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On this Day....28 September
toybox Posted Oct 9, 2010
God save the King was first performed in the cathedral of Canterbury.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Oct 9, 2010
A cathedral is a 
toybox!!
GT
(That's ANY cathedral!)
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Geggs Posted Oct 9, 2010
That's interesting, particularly as when a pope issue an offical papal instruction he is said to be speaking 'ex cathedra' and he must be obey, because popes are never wrong. Apparently.
Geggs
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toybox Posted Oct 9, 2010
I suspected as much 
Well, I had to make up for yesterday's streak of luck.
Anyway, there is another obvious place, but I'll wait for someone else to mention it. (Taff, where are you?)
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Oct 9, 2010
???
God Save The King nowt to do with the Pope, geggs!!
???
GT
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Geggs Posted Oct 9, 2010
Admitted, but one of the other bits revolved around a pope, so a vaguely relavant word for one question within this QI is close to a klaxon for another part.
Some very careful footwork would therefore be required.
Geggs
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Oct 9, 2010
OOOoooooo!
Could be!, Could be!
But then again, it could be a Red Herring!
GT
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Oct 14, 2010
Any more for any more???
GT
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Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Oct 15, 2010
What's left?
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toybox Posted Oct 15, 2010
<---- this is left.
We need: King Wenceslas killed by brother Boleslaw, but what year?
Where and when was 'God save the King' first peformed?
First to qualify?
As what?
Who?
When?
On this Day....28 September
Geggs Posted Oct 20, 2010
May I suggest that the odd clue or two might be prompt responses?
Geggs
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Oct 20, 2010
Clues then.....
God Save the King. 'King' is important, as is the fact that it was first performed (clue!) in the middle of the 18th Century...
First to qualify was a Woman.....
Mid 19th Century.
All had been men until then!
GT
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hygienicdispenser Posted Oct 20, 2010
Did God Save the King start life as a music hall song?
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Oct 20, 2010
Tricky, cpd!!
(My reply, that is!!)
Not a 'music hall song' as such...
But closer to the answer than you think...
+1
GT
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bobstafford Posted Oct 20, 2010
Dr. "James" Barry First English woman to qualify as a doctor (she had to pretend to be a man to qualify)and served as a British army surgeon
Mid 19th Century. qualified in 1812.
The first registered woman doctor in England was Elizabeth Blackwell 1849.
which one do you want
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Oct 20, 2010
Not 'Barry', or 'Blackwell' according to my source....
Elizabeth is correct, so +1
(This woman I do have prior knowledge of. When it came up in print, I said to myself 'I know that one!' Clue? Her middle name is very uncommon as a female name!)
GT
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bobstafford Posted Oct 20, 2010
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson qualified in the USA she was English and the first to be a doctor but not the first to qualify in England
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Oct 20, 2010
Did I ask where she qualified bob????
E.G.A. is correct, +3!
She was Britain's first practicing woman doctor!
GT
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van-smeiter Posted Oct 22, 2010
King Wenceslas was killed by his brother Boleslaw in 929 AD. He was staying with his brother at the time and appears to have been in his early twenties. Family gatherings, eh?
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