please empty your brain below
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Just one answer each, please.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.01.14 - 2:00 p.m. | #
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i) Mandela, imprisoned on Robben Island
geofftech | Homepage | 01.01.14 - 2:04 p.m. | #
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A - Kegworth plane crash
Whiff | 01.01.14 - 2:08 p.m. | #
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N: Panama Canal
Happy Harry (in the UK) | 01.01.14 - 2:30 p.m. | #
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t) Christmas day football match - Hun v Tommies
kissenme | 01.01.14 - 2:33 p.m. | #
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s) Clifton Suspension Bridge was opened
gibbit999 | 01.01.14 - 2:34 p.m. | #
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h) The Battle of Bannockburn.
Boris The Llama | 01.01.14 - 3:14 p.m. | #
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Q: Dylan Thomas.
Andrew M | 01.01.14 - 3:15 p.m. | #
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c) Sky TV began transmission (the satellite was actually launched in December 1988)
Of those not already answered, I think I also know g, j, k, l, o, p, q
timbo | 01.01.14 - 3:18 p.m. | #
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j; The Great War, later known as WW1
amber | 01.01.14 - 3:58 p.m. | #
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A bit of googling, and I think I've worked them all out now - although there are two possible answers for "e" and possibly for "b"
timbo | 01.01.14 - 4:37 p.m. | #
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After not finding a single answer in the centenary crossword:
g) The Eiffel Tower
Joachim | 01.01.14 - 4:38 p.m. | #
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(l) is surely The Wizard of Oz, no?
Andrew | 01.01.14 - 4:46 p.m. | #
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K - Accession of George I
Stephen Bird | 01.01.14 - 5:22 p.m. | #
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P: The Sun newspaper.
John | 01.01.14 - 5:46 p.m. | #
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r: Fall of Berlin Wall
JB_1984 | 01.01.14 - 5:53 p.m. | #
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b) Wisden
Mark | 01.01.14 - 6:02 p.m. | #
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e) Adoph Hitler
Jackal | 01.01.14 - 6:05 p.m. | #
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f) BBC2
Alex | 01.01.14 - 7:28 p.m. | #
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o) World War 2
Jeremy | 01.01.14 - 7:56 p.m. | #
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Come on somebody, please post the answer to "M", the last remaining clue!
Happy Harry (in the UK) | 01.01.14 - 8:54 p.m. | #
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M is easily discoverable via Google (but I went for the one I knew). The difficult one is D, which also remains...
Jeremy | 01.01.14 - 9:04 p.m. | #
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D) earthquake in the NorthWestern USA? ...9.2 ...known as the "Good Friday" earthquake
Ed | 01.01.14 - 10:02 p.m. | #
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d) is the massive Alaskan earthquake of 1964 (with added local tsunami), which I do recall from the time it happened, honest.
Don't recall m), though can be deduced as others have commented. Perhaps it wasn't a big deal on the BBC at the time, from which I fleetingly got the news before getting the bus to school.
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I should type faster!
Gordon | 01.01.14 - 10:12 p.m. | #
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i type real slow but started earlier! ha-ha
Ed | 01.01.14 - 10:16 p.m. | #
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M is the last execution in the UK.
Allen and Evans were hanged for the murder of John West
Geheee | 01.01.14 - 10:32 p.m. | #
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That's the lot, everybody!
a) Kegworth air disaster
b) Wisden Cricket Almanack, 1st edition
c) Sky Television launched
d) Alaska earthquake
e) Adolf Hitler born
f) BBC2 launched
g) Eiffel Tower opened
h) Battle of Bannockburn
i) Nelson Mandela imprisoned
j) World War 1 begins
k) George I comes to the throne
l) Wizard of Oz premiere
m) Last death penalty in the UK
n) Opening of the Panama Canal
o) World War 2 begins
p) Sun newspaper launched
q) Dylan Thomas born
r) Berlin Wall falls
s) Clifton Suspension Bridge opens
t) WW1 Christmas truce
(all questions now clickable)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.01.14 - 10:41 p.m. | #
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@10:11pm
Of course, at the time no-one knew it was the last
timbo | 01.01.14 - 11:28 p.m. | #
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Excellent quiz thanks - fun and educational!
Whiff | 02.01.14 - 2:08 a.m. | #
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On a rather more mundane level, it's also the 125th birthday of the Woolwich Ferry in March. :)
http://thamesfacingeast.com/2012/11/26/woolwich-free-ferry-will-it-remain-free/
mistral | 02.01.14 - 7:25 a.m. | #
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