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    Bump!
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    <MrsB wakes up after Bill bumps into her...>

    ... errr... what?...oh... It's me?... Sorry to keep you waiting folks... I hadn't realised...

    Which two countries were involved in the shortest war on record?

    (and for no extra bonus points, just the warm glow of being knowledgeable - Roughly how long did the war last?)



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    I very much doubt I'm right, but I'll try the Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbours, Egypt, Jordan, etc., in, I think, the 1960s.

    In fact, noticing that you've asked for two countries I don't think I can be right, but I've started so I'll finish...
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    Zanzibar vs GB. Match stopped after 40 mins, 2 tugs and a row boat sunk and the flag shot down off the Sultan's palace.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ten point nine View Post
    Zanzibar vs GB. Match stopped after 40 mins, 2 tugs and a row boat sunk and the flag shot down off the Sultan's palace.
    Ding! Well done.

    (1896 btw)

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    After posting my answer I googled this one. Apparently the palace and the harem were both destroyed during that short war. The palace was never rebuilt, but the harem was...

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    It's one of those daft entries from the 'Guiness Book of Records' that sicks in your mind and crops up from time to time in quizzes

    So for my question what is recorded as the Longest War?

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    I can't answer this one, as I discovered the answer by googling the shortest war...
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    Well someone has to say it to get it out of the way:

    The Hundred Years War

    (cue QI style klaxon)

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    'fraid so, bit longer than that one. Sorry no DING for Martybartfast

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    Well, we seem to be stuck on this one...

    I said I can't answer it as I found the answer on Google, but as we're stuck and as I did find the answer before the question was asked, here goes...

    The longest recorded war was between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, which began in 1651 and lasted over 300 years.
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    Ding to Bill D Peace was declared in the 1980's

    A very Happy Birthday to you enjoy the rest of the day :cheers: opcorn:

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    Thanks for the ding and the birthday wishes! :cheers:

    As I was born on a Good Friday, and my father was of Irish blood, here's a question related to both those things...

    Which famous Irishman always claimed to have been born on Good Friday in a year when it fell on April 13th (though a few have disputed that claim)?
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    The first famous Irishman to come to mind is G.B. Shaw, and he strikes me as the sort of person who might enjoy making such a claim.

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    Quote Originally Posted by martybartfast View Post
    The first famous Irishman to come to mind is G.B. Shaw, and he strikes me as the sort of person who might enjoy making such a claim.
    I think he might indeed have enjoyed making such a claim, but it isn't him, I'm afraid.
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    Dave Allen, maybe?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs Blorenge View Post
    Dave Allen, maybe?
    Sorry, it's not him

    If no-one's got it by then, I'll give another clue this evening.
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    Is it the other famous Irishman - James Joyce?

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    Quote Originally Posted by keehotee View Post
    Is it the other famous Irishman - James Joyce?
    Sorry, Tim, it's not him either.

    Here's the further clue I promised:

    He was a well-known playwright.
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    Peter O'Toole ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by martybartfast View Post
    Peter O'Toole ?
    Sorry, no, not him either. I'll give another clue tomorrow if no-one gets it in the meantime.
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    Ok, I said I'd give another clue, so here are a few quotes from him:

    “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”

    “Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.”

    “Words are all we have.”
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    Sounds like it mught be Brendan Behan?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Croft House Cachers View Post
    Sounds like it mught be Brendan Behan?
    Sorry, but it's not him either.

    Here's another clue:

    He lived the second half of his life in France, and wrote most of his later works in French then translated them into English himself. He is buried in Paris beside his wife Suzanne.
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    Samuel Beckett. (Very bad that I didn't recognise those quotes since I did him for A Level, degree and am now an English teacher - whoops.)

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    That's a ding for Croft House Cachers! :cheers:

    Over to you, folks...
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    Thanks...who 'keeps all your dead hair for making up underwear'?

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    The Jean Genie, of course.......


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    Ahhh, too easy!
    Over to Keehotee.

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    Tim...?
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    OK - an easy one for anybody that watched QI on Dave last night.....

    What is Europe's tallest mountain?

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    I think we might need another clue for this one...
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    I'll get the ball rolling with Mont Blanc.

    Having said that I think this is a trick question and it's not the highest mountain i.e. height of the summit above sealevel; but the tallest is greatest distance from the base to the summit, and as such I expect it's something that's sitting on the seabed with only a bit visible above the water.

    Also I'm sure this one came up in "the other place" in the early days of their pub quiz.

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    Ooh, ooh, this one's on the tip of my tongue, I don't think it was a trick question and I know it isn't Mont Blanc but another one in the Urals possibly beginning with El or was it Ul ? ....... my memory isn't so good nowadays, apparently Holland and Barrat do a great vitamin supplement for improving memory .... if only I could remember what it was called!

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    I still can't remember the name of the memory supplements from H&B so cheated and googled, I was on the right track with Urals and name beginning with El, and it's a proper mountain, none of your underwater stuff like Hawaii.

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    AAaahhhhh

    Isn't it a border thing..... Does the border start or end there?
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    I do remember this question being on QI, and I think Handsyhands is right and that it's in the Urals now that they're officially part of Europe. With this in mind I've had a look at my Sunday Times World Atlas, and the highest mountain I can see in the Urals is:


    Gora Narodnya

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    Mt Elbus, where according to Greek mythology Prometheus was chained for pinching the fire of the Gods and giving it to man.

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    ding

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    In a deck of cards one of the Kings doesn't have a moustache, which one?

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    Hearts ?

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    Diamonds?

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    And it's a DING to Maple Leaf

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    In Feb 1971, the last three coins to be introduced for decimalisation were the 1/2p, 1p and 2p coins.

    To avoid confusion between the old and new coinage all three coins had the word 'NEW' incorporated into the reverse design.

    In which year was the word ‘NEW’ removed from the coins?

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    I'll guess: 1974

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs Blorenge View Post
    I'll guess: 1974
    No - later

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    1978
    Happy Caching

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    - Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

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    1981
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