quite interesting

In Episode 8, Series A of the brilliant television show QI, a question was asked about Charles Burgess Fry, the 1913 world longjump champion who could leap backwards from the floor to a mantlepiece: "What position was he offered after the first World War?"

The answer, of course, is that he was offered the position of King of Albania. When Fry declined, Ahmet Zogoli, later changed to Ahmet Zogu, became king. Zogu was known as King Zog I.

It's not often that one hears the name "King Zog of Albania" on television. Or that you know also know something quite interesting about King Zog: that he once asked Rose Wilder Lane to marry him.
- posted by pioneergirl at 2:59 AM