The iconic Omaha Beach scene in Saving Private Ryan was filmed in what European country?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 8 Feb 2016
This watch has been stopped since 8:15am on 6 August 1945. It belonged to Kengo Nikawa.
What city did he live in?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 5 February 2016
Taking part in occasional battles during the Crusades, the Order of St Lazarus was associated with knights suffering from what disease?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 18 January 2016
What form of transport did women’s right crusader Susan B Anthony credit with doing more than anything for the emancipation of women?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 11 January 2016
In 1943, 40,000 American and Canadian soldiers invaded Kiska Island in Alaska, which the Japanese had taken earlier in the war. They suffered over 300 casualties.
How many Japanese soldiers were killed in the operation?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 7 January 2016
Reader is a surname based on a medieval occupation.
What did readers do? (Hint: It wasn’t reading. Most readers were illiterate. Another hint: The above picture was chosen for a reason.)
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Interesting Question of the Day – 16 November
The Battle of Dettingen was fought by the British Army in 1743. Who led the British Army into the battle? (It was the very last time this ever happened.)
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Interesting Question of the Day – 11 November 2015
This picture was selected and published in Nazi Germany as “The Most Beautiful Aryan Baby.”
This photo was published just after the start of WWII as The Ideal German Soldier.
What is ironic about both photographs?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 30 October 2015
What killed one man and wounded three others on 21 November 2012 as a ceasefire came into effect in Gaza?
There is a certain degree of irony at work here.
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Interesting Question of the Day – 19 October 2015
Phillip of Macedonia sent a message to Sparta saying “If I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city.”
What was the Spartan response?
(This was not it, at least not in these words.)
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