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Posted by Katy R (U14748743) on Friday, 17th June 2011
Hello to all the History quiz buffs
Today's question is:
What is the largest castle in the world (calculated in square meters)? And in which country is it situated?
Good Luck
Katy
Hi Katy
The biggest I've ever been to must be the Hradcany in Prague. Famous for having people thrown out of windows. Is there a larger?
TP
Hi TwinProbe
Yes - there is a much larger castle - and not a million miles away from Prague.
Have another guess
Katy
Is it Malbork Castle in Poland or if you insist on an inhabited castle then it will be Windsor Castle.
Brilliant - well done mismatched
It is indeed Malbork Castle in Poland with an impressive (143,591 square meters).
And you are indeed correct that the largest inhabited castle is Windsor Castle.
Time to set your question....
Only one twentieth century British politician held all four Great Offices of State.
Who was he?
Sunny Jim Callaghan?
TP
Yes, well done, your turn.
Thanks mismatched.
One was successful with military rowing boats, one was authorised to eat locusts, one was terribly important. One is still, in a sense, everyman to us, and female ones were not made of gopher wood or simply could not bear to be parted from a husband. Explain.
TP
Utterly baffling, TP.
Is this Bible/God/gods related?
"Authorised to eat locusts" - the Tribes of israel were given the go-ahead to eat grasshoppers in Leviticus? John the Baptist and his honey roasted locusts? - surely not - too obvious?
Gopher wood - Noah's ark? Was gopher wood really pine - Cybele?
I bet military rowing boats is something to do with the Romans.
This is what you call desperate rambling.
"Everyman"?
"terribly important"?
Haven't a clue.
"military rowing boats" suggests Lepanto, thus Don John of Austria,
John the Baptist and locusts as Temperance suggests
John Doe as Everyman
Are the female Johns Janes - as in "Jane Doe"?
Hi SST
No, actually you know it all!
For example John the Baptist is right (he being in the Authorised Bible of course).
The military rowing boats are not Roman; there's a poetic account - GK Chesterton I think. Put those two together and the rest will start to look easier.
TP
Hi Ur-Lugal
Very smart as ever.
Don John, John the Baptist, and John Doe; correct
So, which 'John' was terrible? The two females Johns are not Janes.
TP
Ah "White founts falling in the Courts of the Sun..."
He wanted to marry Mary Stuart you know, and depose Elizabeth.
Pope Joan? (John Angelicus?)
Joans are right, but not Pope Joans. Mine are real.
TP
The gopher wood one is Joan of Arc then.
Joan of Arc or is it Ark (gopher wood!)?
This is getting silly.
I love that line from Chesterton: "The cold Queen of England is looking in the glass..."
Well lets give this poor question the coup de grace then.
Joan of Arc: 'what's the difference between Joan of Arc and Noah's ark. Noah's ark was made of gopher wood and Joan of arc was maid of Orleans'.
None of you got Joan the Mad who, it was said, travelled with the body of her husband from whom she could not bear to be parted. A sad powerless woman in the hands of grasping and powerful men I fear.
Oh yes; 'one was terribly important'. Ivan is the Russian form of John and one of the Tsars was truly terrible.
Now, somebody else please.
TP
Juana La Loca - Catherine of Aragon's sister! TP, I am kicking myself!
Henry VII thought about marrying her after Liz of York died. She may have been bonkers, but boy was she rich!
It's possibly Joanna the Mad who is the "King of Spain's daughter" referred to in "I Had a Little Nut Tree Nothing Would it Bear".
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