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Historical Event Game
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1. Married a bureaucrat to leave him after three months.
2. Worked variously as a circus rider, a seller of ostrich feathers, and the manager of an ink factory.
3. Friend of Empress Eugenie of France.
4. Fought with Garibaldi in Italy.
5. Kept a stuffed baboon with a copy of The Origin of Species under its arm in the parlor of her New York apartment.
Madame Blavatsky, the goofy psychic that founded that no-darwin society?
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Ive never heard of her.I keep learning so many new things from you guys
Oh mannnn!!!! You take a one hour break and Jim sneaks in--BOOM! LOL ... Good job. Next?
I have a trivial mind... ;-)1. A favorite of London's Zoological Gardens for 18 years.
2. His sale created yet another international tiff between England & America.
3. Often shown with & died with a midget.
4. Died in a train accident.
Jumbo the elephant, sold to Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1882.
You got it, Aimee! In 13 minutes no less. Wow!
a person...1. unexpected hier to throne
2. morganastic marriage
3. wrong turn led to assassination
4. assassination triggered far reaching consequences
moranastic marriage? Did you mean morganatic? Where they can't inherit upward from the lower class? simple typo, I think; I do it all the time.
Darn. I thought it was too obvious to be right. Now I have to think something up again. Give me a bit. I'm about to leave work & I won't stay late just for a trivia question.
1. Hornigold's apprentice2. Saved a man's life by shooting him.
3. Once demanded medicine for ransom.
4. Partnered with a govenor for selling loot.
Aimee, I don't know why your clues hit me as so obvious, but it was like they jumped right out - especially the word 'morganatic' which I don't ever recall seeing before except in that case. I didn't catch the misspelling either. I just knew I was wrong because it was too obvious - I thought.Sorry it took so long to get my clues out. Life came up.
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Hey! A workin' guy doesn't have a chance! We're gonna havta bar Jim from playing. Nahh, just funnin ' yah. Sounds right, Jim. Verdict? da da, da da dahh, da da dut.... (Jeapordy tune; get it?)
If I remember correctly,Emperor Franz Joseph thought his nephew Franz Ferdinand married beneath his station and insisted their kids would never get the throne.
Even after they were in their coffins, protocol demanded that their coffins be placed on separate levels. She was just a baroness and her coffin appeared lower than her husband's. To add insult to injury; a pair of gloves was placed on her coffin to remind everyone she was no higher than a lady in waiting.
Will, I was very impressed you knew the proper spelling of 'morganatic' & can only assume you didn't answer because you didn't want to come up with a clue! ;-)Manuel, I didn't know that about the burial with the gloves. Now that's some trivial snobbery!
Here's the latest clues:
1. Hornigold's apprentice
2. Saved a man's life by shooting him.
3. Once demanded medicine for ransom.
4. Partnered with a govenor for selling loot.
Those Hapsburgs really thought alot of themselves! What I read was that in order to be elegiable to marry a Habsberg you had to be a member of a ruling or former ruling family of Europe. Poor Sophia wasn't, but Ferdinand loved her and insisted on marrying her.
You got it, Manuel! Fast, too.I always thought it was poetic justice that Hands was saved by Blackbeard's sadistic & senseless shooting.
Manuel managed to knock me off goodreads for a few hours so he could win! Really, I couldn't get on this morning. Just kidding about Manuel's cheating. I guessed it was in reference to the Hapsburgs. Like you, that's the only place I've ever heard the word "morganatic."
I guessed Black Beard when I saw the word "loot"I almost said Captain Hook.
A person1.Prominent in Edwardian society
2.Father a Duke
3.Belgravia
4.died April 14-15 1912
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YES YES Bravo Susanna!
Before James Cameron's movie, Lady Bellamy was the most well known fictional character to have died on the Titanic.
Apparently it was a real shock to American and British audiences to have a major character of a popular TV program die off screen the way she did.
In reality Lady Bellamy should have survived the sinking. More first class ladies were saved than 3rd class children.
Unfortunately the writers of UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS shot themselves in the foot. Lady Bellamy was very popular, but there was no way to bring back her character once it was stated she had died in such a dramatic event.
The show was supposed to portray English society from 1903 to 1930, so theoretically Lady Bellamy could have lived much longer.
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In some ways an even greater loss was the actress playing Elizabeth Bellamy - a film was suggested with an American actress in the role and she had a massive hissy-fit. (Hard to blame her!)
You have to admit that being sunk on the Titanic is quite a way to go if your character is being written out!
(I grew up on Upstairs Downstairs; my mother and grandmother were addicts.)
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1. Signed the U.S. Constitution as the representative of one state, but served in the Senate as the representative of a different state.
2. Conspired with the Creek and Cherokee to collaborate with the British against the French and Spanish in Florida and Louisiana.
3. Impeached for #2 by the U.S. House.
4. Expelled from the U.S. Senate, also for #2.
A remember a TV series called Upstairs Downstairs as a kid, but I thought it was dull. It wasnt until I was an adult that I rediscovered the series on my PBS station.An interesting look at life from two points of view, that of the house owners and the house staff.
Supposedly, when the acting crews stopped for lunch or breaks; an interesting phenomenon took place. The actors playing the servants downstairs and the actors playing the society folk would all segregate themselves into two groups.
The servant actors ate together away from their fellow actors playing the bosses.
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Try this:1. Empress of India.
2. Reign was essentially symbolic with no real power.
3. Cities and sites named for her.
4. Numerous children and grandchildren.
6. Ruled during the Industrial Revolution period.
Very good, Jim. We're going to have to find a way to ban Jim from playing. I gave so many red herring clues (accurate, but misleading), I thought I'd get yah on this one. I was about to give a better clue only to find you had already gotten it. Nine children and thirty something grandkids...and ugly. Oops! Did I say that? I find the Victorian era quite fascinating--prudery (is that a word?) was vogue yet behavior wasn't prudish by any means.
I will NOT answer the next one that I can! I saw the 'empress of India' & thought it might be her. There weren't any others for centuries around that time at all that I know of. Another wild swipe, mostly because you kept doing clues. I thought I'd take her out of the running for someone else. Just too weird. Wish this luck extended to my lottery ticket.I'll post some clues in a bit.
1. Worked as an apprentice for both a tailor & a weaver. He was an actor for a short time, too.2. Thought to be related to royalty, although never proven, but the king did pay for his education.
3. He became a treasure of a writer & poet.
4. Knew Dickens & stayed with him for over a month.
I'll not answer this one ...for two reasons: Someone else can have a turn. ...and I don't know the answer.
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No, sorry.5. He was ugly - homely, at least.
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