Dry Ones

1) As easy as it gets.Just give the country "X",whose History is being talked about.

The modern X was formed in 1127 when a tribal chief called Hveghi drove away Turkish conquerors and took the name Muskar. Y conquered the country in 1195 until _____ drove them away in 1275. ______became King in 1360. When an enemy, Baron Staszrvitch, claimed the Throne and attacked him with his sword, ______ struck him to the ground with his _______. The King then decreed that the ruler of X must have hold on the ______, otherwise he would lose his authority. This custom had a power of law as late as 1939.
In 1939 X was nearly invaded by its neighbor Y, as part of a plot to oust King Muskar XII. (The situation was very similar to that of Anschluss in Austria in 1938 though the conclusion was not the same).

2)A X is an error in speech or deliberate play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched.While X are commonly heard as slips of the tongue resulting from unintentionally getting one's words in a tangle, they can also be used intentionally as a play on words.
eg:

• "Three cheers for our queer old dean!" (dear old queen, referring to Queen Victoria)
• "Is it kisstomary to cuss the bride?" (customary to kiss)
• "The Lord is a shoving leopard." (a loving shepherd)
• "A blushing crow." (crushing blow)
• "A well-boiled icicle" (well-oiled bicycle)
• "You were fighting a liar in the quadrangle." (lighting a fire)
• "Is the bean dizzy?" (dean busy)
• "Someone is occupewing my pie. Please sew me to another sheet." (occupying my pew...show me to another seat)
• "You have hissed all my mystery lectures. You have tasted a whole worm. Please leave Oxford on the next town drain." (missed...history, wasted...term, down train)