The Iorn Duke

[Suppersalmon]

I was in a pub quiz last night and the Question was who was the Iorn Duke are team put the Duke of Wellington down as we have heard references to him being called the Iorn Duke alot anyway to our Shock we found we got the answer wrong and the Iron Duke is Sir Francis Drake dispite as protesting and arguing the quiz master was insistant it was Sir Francis Drake when i got home i checked up in an encyclopida who was the Iorn Duke and it said The Duke of Wellington

So My Question for you who was the Iorn Duke Sir Francis Drake or the Duke of Wellington ?

 

[privatehudson]

Wellington has always been the one associated with that term in Britain during recent times, also to the best of my knowledge, Drake was never even a Duke

 

[CruddyLeper]

Yep, definitely Wellington (although there have been others in other cultures).

So called because, when Prime Minister, he ignored street protests against his policies (they threw stones to break the windows of 10 Downing Street) and just had iron shutters fitted to the windows.

Great soldier, poor politician.

 

[Longasc]

Iorn Duke might be something different than Iron Duke, according how often you wrote Iorn and never Iron. (???)

 

[Kafka2]

Drake wasn't a Duke. The Quizmaster was a moron.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Isn't it "Iron Duke" or is this something else completely???

The "Iron Duke" was Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington as every Englishman who hasn't touched another man, but to smash them in the face should know

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Iorn Duke might be something different than Iron Duke, according how often you wrote Iorn and never Iron. (???)

Wonder what University he is preparing for

 

[dgfred]

Yep, definitely Wellington (although there have been others in other cultures).

So called because, when Prime Minister, he ignored street protests against his policies (they threw stones to break the windows of 10 Downing Street) and just had iron shutters fitted to the windows.

Great soldier, poor politician.

What a sorry way to get a good nickname .

Thats like catching Gen. Jackson urinating on a stone wall and giving him the
nickname 'Stonewall"

 

[Suppersalmon]

Wonder what University he is preparing for

the one for special people who cant spell or as i call it on the internet Typo's but i dont care about that because im a disabled student at uni through my dyslexia i can claim £4000 for electronical equipment

 

[privatehudson]

You swine!

Anyway, the person was talking out of his (probably rather large) backside and didn't want to be shown up in front of others

 

[Adler17]

Also Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba (Alva), is called iron duke:
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva


Adler

 

[Rik Meleet]

Adler: Indeed;
In the war for independence agianst the Spaniards the "IJzeren Hertog" (Iron Duke) Alva was the commander of the occupying Spanish.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

the one for special people who cant spell or as i call it on the internet Typo's but i dont care about that because im a disabled student at uni through my dyslexia i can claim £4000 for electronical equipment

Hmm...I will have to ready up about dyslexia as there a few things I don't understand about it e.g what the person afflicted with the condition is actually experiencing.

£4000 for electronic equipment means you could get a top of the range Alienware PC, or a very good digital radio

 

[Suppersalmon]

Hmm...I will have to ready up about dyslexia as there a few things I don't understand about it e.g what the person afflicted with the condition is actually experiencing.

£4000 for electronic equipment means you could get a top of the range Alienware PC, or a very good digital radio

well i was planning to get an Ipod with voice recorder instead of the Digital radio

It effects you in many ways ether your spelling reading and writing are very poor sometimes you have very poor spacial awarness e.g. keep triping over also you mind thinks diffrently apprently also you have a very poor short term memory

 

[Mescalhead]

the one for special people who cant spell or as i call it on the internet Typo's but i dont care about that because im a disabled student at uni through my dyslexia i can claim £4000 for electronical equipment

So, all that you have to do to get £4000 a year is misspell 'iron'?

 

[Suppersalmon]

It effects you in many ways ether your spelling reading and writing are very poor sometimes you have very poor spacial awarness e.g. keep triping over also you mind thinks diffrently apprently also you have a very poor short term memory

as i said above it effects you in more ways than just mispelling Iron

 

[Longasc]

Suppersalmon, please accept my apologies for me starting this debate. I did not know that and I did not intend to mock you for misspelling Iron, I just wondered why it happened so often.

Well, it is obviously quite clear that, well, Wellington was the Iron Duke, according to CFC.

 

[Andu Indorin]

Beware of the answers in "Pub/Bar Quizzes" ...

 

[samildanach]

I was curious about how the quiz master made such a gaffe and did a search.
He may have been confused by the fact that the H.M.S Iron Duke ( a frigate ) took part last year in a celebration of the island of St.Lucias independence. It retraced in part the voyage of Drake. And its crew re-enacted Drakes landing on the island by going to some ceremony and getting completely pickled .

 

[Hamlet]

The quizmaster was either an idiot, or he was in the other team's pocket.