The Queen of England quiz

[Dukasaur]

Use your words, BS.

I think his words are BS.

[Symmetry]

Use your words, BS.

I think his words are BS.

I suspect we're on the same page.

[WingCmdr Ginkapo]

That is interesting. I'd have thought she'd be Duchess. Side quiz, which ruler of England lived the longest before QE2?

My answer wasw George III. The actual answer is a bit of a surprise

[mrswdk]

She's also the head of state officially in the Channel Islands (Jersey/Guernsey/Alderney etc) - but not as Queen, as Duke of Normandy. Irrelevant I know, but I think a fun fact.

That is interesting. I'd have thought she'd be Duchess. Side quiz, which ruler of England lived the longest before QE2?

Julius Caesar.

Nope, but you have the right idea in thinking outside the box. Much more recent though.

Bush?

[Symmetry]

She's also the head of state officially in the Channel Islands (Jersey/Guernsey/Alderney etc) - but not as Queen, as Duke of Normandy. Irrelevant I know, but I think a fun fact.

That is interesting. I'd have thought she'd be Duchess. Side quiz, which ruler of England lived the longest before QE2?

Julius Caesar.

Nope, but you have the right idea in thinking outside the box. Much more recent though.

Bush?

Nope, more obscure. Richard Cromwell. Died aged 85.

[saxitoxin]

She's also the head of state officially in the Channel Islands (Jersey/Guernsey/Alderney etc) - but not as Queen, as Duke of Normandy. Irrelevant I know, but I think a fun fact.

That is interesting. I'd have thought she'd be Duchess. Side quiz, which ruler of England lived the longest before QE2?

Julius Caesar.

Nope, but you have the right idea in thinking outside the box. Much more recent though.

Bush?

Nope, more obscure. Richard Cromwell. Died aged 85.

Interesting.

Speaking of Cromwells, fun fact - the first ship of the Connecticut Navy was the Man-of-War CS Oliver Cromwell but she was eventually captured by the Royal Navy and cheekily renamed HMS Restoration.

http://www.langeonline.com/Heritage/Mar ... tm#keppel1

[tzor]

Nope, more obscure. Richard Cromwell. Died aged 85.

Oh (smacks head) "ruler of England." Wasn't thinking of the despots who commandeered the nation.

[Symmetry]

Nope, more obscure. Richard Cromwell. Died aged 85.

Oh (smacks head) "ruler of England." Wasn't thinking of the despots who commandeered the nation.

As opposed to the other rulers?

[jonesthecurl]

Yes, the Romans, Danes, Normans, etc didn't do any commandeering at all of course.

[Symmetry]

The love/hate British affair with the Cromwells is pretty fascinating to me. Richard Cromwell is almost forgotten from history.

[WingCmdr Ginkapo]

The love/hate British affair with the Cromwells is pretty fascinating to me. Richard Cromwell is almost forgotten from history.

Who loves Cromwell? Not sure why we get obsessive about him in particular, but i dont see the love for the man who banned christmas.

[Symmetry]

The love/hate British affair with the Cromwells is pretty fascinating to me. Richard Cromwell is almost forgotten from history.

Who loves Cromwell? Not sure why we get obsessive about him in particular, but i dont see the love for the man who banned christmas.

He didn't ban Christmas. That was Parliament. Rookie mistake.

[tzor]

As opposed to the other rulers?

Anointed by God (or in Arthur's case the Lady of the Lake) for their duty.

[Symmetry]

As opposed to the other rulers?

Anointed by God (or in Arthur's case the Lady of the Lake) for their duty.

Divine Right is more James I, but you're partly in the right century at least.

I'm not sure that the Lady of the Lake anointed Arthur in the story, will have to re-read my Mallory.

[PLAYER57832]

She's also the head of state officially in the Channel Islands (Jersey/Guernsey/Alderney etc) - but not as Queen, as Duke of Normandy. Irrelevant I know, but I think a fun fact.

lol-- it is fun, though when you say "Channel Islands", my first thought is a different location -- other ocean, south of the Bay Area.

Yes, the Romans, Danes, Normans, etc didn't do any commandeering at all of course.

Careful there.... the Danes have the longest running monarchy.. and have a significantly smaller nation than England. Might be some dispute over who commandeered whom.

but not a serious dispute

[Symmetry]

She's also the head of state officially in the Channel Islands (Jersey/Guernsey/Alderney etc) - but not as Queen, as Duke of Normandy. Irrelevant I know, but I think a fun fact.

lol-- it is fun, though when you say "Channel Islands", my first thought is a different location -- other ocean, south of the Bay Area.

Yes, the Romans, Danes, Normans, etc didn't do any commandeering at all of course.

Careful there.... the Danes have the longest running monarchy.. and have a significantly smaller nation than England. Might be some dispute over who commandeered whom.

but not a serious dispute

Older than the Japanese monarchy?

