ANCIENT WORLD:

1.) Was Kubla Kahn Chinese, Mongolian, Japanese or Vietnamese?
2.) This Mongolian General is legendary for his vicious band of steppe-riding horsemen…
3.) This Egyptian king was really not that remarkable, historically. He is well known however, because his treasure was found in the 20th century, miraculously intact after the tombs had been raided for centuries before.
4.) Hannibal allegedly brought his elephants across the Alps to attack Rome. What nationality was Hannibal?
5.) Which was not an Egyptian God: Horus, Anubis, Imenhotep, Ra or Osiris?
6.) The Sutton Hoo is the most famous burial ground for this race of warriors.
7.) Cleopatra killed herself with this type of venomous snake.
8.) The Acropolis was a temple to this goddess.
9.) The Norse thought that the devastating blow of this god’s warhammer caused thunder.
10.) This is the name of the Sultan’s Royal Astronomer in the Ancient Persian Courts.


MEDIEVAL WORLD
1.) Nicollo Machievelli wrote “The Prince” to curry favor with this Medici.
2.) In feudal Japan, it was a capital offense for a commoner to carry a katana and wakazashi on the left side of his body, because such an arms arrangement proclaimed him to be this kind of a noble warrior.
3.) This king denied giving the order to kill Archbishop Thomas Beckett, later saying he “was joking.”
4.) This series of wars was ostensibly launched to free Jerusalem from Muslim hands.
5.) Bayern was the medieval name of this country, which was a bunch of warring city states for most of the medieval ages.
6.) This idealism was borne on four principles: valor, defense of the weak, piety and respect for women.
7.) There is a lot of current opinion that this Duke of Gloucester, who became a King of England, was not the hunchbacked murderer that William Shakespeare made him out to be.
8.) Joan of Arc insisted to the day she died that these celestial beings talked to her every day.
9.) This is the proper name of the collapsible gate to reinforce the weak castle walls.
10.) The English Cross is the emblem of this Dragon Slaying Saint.


COLONIAL WORLD
1.) He was The Sun King.
2.) He led the Spanish Inquisition.
3.) This revolutionary was known for printing “Common Sense,” but later became bitter that he did not receive his share of the glory for the American Revolution.
4.) This captain fled the gallows in Scotland for a murder, and later became the most famous naval captain of the revolutionary war.
5.) It is ironic that this Welsh Privateer, who sacked Panama, is used as a corporate sponsor for rum… since he died from drinking too much rum.
6.) Admiral Nelson won a stunning victory against this nation during the Battle of Trafalgar.
7.) Montezuma once confided that he planned to kill this Spanish Conquistador but was afraid that he may be a prophesized God.
8.) This infamous pirate was actually a British Captain who decided to turn to a life of crime. He was drawn and quartered in England.
9.) This brilliant American Revolutionary General later said that it was his family that made him decide to defect to the British.
10.) Alexander Hamilton may have lost his life to this political rival, but the infamous duel ruined the career of the victor.




INDUSTRIAL WORLD
1.) Lenin based a lot of his teachings on these two famous communist writers.
2.) The Hindenburg had this symbol emblazoned on its tail.
3.) He saved millions of lives by creating a vaccine against malaria.
4.) This famous scientific couple died of radiation poisoning from their own experiments.
5.) A lot of revisionist historians are claiming that it actually John Holliday, not the Clantons, who fired the first shot this legendary gun battle.
6.) What was “Seward’s Ice Box?”
7.) Pickett’s Charge happened during which battle?
8.) What Old West sidearm was known as “The Thumb-buster” because of its cumbersome hammer?
9.) There is a rumor that a Hungarian Welder knew this ship was doomed because he saw the ID number of the ship, 409093, which he read as “NO POPE”
10.) Early in World War I, there were rumors that a woman flew this ace’s infamous red Fokker triplane.


MODERN WORLD
1.) He was refused to several Viennese Art schools for “lack of talent.”
2.) He flew the U2 Spy Plane that crashed, survived capture and interrogation by the Russians… and died in a helicopter accident a few years later.
3.) A lot of people seem to think that “Deep Throat” was this member of Nixon’s cabinet.
4.) Bernard Montgomery called this general, “a boorish lout who will not be denied his ride to glory, even if it is borne on the blood of his men.”
5.) This American Heavy Gunship actually automatically aims anywhere the pilot is looking.
6.) American Battleships are always named after what?
7.) Which member of the Armstrong Apollo Crew never set foot on the moon?
8.) This British Prime Minister coined the term “Iron Curtain.”
9.) After this tense event, Krouschev allegedly told Kennedy, “This time, WE blinked. Next time, you’d better blink.”
10.) This president said of Vietnam, “I’m not going to be the first president to lose a war, and I sure as hell am not going to lose it to some raggedy ass third world jungle!”


Only REAL history answers count, not what happened in your civ games :)

Here is my go at your quiz, correct me on any wrong answers - :)
Ancient World
1 - Mongolian
2- Genghis Khan
3- Tutankhamen
4 - Carthaginian
5 - Imenhotep
6 - ?
7 - Asp
8 - Athena
9 - Thor
10 - Magi (?)

