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1. English king up to Hastings 1066
2. Two of the seceding states in the 1860s
3. What are the Chiltern Hundreds?
4. What did the Maastricht Treaty establish?
5. Two of the North American Great Lakes
6. Highest peak in the British Isles
7. US President after Washington
#1. Harold?
ReplyDelete#2. Georgia, Carolina?
#3. A 'club' for retired MPs
#4. The EU?
#5. Ohio, Erie
#6. Shap Fell?
#7.??
A strange time for a quiz - I was just passing and happened on it.
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1. Harold Godwinson.
ReplyDelete3. A fiction wot MP's used to resign their seats. Probably a big housing estate now.
4. That Hurd and Maude were traitors. The establishment of the EU.
6. Ben Nevis
The saddest thing is not the lack of knowledge, that's accepted. What strikes at my heart is that they just won't say "I don't know". They're terrified of admitting lack of knowledge. The ability to say 'I don't know' is one of the greatest freedoms.
ReplyDeleteThe second Prez I can't remember myself ... think it was Adams.
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ReplyDelete2. Virginia, Alabama
3. You can't be an MP and hold an office under the Crown at the same time, so they ask to be given the office of warden of of the Chiltern Hundreds which makes ineligible to sit in Parliament.
5. Superior, Michigan, Huron
Harold or Harald.
ReplyDeleteSouth Carolina and Mississipi.
A retirement scheme for duff mps. Originally a "hundred" was a lot of money to receive every month. And of course it was guineas.
That you could fool most of the people some of the time. Which was enough.
Huron, Ontario. Does Veronica count?
President after Washington? Too many for my tiny memory bank.
Ben Nevis.
ReplyDelete1. English king up to Hastings 1066: 'arold.
2. Two of the seceding states in the 1860s: both Carolinas.
3. What are the Chiltern Hundreds?: an office of profit under the Crown.
4. What did the Maastricht Treaty establish? The need for Brexit.
5. Two of the North American Great Lakes; Superior and Inferior
6. Highest peak in the British Isles. Ben Nevis.
7. US President after Washington. Slave-driver Jefferson? Bletherskite Adams?