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Post by yenilira on Feb 1, 2012 9:23:23 GMT 1
It's got the Tigris and Efes* splitting it which gave it the name of 'Cradle of Civilisation' name of Mespotama or something?
as in Ephesus in Turkey.
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Feb 1, 2012 11:28:03 GMT 1
Morning all, Mesopotamia it is, and Persia is now Iran. Hope you have a nice day.
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Post by yenilira on Feb 1, 2012 11:33:19 GMT 1
Q # 139
'Cleopatra's Needle' on the Thames Embankment is one of three similar Egyptian obelisks. Where are the other two?
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Feb 1, 2012 11:43:31 GMT 1
Paris and New York
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Post by yenilira on Feb 1, 2012 14:30:30 GMT 1
Yours, Whit, for Q # 140.......
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Post by yenilira on Feb 1, 2012 16:50:21 GMT 1
I has long gone 4 hours since the last question was answered....
can we take it that you have forfeited your next question, Whit?
Uh, oh..
We'll wait until 4pm - no later -to see if Whit has a question for us.
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Feb 1, 2012 16:58:39 GMT 1
Sorry been out for a few hours, Had Paris right first time round, wasn't until last weekend looking at some photos of the girls when we live just outside N Y that I came across a photo taken back in the 80's of the obelisk in Central Park.
Q# 140
If the Royal Family hadn't changed it's name to Windsor, what would the faimly name still be?
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Post by yenilira on Feb 1, 2012 17:09:19 GMT 1
Mountbatten or Battenberg
they come from a Germanic line, I believe?
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Feb 1, 2012 17:33:41 GMT 1
The German part is correct but the name is incorrect, sorry
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Post by yenilira on Feb 1, 2012 17:38:40 GMT 1
The only other I can think of is Sax Coburgh Gotha (sic) . . . or something similar.
Defo not Bismark !! ;D
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Feb 1, 2012 18:20:11 GMT 1
Well done Yeni, got it in one.
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Post by yenilira on Feb 1, 2012 20:38:14 GMT 1
Err, wrong there Whit - got it in two. ;D
Q # 141
What is/are Kate Middleton's full official Royal title(s)?
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Post by seasider511 on Feb 1, 2012 22:32:04 GMT 1
the Duchess of Cambridge
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Post by yenilira on Feb 1, 2012 22:36:04 GMT 1
and.........
".... full official Royal title(s)?"
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Post by seasider511 on Feb 1, 2012 22:36:50 GMT 1
Will's mrs lol
not sure past that
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Post by yenilira on Feb 1, 2012 22:42:19 GMT 1
not sure if that would be appreciated in Buck House....
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Feb 1, 2012 22:54:50 GMT 1
I am sure I did this once and it was incorrect, nevertheless.................. Her Royal Highness the Princess Duchess of Cambridge
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Post by yenilira on Feb 1, 2012 23:00:34 GMT 1
511 got one of her titles.
Yes, Whit, it is incorrect in that you've rammed two together.
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Post by yenilira on Feb 2, 2012 1:15:11 GMT 1
This one can run until breckie on the 2nd February......
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Post by yenilira on Feb 2, 2012 10:10:24 GMT 1
Kate Middleton's titles are:
Her Royal Highness Princess William, Duchess of Cambridge, Countess of Strathearn, Baroness of Carrickfergus.
(don't know what Wills calls her, though!)
Q # 142
If you sailed due east from the Firth of Forth, which country would you make landfall?
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Feb 2, 2012 10:22:26 GMT 1
Norway
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Post by roadchefourstands on Feb 2, 2012 13:34:37 GMT 1
Scotland - North Berwick coast
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Post by Motty on Feb 2, 2012 14:08:13 GMT 1
Must be denmark
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Post by yenilira on Feb 2, 2012 15:19:54 GMT 1
Motty is correct.
and your question for number 143 is....?
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Feb 2, 2012 15:28:43 GMT 1
You live in hope Yeni, it will probably be another month before he returns.
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