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The ARMI

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1) The Nuremberg Trials - 1945-1949
2) Halle Berry winning Best Actress Oscar for Monster's Ball - March 2002
3) The Taman Shud Case also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man - 1st December 1948
4) Kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch found - August 2006
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7) The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone or Commandment Rock - discovered in 1933, vandalized in 2006 [which date do you want?]
8) George W Bush being told about the attack on the World Trade Centre - 11th September 2001
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12) Aral Sea is declared the world’s worst ecological disaster of the 20th Century - 19th February 1990
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14) Grace Kelly & Rainier III, Prince of Monaco got married - 18th April 1956
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17) Forest Swastika discovered - 1992
18) Hurricane Andrew - August 1992
19) Ajka alumina sludge spill - 4th October 2010
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22) Largest known colossal squid captured - 22nd February 1997
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24) Robbie Fowler celebrated his goal against Everton by using the white line of the penalty area to simulate snorting a line of cocaine - April 1999
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27) Pulitzer Prize winning photo of starving child in Darfur - March 1993
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29) Dr Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream" speech - 28th August 1963
30) Sharbat Gula (The Afghan Girl) on the cover of National Geographic - June 1985
31) Beslan School Hostage Crisis - September 2004
32) Self Immolation of Thich Quang Duc - 11th June 1963
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34) Piper Alpha Disaster - 6th July 1988
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37) The Munich Massacre - 5th-6th September 1972
38) Margaret Thatcher stands down as PM after failing to get the backing from her own party - November 1990
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40) Hong Kong handover ceremony - 30th June 1997
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45) Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami - 11th March 2011
46) Josef Fritzl is arrested for imprisoning/abusing his daughter for 24 years - April 2008
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48) Goran Ivanišević wins Wimbledon - July 2001
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50) Omayra Sánchez died after being pinned beneath the debris of her home in Colombia which had been destroyed by a mudslide caused by the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz. - November 1985

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MTV's Jusy and the Happy Turtles

15/50

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2. Halle Berry wins Oscar (first African-American to win the Academy Award for Best Actress), March 2004
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8. (President at the time) Bush being told of the 9/11 attacks, September 2001
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14. Grace Kelly marrying Prince Rainier of Monaco, April 1956
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17. German authorities chopped down dozens of russet-colored larch trees that had been planted to form a giant swastika, planted 1938, news story Jan 2013
18. Hurricane Katrina, 2005
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22. Bottlenose Whale swimming in the Thames, Jan 2006
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24. Robbie Fowler line-sniffing (to simulate snorting cocaine) that earned him a four match ban after being falsely accused of drug taking by fans, April 1999
25. ChristChurch earthquake, Feb 2011
26. Mirny Diamond Mine, Siberia, June 1955
27. Famine of ethiopia 1983.1985
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29. Martin Luther King Jr., "I have a dream" speech, August 1963
30. Malala Yousafzai shot in head, Oct 2012
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32. Thich Quang Duc self immolation, June 1963
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34. Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, July 1988
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37. Munich Olympics massacre, September 1972
38. Thatcher resigns, November 1990
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40. Olympic hand over
41. Dunblane Massacre, March 1996
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44. Giant Sinkhole in Guatamala, May 2010
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46. josef fritzl's basement, Fritzl case. March 2009
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48. goran ivanisevic wimbledon win July, 2001
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The Untouchables

12/50

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2.Halle Berry receiving Oscar 2002
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6 Refugees leaving Syria 2013?
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8 George Bush receiving the news about 9/11
9 Amanda Knox leaves Prison 2011
10Slobodan Milošević charged with War Crimes 1999
11 Myra Hindley died 15th November 2002
12 Boats found in a dessert off the Aral 26TH FEB 2012
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24 Robbie Fowler April 6 1999 earns 4 match ban with goal celebration in front of Everton fans.
25 Tsunami in Thailand 26th December 2004
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27 Famine in East Africa due to drought July 2011
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29 Martin Luther King I have a Dream Speech August 28 1963
30 Malala Yousufzai shot by the Taliban 9th October 2012
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33Julian Assange Wiki Leaks April 2010
34 Piper Alpha fire July 6th 1988
35 Besse Cooper dies aged 116 4th dec 2012
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38 Margaret Thatcher, when leaving Downing Street in London on Wednesday 28th November 1990.
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40 Hong Kong being returned to the Chinese in 1st July 1997
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46 Joseph Fritzl basement 2008
47 King Edward v111 abdication December 1936
48 Goran Ivanišević wins Wimbledon as a wild card in 2001
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[King Gizzard]

[Z]