Medieval
1-?
2-Samurai
3-Henry II
4-Crusades
5-Germany
6-Chivalry
7-Edward III
8-Angels
9-portcullis
10-George

Colonial
1-Louis XVI
2-Tomas de Torquemada
3-Thomas Paine
4-?
5-?
6-French
7-Cortes
8-Kidd
9-Benedict Arnold
10-Aaron Burr

Industrial
1-Marx & ?
2-Swastika (Nazi Germany)
3-?
4-Curie
5-Gunfight at OK corral
6-?
7-Gettysburg
8-?
9-Titantic
10-Baron von Richthofen

Modern
1-Hitler
2-Gary Powers
3-?
4-Gen Patton
5-?
6-States
7-Michael Collins
8-Churchill
9-Cuban Missile Crisis
10-Lyndon B. Johnson

This is just off the top of my head. Give me an hour or two and I probably could answer those I put question marks on.

Shouldn't this (rather good) quiz be in the Off topic?

:lol:

Caelth216 -- Wow, you know your history pretty good!!
Right on every count, except for five (and most of those were pretty darn close)...

ANCIENT
10 - The astrologer was called The Vizier. The Vizier also was supposed to have magical powers, and is invariably cast as a villian in the arabian nights story..

MEDIEVAL
7 - VERY close. Edward was the king who died before Gloucester. Richard III was the villanous character Shakespeare relates.

COLONIAL
1 - Louis XIV was the Sun King. Louis XVI was Marie Antoniette's husband and a prime cause of the French Revolution.
6 - Technically, you are correct. But the force was made of the Spanish and the French...

INDUSTRIAL
1 - Half right! Marx and Engels are the two big influences in the communist and socialist schools of thought.

I'll still leave the question mark ones open.... awesome work!

Curt - Heh, yeah... just noticed there was a lot of history buffs around.

Ok, this is without looking at other answers (really!) :)

Ancient

1) Mongolian
2) Genghis Khan
3) Tutankamen
4) Carthaginian
5) Imenhotep
6) Sikhs? Total guess here
7) Asp
8) Athena
9) Thor
10) ?

Medieval

1) Giovanni
2) Samurai
3) Henry II
4) Crusades
5) Germany
6) Chivalry
7) Richard III
8) Angels
9) ? Got me here.
10) George

Colonial

1) Dunno, but I bet his name was Louis.
2) Torquemada (I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!)
3) ?
4) John Paul Jones
5) Morgan
6) Spain or France (both actually)
7) Cortez
8) Kidd
9) Arnold
10) Burr

Industrial

1) Marx (wouldn't exactly call him a communist) & Engels
2) Swastika
3) ?
4) The Curies
5) Ok Corral
6) Refridgerator
7) Gettysburg
8) Colt revolver
9) Titanic
10) Richtofen

Modern World

1) Hitler
2) Powers
3) Kissinger
4) Patton
5) Apache
6) States
7) Collins
8) Churchill
9) Cuban Missile Crisis
10) Johnson

/bruce

Pretty good, DingBat! Since Caelth216 posted most of the correct answers, I'll just comment on the new ones that you answered correctly:

COLONIAL
4 - Yes, John Paul Jones, best known for his defiant war cry "I've not yet begun to fight!"
5 - Yep. Henry Morgan. Same guy you see on the Capt. Morgan Rum Bottles.

INDUSTRIAL
8 - Yep, and having fired one personally, it's aptly named.

MODERN WORLD
3 - Yes. I guess Henry Kissinger's gravelly voice lends him to this code name... heh
5 - Indeed, the AH64 Apache points its powerful chin gun wherever the pilot's head is facing.

Most of the rest were correct as well. There were still a few that remain at large:


HERES WHATS LEFT:


ANCIENT WORLD:
6.) The Sutton Hoo is the most famous burial ground for this race of warriors.


MEDIEVAL WORLD
1.) Nicollo Machievelli wrote “The Prince” to curry favor with this Medici.


INDUSTRIAL WORLD
3.) He saved millions of lives by creating a vaccine against malaria.

6.) What was “Seward’s Ice Box?”

Ugh, and I saw these questions and thought... wow a blond is gonna show you all who is boss and then I saw yall already had the answers. There are only a few I dont know and its a damn shame I didn't get her earlier. Between Academic Bowl and my 6th-8th grade geography teacher, we learned ass this uselss info:)

Ancient #6: Saxons, if I'm not mistaken?
Industrial #6: Alaska

SB

Originally posted by PrinceOfDenver
ANCIENT WORLD:

1.) Kubla Khan was an opium-imbibed dream of Colleridge, therefore not of any nationality.
3.) This my friend would be The Rock aka the Serpent King found in cinemas everywhere in the 21st century
4.) Hannibal was of the "im a bleedin idiot director who replace jodie foster whith some redhead bird" tribe...scientific name Hop-Kin-ese
5.) Ho-rus' can be found on any New York street after dark.
7.) Trouser Snake
9.) Ahh he means the North and the hammer is ol' General Lee of the might confederate army.

MEDIEVAL WORLD

2.) It was in fact a macrami warrior; very popular at fairs and book shows.
3.) A Catholic b#@ard no doubt.
4.) Ahh that would be any war of the post-Mohammed age.
6.) Yes that was the practice of brown-nosing the feminists to attain sexual favors in the 60s
8.) Mcdonalds French Fries..she was swore they talked, if well salted.
9.) Known to my college buds as the G-Spot.
10.) Ahh Redcrosse...ST George, throw back an ale and this gentle knight goes pricking on the plane.

