Wednesday Quiz

[NoMercy]

For all the brainiacs ...

First person to answer correctly takes the next go. No googling.

Q1. Nephrology is the study of what?

[MarkRae]

Kidneys, as in nephritis.

[NoMercy]

Well done, Mark. Your go.

[MarkRae]

What two-word term is commonly used these days for the fifteenth century conflict between Scotland and England whereby Henry VIII declared war in an attempt to force the Scots to agree to a marriage between his son and an infant queen?

[MarkRae]

^^ D'oh! Sixteenth century...

[Flyhalf]

Rough Wooing

[Flyhalf]

Assuming I'm right, I'll take up the mantle.
In similar fashion to Hitler (Der Fuhrer) and Mussolini (il Duce), what name was used for Generalissimo Franco?

[MarkRae]

You are.

And, presumably the answer you're looking for is "Caudillo"...?

[Flyhalf]

You too are right.
I was wondering where you had got to.

[MarkRae]

I keep needing to work, as businesses keep asking me for money every month...

Anyway, concocted by Titus Oates, the fictitious conspiracy known as the 'popish plot' began with the murder of whom on Primrose Hill in October 1678?

[Flyhalf]

I have the answer, but will let someone else have a go.

[plautus]

"...Lord Clarendon moves swiftly on, but naughty Samuel Pepys!"

"...for we know it's right, it's in black and white; for it's all written down in his diary!"

[mazie]

Sir Edward Godfrey ?

[MarkRae]

Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey. Good knowledge without Googling... :-)

[mazie]

nearly but no cigar :o(