July August September Trivia

1. In 1976 on July 4, a daring raid was organized by Israeli commandos freeing passengers held on a hijacked Air France plane. Where was this plane being held?

From Quiz Not Independence Day

Answer: Entebbe, Uganda

Operation Thunderbolt was a counter-terrorist raid held by Israeli special forces commandos. The goal was to free hostages that were taken aboard an Air France flight that had been bound for Paris from Tel Aviv and were now being held at the airport in Entebbe, Uganda. Of the 248 original passengers and twelve crew, 106 hostages were being held, 105 at a building at the airport, and all but four were saved; three hostages died during the raid and the one that had been off-site, at a hospital, was killed when the outraged leader of Uganda at the time, Idi Amin, discovered that the other hostages had been freed. Only one member of the commando team was killed as well, the raid commander, Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu.

From Quiz The Glorious Twelfth

Answer: She provoked an asp to bite her

Though she almost certainly poisoned herself, there is no historical record of an asp in particular being the means of delivery. By committing suicide, she avoided becoming a prisoner to the Romans and the indignities they may make her suffer, after the military victories of Octavian, who would become Rome's first emperor under the name of Augustus. Octavian had her son Caesarion killed in Egypt and had her other children brought to Rome.

From Quiz Happy Anniversary, Mrs 48

Answer: Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein has a history of being both landlocked and doubly landlocked. From the unification of Germany in 1871 until the end of WWI, the country bordered the Austro-Hungarian Empire which bordered the Adriatic Sea, meaning that Liechtenstein was landlocked. However, with the creation of landlocked country of Austria in 1918, Liechtenstein became doubly landlocked. This changed again in 1938 when Austria became part of the Third Reich which had a border of the Baltic Sea, and it reverted back to a doubly landlocked country at the end of WWII when Austria regained its independence.

From Quiz The First of July, August and September

Answer: Battle of the Somme

World War I, which occurred from 1914 to 1918, had several major battles, such as Gallipoli, Tannenberg, the First and Second Battles of the Marne, Jutland and Verdun. The Battle of the Somme, which took place near the Somme River, saw tanks used for the first time in warfare. On the first day of the battle, the British Army suffered 57,000 casualties, which shows how violent this particular battle was. German casualties in the Somme are estimated to be between 465,000 and 600,000.

From Quiz It Happened on July 9th

Answer: Anne of Cleves

Historians believe their marriage was doomed from the start as the king allegedly found his new wife ugly and unpleasant. After the annulment, Anne of Cleves was treated quite well by the king and was given the former home of Anne Boleyn's parents.

From Quiz What Happened in the World on 20th September?

Answer: Ferdinand Magellan

Portuguese explorer Magellan commanded the expedition but was unfortunately killed in the Philippines in 1521. The command was taken over by Juan Sebastian Elcano (Spanish) and the expedition completed its journey to Europe in 1522, thus becoming the first circumnavigation of the world. The other explorers also circumnavigated the world, but after the Magellan-Elcano expedition: Drake (1577-80), Cavendish (1586-1588)and Dampier (1679-1691).

From Quiz What Happened in the World on 6th August?

Answer: French Foreign Legion

Dowd was a graduate of Columbia University and due to a loophole was not obliged to forfeit his American citizenship because at that time in the FFL you were not obliged to swear an oath to France only to the Legion. Sadly, Dowd was killed in August 1916 after an aeroplane accident. The other three regiments fought in WWI

From Quiz Those Times Things Happened

Answer: Zone Improvement Plan

ZIP codes were introduced by the United States Postal Service in order to make mail quicker and efficient, constantly encouraging people to use these five-number codes, at the time non-mandatory. When the Post Office made this change, two-letter state abbreviations were also introduced. (Previous abbreviations for states had generally been longer, such as Ill. Illinois, Fla. for Florida, and Minn. for Minnesota).

From Quiz As Famous As Harry Potter?

Answer: The Hundred Years' War

The Hundred Years' War, fought primarily between England and France, was a battle for control of the French crown and lasted for 116 years - from 1337 to 1453. The Treaty of Troyes, signed in 1420, was thought to have settled the argument as King Charles VI of France agreed to the marriage of his daughter to King Henry V of England and that their future heirs would become joint monarchs of England and France. However, the death of Henry V just two years later led Charles VI's disinherited son (King Charles VII - known at the time as the 'Dauphin') to reignite the war in order to fight for his crown. The Battle of Cravant resulted in the English succeeding in relieving a French siege of the town of Cravant (located in the Burgundy region of modern day France), but had little impact on the overall war, which continued on for another thirty years. The Thirty Years' War took place in the 17th century and involved most of Europe, the Eighty Years' War is also known as the Dutch War of Independence and the fictional Giant Wars were conflicts between wizards and giants mentioned in 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'.

From Quiz In the Fair Month of July

Answer: the bikini bathing suit

On that date, French designer Louis Reard introduced the two-piece bathing suit at a swimming pool in Paris, France. He gave it the name bikini after hearing a news report about a U.S. atomic bomb test earlier that week at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

From Quiz Dog Days

Answer: Georgia

Tensions between the Georgian and Abkhaz people existed during the Soviet era, when the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Abkhaz ASSR) was a autonomous region of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (Georgian SSR). In the 1980s, anti-Soviet Georgians began to demand independence, and based on the fact that an separate Abkhazian SSR had existed for a brief time in the late 1920s, many Abkhazians demanded their own independence. The clash between the two groups culminated in the War in Abkhazia in 1992. Although Abkhazia declared its independence that year, it was only formally recognized by six countries in 2008. These countries are Russia, Nauru, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

From Quiz Would You Take August 27 On A Date?