COLONIAL WORLD
1.) Jim Morrison.
4.) Mel Gibson of course



INDUSTRIAL WORLD
1.) ahh that would be McCartney and Elvis
2.) Ahh Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin: Zoso
3.) Timothy Leary: Tune in turn on drop out
6.) Have u seen the Perfect Storm?
7.) Gettysburg.
9.) That depends was the hungarian a young aspiring actor named Leonardo.
10.) Fokker: ummmm Ben Stiller: i got it Meet the Parents!

MODERN WORLD
1.) Kurt Cobain...well he was.
7.) Tom hanks.
9.) After Kevin Costner got the part in 13 Days

Only REAL history answers count, not what happened in your civ games :)

While we're waiting for someone to finish off the last of Prince's unanswered questions, let me add a few. They're mostly military history, sorry.

1) Hannibal inflicted the worst defeat ever suffered by Rome. Where was the battle?

2a) "Into the Valley of Death rode the six hundred" refers to what military event?

2b) In what war did this occur?

3) What battle saw the defeat of the Imperial Russian navy by the Japanese?

4) The development of what weapon started a new arms race and indirectly led to Britains involvement in WWI?

5) Who was the leading ALLIED ace in WWI?

6) Teddy Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace prize for negotiating the end to which war?

7) The bombing of this city during the Spanish Civil War foretold events in WW2

8) In perhaps the Marines finest hour, the 1st Marine Division fought its way out of encirclement near what North Korean body of water?

9) This war saw the first use of laser guided smart bombs

10) This cruiser was probably the last major ship to be sunk by submarines (could be tricky).

Anyway, give these a shot. :)

/bruce

Originally posted by DingBat
While we're waiting for someone to finish off the last of Prince's unanswered questions, let me add a few. They're mostly military history, sorry.



Here's my stab at a few of these:

4) The Dreadnaught

5) Eddie Rickenbacker (sp?)

7) Guernica (sp? One of Picasso's most famous paintings)

9) Gulf War?

I believe the answer to the Prince question is Lorenzo de Medeci. used to know this, not sure now.

For the new questions.

3. Russo-japanese war, 1904-1905, two Russian fleets destroyed, caused revolution of 1905. (I like naval history and Russian history :) ).

4. HMS Dreadnought.

6. Did not Teddy get peace prize for negotiating end to Russo-Jap war?

7. Guernica

9. Vietnam? (I think maybe in primitive form). If not, Gulf War. (I don't count dinky Panama and Grenada).

10. Forget name, but sunk in Falklands war by a British sub.

Originally posted by PrinceOfDenver

8.) The Acropolis was a temple to this goddess.

This question is bogo - an acropolis is not a temple, it's a fortress built on a hill, which usually contained more than one temple. (Acro = high, -polis = city). Most ancient Greek cities had them. Since you say "The" Acropolis, you're probably referring to the most famous one, in Athens (http://www.indiana.edu/~kglowack/athens/acropolis.html) . The biggest temple there is Athena's, but there are others, including one for the goddess Nike.

The Acropolis in Athens is pretty cool, but is mostly roped off and packed with tourists. If you go to Greece, the one in Korinth is much much more fun to visit, it's a huge rambling site with pretty much nothing roped off, and when I was there last March I only saw half a dozen other people. :goodjob:

Originally posted by DingBat
While we're waiting for someone to finish off the last of Prince's unanswered questions, let me add a few. They're mostly military history, sorry.

1) Hannibal inflicted the worst defeat ever suffered by Rome. Where was the battle?In Italy itself, after Hannibal marched thru the Alps fr Hispania. He got help fr Gaul tribesmen fr the Po valley and disaffected Roman 'allies' I think. Forgotten the exact the site name.

Originally posted by Knight-Dragon
In Italy itself, after Hannibal marched thru the Alps fr Hispania. He got help fr Gaul tribesmen fr the Po valley and disaffected Roman 'allies' I think. Forgotten the exact the site name.

Cannas?

Ancient

1-Chinese I think, this was after genghis conquered china
2-Genghis Kahn
4- Carthaginian
5- Imenhotep
7- Cobra
9-Thor

Medieval

2-Samurai
4-The Crusades
6-Chivalry
8-Angels
9-Portcullis

Colonial

7-Hernando Cortez

Industrial

4-Something and Marie Curie
6-A refrigerator
9-The Titanic
10-The Red Baron

Modern

1-Adolf Hitler himself(I hope I was the first to get that one, I'll read the replies in a minute)
4- Eisenhower
8- Winston Churchill
10-Kennedy?

oh goddammit I guess I should have read the replies >_<

I'll put the correct answers under the questions:

1) Hannibal inflicted the worst defeat ever suffered by Rome. Where was the battle?

> Kublai-Khan was close with Cannas. Correct answer Cannae.

2a) "Into the Valley of Death rode the six hundred" refers to what military event?

2b) In what war did this occur?

3) What battle saw the defeat of the Imperial Russian navy by the Japanese?

>PinkyGen correctly identified the Russo-Japanese war. Now, how about the battle?

