? At the aeroplane graveyard somewhere in the US desert? Somewhere XYZZZYX doesn't like? At the Boeing factory? 1 Quote Link to comment
rxpharm Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Everett, Washington is the site of the Boeing factory - so yes 747s as well as their other models, are produced there. I don't know the name of it before though. 1 Quote Link to comment
rxpharm Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 You are almost there, rxpharm, almost. Agonizingly close...but just not close enough. Hmm, I think I remember from some documentary - it has the largest building by volume in the world because of the size of the Boeing factory. However, still don't know the name of it before Everett though. Quote Link to comment
Tomcat Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Sometime during WW1 soldiers in the British Army were issued with metal helmets instead of caps but there was an increase in those hospitalized with head injuries Why ? Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 You are almost there, rxpharm, almost. Agonizingly close...but just not close enough. You have three questions running, it isn't clear to which of them you are referring. To be clear - you want the original name of the plane; what it was the first to do & where is it now. I'll have another stab - 1) Spirit of Washington 2) First to carry more than 300 passengers 3) It's on display in Everett How'd I go this time......... ? 1 Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Sometime during WW1 soldiers in the British Army were issued with metal helmets instead of caps but there was an increase in those hospitalized with head injuries Why ? This came up on a program I was watching, maybe we saw the same show? I vaguely recall it was because a bullet hitting the helmet caused the head to injure itself when it banged into the other side of the helmet. Because the helmet wasn't a tight fit the head was thrown around inside it. Am I close? Quote Link to comment
Tomcat Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 no.. not close im afraid Paccers dear fellow . I cant remember seeing the same show also. Its an old quiz question and It can be deduced logically.... maybe you kick yourself when you have the answer 1 Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 It was a long time ago I saw the answer & all I can remember it was something quite silly & obvious. Was it because the helmets were more visible & made a better target? Quote Link to comment
Tomcat Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Thats a good try but not the official answer , also i dont think you get 2 goes when i say hospitalized i mean all soldiers with head injuries that are in field hospitals , trench hospitals , bandaged up in the trenches. In fact any soldier with a head injury but not killed outright would count .. 1 Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 no.. not close im afraid Paccers dear fellow . I cant remember seeing the same show also. Its an old quiz question and It can be deduced logically.... maybe you kick yourself when you have the answer Thanks for the logic tip, I think I have it. This isn't a military question at all, the trick is in the wording. There were no more or less soldiers shot in the head but instead of dying, they sustained head wounds. With the cloth cap there were less head wounds because more of them died. Give them a helmet & less of them died but there were more soldiers needing treatment for head wounds. I'm sure that's it.... 2 Quote Link to comment
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