History - Talk Britain

Sweetpea · #1 (**permalink**) 13-09-2008, 11:48

1) What waterway did Britain buy a share of in 1875? - The Suez Canal - Bernie

2) What did Winson Churchill describe as ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma’? - Russia - Curchill

3) What Catholic Bishop was killed in Rome on February 14 AD 270? - St Valentine - emmylou

4) Who was the last British Monarch to strike someone with a sword?

5) Who was the first Prime minister of India? - Jawaharlal Nehru - poppy

6) What 3 leaders signed the Camp David agreement? - Begin, Carter, Sadat - jaysay

7) What mythological creature did King George V have tattooed on his right arm? - A Dragon - Churchill

8) Who replaced King Farouk in a 1952 coup? - Nasser - Bruv

9) Who declared :’The Whitehouse has had no involvement whatever in this particular incident’? - Nixon - emmylou

10) Who was hanged in 1950 and pardoned in 1966? - Timothy Evens - Kels97

Churchill · #2 (**permalink**) 13-09-2008, 12:06

2. Russia

poppy · #3 (**permalink**) 13-09-2008, 12:31

5, Jawaharlal Nehru

Bernie · #4 (**permalink**) 13-09-2008, 14:17

1. Suez Canal?

emmylou · #5 (**permalink**) 13-09-2008, 21:35

3) Valentine?

Churchill · #6 (**permalink**) 14-09-2008, 08:57

7. Dragon (Welsh I think?)

emmylou · #7 (**permalink**) 14-09-2008, 09:00

9) Nixon

jaysay · #8 (**permalink**) 16-09-2008, 09:51

6 Carter, Begin, Sadat

Kels97 · #9 (**permalink**) 16-09-2008, 11:27

10) Timothy Evan

Bruv · #10 (**permalink**) 16-09-2008, 14:58

8..........Nasser ?