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The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition. 3000-5000 executed. According to Michael Palin, it takes everybody by surprise. | The Spanish Inquisition | 100%
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Evidence has emerged that this charming lady played a significant role in luring this political rival of her husband's to return to the Philippines for talks to sort out the mess the country was in. He did not get his feet wet but slowed down a bullet with his head. The lady was fond of footwear and named her son (the current president of the Philippines) after a utensil used for smoking marijuana... twice. | Imelda Marcos | 92%
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What was Otto von Bismarck's sobriquet? | The Iron Chancellor | 92%
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Pipe-Face-Soggy-Boots HAD returned to Asia and just would not f**k off. UN forces against forces from what is now nicknamed by some 'The Hermit Kingdom'. 1950. | Battle of Inchon | 83%
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A set to between a modern army equipped with Martini-Henry breech loading rifles, two 7-pounder mountain guns and a box of rockets... and a gang with spears and a slingshot. 1879. In what is now South Africa. Spear victory. | Battle of Isandlwana | 75%
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Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan and late Paleozoic were all...? | Ice Ages | 75%
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Famous knees-up with Macedons and Achaemenid wallflowers. That barmy Balkan again! 333 BC. | Battle of Issus | 67%
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When a monitor met a merrimack... things were not so merry. | Battle of Ironclads | 58%
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Russians and allied French/British quarrel. Crimean War, 1854. The foggy conditions saw troops having to fight on their own initiative which gained the battle the sobriquet 'The Soldiers' Battle.' | Battle of Inkerman | 50%
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Wrote a 1936 biography about Australian pastoralist, Sidney Kidman. Nicole Kidman's paternal great-great-grandfather. | Ion Idriess | 50%
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