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shagbark Started conversation Jan 4, 2012
I set the first QI question in 2007 and I decided to do the same for 2012. (Lets hope they don't guess the answer on post#3 like they did that year)
No search engines, and three Klaxons.
Tell me what happened at Latitude 3 degrees 51 Minutes South, and 171 degrees 40 minutes West Longitude on Friday the 30th day of December 2011.
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Mu Beta Posted Jan 4, 2012
I know this, so I won't give anything away just yet.
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Baron Grim Posted Jan 4, 2012
Someone got a rather nasty sunburn lazin' about on a tropical 
? Wait, no... you said "uncommon". Someone got frostbite lazin' around on a tropical
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toybox Posted Jan 4, 2012
Oh, I probably know as well. Like Mu Beta, I will let the other players simmer a while 
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Baron Grim Posted Jan 4, 2012
I think I know it as well, but I believe your coordinates are 10° too far North.
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shagbark Posted Jan 4, 2012
I got those off Google earth. It is possible I copied them wrong.
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shagbark Posted Jan 4, 2012
OK let's try 13 Degrees South. See if that elicits any response.
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shagbark Posted Jan 4, 2012
Tell me what happened at Latitude 13 degrees 51 Minutes South, and 171 degrees 40 minutes West Longitude on Friday the 30th day of December 2011.
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shagbark Posted Jan 4, 2012
And as extra credit tell me what happened June 8th,1937 at
3 degrees ( not 13 degrees) South and 171 West
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shagbark Posted Jan 4, 2012
Reference post 12 -The one between Thursday and Saturday, the one when I was working 
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shagbark Posted Jan 4, 2012
As I have somewhere to go, I will be suspending this game in five minutes and will return in about two hours time.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jan 4, 2012
I've no idea. 
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted Jan 4, 2012
It is to do with an I believe, and abolishing something?
MMF
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jan 4, 2012
See I was going to go the other way and suggest this something happened over an open stretch of water but quite what that something might be. I am uncertain.
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