4) The development of what weapon started a new arms race and indirectly led to Britains involvement in WWI?

>PinkyGen and Rastamon both correctly identified HMS Dreadnought.

5) Who was the leading ALLIED ace in WWI?

6) Teddy Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace prize for negotiating the end to which war?

> PinkyGen correctly identified the Russo-Japanese war.

7) The bombing of this city during the Spanish Civil War foretold events in WW2

> Again, PinkyGen and Rastamon got Guernica.

8) In perhaps the Marines finest hour, the 1st Marine Division fought its way out of encirclement near what North Korean body of water?

9) This war saw the first use of laser guided smart bombs

> PinkyGen was correct with the Vietnam war.

10) This cruiser was probably the last major ship to be sunk by submarines (could be tricky).

> PinkyGen correctly identified the war here. I thought this might give people trouble. Anyone identify the name of the cruiser?

I love this. :)

/bruce

Which naval defeat do you want. The actual Pacific fleet was destroyed when trying to leave Port Author.

I assume you mean Tsushima when the fleet they sent over from the Atlantic got massacred. (What was funny was this fleet fired in British fishing boats thinking they were Japanese raiders.)

Ah, as for Falklands, according to my navy book (hey I pulled the war off the top of my head), the HMS Conquerer sank the General Belgrano.

2a) "Into the Valley of Death rode the six hundred" refers to what military event?
Charge of the Light Brigade

2b) In what war did this occur?
Crimean War

5) Who was the leading ALLIED ace in WWI?
William Avery Bishop

2a) "Into the Valley of Death rode the six hundred" refers to what military event?
Charge of the Light Brigade

2b) In what war did this occur?
Crimean War

5) Who was the leading ALLIED ace in WWI?
William Avery Bishop

5) Who was the leading ALLIED ace in WWI?

I believe it was Rene Fonck...

In spanish you write it Cannas
:p

Originally posted by Kublai-Khan
In spanish you write it Cannas
:p

Heh, I stand corrected. Good job. :)

/bruce

Ok, here's another batch.

There's one question left from the first bunch. Here it is as a bonus:

1) In perhaps the Marines finest hour, the 1st Marine Division fought its way out of encirclement near what North Korean body of water?

2) Marshall Georgi Zhukov is well known from WWII, however he had an earlier success against the Japanese. Name the battle.

3a) Octavian ended a civil war and became Caesar Augustus after winning this battle in in 31BC.

3b) Which general did he defeat?

4) Nelson was made a Viscount after success at which battle?

5) The 1812 overture was written to commemorate which battle?

6) This pair of German generals combined to defeat the Russians at Tannenburg in August, 1914.

7) Alexander the Great was tutored by this famous scholar.

8) This English king was defeated by William the Conqueror.

9) The Hundred Years War was decided in Englands favour by what famous battle?

10) In Viet Nam, what did the nickname "Thud" refer to?

A little bit of everything. :)

/bruce

Work Backwards:
10.) F-105 Thunderchief
9.) Agincourt 11415, except the war was not a conclusive English victory, if anything a French success when took Calais 1453
8.)Harold
7.) Aristotle
6.) Erich von Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg
5.) The Russian Victory over Napoleon. As for the specific battles, the final one at the border was at the Crossing of the Berezina
4.) One would think Trafalgar, with the Battle of the Nile the only other option
3.) He defeated Mark Anthony at the Battle of Actium
2.) Khalkan-Gol
1.)Inchon Landings or possibly the breakout from Chosin.

Originally posted by Simon Darkshade
Work Backwards:
10.) F-105 Thunderchief
9.) Agincourt 11415, except the war was not a conclusive English victory, if anything a French success when took Calais 1453
8.)Harold
7.) Aristotle
6.) Erich von Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg
5.) The Russian Victory over Napoleon. As for the specific battles, the final one at the border was at the Crossing of the Berezina
4.) One would think Trafalgar, with the Battle of the Nile the only other option
3.) He defeated Mark Anthony at the Battle of Actium
2.) Khalkan-Gol
1.)Inchon Landings or possibly the breakout from Chosin.

Wow. That was quick. Maybe these were too easy. :)

All correct here except for #4.

#1 was the Chosin Resevoir breakout.

/bruce

Of course! He was made a Baron at the Nile, and a Viscount at the Battle of Copenhagen. I didn't read that one properly!:scan:

Ok, Simon made short work of the last batch. A few more:

1) Nelson was made a Viscount after success at which battle?

2) What was the name of the operation to relieve Khe Sanh?

3) The Yom Kippur War saw the introduction of what new weapon?

4) Grant's victory here was overshadowed by the victory at Gettysburg.

5) The commanding generals of both armies died during this battle which saw the British win control of North America (at least for a time).

6) This hard luck US ship, twice attacked and captured by the British, is the source of the phrase "Don't give up the ship".

7) This unit, the brainchild of General Wavell and Orde Wingate was officially known as the 77th Infantry Brigade.

8) This heavy cruiser ship, known as a "lucky" ship, actually survived two atomic blasts before finally being sunk at Kwajalein Atoll.

9) The doomed HMS Invincible took part in this battle against Admiral Graf Spee.

10) What did the term "Arc Light" mean?

