That's the lad ... the pin marks the mud-brick schoolhouse in the little village of La Higuera in Villegrande Province, Bolivia, where he was held prisoner and eventually shot on 9 October 1967. It's now a small museum/shrine, although I can't think they get many visitors being so far out in the sticks.

By the way Nordmann, I was surprised you didn't recognise No. 20 as Phoenix Park in Dublin.

A little bit more to the right and I might have recognised the monkey house in Dublin Zoo or the Garda Headquarters (despite vicious rumours these are not the same building).

Going by the clue, number 13, I take it is Holbeche House, and the death/capture of the last of the Gunpowder Plotters.

Number 14, would that be a park in New Delhi?

No. 13 - Yes Holbeche House in Staffordshire where the 1605 Gunpowder plotters made their last stand. Robert Catesby and Thomas Percy were killed by the same bullet as they ran out of the front door (marked by the pin). John and Christopher Wright were also killed although they were shot in the courtyard behind the house. The original house still stands essentially unaltered in layout, and is now a private nursing home.

No. 14 - is indeed in New Delhi, so, although you haven't said it I assume you know it's Mahatma Ghandi, who was assassinated in the gardens of Birla House in 1948. The exact spot is marked by a memorial.

I was looking up youtubes.

So that leaves just this one

No. 23 - This killing caused a dynastic crisis which led directly to another assassination which has already featured here.



And with two more clues,

That was a cheeky one (the red nose gave it away). That poor eejit assassinated himself!

EDIT: Though he probably bumped off his mistress the baroness first, so there was probably a murder (probably).

nordmann wrote:

That was a cheeky one (the red nose gave it away). That poor eejit assassinated himself!

EDIT: Though he probably bumped off his mistress the baroness first, so there was probably a murder (probably).

Yet despite being a suicide and probably a murderer, he still got buried with full Catholic rites.

No. 23 is the Imperial hunting lodge at Mayerling about 15km south-west of Vienna, where in 1889, Rudolf, the 30-year-old Crown Prince of Austria, apparently shot his 17-year-old lover, the Baroness Mary Vetsera, and then committed suicide. It caused a dynastic crisis as well as being a huge scandal which the Imperial family desperately tried to cover up. The first official report said he’d died of an “aneurism of the heart”; then it was suggested that his mind must have been temporarily disturbed when he saw her commit suicide and he then killed himself; then it was put out that maybe it was she that had first shot him, followed by herself; … there were even claims that it was all the work of French secret agents sent by Clemenceau. The Habsburgs’ attempts to have the whole uncomfortable matter hushed-up were partly successful in that Rudolf, apparently a suicide and maybe a murderer too, was finally interred in the Imperial Crypt. The young baroness’s body was however rapidly spirited away and secretly buried in the municipal cemetery of a nearby village before any proper examination, autopsy or judicial review could take place.

PS - Nordmann how do you insert your music clues?  ... Unfortunately with youtube the title of the music appears, which was rather too obvious.

I wouldn't have got any of them without the clues. Very good quiz, Meles.

From 1895;

My old method of inserting audio clips doesn't work anymore. I have to design a new way.

Great quiz Meles. Thanks!

I'm glad you all enjoyed it ... it was fun to do.

The hardest thing about compiling these sort of quizzes is the basic idea. I think it's best if it's not too easy to google from the information provided in the questions: so facts like dates, names, quotations are generally out ... but photos, like here or on the when-they-were-young quizzes that Nordmann has done, are good. And even then it has to be fairly succinct. Murders and assassinations might not be a particularly jolly theme but coupled with where it occurred had the advantage of being very specific to a single event. Births, marriages, coronations, natural deaths etc wouldn't work so easily as all tend to occur in the same place for many different people - homes and hospitals tend to have seen many births and deaths; churches and cathedrals might have seen many marriages or coronations. In the same way none of the violent deaths I used could have been on battlefields - so Sir John Moore killed at Corunna was never really an option as there's always the risk of some smart Alec suggesting a Pte. John Smith of the 42nd regiment, or such like, and producing the evidence to support it.

As I say getting the idea is the difficult bit, once I'd sorted that it was just a fun afternoon to come up with a list of names and find the relevant images. And full credit where it's due - the basic premise arose out of one of Nord's quizzes from a couple of years ago, of Google Earth images of places that had seen great loss of life: battlefields, natural disasters, prison camps and such like.

I think I've found a new way to do music clues - I'll even post a little quiz later if I get it working.

btw - I didn't say thanks for this one, I enjoyed it (never knew there was so much of the world looked like Shropshire!)

Thanks for the effort you put in, MM, although I was absolutely hopeless and the one answer I did attempt was way off the mark.