[tzor]

I'm not sure that the Lady of the Lake anointed Arthur in the story, will have to re-read my Mallory.

No he didn't. The actual linking of the King of England with the anointed Kings of Israel (like King Solomon) isn't made until around A.D. 973 with the coronation of King Edgar at Bath Abbey. The Lady only handed Arthur a sword.

Edgar was crowned at Bath and anointed with his wife Ælfthryth, setting a precedent for a coronation of a queen in England itself. Edgar's coronation did not happen until 973, in an imperial ceremony planned not as the initiation, but as the culmination of his reign (a move that must have taken a great deal of preliminary diplomacy). This service, devised by Dunstan himself and celebrated with a poem in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, forms the basis of the present-day British coronation ceremony.

[Symmetry]

I'm not sure that the Lady of the Lake anointed Arthur in the story, will have to re-read my Mallory.

No he didn't. The actual linking of the King of England with the anointed Kings of Israel (like King Solomon) isn't made until around A.D. 973 with the coronation of King Edgar at Bath Abbey. The Lady only handed Arthur a sword.

Edgar was crowned at Bath and anointed with his wife Ælfthryth, setting a precedent for a coronation of a queen in England itself. Edgar's coronation did not happen until 973, in an imperial ceremony planned not as the initiation, but as the culmination of his reign (a move that must have taken a great deal of preliminary diplomacy). This service, devised by Dunstan himself and celebrated with a poem in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, forms the basis of the present-day British coronation ceremony.

I was pretty sure that wasn't the case. Wasn't sure if the "Rex quondam rexque futurus" bit was from the Lady of the Lake in the myth.

[PLAYER57832]

Yes, the Romans, Danes, Normans, etc didn't do any commandeering at all of course.

Careful there.... the Danes have the longest running monarchy.. and have a significantly smaller nation than England. Might be some dispute over who commandeered whom.

but not a serious dispute

Older than the Japanese monarchy?

IDK...
The longest continuous line of monarchs is what I have been taught, since 1100 AD, beginning with Gorm the Old. I think the key is "continuous line". Also supposed to have the oldest flag.

Also, did you post the answers yet? I did not see it, but that might be "old age" ???

[Symmetry]

She's not the queen of Bolivia, the Vatican, or all English swans

[PLAYER57832]

She's not the queen of Bolivia, the Vatican, or all English swans

Got it mostly correct, but I thought that all swans were technically royal holdings? (or am I thinking of something else...?)

[Symmetry]

She's not the queen of Bolivia, the Vatican, or all English swans

Got it mostly correct, but I thought that all swans were technically royal holdings? (or am I thinking of something else...?)

Has to be an unmarked mute swan in open water to belong to the Queen. We have some strange laws.

[jonesthecurl]

I'm not sure that the Lady of the Lake anointed Arthur in the story, will have to re-read my Mallory.

No he didn't. The actual linking of the King of England with the anointed Kings of Israel (like King Solomon) isn't made until around A.D. 973 with the coronation of King Edgar at Bath Abbey. The Lady only handed Arthur a sword.

Edgar was crowned at Bath and anointed with his wife Ælfthryth, setting a precedent for a coronation of a queen in England itself. Edgar's coronation did not happen until 973, in an imperial ceremony planned not as the initiation, but as the culmination of his reign (a move that must have taken a great deal of preliminary diplomacy). This service, devised by Dunstan himself and celebrated with a poem in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, forms the basis of the present-day British coronation ceremony.

I was pretty sure that wasn't the case. Wasn't sure if the "Rex quondam rexque futurus" bit was from the Lady of the Lake in the myth.

All the Lady in the Lake did was to hand him Excalibur (and its magical scabbard). He was already King at that point, having drawn the other sword from the stone.

[Dukasaur]

I'm not sure that the Lady of the Lake anointed Arthur in the story, will have to re-read my Mallory.

No he didn't. The actual linking of the King of England with the anointed Kings of Israel (like King Solomon) isn't made until around A.D. 973 with the coronation of King Edgar at Bath Abbey. The Lady only handed Arthur a sword.

Edgar was crowned at Bath and anointed with his wife Ælfthryth, setting a precedent for a coronation of a queen in England itself. Edgar's coronation did not happen until 973, in an imperial ceremony planned not as the initiation, but as the culmination of his reign (a move that must have taken a great deal of preliminary diplomacy). This service, devised by Dunstan himself and celebrated with a poem in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, forms the basis of the present-day British coronation ceremony.

I was pretty sure that wasn't the case. Wasn't sure if the "Rex quondam rexque futurus" bit was from the Lady of the Lake in the myth.

All the Lady in the Lake did was to hand him Excalibur (and its magical scabbard). He was already King at that point, having drawn the other sword from the stone.

DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords
is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power
derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical
aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power
just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just
because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd
put me away!