British Empire Quiz - Answers
a.spencer3
answers - and here starts a new thread of my utter ignorance and error being
delightedly exposed to all by those who lost out despite their far more
accurate answers!
Winner with an excellent 8/10 was Clive Summerfield - who was also the first
to answer, so couldn't have cheated!
Don Aitken claims to have got his 7 with only looking up one map - if that's
so, I resign!
Clive is now due for his prize of a 150-year-old miniature portrait of Queen
Victoria - I'll be emailing him separately.
For those who want to join the bandwagon on getting back at me, *my* answers
were ........
/1/ Sarawak and the White Rajahs ... just three Brookes ruled from 1841 -
1941. Let's have their Christian names.
James, Charles & Charles Vyner
/2/ Name the first recognised established British settlement and factory
that 'started' the British India saga, in 1612.
Surat
/3/ Which modern country was a French colony and - highly unusually,
especially in the 1790's! - actually invited in the British army to put down
the locals. Needless to say, the Brits then took it over (briefly) as their
own colony! You probably wouldn't go here for your hols these days - but a
hell of a lot of people holiday in the country next door.
Haiti
/4/ Specifically, after whom is Pennsylvania named? Easy - is it?
Admiral Sir William Penn (Penn's dad)
/5/ What was the 'colonial' name for the modern state of Vanuatu?
New Hebrides
/6/ Kimberley, of diamonds fame, was originally the capital of which British
colony?
Griqualand West
/7/ Crossword-type clue with apologies to PC lovers - which British colony
was populated by a lot of 'kaffirs'?
British Kaffraria
/8/ OK, an easy one - what is now the name of the British colony of Van
Diemen's Land?
Tasmania
/9/ Remember Raffles, Singapore, etc.? But before Singapore, of which
British possession was he Lieutenant-Governor at the ripe old age of 29?
Java
/10/ The Lord Howe Islands were a part of which British colony?
Sorry - it's plural! Not the NSW dependency but the group since renamed
Ontong Java which were in the British Solomon Islands.
(duck)
Surreyman
Don Aitken
<a.spe...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>/1/ Sarawak and the White Rajahs ... just three Brookes ruled from 1841 -
>1941. Let's have their Christian names.
>
>James, Charles & Charles Vyner
>
Coincidentally, Charles Vyner Brooke's daughter, Elizabeth Brooke
Vidmer, has just died. (Telegraph obit. 20.3.02). She was 88, and was
formerly the wife of the 30s bandleader Harry Roy.
--
Don Aitken
Andrew Chaplin
news:yV%l8.10039$WP.20...@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com...
> /10/ The Lord Howe Islands were a part of which British colony?
>
> Sorry - it's plural! Not the NSW dependency but the group since renamed
> Ontong Java which were in the British Solomon Islands.
>
Those are not the only ones. There's a Lord Howe Island
(http://www.devonian.ualberta.ca/iab/bryodesc.html) off the west coast of
Canada, and a Howe Island (named for the same guy, IIRC) in the Saint
Lawrence just east of Kingston.
--
Andrew Chaplin
SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO
(If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out, and
change "home" to "rogers".)
a.spencer3
Andrew Chaplin <abch...@yourfinger.home.com> wrote in message
news:3157d2$b253...@parl5.parl.gc.ca...
> > Those are not the only ones. There's a Lord Howe Island
> (http://www.devonian.ualberta.ca/iab/bryodesc.html) off the west coast of
> Canada, and a Howe Island (named for the same guy, IIRC) in the Saint
> Lawrence just east of Kingston.
> --
Yep, they're all over! That why I chose the plural version. The 'NSW'
explanation was because all chose that one.
Surreyman
John Kane
And the worst of it was that I noticted the Lord Howes Island on the map and
decided since my atlas is about 85 years old it was just one of those silly
name changes like the New Hebrides becoming Vanuatu. :(
Still it is nice to see that Volgagrad still seems the same. I had heard
about some kind of name change but I guess it was just a rumour.
--
John Kane
The Rideau Lakes, Ontario Canada
a.spencer3
John Kane <jka...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:3C9B36CC...@sympatico.ca...
> Still it is nice to see that Volgagrad still seems the same. I had heard
> about some kind of name change but I guess it was just a rumour.
>
>
Surreyman