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Brilliantly well done Augustus Lucifer! Your turn.

Sorry that's incorrect. Great Leap Forward was an economic policy, not social
However FirstmanOntheMoon is correct.
btw I don't want to sound pedantic but:
"when you see someone answered all...

Dorian Gray is right!
Hans Kloss is right!
Now for the other questions to be answered!

That was scary...Anyway

1) What social campaign was launched by Mao Zedong in 1957 which "backfired" completely (whether he desired it or not)?

2) What aerial maneuver is named after a WWI ace...

1. Several Indian soldiers refused to use the rifles the British gave them and so were locked up?

2. Have no idea...Ivan the Terrible?

3. Founder of Singapore from Britain

4. Dutch

Perkele should go. He hasn't had a turn yet.:thumbsup2

1) I have no idea...
2) Mohenjo-daro???
3)Uppsala (Gamla Uppsala)
4) Sucre in the Battle of Ayacucho

Ok Cato WINS!
It in fact took only 2 years.

Yay! U got it but the last one...that's a bit hard....I'll give it one more day if noone gets it u'll win...

I should be more specific in Qu 1) 1950's-1960's part I meant during the Great Leap Forward

for qu3) I mean overall not just at the start...I'm still not sure whether Cedar Mountain is as...

1) hmm...I sorta meant Tiananmen Square itself...
2) Correct
3) Don't think so
4) Correct
5) incorrect

Okley dokley!

1) How long did the 1950-60's parts of Tiananmen Square take to be built under Chairman Mao?

2) When was Ovid's (Publius Ovidus Naso) brother born?

3) What was the only major...

1. princeps

2. rector provinciae

3. To restrain the power of the state. If unbound, it was a sign that the state was approaching its limit for restrainment. Also they showed whether the...

1. Royal
2. Either the Dublin University Football Club or Cambridge University Football club. Then and again the most "official" would be the Sheffield FOotball club...
3. Essendon

1. I have no idea...Im guessing probably died of accidental poisoning or tired from the work on the farm being the embodiement of Roman virtue.
2. Mace Windu crushed his lungs when he abducted...

Ouch that was quick.

1. yes
2. yes
3. yes
4. I'll give it to you I was thinking maris Euxini but that will do.
5. sorta....I wasnt thinking of Hesperia and it isnt used by Ovid nor Virgil but Ill give it to you. Yes....

1. yes
2. yes
3. yes
4. That's Greek methinks. But its very close.
5. no. Hint: Virgil and Ovid use it.

1. no
2. yes
3. yes
4. I meant Latin translation sorry. No.
5. Haven't heard of that...I'll say no. But I will give a hint: OVID.

1. Who was the first head of state to be killed by a pistol shot? (easy)

2. Who was the highest sniper scorer in Stalingrad? (hint: most famous does not equal best) NB. A code name or nickname...

1. Countess de Markievicz (in Britain) OR Agnes Campbell Macphail (in Canada but slightly later...1890s)

2. Rodrigo Lopez

3. Only massacre where Europeans were punished for the slaughter and...

argh...u managed to get to it before me....

1.Flavius Iulius Valens

2. Crimean war

3.Thomas Wentworth Higginson of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers

4.Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats.

edited.....after Blackadder.

Oh god this is hard......I'm going to take a serious long shot...

Is it something to do with the Second Boer War where the "three men" would be the British Empire, the Orange Free State and South...

Good on you! :thumbsup2 Your turn!

1. What was King Baldwin IV famous for being?

2. Who was the Anglican parson who predicted that population would outrun food supply thus leading to hunger and poverty? He went on to say how this...

Argh I got 2/3 and I'm studying the American Civil War at school was well! Is it my turn?

1. Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

2. James K. Polk. Known for supporting and influencing the "Manifest Destiny" by expanding into the west. This lead to him leading the successful American-Mexican War.
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