History is Not Boring discussion
Historical Event Game
message 2001:
by
Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady
(last edited Oct 07, 2009 11:19AM)
(new)
Oct 07, 2009 11:19AM
Mod
reply
|
flag
Oh, Susanna! You are correct. Explanation will follow in a day or two.
Explanation..."An event:
1. Involved a ship designed by the same man who designed the first winner of the America's Cup. (George Steers)
2. Paddle wheel Steamer (Side paddle wheels at that.)
3. Women and children first? Ha! (All the women and children perished. Out of approximately 400 people on the ship, 61 crew members and 24 male passengers survived. Led to the "Women and Children First" mantra now standard for any disaster at sea.)
4. Newfoundland (It sank 27 September 1854, off Cape Race, Newfoundland, after colliding with the 250 ton French iron screw steamer SS Vesta in the fog.)
5. Had three sister ships (Actually four: SS Atlantic, SS Pacific, SS Baltic, and SS Adriatic.)
6. Enroute from Liverpool to NYC as a mail packet and passenger ship. (Self explanatory)
7. Held the then speed record for crossing the Atlantic (The Arctic made the fastest eastbound passage across the Atlantic in February 1852, setting a record time of nine days, 17 hours and 15 minutes) "
Mod
1. Orphaned as a baby.
2. No influence as wife; plenty as mother.
3. Wore mourning for thirty years.
4. "Duchessina."
Nearly Queen Bess's mother in law?
Mod
I think Barbarossa meant Catherine de Medici?
I think I know! Is it Catherine de Medici?
Mod
Uh, is it Barbarossa up next?
Sorry, I was being cryptic. She tried to marry one of her wee boys to England's Elizabeth 1st...but Bess was having none of it. I was just probing to see if I was on the right track. I read a lot of Dumas recently, and she looms large over the Hx background. All that Valois/Bourbon stuff.I'll get back in a wee while with something.
OK. Person:1) Largely self taught.
2) Child mill worker.
3) Famous for something that in reality he wasn't very succesfull at.
4) Also famous for something he was very succesfull at.
5) Famously went missing.
Can you imagine the small talk among these ladies if Elizabeth had married Catherine's son? Catherine had already been mother-in-law to Mary Queen of Scots.
6) Son buried at the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
7) He is buried in 2 places.
Person: 1) Largely self taught.
2) Child mill worker.
3) Famous for something that in reality he wasn't very succesfull at.
4) Also famous for something he was very succesfull at.
5) Famously went missing.
6) Son buried at the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
7) He is buried in 2 places.
8) £10.
9) Re-named a lot of stuff.
11) Was famously found after 5) above.
I was going to say Ambrose Bierce, but the clues dont quite fit
Manuel wrote: ""Dr Livingstone I presume?""Well played.
The clues that may need clarification:
3) Famous for something that in reality he wasn't very succesfull at. - Missionary in Africa, no real evidence he converted anyone.
4) Also famous for something he was very succesfull at. - Explored and mapped vast areas of the African interior.
7) He is buried in 2 places. - Heart buried in Zambia, body in Westminster Abbey.
8) £10. - Due to the complexities of Scottish banking most old Scottish banks can issue their own notes. He appeared on the £10 notes that the Clydesdale Bank issued until about 10 years ago...now they have Mary Slessor (another missionary) on them...the Bank Of England, rather than missionaries, has Charles Darwin on their £10.
9) Re-named a lot of stuff. Re-named many places in the style of a typical Victorian explorer, most notable is Mosi-oa-Tunya which he renamed Victoria Falls.
Person1. Formed one corner of a famous menage a trois
2. Life long professional rivalry with famous person
3. Notorious womanizer
4. Literary and social figure
Person1. Formed one corner of a famous menage a trois
2. Life long professional rivalry with famous person
3. Notorious womanizer
4. Literary and social figure
5. gave his boss the ULTIMATE gift.
Person 1. Formed one corner of a famous menage a trois
2. Life long professional rivalry with famous person
3. Notorious womanizer
4. Literary and social figure
5. gave his boss the ULTIMATE gift.
6. extremely well dressed
7 his anatomy was the subject of a well known conversation with the Queen
Person1. Formed one corner of a famous menage a trois
2. Life long professional rivalry with famous person
3. Notorious womanizer
4. Literary and social figure
5. gave his boss the ULTIMATE gift.
6. extremely well dressed
7. his anatomy was the subject of a well known conversation with the Queen
8. converted to the Protestant faith as a teenager.
9. peerage
Person1. Formed one corner of a famous menage a trois
2. Life long professional rivalry with famous person
3. Notorious womanizer
4. Literary and social figure
5. gave his boss the ULTIMATE gift.
