History Challenge & Journal

Post by **sateeb** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:51 pm

To be fair there is a bit of disparity of bands claiming the number 1 spot. On one website it was indeed Hotel California., but the definitive answer is on the website, and others, I used.

Post by **sateeb** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:53 pm

Blacky wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:51 pm
sateeb wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:08 pm One of my favourite questions.

Which is the best selling album of all time by a Group(not solo artist) and not a greatest hits compilation?
I truly hope it's nothing along the line of Backstreet Boys and Co.! If not the Beatles or Eagles I'll guess AC/DC, they'll always pop up again in the charts and had a long run....

Cheers,
B.

Album name Blacky please.

Post by **Blacky** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:59 pm

sateeb wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:53 pm
Blacky wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:51 pm
sateeb wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:08 pm One of my favourite questions.

Which is the best selling album of all time by a Group(not solo artist) and not a greatest hits compilation?
I truly hope it's nothing along the line of Backstreet Boys and Co.! If not the Beatles or Eagles I'll guess AC/DC, they'll always pop up again in the charts and had a long run....

Cheers,
B.
Album name Blacky please.

If AC/DC is the answer than Back in Black can only be the album in question.

Post by **sateeb** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:02 pm

Well done, give that man a cigar. Certified sales of 29.4 m..over 50m claimed. Some way behind the all time best selling album which is........????

Post by **Blacky** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:05 pm

sateeb wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:02 pm Well done, give that man a cigar. Certified sales of 29.4 m..over 50m claimed. Some way behind the all time best selling album which is........????

Thank you for the cigar sateeb! Solo artist must be Michael Jackson with Thriller!

Post by **sateeb** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:06 pm

Make that a Cuban cigar!!

47.3m certified sales.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_b ... ing_albums

Post by **pharvey** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:10 pm

Fair shout, hadn't thought about "Thriller"

Post by **Blacky** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:17 pm

sateeb wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:06 pm Make that a Cuban cigar!!

Guess it's my turn to ask a question.....

What was the largest contiguous empire in history?

Post by **pharvey** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:21 pm

Not Roman, certainly not British, Mongol?

Post by **Blacky** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:25 pm

pharvey wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:21 pm Not Roman, certainly not British, Mongol?

That was quick! Right on pharvey

Answer: When Genghis Khan united North East Asian tribes to form the Mongol Empire, he created an empire that would span 9.27 million square miles in one mass at its peak in 1270. The British Empire owned a whopping 13.71 million square miles in 1920, but its territories were scattered around the globe.

Post by **pharvey** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:41 pm

Blacky wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:25 pm
pharvey wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:21 pm Not Roman, certainly not British, Mongol?
That was quick! Right on pharvey

Answer: When Genghis Khan united North East Asian tribes to form the Mongol Empire, he created an empire that would span 9.27 million square miles in one mass at its peak in 1270. The British Empire owned a whopping 13.71 million square miles in 1920, but its territories were scattered around the globe.

Actually had second thoughts over that and thought it could have been the Roman Empire, but taking into account the pure physical size of Asian countries......

Post by **Dannie Boy** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 6:29 pm

Elton John - Goodbye Norma Jean (Candle in the Wind)?

Post by **dtaai-maai** » Sat May 02, 2020 7:56 pm

Okay, here's a simple one (not necessarily easy, but simple). No googling of course.

When did Germany become a unified nation state?

Post by **pharvey** » Sat May 02, 2020 9:00 pm

dtaai-maai wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 7:56 pm Okay, here's a simple one (not necessarily easy, but simple). No googling of course.

When did Germany become a unified nation state?

Would this be the German Empire?

Post by **dtaai-maai** » Sat May 02, 2020 9:40 pm

Yes, I'm after the year most of the independent states unified to form the German empire. (I'll take a close guess!)

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