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Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby chengdufan

McManusFan wrote:Sean Connery?

There haven't been any Egyptian actors named Sean Connery, as far as I'm aware rofl

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby McManusFan

chengdufan wrote:
McManusFan wrote:Sean Connery?

There haven't been any Egyptian actors named Sean Connery, as far as I'm aware rofl


He isn't Egyptian? Are you telling me they lied to me in The Highlander? You'll be telling me Christopher Lambert isn't Scottish next.

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby chengdufan

McManusFan wrote:
chengdufan wrote:
McManusFan wrote:Sean Connery?

There haven't been any Egyptian actors named Sean Connery, as far as I'm aware rofl


He isn't Egyptian? Are you telling me they lied to me in The Highlander? You'll be telling me Christopher Lambert isn't Scottish next.

<laugh> I'd forgotten all about Highlander to be fair!

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby SnookerEd25

Would that be Omar Sharif? :chin:

I don’t know that he’s Egyptian, but it’s a fair guess

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby SnookerEd25

Who wrote Dr. Zhivago?

(Omar Sharif played the title role in the film, so it’s relevant)

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby HappyCamper

generally considered to have initiated with the bloody sunday massacre, the first russian revolution was precipitated by the russian empire's defeat in which 20th century conflict?

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby HappyCamper

Juddernaut88 wrote:This is tough so we may need some clues please.


how many 20th century conflicts involving russia can you think of?

James Bentley wrote:The Crimean War? No idea if it is but it must have been at around the right time.


good guess. but the crimean war was little earlier in the 19th century ce.

Prop wrote:First World War, wasn’t it? Tsar Nicholas and all that.


bad luck. you're thinking of the october revolution of 1917 which finally toppled the tsar's regime, twelve years after the first revolution started the long process.

Raphael98 wrote:Complete guess, the Russo-Japanese war?


it's a good guess, being correct! fought in 1904-5 between the tsarist russian empire and the meiji japanese.

Re: Never Ending General Knowledge

Postby chengdufan

What's the name of the city in the far east of Russia, near the border with China and North Korea?