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Posted by Katy R (U14748743) on Friday, 21st January 2011
Hello all,
I thought I'd continue Andrew's 'Friday Quiz' tradition. So, as the new series of The Tudors is about to start ( I thought a Tudor themed Q was in order....
Q: What almost killed Elizabeth I in 1562, and what were the consequences...?
Happy Friday
Katy
Giv us a hint, Katy, the first hour has almost gone.
Is this ‘date specific’…?
I know she had cowpox, or smallpox… that almost killed her… but I don’t know the date. But isnt that’s why she didn’t want portraits painted… she’d lost a lot of hair and was pockmarked… didn’t she use some kind of lead based cosmetic cream to disguise it… which in itself was very dangerous.
Don’t know what the consequences were… some argument over the succession I would imagine.
Well done bandick!
She did indeed have smallpox, and used heavy white makeup (which was fashionable at the time) for the rest of her life to cover the marks.
Does anyone else have a question for the quiz?
Katy
Well, Katy, according to the 'old' rules, the winner set the next question, so that would be Bandick, eh?
Nielsen
sorry nielsen... just had the doctor call, so no time to set a decent question...
heres a quickie...
Staying on the Tudor theme, why was Queen Mary 1 known as ‘Bloody Mary’.
Oh crickey… docs returned not happy, and has ordered me off to hospital for a few days observation… awaiting transport now.
Can someone set a question…
Just as long as it's not smallpox, bandick....
Surely, Bloody Mary was so named because of her role in burning Protestants at the stake?
I assume I'm right, unless corrected by one of the history gurus on this MB....
So, I'll set a question....
On the Tudors theme, what did good Queen Bess complain was cluttering up the streets of London, and called on urgent plans to remove and relocate them?
Here's a clue: this was in 1596....
No guesses?
Pretty please....
I have to leave soon, guys.
, in reply to message 11.
Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Friday, 21st January 2011
And the moral is:- one should always broaden one's education by reading all the threads on these boards. Or is that cheating?
Anyway, I've got people arriving any minute so I'll let someone else find this one out.
Umm - I'll hazard a guess here......
Sailors who faught the Spanish Armada?
IF I'm right, can I venture this as a question?
Who called whom 'that mitred peacock'?
And here's a clue - Fat Harry - aka Henry VIII, was on the throne at the time.
KOTR
, in reply to message 12.
Posted by Minette Minor (U14272111) on Friday, 21st January 2011
The sodding Poor Laws! Sturdy Beggars and the undeserving poor! Not unlike our own dear Coalition Govenrment. Just in case, there were several poor Harvests due to wet weather and so rotting crops and I believe it was this year that the poor were actually beaten out of Coventry's Gates. It's an interesting topic but as interesting as what Good Queen Bess did to the sailors returning from the Aramrda who marched on London. Another story....
, in reply to message 13.
Posted by Minette Minor (U14272111) on Friday, 21st January 2011
James V said that of Henry VIII? Charles V wasn't that fat - or was he?
, in reply to message 15.
Posted by Minette Minor (U14272111) on Friday, 21st January 2011
Sorry think I've lost the plot! James V was a baby? Must return to mother ship! Apologies. But wasn't he married to Marie de Guise? All over the place sorry!
Minette - It wasn't said about Henry himself, but about someone associated with his reign.
KOTR
Hopping off now.
TTFN.
KOTR
, in reply to message 17.
Posted by Minette Minor (U14272111) on Friday, 21st January 2011
Then it must be Cardinal Woolsey! Whose Court? Hampton Court or the King's Court?!
, in reply to message 18.
Posted by Minette Minor (U14272111) on Friday, 21st January 2011
Hang on! Am I right? Or who will set the next question?
, in reply to message 20.
Posted by Minette Minor (U14272111) on Friday, 21st January 2011
OK if there is anyone there!
Who invented Pie Charts and when and why?
, in reply to message 21.
Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Friday, 21st January 2011
Jumped in here while my guests assume I'm busy in the kitchen, did no one notice this after my huge hint?
message 9
Must go back and be the perfect host.
, in reply to message 22.
Posted by Minette Minor (U14272111) on Friday, 21st January 2011
Who is ferval? And why are they being the perfect host in the kitchen?
People watching street performers.
Weren't all theatres closed about that time as part of Elizabeth's 'patronage of the arts' - because her secret police couldn't control what was being said?
Sorry, I'm a bit behind here. did anyone answer the QEI question?
Florence Nightingale sort of invented pie charts (histograms really) to illustrate casualty rates in the Crimean War.
, in reply to message 25.
Posted by Minette Minor (U14272111) on Friday, 21st January 2011
Absolutely right on all counts George! Over to you!
ensconsed in a ward now... and all is quiet....thank god for dongles.
