DaleCooper
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That's right, about 1400 tonnes of various WW2 munitions 2.4km offshore. Your turn...
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I think there's a sunken munitions ship somewhere off the coast of Wales as well. Signs up warning no-one to go near it because of explosives I remember.
Unable to think of anything, so..
Open floor
LSWR Cavalier
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If I may.. A German Politician was called the Basta-Kanzler, he beat Helmut Kohl in the election of 1998.
What was/is his name? How many times has he been married? How many children does he have?
What was/is his name? How many times has he been married? How many children does he have?
Gloster
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Gerhard Schroder? At least three times? Too many?
LSWR Cavalier
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Schröder is right, he led a red-green government, 'at least three' is not enough, for the third part two different answers could be true.
DaleCooper
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3 marriages, 8 or 13 children
LSWR Cavalier
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More marriages, fewer children (two possible correct answers for number of children). Nearest guesses win. The first marriage was short, each subsequent marriage was longer than the last.
DaleCooper
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5 marriages, 6 or 7 children
xotGD
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Four wives, five sprogs?
LSWR Cavalier
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5 marriages is right, both of the two possible answers for children are too high.
Why could there be two correct answers? (Clue?!)
DaleCooper
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Three or not three?
LSWR Cavalier
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Three adopted children, so zero or three are both right. Five marriages and five successive election wins.
Over to you.
DaleCooper
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I can't take any credit for several wild guesses, @Gloster was the only one who exhibited any actual knowledge so they should have the next turn...
Gloster
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On 31 August 1869 at Parsonstown (now Birr) in Ireland Mary Ward was the first person known to have...what? (It is not something she would have wanted to be remembered for.)
FrodshamJnct
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She was a scientist wasn’t she? Killed by an experiment she was conducting?
Gloster
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She was indeed a scientist, of equal renown to many men of the era. However, she was not conducting an experiment or even more than peripherally partaking in one.
No, definitely not.
Peter Mugridge
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She wasn't "Typhoid Mary" was she...?
Gloster
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No, not that either.
xotGD
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Did she contract some nasty disease?
A killer flu?
A killer flu?
LSWR Cavalier
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Something to do with potato blight?
SuspectUsual
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First person known to be killed by a train in Ireland?
Gloster
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Both wrong, I am afraid.
Still wrong, but you are getting much nearer.
LSWR Cavalier
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First person killed by a car in Ireland? %(
Gloster
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Correct. Although to be more exact, she was the first person known to have been killed by a motor vehicle anywhere. In this case it was steam powered.
Now for you to set the next question.
LSWR Cavalier
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An inquest was held after the first person was killed by a car in London.
What earnest wish did the coroner express?
What earnest wish did the coroner express?
Spamcan81
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No more cars be built?
LSWR Cavalier
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Sadly (?), not quite that.
perryman
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Was it to reduce the speed limit, which I think was ridiculously low anyway. Plus I think they may have had to be a rule where a car needed a 'flag person' to walk in front at all times? Or maybe I've dreamt that bit at some point. I'll go with the speed limit reduction.