Trivia Quiz 190

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Trivia Quiz 190
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Posted by: clifton

Quiz 190

Clue 1

I am an event from the recent history

Posted by: Isperi

Enron Corporation declared bankruptcy

Posted by: vladb

Kosovo, an impoverished territory with a population of mainly ethnic Albanians, unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in February 2008.

Posted by: newbux69

International Women's Day 2008

Posted by: igorkr

Disintegration of the Soviet Union

Posted by: skatepro

9/11 Attack on New York and Washington DC

Posted by: clifton

Sorry folks, no right answer yet

Posted by: sashah

Sunday, March 09, 2008
WASHINGTON -- President Bush has serenaded Washington's elite with an early farewell at the annual Gridiron Club dinner in the nation's capital.
The president's appearance at Saturday night's white-tie event came as a surprise to the more than 600 journalists and big-wigs in attendance. Bush took part in the final act of the club's annual revue, showing up on stage wearing a cowboy hat and singing about his return to Texas to the tune of "Green Green Grass of Home."
The president's tounge-in-cheek lyrics for the crowd included "Yes, you're gonna miss me, the way you used to quiz me, it's good to touch the brown brown grass of home."
Bush earned a standing ovation for his attempt at song.

Posted by: jmrenterprises

kosovo declaring independance

Posted by: forwardone

I`ll go with time being relatively recent - Fall of the Berlin wall - 1989.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/imag..._hammer_238.jpg

Posted by: blackrose33

McCain wins Republican nomination

Posted by: Kalies00

Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in Jan 1986.

Posted by: Necros

Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

Posted by: golddust

Oil hits $100/barrel.

Posted by: clifton

Sorry folks

Since "recent" is a very broad term when talking about history, the next clue is:

Quiz 190

Clue 2

I happened in the 20th century in Europe

Posted by: igorkr

Revolution in Russia (1917)

Posted by: skatepro

D-Day

By far, the best known D-Day is June 6, 1944 — the day on which the Battle of Normandy began — commencing the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II. However, many other invasions and operations had a designated D-Day, both before and after Operation Overlord.

Posted by: vladb

The Beatles, Liverpool, England.
In March 1957, while attending Quarry Bank Grammar School in Liverpool, John Lennon formed a skiffle group called The Quarrymen. Lennon and the Quarrymen met guitarist Paul McCartney at the Woolton Garden Fête held at St. Peter's Church on 6 July 1957 and added him to the group a few days later. On 6 February 1958, the young guitarist George Harrison was invited to watch the group (who played under a variety of names) at Wilson Hall, Garston, Liverpool.

Posted by: forwardone

Death of Princess Diana, 31st August 1997.

Posted by: Spunner

Chernobyl nuclear disaster

Posted by: newbux69

Margaret Thatcher was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and was Europe's first female prime minister. She was also the first British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms.

Posted by: blackrose33

The leader of Free France during World War II, Charles de Gaulle became president of France following the war.

Posted by: Isperi

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

A revival of interest in Henry Kissinger came during the new millennium, when journalist Christopher Hitchens wrote The Trial of Henry Kissinger, a scathing critique of Kissinger's policy that accused him of war crimes, particularly for his policy toward Vietnam, Cyprus, Cambodia, Chile and East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh). Kissinger became a focal point of criticism from the political Left and certain human rights NGOs. According to the book, his foreign policy was chiefly concerned with attaining allies that had valuable geographical and strategic locations, such as Turkey and Pakistan, and turned a blind eye when these allies attacked democracies and murdered countless innocent people.

The book was later adapted into a documentary entitled The Trials of Henry Kissinger. The film focused on Kissinger's policies towards Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor, and Chile.

Posted by: sashah

Euro

The euro was established by the provisions in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty on European Union that was used to establish an economic and monetary union.

Posted by: bigwoo

Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web

Posted by: clifton

Great guesses, but still no one gave the answer

Posted by: Kalies00

Thirty five nations signed the Helsinki Accords.

Posted by: Old_Cat

The first of robotic spacecraft - "Sputnik 1" - launched the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. That launch took place on October 4, 1957 in the Soviet Union.

The Russian name Sputnik ("Спутник") means literally "co-traveler", "traveling companion" or "satellite".

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Sputnik_asm.jpg

Posted by: Necros

June 28, 1914: assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb citizen, triggering the First World War.

Posted by: coldwind

NATO Created

http://www.multied.com/Europe/NATO.html

Posted by: clifton

Sorry mates

Quiz 190

Clue 3

I am an even with the participation of military forces

Posted by: vladb

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

On 4 November, a large Soviet force invaded Budapest. Hungarian resistance continued until 10 November. An estimated 2,500 Hungarians died, and 200,000 more fled as refugees. Mass arrests and denunciations continued for months thereafter. By January 1957, the new Soviet-installed government had suppressed all public opposition.