/bruce

ANCIENT WORLD:

1.) Mongolian
2.) both Kublai and Genghis Kahn
3.) Tutanchamon
4.) Chartagan
5.) Imenhotep
6.) Celts?
7.) Cobra?
8.) Athena
9.) Thor
10.) -


MEDIEVAL WORLD
1.) -
2.) Samurai
3.) Edward I ? :p
4.) Crusades
5.) Bayern still excists, but you prbably call it Bavaria
6.) Humanism?
7.) -
8.) Angels
9.) -
10.) St. Joris


COLONIAL WORLD
1.) Louis XIV
2.) Filips II?
3.) -
4.) -
5.) -
6.) France
7.) Pizarro? No, eeeh......Cortez!
8.) captain Blood?
9.) Washington?
10.) -




INDUSTRIAL WORLD
1.) Karl Marx, -
2.) Maltese Cross?
3.) damn, I know it, I know it......
4.) -
5.) Whyatt Earp vs. the Clantons in Tombestone at O.K. Correl....and Lucky Luke started the gunfight.
6.) -
7.) -
8.) -
9.) Titanic?
10.) Manfred von Richthofen

MODERN WORLD
1.) Picasso?
2.) -
3.) -
4.) Eisenhower, or his rival.....eeer.....something like Patton?
5.) -
6.) States
7.) -
8.) Churhill? :p
9.) Cuban Missile Crisis
10.) Nixon, Johnson, whoever...

3) Surface to Air missiles?
5) The Battle for Quebec during the Seven Yrs' War. Something bout Heights?
7) The Chindits, operating in Burma against the Japs during WW2.
9) The Battle of the River Plate?

The leading Allied ace was Rene Fonck. He had 76 (or was it 79?) official victories, but because he liked to fly alone, other kills weren't counted. He probably had more than Manfred von Richthofen.

Originally posted by willemvanoranje
The leading Allied ace was Rene Fonck. He had 76 (or was it 79?) official victories, but because he liked to fly alone, other kills weren't counted. He probably had more than Manfred von Richthofen.

I knew this was going to be a bone of contention. :)

I've seen sources that list Bishop, Mannock, and Fonck as the leading allied ace. All had scores in the mid seventies. I'm not sure about Mannock but Bishop was also a "loner" and presumably suffered the same handicap as Fonck.

/bruce

Originally posted by Knight-Dragon
3) Surface to Air missiles?

Nope

5) The Battle for Quebec during the Seven Yrs' War. Something bout Heights?

So close. :)

7) The Chindits, operating in Burma against the Japs during WW2.

Yup.

9) The Battle of the River Plate?
Nope. Wrong war. ;)


/bruce

Ah! Sehr Gut! Die nachste zet of qvestions!
Ve vill ansver ze qvestions!

1.) Battle of Copenhagen, 1801
2.) Operation Pegasus
3.) The Sagger anti tank missile - looked like the Egyptian infantry were lugging suitcases about.
4.) The only battle that comes to mind is Vicksburg in May 63, as Gettysburg was in June/July
5.) One would think the Battle of Quebec, or the Height of Abraham, as both Wolfe and Montcalm died at that battle.
6.) Twer the dying words of Captain Lawrence, and the ship was the Lawrence at the Battle of Lake Erie, an twer Oliver Perrys battle flag. They transferred to the Niagara.
7.) Chindits
8.)That ex-playmate of the Bismarck, the 'Prinz Eugen'
9.) The Dec. 7 1914 Battle of the Falkland Islands, sinking the Scharnhorst and Gneisnau
10.) Twas a 1965 Guam to Vietnam B52 bombing raid, 3000 miles non stop.

Simon does it again. He missed one though and it's included below:

1) This hard luck US ship, twice attacked and captured by the British, is the source of the phrase "Don't give up the ship".

2) This fortress was stormed by the Germans in WWII in what could be called the first special forces operation ever.

3) <If you'll pardon a non-military, Canadian oriented question>
This British explorer served as a midshipman with Captain Cook.

4) In what year did the Berbers first invade Spain?

5) This aviator has a maneuver named after him.

6) In a turning point of the Yom Kippur War, this battle eventually resulted in the isolation of the Egyptian 3rd Army.

7) This crisis in 1974 almost resulted in war between NATO allies.

8) This plucky destroyer rammed the German cruiser Hipper in Norwegian waters.

9a) The first air to air missile kill was recorded in what year?

9b) Who were the combatants?

10) The term commando originated in which war?


Some of these are soft lobs. Have fun. :)

/bruce

2 Ebben Emael( or something) on the Albert canal in Belgium

4 711 ad by Tariq ibn Ziyad

5 Immelmann

7 Cyprus: Turkey vs Greece

10 WWII?

Very well, I'll have a quick go:

10.) Boer War
9.) Hmm. Possibly in the late 1950s...Have to think on it...
8.)HMS Glowworm, British destroyer
7.)Turkey and Greece, conflict over Cyprus
6.) Possibly the Battle of Chinese Farm. The actual crossing of the Suez Canal prior to this also comes up as an idea.
5.)Oberleutnant Max Immelmann, of the "Immelmann Turn" fame
4.) 711 AD
3.) Captain George Vancouver
2.) The glider borne storming of the fortress of Eben Emael by the Fallschirmjager
1.) Possibly the Chesapeake?

