h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

On this Day, 30 January......

Correct answers.

Sir Everard Digby, Thomas Wintour, Thomas Bates and John Grant were hung, drawn and quartered for their part in the Gunpowder Plot. The crime they were convicted of was 'Conspiracy to Treason' They were executed in 1606.

Adolf Hitler was the Dictator who came to power, in Germany in 1933.

Mahatma Ghandi was the World leader who was assassinated, in 1948.

Big Ben was silenced for the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965.

King Charles I was beheaded for treason in 1649


Those are the facts, marks to follow!!


GT

Here be the marks!!!


Post 2, Taff. Guy Fawkes - wrong! - 5
Post 4, Taff. Adolf Hitler was dictator coming to power - correct +3
Post 5, Taff. Charles I lost his head - correct +3
Post 5, Taff. Charles I's crime was treason - correct +3
Post 7, Bob. Date for Charles I execution was 1649 - correct +3
Post 18, Taff. Four of the Plotters H.D.& Q. - correct +3
Posts 7, 13 and 22 Bob. Info on Oliver Cromwell on this date - +3DGI
Post 26, Bob. Hitler assumes power in 1933 - correct +3
Post 30, Taff. Big Ben silenced for Sir Winston Churchill - correct +3
Post 33, Taff. John F. Kennedy assassination - wrong! -5
Post 36, Bob. Churchill funeral in 1965 - correct +3
Post 44, Bob. Ghandi assassinated - correct +3
Post 46, Bob. Ghandi assassination in 1948 - correct +3
Post 46, Bob. Names of four plotters - +6
Post 51, Bob. Plotters executed in 1606 - correct +3
Post 51, Bob. Crime was treason - close + 1 (Actual charge was conspiracy to treason as no proof of who laid the gunpowder)
Post 52, Taff. Info on the Involvement of the Vatican in Gunpowder plot - +6





Will summarise and post later!!
GT