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Weekend Trivia - Saturday
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Posted by thinman Z5 MI (My Page) on Sat, Oct 17, 09 at 9:32
| Good morning, dear cottagers and happy weekend to you. Are any of you in the northeast digging out from snow today? Martha? Patti? Leasa? Who am I forgetting? What crazy weather out there.
On to trivia.
I think this one might be tricky, but one of you smarties will probably get it anyway. At the end of the 18th century, one Lt. Henry __________, a British artillery officer, invented a new type of cannon shell that bore his name and was deadly against enemy soldiers. His two-syllable name is still used generically to refer to the products of devices like the one he invented. What was Henry’s last name?
ThinMan |
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RE: Weekend Trivia - Saturday
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| I asked my son, the soldier, and he did give me the run-down on the subject. I had to ask, so I am not telling. Maybe later. Janie |
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| Good morning, no snow here in Hollywood North. I can only think of something like "buckshot" or maybe a similiar thing that sticks into you.M |
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| My thought is "rifle." I know the rifling on a barrel is more commonly thought of with smaller guns, what we now call rifles, but I think the big guns also have rifled barrels. |
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| Well you stumped me but DH knew this one, later. Annette |
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| Hmmm....I think I know this one, and the principle is still killing soldiers. Even in Afghanistan!! I'll lurk till later! Nancy. |
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| agreed Lt. Henry Shrapnel Libby |
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| Yep that's what DH told me, Shrapnel. Annette |
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| Yup, thats what I was getting at, M |
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| ...and his cousin, Henry Rifle... |
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| Yup, Shrapnel!! Something that 'stays' with you. I never knew it was named for someone, though! Nancy. |
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| Wow, you got this one! It must be my excellent clues that did it. :-) So let's see, who gets stars for this? Janie's son and Annette's DH for sure, along with Nancy, Becky, and Libby. Martha? Here they are -  Cynthia - did you know that there actually is a Henry rifle? Benjamin Tyler Henry invented it about fifty years later. Good job all. TM |
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| Too funny, TM! Didn't know that, but will add it to my storehouse of interesting facts which I can use to amaze and mystify my friends and family-can you hear them groaning? |
one more thing...
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| Just to follow up, DH knew all about the Henry rifle and I got a short lecture on its use in the Civil War-knew that history, just not that it was the Henry rifle! Now, why couldn't he have come up with Shrapnel???? |
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| That one stumped me! I thought of Howitzer and then couldn't think of anything else. I wonder if Shrapnel ever regretted his invention's success at hurting people. |
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