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QoD - August 8, 2008
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:02 am
by MarleysGh0st
2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Monday, August 11.
No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.
1. King Gustavus Adolphus, who led Sweden to a brief status as a world power, died at the Battle of Lützen, during what war?
2. In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt ran for the office again on the Progressive Party ticket. This party is better known by what animal nickname?
3. The Oresund Bridge (actually a border-crossing bridge-tunnel combination) is over 7.8 km long and connects the Swedish city of Malmö to what national capital?
4. What general, in command of the U.S. Third Army during World War II, was nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts"?
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:11 am
by themanintheseersuckersuit
1. King Gustavus Adolphus, who led Sweden to a brief status as a world power, died at the Battle of Lützen, during what war?
The Thirty Years War.
2. In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt ran for the office again on the Progressive Party ticket. This party is better known by what animal nickname?
Bullmoose
3. The Oresund Bridge (actually a border-crossing bridge-tunnel combination) is over 7.8 km long and connects the Swedish city of Malmö to what national capital?
Copenhagen
4. What general, in command of the U.S. Third Army during World War II, was nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts"?
George Patton, who competed in the Pentathlon at Stockholm.
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:25 am
by megaaddict
1. King Gustavus Adolphus, who led Sweden to a brief status as a world power, died at the Battle of Lützen, during what war?
Thirty Years War ??
2. In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt ran for the office again on the Progressive Party ticket. This party is better known by what animal nickname?
Bull Moose
3. The Oresund Bridge (actually a border-crossing bridge-tunnel combination) is over 7.8 km long and connects the Swedish city of Malmö to what national capital?
Helsinki?
4. What general, in command of the U.S. Third Army during World War II, was nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts"?
Patton
Re: QoD - August 8, 2008
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:32 am
by Catfish
1. King Gustavus Adolphus, who led Sweden to a brief status as a world power, died at the Battle of Lützen, during what war?
??
2. In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt ran for the office again on the Progressive Party ticket. This party is better known by what animal nickname?
Bull Moose
3. The Oresund Bridge (actually a border-crossing bridge-tunnel combination) is over 7.8 km long and connects the Swedish city of Malmö to what national capital?
Copenhagen
4. What general, in command of the U.S. Third Army during World War II, was nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts"?
Patton
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:34 am
by LookingForHumorPoints
2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Monday, August 11.
No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.
1. King Gustavus Adolphus, who led Sweden to a brief status as a world power, died at the Battle of Lützen, during what war?
The War of the Swedish Meatballs
2. In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt ran for the office again on the Progressive Party ticket. This party is better known by what animal nickname?
The Evil Squirrel Party
3. The Oresund Bridge (actually a border-crossing bridge-tunnel combination) is over 7.8 km long and connects the Swedish city of Malmö to what national capital?
Mexico City, you think we're the only country with immigration problems?
4. What general, in command of the U.S. Third Army during World War II, was nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts"?
General Halftrack
LFHP
Re: QoD - August 8, 2008
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:35 am
by NellyLunatic1980
1. World War I?
2. Bull Moose Party
3. Helsinki?
4. Patton
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:11 am
by ulysses5019
Thirty Years War
Bullmoose
Copenhagen
George Patton
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:40 am
by ShamelessWeasel
1. Crimean ??
2. Bull Moose party
3. Oslo ??
4. George Patton
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:50 am
by frogman042
1. King Gustavus Adolphus, who led Sweden to a brief status as a world power, died at the Battle of Lützen, during what war?
WAG: Crimean?
2. In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt ran for the office again on the Progressive Party ticket. This party is better known by what animal nickname?
Bull Moose
3. The Oresund Bridge (actually a border-crossing bridge-tunnel combination) is over 7.8 km long and connects the Swedish city of Malmö to what national capital?
Stockholm
4. What general, in command of the U.S. Third Army during World War II, was nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts"?
George Patton (our blood, his guts)
---Jay (If you know how many years ago the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the invention of the transistor - you'll also know the number of days until airtime)
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:57 am
by wintergreen48
1. Thirty Years War
2. Bull Moose
3. Hmm... that's a fairly short distance, and if it goes from a Swedish city across a border to another country, it would have to be something nearby... Norway or Denmark, Oslo or Copenhagen... I'll go with Oslo, Norway, I think Copenhagen is farther away than 5 miles.
4. George S. Patton, who competed in the 1912 Olympics and lost to Jim Thorpe in the Decathlon.
Re: QoD - August 8, 2008
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:04 am
by plasticene
1. 100 Years War?
2. Bull Moose
3. Copenhagen
4. Patton
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:40 am
by Rexer25
1. World War I
2. Bull Moose Party
3. Helsinki, Finland
4. George Patton
Re: QoD - August 8, 2008
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:54 am
by tanstaafl2
MarleysGh0st wrote:2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Monday, August 11.
No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.
1. King Gustavus Adolphus, who led Sweden to a brief status as a world power, died at the Battle of Lützen, during what war?
I should know this but I don't. Given the Swedish empire, such as it was, was mostly in the 1600's I will guess the Thirty Years War.
2. In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt ran for the office again on the Progressive Party ticket. This party is better known by what animal nickname?
Bull Moose Party
3. The Oresund Bridge (actually a border-crossing bridge-tunnel combination) is over 7.8 km long and connects the Swedish city of Malmö to what national capital?
Had a friend at work who recently crossed this bridge from Copenhagen, Denmark to Sweden in May.
4. What general, in command of the U.S. Third Army during World War II, was nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts"?
General George Smith Patton, Jr.
I suspect the Swedish connection here is that he participated in the 1912 games.
Re: QoD - August 8, 2008
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 11:55 am
by Here's Fanny!