Answer: Mars

The distance between Earth and Mars on August 27, 2003 was approximately 56 million km, only slightly more than it was around September 12, 57,617BC. The next time a similar approach will occur is on August 28, 2287. For additional reading we recommend http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/18jun_approachingmars/

From Quiz September 11

Answer: Shanksville

It was believed the hijackers' original target was the White House or US Capitol building. The crash brought international attention to Shanksville.

From Quiz When July 6 Comes Along

Answer: George W. Bush

George Walker Bush, the 43rd president of the United States of America, was born on July 6, 1946 and served as the United States president from 2001 to 2009. He sure was closely related to another president; his father was George Herbert Walker Bush and served as the 41st president from 1989 to 1993.

From Quiz August 10th

Answer: Henri Nestlé

Henri Nestlé was born in Frankfurt on Main, Germany, as Heinrich Nestle, and died on July 7, 1890. He is best known for his invention of 'formula' baby food. Nestlé S.A. is a vast food company, which he was founded in Vevey, Switzerland in 1866.

From Quiz 13 September

Answer: Jupiter

509 BC was the first year of the Roman republic. The temple was 60 metres square and decorated with terra cotta sculptures, the most famous of which is Jupiter driving a chariot pulled by four horses. That temple lasted almost 426 years until 83 BC.

From Quiz September 9th

Answer: nine months

Her coronation took place in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle. Mary became Queen at six days old when her dad died. She was born on December 8, 1542.

From Quiz Simply September

Answer: 1975

22 years after New Zealander, Edmund Hillary and his Nepalese companion Norgay Tensing, reached the summit, two members of the British SW Face Expedition, led by Chris Bonington, matched their achievement. Doug Scott and Dougal Haston were the first climbers to reach the summit via the South West Face and achieved this feat at 6pm on September 24, 33 days after setting up their base camp. As well as being the first successful ascent via the SW face, Scott and Haston also set a record for the fastest ever climb to the summit. Haston was killed in a skiing accident less than 18 months later.

From Quiz All about August

Answer: Caesar Augustus

August was named after Augustus (also known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus or Octavian) in 8 BC because several of the most significant events in his career, including the fall of Alexandria, happened in this month. August was previously called Sextilis, which was Latin for sixth, because it was originally the sixth month in the ancient Roman calendar.

From Quiz September 23rd

Answer: Nintendo

After I picked my jaw up off the ground, I read that the company's original founder, Fusajiro Yamauchi, began the business by manufacturing playing cards called 'Hanafuda' in his home office in Kyoto. It wasn't until 1975 they developed a video game system using an electronic video recording player. Two years later, the first home-use video games hit the market.

From Quiz It happened on 3 August

Answer: Landed his plane near Red Square in Moscow

In May 1987 Rust, a 19-year-old West German amateur aviator, flew his rented Cessna from Finland to Moscow. He intended to land in the Kremlin, but due to insufficient landing space, he landed on Vasilevski Spusk, an open space near to St Basil's Cathedral, next to Red Square. He was arrested and sentenced to 4 years in a labour camp but was released after 432 days. Some sources claimed that the fact that Rust landed freely in the centre of Moscow was proof that the Soviet Union had no credible air defences. However, Rust was tracked for most of his flight path. The reason he was allowed to continue his flight was because Soviet air defences were forbidden to act aggressively towards a civilian aircraft

From Quiz September 30 in History

Answer: 1947

The match was between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

From Quiz It Happened on September 6th

Answer: First ship to circumnavigate the globe

The Victoria was the only surviving ship to return to Europe from the five-ship fleet with which Magellan started. The historic voyage ended in Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain - 16 months after Magellan's death at sea. The first ship known to have brought tea to Europe was Dutch, and arrived 1610 from Macao, China. In 1498, Vasco da Gama was the first person to sail a ship directly from Europe to India. Christopher Columbus brought the first cocoa beans to Europe between 1502 and 1504.

From Quiz It All Happened on July 18 (and so did I)

Answer: Nero

The fire began near the Circus Maximus and some reports claim that Nero himself started the fire. Still others claim that Nero did NOT "fiddle while Rome burned", which is technically true since the fiddle was not invented until some years later.

From Quiz September 3

Answer: Belgium

Belgium's capital, Brussels, was liberated on September 3, 1944 during World War II when British troops entered the city after an unexpectedly rapid advance.

From Quiz It Happened 9/11

Answer: Johnny Unitas

Johnny Unitas, who helped elevate the NFL into the forefront of American consciousness through his electrifying performances quarterbacking the Baltimore Colts, died of a heart attack one year after the 9/11 attacks. Golfer Sam Snead and baseball legends Wilhelm and Williams also passed away in 2002.

From Quiz On the Fourth of September...

Answer: 1989

Born in Liege, France, Georges Simenon wrote approximately 450 novels and short stories. He is probably best remembered for his detective series featuring Inspector Maigret. His personal life was a far cry from that of his famous character - he was a sex addict who claimed to require nooky three times a day. He died of a brain tumour while in Lausanne in 1986.

From Quiz The Date Was July 2

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway died in Ketchum, Idaho, as a result of his self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway) Sylvia Plath committed suicide also, but she died on February 11, 1963, in London, England. John Steinbeck died from a heart attack on December 20, 1968, in New York. William Faulkner died from a heart attack in Oxford, Mississippi, on July 6, 1962.

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