Statistics for Strange Wars

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  • This quiz has been taken 11 times
  • The average score is 2 of 15

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ClueWar% Correct
A group of Australians with machine guns nearly lost to a bunch of birdsThe Great Emu War
82%
Four day war between Honduras and El Salvador that costed 3000 lives in 1969Football War
36%
Napoleonic tendencies of Latin American president lead his nation to be nearly annihilated after needlessly declaring war on three far more powerful bordering countriesParaguayan War
18%
A single pig was shot by British soldiers and a brief standoff followedThe Pig War
18%
War fought because a message couldn't be properly delivered from Great Britain to the United StatesWar of 1812
18%
War between England and Spain named for a certain otic body partWar of Jenkin's Ear
18%
War fought in 1325 between Bologna and Modena over a single bucket being stolenWar of the Oaken Bucket
18%
Lasted 38 minutesAnglo-Zanzibar War
9%
Longest war in human historyThree-Hundred and Thirty Five Year War
9%
Sometimes referred to as "War of Pork and Beans" due to logistical supply mistake by United States; small border conflict between United States and Great Britain that had no actual fighting but still around 550 deaths from disease and accidental injuryAroostook War
0%
Hone Heke, a New Zealand Chief succeeded in chopping down a Union Jack flagpole 3 times. The fourth time it was erected, he was thwarted, so naturally he raised a militia that indiscriminately maimed countless towns people and British soldiers, before he finally chopped down the final iron-clad flag poleFlagstaff War
0%
War characterized by nighttime meet ups where soldiers gathered to drink and socialize in "no-man's land"Moldovan-Transdniestrian War
0%
War started over a French-run Mexican bakeryThe Pastry War
0%
When Sir Frederick Hodgson demanded the Ashanti people hand over their culture's most sacred possession for the queen, he was subsequently attacked and lost over 1000 menWar of the Golden Stool
0%
At a tense border crossing in Petrich, between Greece and Bulgaria, a Greek soldier chased his dog across the border, where he was subsequently shot down, his death inciting a small Greek invasionWar of the Stray Dog
0%

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