Jungle Cats

10/50

1. 19 March 2013. Guatemala ex-ruler Rios Montt on trial for genocide
2. March 24 2002 Halle Berry academy award acceptance speech
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6. 20 June 2013 - In the last 24 hours an estimated 10,000 children and their families have fled Syria into Jordan. As fighting intensified in Southern Syria almost 20,000 refugees arrived at the border. Nearly 3,500 people made it to Jordan’s Zaatari camp last night.In the last 24 hours an estimated 10,000 children and their families have fled Syria into Jordan. As fighting intensified in Southern Syria almost 20,000 refugees arrived at the border. Nearly 3,500 people made it to Jordan’s Zaatari camp last night.
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8. George Bush told of 9/11 when visiting a primary school - September 11 2001
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17. Jan 10, 2013. BBC News - Australia battles scores of bushfires
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19. 26 November 2012. Floods in UK: More than 800 homes flooded as storms hit
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21. January 29, 2013. Wildfires tear through South Africa's scenic wine region
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24. Robbie Fowler goal celebration pretending to sniff Cocaine in 1999, gets 50k fine
25. Feb 25, 2010 . Deadly Tsunami swarm hit Haiti after earthquake
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27. September 19, 2012. Drought Worsens Famine in Ethiopia
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29. On 28 August, 1963, Martin Luther King delivered his magnificent "I have a dream speech" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
30. Picture is taken of "Afghan Girl" for National Geographical Magazine June 1985.
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32. Thich Quang Duc sets himself on fire in protest against the persecution of Buddhists, 11 June 1963
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34. November 16, 2012. Oil platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico
35. December 4 2012. Besse Couper, the Guinness World oldest person, dies in Georgia, USA on tuesday afternoon.
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37. 8. 9/11. Munich Olympics terrorist attack
38. Thatcher leaves number 10 last time- 28 November 1990
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42. 15 April 1989 – 4 June 1989. Tiananmen Square protests
43. March 16, 2011, cat survived earthquake and reunited with family
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46. The Joseph Fritzl case emerged in April 2008 when a 42-year-old woman, Elisabeth Fritzl (born April 6, 1966), told police in the town of Amstetten, Austria, that she had been held captive for 24 years in a concealed corridor part of the basement area of the large family house by her father, Josef Fritzl (born April 9, 1935), and that Fritzl had physically assaulted, sexually abused, and raped her
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50. Omayra Sánchez is trapped in the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz, Novemebr 1985

[MTVN]

That number 6 must be the most detailed answer ever to be wrong

[Smithy]

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by MTVN

That number 6 must be the most detailed answer ever to be wrong

Yes!

[Z]

Americanos

34/50

1. Nuremberg trials: November 20, 1945 - October 1, 1946
2. Halle Berry Becomes 1st Black Woman To Win Best Actress Oscar: 25th March 2002
3. The Taman Shud Case (an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 a.m., 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach in Adelaide, South Australia)
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5. Sirhan Sirhan arrested for the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy: 6th June 1968
6. Kosovar refugees, 1999 on the march: An ethnic Albanian woman feeds her baby as she and 2,000 more Kosovo refugees walk along a muddy track after they were allowed to enter Macedonia on March 30. The refugees were fleeing one of a series of violent ethnic conflicts fought in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s and 2001.
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8. President Bush being informed of the terrorist attack on 9/11/2001
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10. The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic: September 26, 2002
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12. Rusting boats and ships in the Great Ok Kum Desert (once the Aral Sea) caused by the Soviets diverting that rivers that fed it in the 1960s
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14. Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier: April 19,1956
15. Pablo Picasso Drawing a Centaur in the Air with a Flashlight at Madoura Pottery
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17. Forest swastika!!! pine forest near Zernikow, Uckermark district, Brandenburg, in northeastern Germany Planted in 1937, noticed in 1992 and Aerial photograph taken on November 14, 2000 to show the symbol was still there after attempts to get rid of it.
18. Hurricane Katrina: August 23, 2005 – August 30, 2005
19. January 2013 Eastern Australia floods
20. Norway's island shooting 22 July 2011
21. 2010 Haiti earthquake, 12 January
22. Researchers hook an adult male colossal squid in the Ross Sea near Antarctica in 2007
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24. Robbie Fowler snorts a line, a goal celebration of him mimicking taking drugs 4/3/1999
25. May 22, 2013 Oklahoma tornado
26. Mirny Diamond Mine, Siberia, discovered in 1955 and developed from 1967
27. 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia
28. The body of Nicolae Ceaușescu a romanian dictator, killed 25 December 1989
29. "The Great March on Washington" Martin Luther King, Jr. Leads the March for jobs & freedom: August 28, 1963
30. Sharbat Gula also known as Afghan Girl who appeared on the front of NG in June 1985
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32. Quang Duc during his self-immolation; Cambodian embassy in Saigon: 10 June 1963
33. Polish hostage Piotr Stanczak, shortly before he was beheaded by Taliban savages, he died 7 February 2009
34. Piper Alpha oil rig on fire, 120 miles off the coast of Scotland: 6 July 1998.
35. Jeanne Calment, believed to be the world's oldest person, died in 1997 at the age of 122 in Arles, France
36. Benezir Bhuttos assassination in Pakistan 27 December 2007
37. The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics: 5–6 September 1972
38. Thather leaving number 10 Downing Street for the last time: 27 November 1990
39. Francesca Anobile, who died after she crashed through a barbed wire fence on a makeshift metal sledge in Rotherham: 3 Feb 2009
40. Hand-over ceremony, Hong Kong, a British Crown Colony, was handed over to China as a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China: July 1, 1997
41. The Dunblane school massacre occurred at Dunblane Primary School on 13 March 1996
42. January 28, 2011 Egyptian Riots
43. Tasmanian Tiger, or Thylacine, photographed in cage with chicken in 1921.
44. A giant sinkhole caused by the rains of Tropical Storm Agatha is seen in Guatemala City May 31 2010
45. A tsunami wave crashes over a street in Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture, in northeastern Japan: March 11 2011
46. Part of the dungeon where Josef Fritzl kept his secret family, The Fritzl case emerged in April 2008 when a 42-year-old woman, Elisabeth Fritzl, told police in the town of Amstetten, Austria
47. europe’s reigning monarchs at the funeral of King Edward VII 20 may 1910: one of the last great gatherings before the great war
48. 9th Jul 2001: Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia wins Wimbledon
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50. Tragedy of Omayra Sanchez rapped in mud and collapsed buildings. The eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia 1985 triggered a massive mudslide. It devastated towns and killed 25,000 people. After 3 days of struggling, Omayra died due to hypothermia and gangrene : November 16, 1985

