Tonight's Topic: "Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #05: X marks the spot"
Answers = B - C - B
Results:
| 3 Correct = 83 (BCB=83) 71% of 117 contacts |
| 2 Correct = 15 (ACB=1,BAB=4,BBB=10) 13% of 117 contacts |
| 1 Correct = 15 (AAB=2,ACA=1,BAA=10,BBA=2) 13% of 117 contacts |
| 0 Correct = 04 (ABC=2,BC=2) 3% of 117 contacts |
| Check-in = 03 |
| Total = 120 (117 + 03) |
| Total processed = 198 (Called+New inc emails) |
| Added=02 | Pending=07 | New=13 (see below) |
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++ "Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #05: X marks the spot" ++
Question #1: Born in 1925 into the Little family, this man became an outspoken African-American nationalist and religious leader. On this day in 1965, he was assassinated while giving a speech at a New York City ballroom. What was his name?
A. Malcolm S. Hershey, or
B. Malcolm X, or
C. Malcolm Forbes
In New York City, Malcolm X,
an African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated
by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of
Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. On February 21, 1965, one week after his home was firebombed, Malcolm X
was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally
of his organization in New York City. (1)
A. Battle of Walterloo, 1815, or
B. Battle of Gettysburg, 1863, or
C. Battle of Verdun, 1916
LW's NOTE: Depending upon which sources you use and which definitions used for "Battle", some historians disagree that Verdun was the longest, continuous battle ever fought -- while other historians assert that Verdun, indeed, was the longest, continuous battle ever fought during War World I and in all history.(see 2b below)
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At 7:12 a.m. on the morning of February 21, 1916, a shot from a German Krupp 38-centimeter long-barreled gun—one of over 1,200 such weapons set to bombard French forces along a 20-kilometer front stretching across the Meuse River—strikes a cathedral in Verdun, France, beginning the Battle of Verdun, which would stretch on for 10 months and become the longest conflict of World War I.
On December 18, Hindenburg finally called a stop to the German attacks after ten long months. With a German death toll of 143,000 (out of 337,000 total casualties) and a French one of 162,440 (out of 377,231), Verdun would come to signify, more than any other battle, the grinding, bloody nature of warfare on the Western Front during World War I. (2a)
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Few stretches of land in Western Europe are as blood soaked as the Verdun battlefield, where 80 years ago 700,000 to 800,000 Frenchmen and Germans were killed, wounded or captured in perhaps the most terrible battle of the Great War.
Extending from 21 February to 15 December 1916, it is the longest battle history has ever known.* (2b)
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At 7:12 a.m. on the morning of February 21, 1916, a shot from a German Krupp 38-centimeter long-barreled gun—one of over 1,200 such weapons set to bombard French forces along a 20-kilometer front stretching across the Meuse River—strikes a cathedral in Verdun, France, beginning the Battle of Verdun, which would stretch on for 10 months and become the longest conflict of World War I.
On December 18, Hindenburg finally called a stop to the German attacks after ten long months. With a German death toll of 143,000 (out of 337,000 total casualties) and a French one of 162,440 (out of 377,231), Verdun would come to signify, more than any other battle, the grinding, bloody nature of warfare on the Western Front during World War I. (2a)
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Few stretches of land in Western Europe are as blood soaked as the Verdun battlefield, where 80 years ago 700,000 to 800,000 Frenchmen and Germans were killed, wounded or captured in perhaps the most terrible battle of the Great War.
Extending from 21 February to 15 December 1916, it is the longest battle history has ever known.* (2b)
A. Harpo Marx, or
B. Karl Marx, or
C. Malcolm Marx
On February 21, 1848, The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl
Marx with the assistance of Friedrich Engels, is published in London by a
group of German-born revolutionary socialists known as the Communist
League.
The political pamphlet--arguably the most influential in history--proclaimed that "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" and that the inevitable victory of the proletariat, or working class, would put an end to class society forever.
Originally published in German as Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei ("Manifesto of the Communist Party"), the work had little immediate impact.
Its ideas, however, reverberated with increasing force into the 20th century, and by 1950 nearly half the world's population lived under Marxist governments (3)
The political pamphlet--arguably the most influential in history--proclaimed that "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" and that the inevitable victory of the proletariat, or working class, would put an end to class society forever.
Originally published in German as Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei ("Manifesto of the Communist Party"), the work had little immediate impact.
Its ideas, however, reverberated with increasing force into the 20th century, and by 1950 nearly half the world's population lived under Marxist governments (3)
. [SOURCE: see below]
Malcolm X assassinated (1)
Battle of Verdun begins (2a)
Voices from Verdun (2b)*
Marx publishes Manifesto (3)
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-- Zeppo Marx: "Just put the horn down and step away. By the way, do you have my Zippo Lighter?" [SOURCE: LW's Super-Stupid Quotes Book]
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KD7DEI Charlie
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VE7NDP Nathan
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KF7WTG Joe
KK6IVC Steven
SCANNER Kevin
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KK6JSN Matt
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