6. extremely well dressed
7. his anatomy was the subject of a well known conversation with the Queen
8. converted to the Protestant faith as a teenager.
9. peerage
10. Suez
Person 1. Formed one corner of a famous menage a trois
2. Life long professional rivalry with famous person
3. Notorious womanizer
4. Literary and social figure
5. gave his boss the ULTIMATE gift.
6. extremely well dressed
7. his anatomy was the subject of a well known conversation with the Queen
8. converted to the Protestant faith as a teenager.
9. peerage
10. Suez
11. married a woman 12 years older
Looks like Marco got it.I knew Suez was the give away
Clues explained1. Formed one corner of a famous menage a trois//had affair with Lady Henrietta Sykes, while she also had an affair with Lord Lyndhurst.
2. Life long professional rivalry with famous person//William Gladstone, leader of the Liberal Party.
3. Notorious womanizer
4. Literary and social figure//Writer of Romantic fiction
5. gave his boss the ULTIMATE gift.//Made Victoria Empress of India
6. extremely well dressed //Reputation of a dandy
7. his anatomy was the subject of a well known conversation with the Queen//Queen Victoria and her elder daughters were admiring a nude male statue, Disraelli's wife Mary Ann supposedly said "you should see my Dizzy in his bath". The Queen was amused.
8. converted to the Protestant faith as a teenager.//After a dispute with their synagogue, Disraeli's father had him baptized into the Anglican faith
9. peerage //made Earl of Beaconsfield by Victoria
10. Suez// bought 44% of Suez canal for Britain from Egypt.
11. married a woman 12 years older //Mary Anne Lewis
Is it Joseph Lister?
Mod
It looks like interest in this thread has evaporated
Alas...real life intrudes...
Mod
1. Son of an ophthalmologist.
2. Lost top marks in his class at West Point due to poor drawing skills.
3. Led an expedition up the Red River, and was reported dead, killed by 2000 Comanche.
4. Ran the trains for the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Mod
Your go, Marco.
Manuel wrote: "Obama's oath of office"Yes!
That was a total guess on my part.I'll come up with something in an hour or two
Event1. September 11
2. East vs West
3. seen as an inspirational victory by some.
4. seen as a humiliation of a great power by others
Event1. September 11
2. East vs West
3. seen as an inspirational victory by some.
4. seen as a humiliation of a great power by others
5. the hero of the event, had the capital city named after him.
Event 1. September 11
2. East vs West
3. seen as an inspirational victory by some.
4. seen as a humiliation of a great power by others
5. the hero of the event, had the capital city named after him.
6. 30% of the civilian population killed or captured
7. commander killed by a lucky shot from a sniper
Event 1. September 11
2. East vs West
3. seen as an inspirational victory by some.
4. seen as a humiliation of a great power by others
5. the hero of the event, had the capital city named after him.
6. 30% of the civilian population killed or captured
7. commander killed by a lucky shot from a sniper
8. history repeated 380 years later.
Event 1. September 11
2. East vs West
3. seen as an inspirational victory by some.
4. seen as a humiliation of a great power by others
5. the hero of the event, had the capital city named after him.
6. 30% of the civilian population killed or captured
7. commander killed by a lucky shot from a sniper
8. 4 months long.
9. history repeated 380 years later.
10. 130,000
Event 1. September 11
2. East vs West
3. seen as an inspirational victory by some.
4. seen as a humiliation of a great power by others
5. the hero of the event, had the capital city named after him.
6. 30% of the civilian population killed or captured
7. commander killed by a lucky shot from a sniper
8. 4 months long.
9. history repeated 380 years later.
10. 130,000 artillery shells
11 193 ships
Event 1. September 11
2. East vs West
3. seen as an inspirational victory by some.
4. seen as a humiliation of a great power by others
5. the hero of the event, had the capital city named after him.
6. 30% of the civilian population killed or captured
7. commander killed by a lucky shot from a sniper
8. 4 months long.
9. history repeated 380 years later.
10. 130,000 artillery shells
11 193 ships
12. ratio of attackers to defenders 8:1
Mod
History is Not Boring
Books mentioned in this topic
The Great Siege: Malta 1565 (other topics)Count Belisarius (other topics)
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History (other topics)
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (other topics)
Androboros, A Biographical Farce In Three Acts: The Senate, The Consistory And The Apotheosis (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
Vladimir Nabokov (other topics)T.H. White (other topics)
Thomas Malory (other topics)
Thomas Paine (other topics)
Isaac Asimov (other topics)
More...