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Callidus

34/50

1. Nuremburg Trials 1945-46. Judges from the Allied powers - Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States - presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals.
2. Halle Berry first black woman to win Best Actress Oscar - 2002 academy awards for Monster's Ball
3. The Taman Shud Case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 a.m., 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach in Adelaide, South Australia
4. Natascha Kampusch held captive by Wolfgang Priklopil in Vienna for eight years 1998-2006
5. Robert Kennedy's assassin Sirhan B. Sirhan gets a hearing before a California Board of Parole. Sirhan, 66, is serving a life sentence and has failed to win parole on 13 other occasions since his conviction for shooting and killing Kennedy on the night that the brother of slain President John F. Kennedy won California's Democratic presidential primary.
6. On the evening of March 24, 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) began bombing the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. As Serbian police and Yugoslav Army forces continued brutal attacks on civilians, more than 800,000 ethnic Albanian refugees poured out of Kosovo, mostly into Albania and Macedonia. Exhausted and traumatized, they carried what few belongings they could grab before fleeing or being expelled. They also brought eyewitness accounts of atrocities committed against ethnic Albanian civilians inside Kosovo by Yugoslav soldiers, Serbian police, and paramilitaries
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8. George W Bush was at Booker Elementary School, being told about 911, Florida 9/11
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10. Slobodan Milosevic was arrested 31 March 2001 on suspicion of corruption, abuse of power, and embezzlement. The trial failed owing to lack of evidence. He was sent to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to stand trial for charges of war crimes instead. The trial lasted five years and ended without a verdict when he died in his prison cell in The Hague on 11 March 2006
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12. Abandoned ships resting on the seabed of the Aral Sea, evaporated as a consequence of a Soviet water diversion project in the 1960s on the arid plains of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
13. Cambodian Khmer Rouge Killing Fields
14. Wedding of Hollywood star Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monoco. The 40-minute civil ceremony took place in the Palace Throne Room of Monaco on April 18, 1956, and was broadcast across Europe
15. Pablo Picasso creates drawings with a light pen during a visit by for LIFE magazine’s Gjon Mili, an innovator in light-art, in the South of France in 1949. This picture represents a Centaur
16. Crowds gather to watch Apollo 11. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC
17.In 1992, the reunified German government ordered aerial surveys of all state-owned land. The photographs were examined by forestry students, who immediately noticed the design. It's thought the trees, larches planted amonst pines, were originally planted in the 1930s
18. 24th August 1992 Hurricane Andrew devestated areas of Florida and Louisiana. It was at the time the costliest hurricane ever to strike the USA... later surpassed by Hurricane Katrina.
19.Hurricane Katrina floods homes in the USA - August 23, 2005
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22. The heaviest squid ever caught was an adult male colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) weighing approximately 450 kg (990 lb) and measuring 10 m (33ft) long; it was caught by fishermen in the Ross Sea of Antarctica, and taken to New Zealand for research, where the catch was announced on 22 February 2007.
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24. Robbie Fowler cocaine celebration 1999
25. A tornado? Oklahoma?
26. Mirny diamond mine opened 1957 closed 2004
27. Kevin Carter's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a child in the Sudan famine March 1993.
28. Romanian dictator Chauchesku shot on Christmas Day 1989
29. Martin Luther King I have dream Speech/Million man March 1963
30. Sharbat Gula Afghan refugee (during the Russia's invasion) June 1985 (National Geographic Cover)
31. Beslan hostage crisis 1-3 September 2004
32. Saigon – 1963: A Buddhist monk burns himself to death in protest against the Ngo Dinh Diem regime
33. Polish hostage Piotr Stanczak, kidnapped and murdered by Pakistani Taliban, 2008
34. Piper Alpha oil rig fire July 6, 1988
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36.Dec 28, 2007 Tens of thousands of people have attended the funeral of assassinated Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto. Mourners converged on the family mausoleum where she was buried next to her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto near their home village in Sindh province
37. Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes by Black September terrorists 5th September 1972
38. Thatcher left Downing Street 28th November, 1990
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40. British handover of Hong Kong to China, 30th June, 1997
41. Dunblane massacre 13 March 1996
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43. Australian baby girl Azaria Chamberlain allegedly killed by a dingo on the night of 17 August 1980
44. Sinkhole in Guatemala City, February 2007 - After rumbling for weeks, part of a poor Guatemala City neighborhood plummeted some 30 stories into the Earth on Friday. The reportedly 330-foot-deep (100-meter-deep) sinkhole swallowed about a dozen homes and was blamed in the deaths of three people
45. A tsunami wave crashes over a street in Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture, in north eastern Japan on March 11 2011
46. Josef Fritzl’s cellar, Josef Fritzel was arrested 26 April, 2006
47. Edward VII’s funeral in 1910. The nine monarchs who attended the funeral, photographed at Windsor Castle on 20 May 1910. Standing, from left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, King Manuel II of Portugal, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, King George I of Greece and King Albert I of Belgium. Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King George V of Britain and King Frederick VIII of Denmark. But they were just the pinnacle of the royal gathering
48. Goran ivanisevic winning wimbledon in 2001
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50.Hurricane Dennis - 4-13 July 2005 - hits Haiti