2) As my fellow country-man stated, this must be Eben-Emael, it was taken by paratroopers on May 11th 1940.

4) 800?

5) Max Immelmann

6) no idea, Sinai? :p

7) maybe some oil thing

Originally posted by Simon Darkshade
Very well, I'll have a quick go:

10.) Boer War
9.) Hmm. Possibly in the late 1950s...Have to think on it...
8.)HMS Glowworm, British destroyer
7.)Turkey and Greece, conflict over Cyprus
6.) Possibly the Battle of Chinese Farm. The actual crossing of the Suez Canal prior to this also comes up as an idea.
5.)Oberleutnant Max Immelmann, of the "Immelmann Turn" fame
4.) 711 AD
3.) Captain George Vancouver
2.) The glider borne storming of the fortress of Eben Emael by the Fallschirmjager
1.) Possibly the Chesapeake?

Very good. I'm off on vacation so I'll give the answer for #9 here.

In 1958, Sidewinder armed Taiwanese F-86's recorded the first air to air missile kills against several PRC Mig 15's.

/bruce

So someone else will post 10 questions?

Originally posted by PrinceOfDenver
ANCIENT WORLD:

1.) Was Kubla Kahn Chinese, Mongolian, Japanese or Vietnamese?
2.) This Mongolian General is legendary for his vicious band of steppe-riding horsemen…
3.) This Egyptian king was really not that remarkable, historically. He is well known however, because his treasure was found in the 20th century, miraculously intact after the tombs had been raided for centuries before.
4.) Hannibal allegedly brought his elephants across the Alps to attack Rome. What nationality was Hannibal?
5.) Which was not an Egyptian God: Horus, Anubis, Imenhotep, Ra or Osiris?
6.) The Sutton Hoo is the most famous burial ground for this race of warriors.
7.) Cleopatra killed herself with this type of venomous snake.
8.) The Acropolis was a temple to this goddess.
9.) The Norse thought that the devastating blow of this god’s warhammer caused thunder.
10.) This is the name of the Sultan’s Royal Astronomer in the Ancient Persian Courts.


MEDIEVAL WORLD
1.) Nicollo Machievelli wrote “The Prince” to curry favor with this Medici.
2.) In feudal Japan, it was a capital offense for a commoner to carry a katana and wakazashi on the left side of his body, because such an arms arrangement proclaimed him to be this kind of a noble warrior.
3.) This king denied giving the order to kill Archbishop Thomas Beckett, later saying he “was joking.”
4.) This series of wars was ostensibly launched to free Jerusalem from Muslim hands.
5.) Bayern was the medieval name of this country, which was a bunch of warring city states for most of the medieval ages.
6.) This idealism was borne on four principles: valor, defense of the weak, piety and respect for women.
7.) There is a lot of current opinion that this Duke of Gloucester, who became a King of England, was not the hunchbacked murderer that William Shakespeare made him out to be.
8.) Joan of Arc insisted to the day she died that these celestial beings talked to her every day.
9.) This is the proper name of the collapsible gate to reinforce the weak castle walls.
10.) The English Cross is the emblem of this Dragon Slaying Saint.


COLONIAL WORLD
1.) He was The Sun King.
2.) He led the Spanish Inquisition.
3.) This revolutionary was known for printing “Common Sense,” but later became bitter that he did not receive his share of the glory for the American Revolution.
4.) This captain fled the gallows in Scotland for a murder, and later became the most famous naval captain of the revolutionary war.
5.) It is ironic that this Welsh Privateer, who sacked Panama, is used as a corporate sponsor for rum… since he died from drinking too much rum.
6.) Admiral Nelson won a stunning victory against this nation during the Battle of Trafalgar.
7.) Montezuma once confided that he planned to kill this Spanish Conquistador but was afraid that he may be a prophesized God.
8.) This infamous pirate was actually a British Captain who decided to turn to a life of crime. He was drawn and quartered in England.
9.) This brilliant American Revolutionary General later said that it was his family that made him decide to defect to the British.
10.) Alexander Hamilton may have lost his life to this political rival, but the infamous duel ruined the career of the victor.




INDUSTRIAL WORLD
1.) Lenin based a lot of his teachings on these two famous communist writers.
2.) The Hindenburg had this symbol emblazoned on its tail.
3.) He saved millions of lives by creating a vaccine against malaria.
4.) This famous scientific couple died of radiation poisoning from their own experiments.
5.) A lot of revisionist historians are claiming that it actually John Holliday, not the Clantons, who fired the first shot this legendary gun battle.
6.) What was “Seward’s Ice Box?”
7.) Pickett’s Charge happened during which battle?
8.) What Old West sidearm was known as “The Thumb-buster” because of its cumbersome hammer?
9.) There is a rumor that a Hungarian Welder knew this ship was doomed because he saw the ID number of the ship, 409093, which he read as “NO POPE”
10.) Early in World War I, there were rumors that a woman flew this ace’s infamous red Fokker triplane.