Go back to shivfan’s M9… his question.
M10… a specific year… Here's a clue: this was in 1596....
Then look on the board for another thread… stuff about the Elizabethan age Take a look at M9…
Now look at the clue ferval hints at on M12…
Ferval stresses the clue again M22
I thought it was street entertaining… dancing bears, or bear baiting. Until I read the ‘stuff about the Elizabethan age’… shivfan gives the answerer away.
Pie charts… I thought Flo invented them too, but awhile ago I watched a Program on TV… and I’m pretty sure they said she didn’t… they were invented by some Scots fellow… maysomething?… but she did use them to demonstrate and get her point across ref the mortality rate in the Crimea.
Oh ek!
Its taken so long to get set up, and reinstall the dongle thingy… posts got held up and crossed there… never mind.
well done george.
, in reply to message 28.
Posted by Minette Minor (U14272111) on Friday, 21st January 2011
I'm not sure what's wrong but good luck Bandick - keep us posted! Dongles have their uses....Stay well. Minette.
What was going on when Howell Forgy said "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."
This board seems to be weird - I never did see the answer to Shivfan's question.
Yes, I put the answer on the Elizabethan thread when I had to leave....
The answer is 'blackamoors', or black people, whom good queen Bess felt were cluttering up the streets of London, especially vagrants and beggars. She wrote to the Lord Mayor of London asking for a plan of action to deal with this problem. Of course, others in her court obviously felt the same way, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence that this plea was acted upon.
Well, Pearl Harbor was under attack, and Chaplian Forgy was serving aboard USS New Orleans at the time.
, in reply to message 19.
Posted by Grasshopper (U3605803) on Saturday, 22nd January 2011
Minette - you are right about Woolsley. For the record, it was Mother Shipton (she of the Knaresborough cave), who said it. She also said (when he had being made Archbishop of York), that, although he would see York, he'd never get there.
The Cardinal vowed to have her tried as a witch when he got to York, but luckily for Mother Shipton, he was arrested by Henry's men first.
KOTR
, in reply to message 33.
Posted by Grasshopper (U3605803) on Saturday, 22nd January 2011
Oops - that should have been 'been', not 'being', and we all know what too many 'beens' do, don't we?
Oh and BTW, now that we have the h2g2 smileys, I have the means to settle a few scores.......................DID YOU HEAR THAT, NORDMANN???????????
KOTR
Urnungal - dead right. He was a chaplain on one of the warships in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked.
Your go.
OK.
What was unique about the name given to CA-70, a Baltimore class cruiser of the USN (later a Boston class Guided Missile Cruiser)
BTW - the first part of the quote as it is frequently attributed to Forgy "I got one!" is incorrect. He didn't take over a gun himself, simply encouraged the crew on duty.
Dunno...
Was that the ship that became the General Belgrano and was sunk by the Brits in the Falklands War? I seem to recall that ship was a Pearl Harbor survivor.
Nope. That was the former Brooklyn class USS Phoenix, CL - 46
Trouble getting logged on…
***OK.
What was unique about the name given to CA-70, a Baltimore class cruiser of the USN (later a Boston class Guided Missile Cruiser?)***
***What was unique about the name***… about the name… the name specifically…? American warships are named after American states, cities, towns, people, or battles… she must have been named after something else… an animal, can’t imagine a foreign country… maybe a foreign state, or town… don’t know. A bird??
A real place, but not in the USA. (Not to be confused with USS Shangri-la, named after an imaginary place).
Was it called Honolulu? I don't know the vintage of these ships, but Hawaii didn't join the Union until 1959, so maybe they named it for Honolulu when it Hawaii wasn't a state.
Right… so… now that narrows it down a bit… you say a state? So we don’t have to start with aardvark then…?
just about to hit the send button then... *a real place*... i'm going for two goes for one. turkey... ?
Argentina
Australia
Austria
What other countries start with A
Just reread the question again… is that, *what was* or *what is*… as in the past tense…?
Meaning she’s now a possible washing machine or two… and a traffic jam or three of cars.
, in reply to message 43.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Monday, 24th January 2011
Urn is being a little sneaky here, I think. If I'm guessing right then the CA-70 was a ship named after a ship named after a place, which is why the deviation from normal practice arose.
And, if I'm right, then you were right to start with countries beginning with A. Now all you have to do is think of capitals thereof, bandick.
You obviously know, Nordmann - have you been visiting Iron Bottom Sound again?
, in reply to message 45.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Monday, 24th January 2011
The presentation of the ship's bell to the other country's leader was Bush's last public outing before his infamous trip to a child's primary school the next day.
That would be the USS Canberra named after HMAS Canberra, which was sunk off Savo Island.
Spot on, so it's your go now ....
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