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So at the end of our penultimate round, the scores are as follows:

1st Callidus 255
2nd ARMI 211
3rd Americanos 201
4th MTV's Jusy and the Happy Turtles 169
5th Untouchables 149
6th Helen's Hoodrats 114
7th= B.R.O. 109
7th= Jungle Cats 109
9th Catfish Investigation 81
10th Weavologist Collective 79

[Z]

Originally Posted by Zee

Round 8 - General Knowledge

This round will remain open until Thursday 6pm, and is the final round of this pub quiz! The round is split up into 5 sections, with instructions as follows:

1-10: identify the animals by name
11-20: identify the video game character and the franchise they are from (you don't have to be specific, e.g. you could say Master Chief is from the Halo franchise and not name a specific game, if he were one of the answers)
21-30: identify the television program
31-40: identify the sport
41-50: identify the country by its outline, none of them are displayed as they would be on a map but all of them are countries connected to mainland, so none of them are island nations, to give you a helping hand!

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Quoting Round 8 for a new page, originally posted before Round 7 results on previous page. Open until Thursday 6pm.

[Shaun]

well done Callidus (might as well say it now LOL)

[Ryan57]

Called ourselves The Untouchables and we're 'effin fifth. That name was a jinx. We'd of sailed it with something like, Ryan57 and his team of boffins.

[Jessica.]

I was sure we had more than 11?

[Z]

Reminder that the final round closes today at 6pm!

[Smithy]

we've kinda given up, we came third and thats good enough for us

[Shaun]

*hopes Callidus forgot to submit and greg's suddenly become really picky with teams submitting their answers*

[lily.]

haha.. 2nd place isn't too shabby..

-assumes we'll still get that-

[Z]

I am here but my laptop isn't playing ball and won't connect to my home network... bear with me

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Smithy

we've kinda given up, we came third and thats good enough for us

hopes Zee instigates a twist and hands out 50 bonus points for completing all 8 rounds...

[Vanessa]

It's too hot !

[Z]

I'll post team answers first before I post the full list of answers because I like tension and it's the last round~

[Z]

10th - Weavologist Collective: Armed & Reloaded - 79 points
Salman, Saph, Jordan, Apple202, *Kate*

[Z]

9th - The Catfish Investigation Team - 81 points
Locke, Black Dagger, Drew, Novo, zotler