The continuous trivia quiz

[Dogwatcher]

Nice answer Bill Bryson

[Dirko]

I'll take this one, those LP guidebooks have paid off

You are on the island of Grand Comore, which is part of the nation Comoros, northwest of Madagascar. Get there by hitching a ride on cargo boats that leave from Mombasa or Zanzibar, which are on their way to Toamisina, Madagascar.

Hooray ! Take it away Quichmeister !

[Q.]

DW, I prefer Ian Wright. Funny Bloke.

Although obsessed with Africa and could easily ask a question about Togolese drum-making, if I don't diverge this quiz might end up with only me and Jabber in it

What is the name of the imperial resistance group based in Chiapas, Mexico, who take their name from the revolutionary Emiliano Zapata?

[Dogwatcher]

Zapatistas?

[Q.]

Full name in english and spanish please.

[Q.]

Just kidding Close enough DW.

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN)

[Dogwatcher]

wow - you're all over this South American stuff aren't you?

Anyway, my question:

Who was the highest decorated US soldier of WW1?

As a bit of added interest, what were the names of his father and his son?

[Squawk]

Sgt Alvin C York

father - William
Grandfather - Uriah
Great Grandfather - John

married Gracie Williams

7 kids - 5 boys and 2 girls, all named after famous people

boys were

Alvin Collum (Junior)
Edward Buxton
Woodrow Wilson
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson

girls were

Betsy Ross
Mary Alice

For the steak knives - the riderless horse at Ronald Reagan's funeral was named Sergeant York. The guy almost single handedly killed about 25 enemies, captured 32 machine guns and 128 prisoners of war, all in one piece of action.

[JAS]

...and, Squawkie, IIRC was portrayed on film by Gary Cooper

regards
JAS

[Squawk]

"IIRC"



and you are right too. Apparently it was a contractual stipulation he had that if his life was to be put through film, Gary Cooper had to represent his character. Lucky it wasn't Alice Cooper - (and not his daughter Mary Alice )

[Dogwatcher]

Great stuff Squawk - but he's not the character I was thinking of.....

[Kahuna]

Audie Murphy then? Sorry can't help with his family tree.

[Squawk]

Great stuff Squawk - but he's not the character I was thinking of.....

Looking forward to the answer then. Could be Audie Murphy but other than him, it must have been a herculean feat to out-do my guy.

All comes down to what is defined as "most decorated", I suppose.

[Dogwatcher]

It's not Audie Murphy.

When I say most decorated, I'm quoting from a book that I recently was reading.

This particular soldier went on to have a distinguished and influential role in WW2.

[Kahuna]

MacArthur?

[Dogwatcher]

He's the one.

Your go....

For interest's sakes Douglas MacArthur's father and son were both named Arthur....

[Kahuna]

To keep the WW2 theme.......what was Operation Mincemeat?

[Squawk]

Operation Mincemeat was a highly successful British deception plan during World War II which convinced the German High Command (OKW) that the Allies would invade the Balkans and Sardinia instead of the island of Sicily, the actual objective. The operation called for making the Germans believe that they had, by accident, intercepted highly classified documents detailing future Allied war plans, and part of Mincemeat's success lay in the unusual nature of the operation: the plans were attached to a corpse deliberately left to wash up on a Spanish beach. The story was subsequently told in a book and later film as The Man Who Never Was.

(Thanks to Wikipedia)

[Kahuna]

OK Squawk,you (and wikipedia) are right.

[GWW]

For interest's sakes Douglas MacArthur's father and son were both named Arthur....

So was the fat kid on Hey Dad