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Tipping Point 16:35 - Sep 28 with 2702 viewsjeera

"In 1066, which king was beaten at the Battle of Hastings?"

"Erm, I should know this, I like history. No, I'll pass."

"Yes, I studied History A Level - It's Edward the Confesser."

*back to first contestant* "Is that what you would have said?"

"Well, no, I think it's Richard."




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Tipping Point on 18:01 - Sep 28 with 894 viewsPJH

Tipping Point on 17:51 - Sep 28 by Keno

there are some funny little quirky bits of history

I'm glad it was appreciated


Yes, a bit like the British, French and Prussians having a punch up at a London railway station.
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Tipping Point on 18:03 - Sep 28 with 891 viewsjeera

Tipping Point on 17:48 - Sep 28 by PJH

Very good-it would be interesting to know how many on here understand that.


Well you would hope pretty much everyone wouldn't you!?

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Tipping Point on 18:04 - Sep 28 with 880 viewsKeno

Tipping Point on 18:01 - Sep 28 by PJH

Yes, a bit like the British, French and Prussians having a punch up at a London railway station.


well if you close the pubs at 10 what do you expect!!

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Tipping Point on 18:05 - Sep 28 with 881 viewsPJH

Tipping Point on 18:03 - Sep 28 by jeera

Well you would hope pretty much everyone wouldn't you!?


I would be very surprised if it was pretty much everyone.

Some will not be old enough to have seen Chopper Harris play so they would have no idea that there was a battle of Stamford Bridge.
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Tipping Point on 18:10 - Sep 28 with 868 viewsKeno

Tipping Point on 18:05 - Sep 28 by PJH

I would be very surprised if it was pretty much everyone.

Some will not be old enough to have seen Chopper Harris play so they would have no idea that there was a battle of Stamford Bridge.


some of may not be that old but do remember a night their involving a certain ********* ****** *********** ****** welsh ***** *********** Clive Thomas

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Tipping Point on 18:29 - Sep 28 with 834 viewsGuthrum

Tipping Point on 17:48 - Sep 28 by PJH

Very good-it would be interesting to know how many on here understand that.


A bit after my time.

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Tipping Point on 19:55 - Sep 28 with 798 viewsBABLUE

Tipping Point on 18:29 - Sep 28 by Guthrum

A bit after my time.




I'll leave it to Nigel Blackwell to pass comment

What possessed you to apply?
Did your friends with good advice implode?
We should hang you up in chains
Let you rot beside the ill-paved road

Born too late for the First World War
The Siege of Troy was long before my time
Naseby, Jutland, Agincourt
Characters perhaps from pantomime

Authors, sport, landlocked states
Capitals of Europe and their size
Breeds of dog, famous dates
Kind of hoping these things don’t arise

I don’t watch films in black and white
Trees and flowers and birds have passed me by
I’ll just guess and hope I’m right
The first man into space was Captain Bligh

Good luck back in work
They’ll’ve heard you were on
Have you got the file for Mr Out In Round One?
Harken, a cuckoo! Or is it a wren?
Don’t ever darken our doorstep again

Truth is beauty, beauty truth
All you know on earth, all you need to know
Superb, succinct
Pity then for you it’s not quite so
Hickstead, Hickstead, Hickstead, Hickstead
Duck Soup, 1933
Words beginning with K-N-O
Words that end in B-H-E-A-D
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Tipping Point on 19:57 - Sep 28 with 795 viewsfarkenhell

Tipping Point on 17:30 - Sep 28 by NthQldITFC

Clever Canute.


Been called worse!
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Tipping Point on 20:37 - Sep 28 with 767 viewsHARRY10

Tipping Point on 18:01 - Sep 28 by PJH

Yes, a bit like the British, French and Prussians having a punch up at a London railway station.


That was the same lot involved in dust up in the Square the other side of the Thames a bit earlier.

And you fail to mention the Swedes who actually won the scrap you talk of.

I think it was over some Irishman almost missing his train " damn close thing.... and so it was"
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Tipping Point on 21:00 - Sep 28 with 757 viewsjaykay

i raise you pointless tonight.
question was kings and queens .
there was 6 questions to pick one from.
he picked which king signed the maga carta at runnymede
to which the contestant answered prince phillip of spain

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Tipping Point on 22:13 - Sep 28 with 734 viewsfactual_blue

Tipping Point on 21:00 - Sep 28 by jaykay

i raise you pointless tonight.
question was kings and queens .
there was 6 questions to pick one from.
he picked which king signed the maga carta at runnymede
to which the contestant answered prince phillip of spain


He might have done, as King John signed the Magna Carta at Runnymede. Phillip of Spain (who was actually jure uxoris kingof England, but that's another story) might have signed the Maga Carta at Runnymede as some sort of tribute.
Part of Runnymede is American land.

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Tipping Point on 22:27 - Sep 28 with 727 viewsjeera

Tipping Point on 19:57 - Sep 28 by farkenhell

Been called worse!


Daft canute?

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Tipping Point on 22:50 - Sep 28 with 713 viewsronnyd

Tipping Point on 17:54 - Sep 28 by factual_blue

Before you can actually answer the question, you need to understand early mediaeval notions of kingship.

So the answer has to start with 'well, it depends what you mean by 'king.'.


One in the eye for poor old Harold What'shisface though.
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Tipping Point on 23:27 - Sep 28 with 691 viewsHARRY10

Tipping Point on 22:50 - Sep 28 by ronnyd

One in the eye for poor old Harold What'shisface though.


a myth


(said the norman bowman with a lisp)
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Tipping Point on 06:32 - Sep 29 with 651 viewsMedwayTractor

Tipping Point on 17:48 - Sep 28 by PJH

Very good-it would be interesting to know how many on here understand that.


From the Grauniad in 2008:

When the teenage daughter of Earl Spencer ordered a taxi to take her to Stamford Bridge on Easter Sunday, she was looking forward to seeing one of the most eagerly-anticipated fixtures of the Premiership season.

But instead of watching Chelsea play Arsenal in the west London stadium, she found herself in rural Yorkshire, 230 miles from the match.

The journey from the Althorp family estate, near Northampton, to the Chelsea stadium should have been a straightforward 85-mile trip down the M1 to London. But when the driver entered his destination into his sat-nav it sent him 146 miles in the other direction, to the village of Stamford Bridge, near York.

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Tipping Point on 08:11 - Sep 29 with 622 viewsGeoffSentence

Tipping Point on 17:08 - Sep 28 by leitrimblue

I might start watching for a confidence boost. It is indeed a terrible thought.To be honest the amount of people willing to celebrate British history without a basic understanding of it is pretty shocking. Perhaps a basic history test before you can join Laurence,s new heritage party could be amusing enough


It's a result of lefty, pinko commies not teaching proper british history in schools. They'd probably have been right on it if they had been asked something about slavery or Churchill's war crimes.

This is why we need Farage in charge and we need it now.

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Tipping Point on 14:41 - Sep 29 with 565 viewsfarkenhell

Tipping Point on 22:27 - Sep 28 by jeera

Daft canute?


More like stupid canute!
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