Posted by: igorkr

Battle of Stalingrad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad

Posted by: okosh

IRA Easter rising...April 1916-1923

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army

Posted by: Old_Cat

World War II

Posted by: coldwind

SALT II

http://www.multied.com/Europe/SALTII.html

Posted by: newbux69

Kosovo War in 1999

Posted by: Isperi

The Cold War was the period of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s. Throughout the period, the rivalry between the two superpowers was played out in multiple arenas: military coalitions; ideology, psychology, and espionage; sports; military, industrial, and technological developments, including the space race; costly defence spending; a massive conventional and nuclear arms race; and many proxy wars.

Posted by: skatepro

Spanish Civil War

Posted by: bigwoo

Turkish invasion of Cyprus

Turkish military action starting on July 20th, 1974

Posted by: sashah

March 24-June 10, 1999, NATO bombing of FR Yugoslavia

Posted by: clifton

Good guesses, but still can't see the correct one

Posted by: golddust

Whoa,,, tough one.

Posted by: blackrose33

Russo-Polish War

Poland invaded Russia in April, after demanded a return to the boundries of 1772. The Poles were intially very succesful capturing Kiev and much of the Ukraine. The Soviets counterattacked, driving off the Poles and advanced towards Warsaw. The Poles however received vigorous aid from the French and were able to repulse the Soviets Under the Treaty of Riga the final frontiers between Poland and the Soviet Union were set.

Posted by: Necros

April 25, 1974: The Carnation Revolution (Portuguese: Revolução dos Cravos), Lisbon, Portugal.

Posted by: Kalies00

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, also Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT or NNPT) is an international treaty to limit the spread of nuclear weapons, opened for signature on July 1, 1968.

Posted by: clifton

Sorry folks

Quiz 190

Clue 4

I was a one day military intervention which tried to stop a several month process.

Posted by: vladb

The Soviet Military Intervention in Czechoslovakia

On the night of August 20 - August 21, 1968, Eastern Bloc armies from five Warsaw Pact countries, Soviet Union, Bulgaria,[5] Poland, Hungary, and East Germany, invaded the ČSSR. That night, 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 2,000 tanks entered the country.

Posted by: Old_Cat

Falklands War

Posted by: forwardone

The Invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, was an invasion of the island nation of Grenada by the United States of America and several other nations.

It took place on October 25, 1983.

Posted by: igorkr

Landing of Allied Armies in Normandy

It is opening the second front in the Western Europe

Posted by: adex

War on Drugs: Smokescreen for Imperialist War

The U.S. immediately responded in the same way it has since the Monroe Doctrine of 1824-- more military intervention. After the meeting with Hashimoto in Canada, Fujimori flew to Washington and met with retired General Barry McCaffrey, Clinton's drug czar, where he was told that the Defense Dept. was planning a "major new military aid program for Peru" (NY Times, 2/3) for the so-called war against drugs. Scores of Navy Seals and Green Berets will be sent regularly to Peru, along with 100 patrol boats and much more military hardware to help the Peruvian cops and army to "interdict drug shipments." There are already hundreds of U.S. operatives, including CIA and DEA agents, along with Awacs planes and two radar tracking station doing the same thing.

Posted by: skatepro

E.U. Police and Military Intervention to enforce Secession from Serbia

Posted by: clifton

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Originally Posted by vladb

The Soviet Military Intervention in Czechoslovakia

On the night of August 20 - August 21, 1968, Eastern Bloc armies from five Warsaw Pact countries, Soviet Union, Bulgaria,[5] Poland, Hungary, and East Germany, invaded the ČSSR. That night, 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 2,000 tanks entered the country.

Seems too hard to escape from you, vladb

Congratulations!

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The Prague Spring (Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia. It began on January 5, 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček came to power, and continued until August 21 of the same year, when the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies invaded the country to halt the reforms. A partial withdrawal took place on October 16, 1968,[1] but some Warsaw Pact troops would remain in the country and along its borders until mid-1987.[2]

http://www.white-history.com/hwr34i_files/praspr.jpeg

Thanks everyone for the good tries and keep doing

Posted by: forwardone

Well done, vladb. I was only a few thousand miles out with my guess.

Posted by: vladb

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Originally Posted by clifton

Seems too hard to escape from you, vladb

I try very and read clues carefully :-)

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Originally Posted by clifton

Congratulations!

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by clifton

Thanks everyone for the good tries and keep doing

All must be attentively - clue was an event in Europe, but some of the responses were about events in other parts of the world :-(
Good luck for all next time!

Posted by: vladb

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Originally Posted by forwardone

Well done, vladb. I was only a few thousand miles out with my guess.

Thank you! Good luck next time!

Posted by: forwardone

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Originally Posted by vladb

I try very and read clues carefully :-)

Thanks!

All must be attentively - clue was an event in Europe, but some of the responses were about events in other parts of the world :-(
Good luck for all next time!

Oops, missed that one, no wonder I got it wrong, unless of course Granada has moved without me knowing.

Posted by: golddust

Great work vladb and good advice to solving the quizzes.

Posted by: vladb

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Originally Posted by golddust

Great work vladb and good advice to solving the quizzes.

Thanks Golddust!

Posted by: vladb

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Thanks very much!