From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 8, Round 3 - History - Royalty   
   >   
   > This round is flush with royals, so to speak.   
   >   
   > 1. For questions #1-4, tell us how each monarch was related to   
   >   his/her successor.  We'll also mention the year of succession.   
   >   William IV and Victoria, 1837.   
      
   Uncle and niece   
      
   > 2. Edward VIII and George VI, 1936.   
      
   Brothers   
      
   > 3. George II and George III, 1760.   
      
   Father and son?   
      
   > 4. Mary I ("Bloody Mary") and Elizabeth I, 1558.   
      
   Sisters   
      
   > 5. And now, for something completely different.  Of which monarch   
   >    did John Cleese say that the most interesting thing about him is   
   >    that he was 5'6" tall at the start of his reign, but only 4'8"   
   >    at the end of it?  Name and number required.   
      
   Charles I   
      
   > 6. Queen Anne died childless in 1714, and her sister Queen Mary II   
   >    also died without heir, so the Stuart dynasty came to an end.   
   >    A successor was found, a distant cousin of the German House of   
   >    Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became King George I.  Why were 56   
   >    other candidates with closer hereditary claims bypassed?   
      
   At least the closest ones were catholics.   
      
   > 7. In 1917, when German Gotha bombers were hitting London, George V   
   >    changed the family name (royal house) from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha   
   >    -- to what?   
      
   Windsor   
      
   > 8. Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms, including 78 bathrooms, but   
   >    who was the first monarch to live there?   
      
   George III   
      
   > 9. What was the last year during which the UK had three kings?   
      
   1936   
      
   > 10. Name *either one* of the two personal documents, of which most   
   >    Britons would have at least one, that Queen Elizabeth II   
   >    never had.   
      
   ID card   
      
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