pub games
This centuries-old pub game, once banned for being a distraction to archery practice, involves players throwing sharp objects at a board made of clay or wood.
What is darts?
Mao Zedong once compared revolution not to a peaceful dinner party, but to this violent force.
What is an insurrection?
In Scots slang, if someone calls you a “bampot,” they don’t mean you’re a cooking utensil — they mean you’re this.
A fool.
This Irish stone, kissed by tourists for “the gift of the gab,” is set into the battlements of a castle near Cork.
What is the Blarney Stone?
This U.S. president was reading to schoolchildren in Florida when he was informed of the attacks.
Who is George W. Bush?
The first public houses in Britain grew out of “alehouses,” “inns,” and these establishments that served food and lodging.
What are taverns?
This Cold War phrase described the relatively stable period of reduced tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the 1970s
What is détente?
In rural Ireland, calling someone a “culchie” means they are this, rather than from the city.
Rural/A Farmer
This Hebridean island is famous for the 1919 land raids, where crofters seized estates after WWI.
What is Lewis?
On 9/11, 343 of these New York City personnel were killed, the single largest loss of life of its kind in U.S. history.
What are firefighters?
As of 2024, the average cost of a pint of beer in London is closest to this amount in pounds sterling.
What is £6?
Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of openness helped bring a more peaceful end to the Cold War, and went by this Russian name.
What is glasnost?
In Cockney rhyming slang, saying you’re “going up the apples and pears” means you’re climbing these.
Stairs
n 1932, tens of thousands of Irish Catholics and Protestants together attended this rare joint celebration in Dublin, marking a “peaceful” truce in the culture wars.
What is the Eucharistic Congress?
This new skyscraper, also called “Freedom Tower,” opened in 2014 at the rebuilt World Trade Center site.
What is One World Trade Center?
What is the name for the small private room in old pubs which allowed Victorian-era women and clergy to drink in public without being seen?
What is a snug?
Under this YCL-secretary-turned-editor, the League mobilized support for the Spanish Republic and brought peaceactivism, including the Emergency Youth Peace Campaign, to prominence.
Who is William Wainwright?
In Liverpool, this slang word means “mate” or “friend,” but is almost unknown outside Merseyside.
La
This annual Scottish festival in Lerwick features torchlit processions and the burning of a Viking longship.
What is Up Helly Aa?
Which tower was not struck first but was the first to collapse?
What is The South Tower?
In Ireland, this traditional folk instrument, often played during pub sessions, is a frame drum struck with a stick called a tipper
What is the bodhrán?
William Gallacher, a key figure in the CPGB, once declared: “No one desires peace more than I and my Party, but peace based on freedom and democracy…” He was defending this small country from appeasement.
What is Czechoslovakia?
In South Wales slang, a “cwtch” isn’t a cupboard — it’s this.
A cuddle or hug.
This 12th-century illuminated manuscript, rediscovered in a Highland parish, is the earliest surviving document in Gaelic.
What is the Book of Deer?
This restaurant on the 106th and 107th floors of the North Tower was a world-famous dining spot with views of Manhattan.
What is Windows on the World?