History quiz

[InsaneApache]

No.

OK then another clue.

He was British. He worked for various firms in the 30s, 40s and 50s. These include the Hawker Aircraft Company, Hawker Siddeley and the British Aircraft Corporation. He was knighted in 1953. He died in 1966.

[Samofrome]

Beachey?

[KukriKhan]

Sir Sydney Camm.

[KukriKhan]

I'm 90% sure of my answer, so I pose one:

Who am I? I was a member of the Continental Congress as well as the Pennsylvania Assembly, the Stamp Act Congress, and later the Constitutional Congress and the Delaware Constitutional Congess. Even so, I did not sign the Declaration of Independence because I was very opposed to American Independence, and hoped for reconciliation with the UK.

[G. Septimus]

I'm 90% sure of my answer, so I pose one:

Who am I? I was a member of the Continental Congress as well as the Pennsylvania Assembly, the Stamp Act Congress, and later the Constitutional Congress and the Delaware Constitutional Congess. Even so, I did not sign the Declaration of Independence because I was very opposed to American Independence, and hoped for reconciliation with the UK.

Edmund Burke??????

[InsaneApache]

Sir Sydney Camm.

I was amazed when I first discovered that the bloke who designed the Hurricane also designed the Harrier jump jet. Outstanding.

[KukriKhan]

Edmund Burke??????

No, but I have to grant at least half-credit for that answer, since both Burke and my guy argued from their respective seats (Burke in Parliament, Mr X from the Continental Congress) AGAINST war between the UK and her colonies, and FOR reconciliation, based on what both saw as the fundamental "English-ness" of the 13 colonies.

Good answer, but incorrect.

I was amazed when I first discovered that the bloke who designed the Hurricane also designed the Harrier jump jet. Outstanding.

Finding and researching Sir Sydney was quite a challenge, and in the process, I learned more about early aviation than I ever knew. Thanks for that.

[Strike For The South]

John Dickinson

[KukriKhan]

John Dickinson

Ko-rec-ta-mun-do, cowboy. Dickinson did do his duty, serving in militias despite his loyalist views.

Your turn.

[Strike For The South]

I dropped out of West Point.
I was Commisonied as a Colonel
2 Counties in the south are named after me
I was massacered with my men

[Prussian to the Iron]

George Armstrong Custer?

EDIT: Just looked him up on Wikipedia (after I answered); he seems to qualify: graduated from westpoint, was a lieutenant (omg....i spelled that right on the first try!!!) colonel at his death, and lost al his men at little bighorn. and i'm sure there are some counties named after him.

[Strike For The South]

George Armstrong Custer?

EDIT: Just looked him up on Wikipedia (after I answered); he seems to qualify: graduated from westpoint, was a lieutenant (omg....i spelled that right on the first try!!!) colonel at his death, and lost al his men at little bighorn. and i'm sure there are some counties named after him.

Nope

[Prussian to the Iron]

oh man! and here I was smugly thinking I would get some sort of jumbled response back like:

"Bu..how did you....uuh.....PI..your.....turn... *checks computer for viruses that have to do with "Prussian"*"

:P

[Prussian to the Iron]

oh hey, did you know that James Fannin is that guy that answers your question?

[Strike For The South]

oh hey, did you know that James Fannin is that guy that answers your question?

Colonel James Fannin

Your turn PI

[Prussian to the Iron]

:D

In this battle, Marie Pierre Koenig successfully delayed the enemy invasion of Libya for 16 days before retreating, inflicting heavy casualties on the invaders.


Name the battle, the war, the enemy forces, and the enemy commander.

[Samofrome]

Battle of Bir Hakeim, WW2, axis, General Erwin Rommel.
please

[Prussian to the Iron]

yep. your turn samofrome.

[Samofrome]

Where did the wings of a spitfire come from( the curved shape) and how many times did it win a race?

[InsaneApache]

seagull.

[Samofrome]

no, it came from a plane.

[G. Septimus]

no, it came from a plane.

P-40 Warhawk????(Their Wings look familliar)

[Samofrome]

could be, but not really what I had in mind,
this plane won the Schneider Trophy in 1934

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

The Supermarine S.6B? But I don't think that won in 1934.

[Samofrome]

well done, there was two, and you got one
your turn.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

During the Battle of Berlin, two Soviets burst into this German general's headquarters and killed four of his staff. He proceeded to kill one with a pistol and the other with a knife. Who was he?

[Prussian to the Iron]

jesus.....that guy must've been a badass............

uhh.......

it's not Himmler is it?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Nope. To my recollection, he was not a Nazi.

[Prussian to the Iron]

a WWII german general...who isn't nazi? that's.......hmm.....

[A Very Super Market]

Himmler wasn't really a general anyways.

Now, of all people you would assume to be nazis, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb would be top of the list. The guy was apparently an ardent critic of it.

As for my answer, it would be Hasso von Manteuffel.

If it's accepted, anyone else can go in my place.