A little history/geography quiz

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A question for non-Canadians. Most Canadians know this. Not sure about the rest of the world.

What happened at the École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989? What was the name of the prominent person?

Was that when that guy shot all those women? I don't remember the name.

Yeah man, perhaps Canada's worst day in my lifetime. Some nutbar with an axe to grind against feminists took an assault rifle into the school, separated men from women, and killed 14 female students before taking his own life. That really fucked a lot of people up. The name Marc Lepine lives forever in infamy for Canadians.

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A question for non-Canadians. Most Canadians know this. Not sure about the rest of the world.

What happened at the École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989? What was the name of the prominent person?

Was that when that guy shot all those women? I don't remember the name.

Yeah man, perhaps Canada's worst day in my lifetime. Some nutbar with an axe to grind against feminists took an assault rifle into the school, separated men from women, and killed 14 female students before taking his own life. That really fucked a lot of people up. The name Marc Lepine lives forever in infamy for Canadians.

I was relatively young (relatively old compared to a lot of the other members of this board) when this happened it did get some pretty big coverage stateside. I mean, I'm sure when Columbine happened it was all over the news there as well right?

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Was that when that guy shot all those women? I don't remember the name.

Yeah man, perhaps Canada's worst day in my lifetime. Some nutbar with an axe to grind against feminists took an assault rifle into the school, separated men from women, and killed 14 female students before taking his own life. That really fucked a lot of people up. The name Marc Lepine lives forever in infamy for Canadians.

I was relatively young (relatively old compared to a lot of the other members of this board) when this happened it did get some pretty big coverage stateside. I mean, I'm sure when Columbine happened it was all over the news there as well right?

Oh yeah, absolutely on Columbine. OK point taken. It's big news anywhere. But very rare this sort of incident in Canada, compared to the States. So it stands out more here maybe. What was bizarre about Columbine is that the perps were basically just kids.

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Yeah man, perhaps Canada's worst day in my lifetime. Some nutbar with an axe to grind against feminists took an assault rifle into the school, separated men from women, and killed 14 female students before taking his own life. That really fucked a lot of people up. The name Marc Lepine lives forever in infamy for Canadians.

I was relatively young (relatively old compared to a lot of the other members of this board) when this happened it did get some pretty big coverage stateside. I mean, I'm sure when Columbine happened it was all over the news there as well right?

Oh yeah, absolutely on Columbine. OK point taken. It's big news anywhere. But very rare this sort of incident in Canada, compared to the States. So it stands out more here maybe. What was bizarre about Columbine is that the perps were basically just kids.

Ok I'll try to keep this thread going.

What country had the world's first legislature?

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Ok I'll try to keep this thread going.

What country had the world's first legislature?

Japan?

[Scrap]

India

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OK, I'l get a second question going...

What was the Potsdam conference?

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India

No, good try though

[killersheep]

Ok I'll try to keep this thread going.

What country had the world's first legislature?

Japan?

Nope

[Mikkel_K]

What country had the world's first legislature?

Iceland?

[Andre]

Probably the Aboriginals of Australia. depends on if you call legislature an assembly of elders who lay down laws or not.

[killersheep]

What country had the world's first legislature?

Iceland?

Correct Iceland's parliment Althing was created in 930 AD

[Andre]

Iceland shmiceland .
Sufferin sukkettash Aboriginals were around for about..... 27,000 years before that date.