Posted by René
on 29/7/2010, 17:16:32, in reply to "Re: A new quiz: tragic events - CORRECTION !!!"
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: Excellent, René! I hadn't expected this to be
: solved so quickly...
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: Congratulations!
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: Everything is correct! If I wanted to be
: really strict, I might point out that no. 5
: was Rajiv Gandhi, not Sanjay Gandhi - but
: then, I had forgotten to assign a number
: (which would have been 5c) to Sanjay Gandhi
: anyway...
:
It took some time to figure out who the royal consort was. (nr 3)
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: I am terribly sorry, but I mixed up A and B
: with the last two of my five persons.
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: Here is the correct version:
:
: This is a slightly different quiz, centered
: around two types of tragic, fatal events -
: let's call them A and B. (So, to make this
: absolutely clear, we are not talking about
: two specific events, but rather two KINDS of
: tragic events, both with fatal results.)
:
: All the five main characters of this quiz
: have this in common: they all had one or
: more family members who fell victim to
: "tragic event type A", and one or
: more other family members who fell victim to
: "tragic event type B".
:
: So here we go:
:
: 1: I am the son of a king, but possibly
: better known for my artistic skills. My
: brother (1a) fell victim to A, while my
: father's first cousin (1b) and my
: great-great-great-great-grandfather (1c)
: both fell victim to B.
:
: 2: I am a Duke. Both my father (2a) and my
: first cousin (2b) fell victim to A, while
: two of my ancestors (one great-grandfather
: (2c) and one great-great-grandfather (2d))
: both fell victim to B.
:
: 3: I am a royal consort. My sister (3a) fell
: victim to A, while my grandfather (3b) and
: my uncle (3c) both fell victim to B.
:
: 4: I am not a royal, but my father was a
: Head of State. (Still, the media sometimes
: refer to my family as "the closest
: thing to royalty" in my country...). My
: father (4a) and one of my uncles (4b) both
: fell victim to B, while my brother (4c),
: another one of my uncles (4d) and one of my
: aunts (4e) all fell victim to A.
:
: 5: I am not royal either, though I founded a
: "dynasty" that was to play a very
: important role in the history of my country,
: and I was my country's first leader after it
: gained independence. My daughter (5a) and my
: grandson (5b) - both of whom also had the
: same position as I had had before them -
: both fell victim to B, while another of my
: grandsons fell victim to A.
:
: So, who are the five main people, who are
: their relatives who all fell victim to
: tragic events of either type A or type B
: (NB: one of them occurs twice in this quiz)
: - and last, but not least, what kind of
: events are A and B?
:
: 1. Prince Sigvard of Sweden
: 1a. Prince Gustav Adolf, Duke of
: Västerbotten
: 1b. Count Folke Bernadotte
: 1c. Gustav III of Sweden
:
: 2. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
: 2a. Prince George, Duke of Kent
: 2b. Prince William of Gloucester
: 2c. George I of the Hellenes
: 2d. Alexander II of Russia
:
: 3. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
: 3a. Cecilia of Hesse and the Rhine, née of
: Greece and Denmark
: 3b. George I of the Hellenes
: 3c. Earl Mountbatten of Burma
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: 4. Caroline Kennedy
: 4a. President John F. Kennedy
: 4b. Senator Robert Kennedy
: 4c. John F. Kennedy jr.
: 4d. Joseph P. Kennedy jr.
: 4e. Kathleen Marchioness of Hartington, née
: Kennedy
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: 5. Jawaharlal Nehru Prime minister of India
: 5a. Indira Gandhi, Prime minister of India
: 5b. Sanjay Gandhi
: 5c. Rajiv Gandhi, Prime minister of India
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: A = plane crashes
: B = assassination
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