The NAME THAT HISTORICAL EVENT game

[ElTigre]

Napoleonic Wars, English vs. French. Looks like a city in southern Europe to me. Spain? Siege of Badajos?

[Saras]

And that dude in the centre is Captain Sharpe

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by ElTigre
Napoleonic Wars, English vs. French. Looks like a city in southern Europe to me. Spain? Siege of Badajos?

And the baton is returned to you!

[ElTigre]

Event and location, please.

[Fake Boris]

The murder of Pythagoras?

[ElTigre]

Close, but no.

[molly bloom]

The murder of Archimedes, siege of Syracuse.

[molly bloom]

Which politician looks asleep on the job ?

(He isn't really- he's dead).

Who killed him, and where ?

[molly bloom]

Tarnation. No it's not the invisible man.

[KrazyHorse]

Wild guess: Ernst vom Rath, killed in Paris in 1938 by a young Jewish German expatriate and providing an excuse for the outrage of Kristallnacht.

[molly bloom]

Very astute guess, but still.....all rang (molly conceals admiration for Krazyhorse's surmise).


Are you sure you're really a physicist ?



I love a man in a uniform...

[ElTigre]

Originally posted by molly bloom

I love a man in a uniform...

Even if it is an Austro-Hungarian WW1 uniform, with a jaunty Edelweiss?

[KrazyHorse]

Engelbert Dolfuss, killed in the Austrian Chancellery by Austrian Nazis in an aborted coup attempt in 1934.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Very astute guess, but still.....all rang (molly conceals admiration for Krazyhorse's surmise).

I've got a surprising ability to identify the age of a photograph based solely on its technical details (resolution, contrast etc). I'm even better with movies (can usually get within 1 year of date).

I was able to narrow it down to a 15 year period from that (1925-1940 was the range I guessed at).

Added to that was the fact that the man's face looked slightly Germanic and that the setting looked European (not American) and you're down to a very few notable assassinations.

[KrazyHorse]

Who's the man on the horse?