Issue 99: 2017 04 06: Answers to Quiz (Boffles)

06 April 2017

Answers to Quiz

by Boffles

  1. A pressure measurement instrument to measure fluid flow velocity used (inter alia) to determine the airspeed of an aircraft.
  1. The Charge of the Light Brigade (by Marshal Pierre Bosquet).
  1. Admiral Byng after he failed to relieve the siege of Minorca in 1756 (Voltaire – ‘Candide’).
  1. The Battle of Warsaw when the Poles under Marshall Pilsudski decisively defeated the Russians.
  1. Bishop Heber (‘From Greenland’s Icy Mountains’).

 

 

 

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