I knew I should have looked up earlier to see where the 1908 Olympics were held!
2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Monday, August 11.
No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.
1. King Gustavus Adolphus, who led Sweden to a brief status as a world power, died at the Battle of Lützen, during what war?
I know little about Sweden before Bernadotte took over. Hundred Year's War.
2. In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt ran for the office again on the Progressive Party ticket. This party is better known by what animal nickname?
Bull Moose
3. The Oresund Bridge (actually a border-crossing bridge-tunnel combination) is over 7.8 km long and connects the Swedish city of Malmö to what national capital?
Hey, whatever happened to the no geography thing?? We were getting along so well, too....
Stockholm is too obvious, so I'll take Copenhagen in a pinch.
4. What general, in command of the U.S. Third Army during World War II, was nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts"?
George Patton who, up until now, I'd totally forgotten was in the Olympics!
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:02 pm
by elwoodblues
1. World War I
2. Bull Moose
3. Stockholm
4. Patton
Re: QoD - August 8, 2008
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 6:34 pm
by Hambone
1. King Gustavus Adolphus, who led Sweden to a brief status as a world power, died at the Battle of Lützen, during what war?
30 years war
2. In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt ran for the office again on the Progressive Party ticket. This party is better known by what animal nickname?
Bull Moose
3. The Oresund Bridge (actually a border-crossing bridge-tunnel combination) is over 7.8 km long and connects the Swedish city of Malmö to what national capital?
Copenhagen
4. What general, in command of the U.S. Third Army during World War II, was nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts"?
Patton
Re: QoD - August 8, 2008
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 11:40 pm
by AnnieCamaro
1. King Gustavus Adolphus, who led Sweden to a brief status as a world power, died at the Battle of Lützen, during what war?
I don't know this for sure, so I thought about saying 100 Years War to give myself a veryveryvery long time in which it might have happened, but I really do think all that got settled before Mr. King Gustavus Adolphus came along, so I will make my guess as the Thirty Years War, which still was long.
2. In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt ran for the office again on the Progressive Party ticket. This party is better known by what animal nickname?
The Bull Moose Party
3. The Oresund Bridge (actually a border-crossing bridge-tunnel combination) is over 7.8 km long and connects the Swedish city of Malmö to what national capital?
Copenhagen
4. What general, in command of the U.S. Third Army during World War II, was nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts"?
Mr. General George Patton
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:57 am
by kroxquo
1. King Gustavus Adolphus, who led Sweden to a brief status as a world power, died at the Battle of Lützen, during what war?
100 Years War?
2. In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt ran for the office again on the Progressive Party ticket. This party is better known by what animal nickname?
Bull Moose
3. The Oresund Bridge (actually a border-crossing bridge-tunnel combination) is over 7.8 km long and connects the Swedish city of Malmö to what national capital?
Copenhagen?
4. What general, in command of the U.S. Third Army during World War II, was nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts"?
Patton - who I believe participated in the 1912 Olympics in the Modern Pentathlon and thus the connection to the theme in this puzzle
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 8:45 am
by mrkelley23
1. Ick. Hundred Years War?
2. Bull Moose
3. Copenhagen
4. Patton
Re: QoD - August 8, 2008
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:05 am
by T_Bone0806
MarleysGh0st wrote:2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Monday, August 11.
No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.
1. King Gustavus Adolphus, who led Sweden to a brief status as a world power, died at the Battle of Lützen, during what war?
The breakup of ABBA
2. In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt ran for the office again on the Progressive Party ticket. This party is better known by what animal nickname?
Bull Moose
3. The Oresund Bridge (actually a border-crossing bridge-tunnel combination) is over 7.8 km long and connects the Swedish city of Malmö to what national capital?
A couple of countries I could choose here..I'll go with Copenhagen
4. What general, in command of the U.S. Third Army during World War II, was nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts"?
Patton
Re: QoD - August 8, 2008
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:37 pm
by jsuchard
1. 30 Years War
2. Bull Moose
3. Copenhagen [Almost said Stockholm, then I saw the border crossing part]
4. Patton
Re: QoD - August 8, 2008
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 8:15 pm
by Bob78164
MarleysGh0st wrote:1. King Gustavus Adolphus, who led Sweden to a brief status as a world power, died at the Battle of Lützen, during what war?
2. In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt ran for the office again on the Progressive Party ticket. This party is better known by what animal nickname?
3. The Oresund Bridge (actually a border-crossing bridge-tunnel combination) is over 7.8 km long and connects the Swedish city of Malmö to what national capital?
4. What general, in command of the U.S. Third Army during World War II, was nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts"?
1. Hundred Years War
2. Bull Moose
3. Copenhagen
4. Patton
--Bob
Re: QoD - August 8, 2008
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:46 pm
by SportsFan68
MarleysGh0st wrote:2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Monday, August 11.
No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.
1. King Gustavus Adolphus, who led Sweden to a brief status as a world power, died at the Battle of Lützen, during what war?
I'll guess WWI
2. In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt ran for the office again on the Progressive Party ticket. This party is better known by what animal nickname?
Bull Moose
3. The Oresund Bridge (actually a border-crossing bridge-tunnel combination) is over 7.8 km long and connects the Swedish city of Malmö to what national capital?
I'll guess Oslo.
4. What general, in command of the U.S. Third Army during World War II, was nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts"?
Gen. George S. Patton
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Re: QoD - August 8, 2008
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:53 am
by jarnon
1. World War I
2. Bull Moose
3. Helsinki
4. Patton
Re: QoD - August 8, 2008
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:32 am
by andrewjackson
1. Thirty Year's War
2. Bull Moose Party
3. Copenhagen
4. George Patton