MODERN WORLD
1.) He was refused to several Viennese Art schools for “lack of talent.”
2.) He flew the U2 Spy Plane that crashed, survived capture and interrogation by the Russians… and died in a helicopter accident a few years later.
3.) A lot of people seem to think that “Deep Throat” was this member of Nixon’s cabinet.
4.) Bernard Montgomery called this general, “a boorish lout who will not be denied his ride to glory, even if it is borne on the blood of his men.”
5.) This American Heavy Gunship actually automatically aims anywhere the pilot is looking.
6.) American Battleships are always named after what?
7.) Which member of the Armstrong Apollo Crew never set foot on the moon?
8.) This British Prime Minister coined the term “Iron Curtain.”
9.) After this tense event, Krouschev allegedly told Kennedy, “This time, WE blinked. Next time, you’d better blink.”
10.) This president said of Vietnam, “I’m not going to be the first president to lose a war, and I sure as hell am not going to lose it to some raggedy ass third world jungle!”


Only REAL history answers count, not what happened in your civ games :)

1) Kubla Kahn is spelt Kublai Khan and he was non of the above, he was ethnic UZBEK, get it right idiot.
2) Genghis Khan
3) Tutatenkamun, he was remarkable was his name contains the only the monotheist god in ancient egyptian history "Aten" and the chief polytheist god "Amun". He was the son of the rebel king: Akenten
4) Carthagian.
5) Anubis
6) Saxon
7) Cobra
8) Zeus, the Greek king of the Gods.
9) Thor, now possibly exists as a tribal leader on the banks of Volga
10) Bob?

Ok, back from vacation. :)

Here's some more questions:

1) The B-52 is sometimes referred to by the slang "BUFF". What does this mean?

2) What were Faith, Hope, and Charity?

3) Had anyone been paying attention, this battle in November, 1940 may have saved the Americans at Pearl Harbor a lot of grief.

4) Arthur Wellesley first gained notice with this battle in India in which he defeated the Marathas, then the dominant people of India.

5) In VietNam, what did the term "Lurps" stand for?

6) Which battle saw the first use of tanks?

7) What is a "Wild Weasel"?

8) This "famous" fighter was intended as an answer to the U.S. B-70 Valkyrie program.

9) This was the first British fighter equipped with fixed, forward firing synchronized guns.

10) At 68,000 tons, this was probably the largest warship ever sunk by submarines.


Have fun,
/bruce

1 Big Ugly Fat F***er
2 ?
3 British attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto
4 ?
5 booby traps ?
6 Chambrai
7 F-4 or F-16 fighters armed with HARM-missiles (High-speed Anti Radar Missiles) to take out SAM batteries.
8 ?
9 Sopwith Camel?
10 USS Yorktown?

"4) Arthur Wellesley first gained notice with this battle in India in which he defeated the Marathas, then the dominant people of India."

Battle of Plassey?

"6) Which battle saw the first use of tanks?"

Battle of Cambrai.

Originally posted by Michiel de Ruyter
1 Big Ugly Fat F***er
2 ?
3 British attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto
4 ?
5 booby traps ?
6 Chambrai
7 F-4 or F-16 fighters armed with HARM-missiles (High-speed Anti Radar Missiles) to take out SAM batteries.
8 ?
9 Sopwith Camel?
10 USS Yorktown?


1) Yup. In a similar vein, the A7 Corsair II was sometimes referred to as "SLUFF": Short Little Ugly F***er.

2) Hint: WW2, Mediterranean theatre.

3) Correct.

4) Can't think of a hint here. :)

5) No. It's an acronym.

6) Actually, I believe the British deployed tanks earlier than Chambrai.

7) Correct, though in Vietnam, where the term came into use, the F105 also served as a Wild Weasel.

8) Hint: It was the first of the twin rudder fighters.

9) Nope, but you've got the producer.

10) Wrong nationality. :)

/bruce

Originally posted by redtom
3) Tutatenkamun, he was remarkable was his name contains the only the monotheist god in ancient egyptian history "Aten" and the chief polytheist god "Amun". He was the son of the rebel king: Akenten
Tutankhamen, you mean? Tut-ankh-amen, perhaps you recognize the middle syllable... Actually, his father's name, Akhenaten, contains the god's name. Get it right, idiot. :rolleyes: And learn a little respect while you're at it.

Dude! What a jerk..... :rolleyes:

10 Japanese carrier Shinano?

Originally posted by VoodooAce
Dude! What a jerk..... :rolleyes:
I hope you saw the post to which I was responding... :cool:

Originally posted by Michiel de Ruyter
10 Japanese carrier Shinano?

Good! That's right.

/bruce

2 British Sea gladiators defending Malta in ww2
4 battle of Assaye
5 lurp = Long range Reconnaissance Patrol
8 Mig-25 Foxbat : developed to defend against high-flying supersonic bombers
9 Sopwith Pup is the only other Sopwith I know of.

Originally posted by Michiel de Ruyter
2 British Sea gladiators defending Malta in ww2
4 battle of Assaye
5 lurp = Long range Reconnaissance Patrol
8 Mig-25 Foxbat : developed to defend against high-flying supersonic bombers
9 Sopwith Pup is the only other Sopwith I know of.

Very good!

The answer to 9 is the Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter. Not a name that really reaches out and grabs you, eh? :)

/bruce

You can go to the ancient history thread,
there are 10 new questions i just wrote.

More questions:

1) Gibraltar became a British posession as a result of this treaty.

2) This Portuguese settlement was the first European colony in the Far East.

3) Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to create a U.N. peacekeeping force. What international incident sparked these efforts?

4) Lapulapu is a Phillipine national hero for his resistance of this first European invasion of that island. Who commanded the invaders?

5) A soccer match triggered a war between these two intellectual heavyweights in 1969. Believe it or don't.

6) This ship, the pride of Henry VIII's navy, was one of the first to be capable of firing a broadside.

7) Originally, this elite unit of the Ottoman Empire was comprised of war captives and Christian youths pressed into service.

8) This one-time comrade of Napoleon had an interesting career, eventually finding himself crowned a king.

9) This infamous SS division originally also provided concentration camp guards, though this practice was discontinued after the invasion of Russia.

10) What is commonly referred to as "The Great Siege"?

Have fun,
/bruce

"2) This Portuguese settlement was the first European colony in the Far East."

Goa in India.

"4) Lapulapu is a Phillipine national hero for his resistance of this first European invasion of that island. Who commanded the invaders?"

The invaders were Spanish but don't know who's the commander ....

"7) Originally, this elite unit of the Ottoman Empire was comprised of war captives and Christian youths pressed into service."

Jannisaries.

ANCIENT WORLD:

1.) Was Kubla Kahn Chinese, Mongolian, Japanese or Vietnamese?
Mongolina

2.) This Mongolian General is legendary for his vicious band of steppe-riding horsemen…
Gengis Khan/Tamerlane

3.) This Egyptian king was really not that remarkable, historically. He is well known however, because his treasure was found in the 20th century, miraculously intact after the tombs had been raided for centuries before.
Tutankhammon.

4.) Hannibal allegedly brought his elephants across the Alps to attack Rome. What nationality was Hannibal?
Carthaginian/Phoenician

5.) Which was not an Egyptian God: Horus, Anubis, Imenhotep, Ra or Osiris?
Imenhotep, he was a pharaoh

6.) The Sutton Hoo is the most famous burial ground for this race of warriors.
This was in England, right? I'm guessing Picts or Britons.

7.) Cleopatra killed herself with this type of venomous snake.
Aspid.

8.) The Acropolis was a temple to this goddess.
Athena.

9.) The Norse thought that the devastating blow of this god’s warhammer caused thunder.
Thor.

10.) This is the name of the Sultan’s Royal Astronomer in the Ancient Persian Courts.
???

MEDIEVAL WORLD

1.) Nicollo Machievelli wrote “The Prince” to curry favor with
this Medici.
Lorenzo?

2.) In feudal Japan, it was a capital offense for a commoner to carry a katana and wakazashi on the left side of his body, because such an arms arrangement proclaimed him to be this kind of a noble warrior.
Samurai.

3.) This king denied giving the order to kill Archbishop Thomas Beckett, later saying he “was joking.”
Henry I, I think.

4.) This series of wars was ostensibly launched to free Jerusalem from Muslim hands.
Crusades.

5.) Bayern was the medieval name of this country, which was a bunch of warring city states for most of the medieval ages.
Bavaria?

6.) This idealism was borne on four principles: valor, defense of the weak, piety and respect for women.
Chivalry

7.) There is a lot of current opinion that this Duke of Gloucester, who became a King of England, was not the hunchbacked murderer that William Shakespeare made him out to be.
Richard III.

8.) Joan of Arc insisted to the day she died that these celestial beings talked to her every day.
Angels.

9.) This is the proper name of the collapsible gate to reinforce the weak castle walls.
Drawbridge? Collapsible?

10.) The English Cross is the emblem of this Dragon Slaying Saint.
St George.


COLONIAL WORLD

1.) He was The Sun King.
Which of them all? I'm guessing Atahualpa.

2.) He led the Spanish Inquisition.
Cardinal... Ximenez! (nobody excepts the Spanish inqusition!)

3.) This revolutionary was known for printing “Common Sense,” but later became bitter that he did not receive his share of the glory for the American Revolution.
Mmmm... dunno nothing about silly American history.

4.) This captain fled the gallows in Scotland for a murder, and later became the most famous naval captain of the revolutionary war.
Dammit, I knew this one!

5.) It is ironic that this Welsh Privateer, who sacked Panama, is used as a corporate sponsor for rum… since he died from drinking too much rum.
Hawkins?

6.) Admiral Nelson won a stunning victory against this nation during the Battle of Trafalgar.
France. Villenueve was the inept French commander. :D

7.) Montezuma once confided that he planned to kill this Spanish Conquistador but was afraid that he may be a prophesized God.
Cortez.

8.) This infamous pirate was actually a British Captain who decided to turn to a life of crime. He was drawn and quartered in England.
So many of them... :D

9.) This brilliant American Revolutionary General later said that it was his family that made him decide to defect to the British.
Dunno... but lol!

10.) Alexander Hamilton may have lost his life to this political rival, but the infamous duel ruined the career of the victor.
I think I know who this other guy was, is it the one from the Barbary Wars?




INDUSTRIAL WORLD
1.) Lenin based a lot of his teachings on these two famous communist writers.
Marx and Hegel/Engels.

2.) The Hindenburg had this symbol emblazoned on its tail.
Swastika.

3.) He saved millions of lives by creating a vaccine against malaria.
Albert Schweizer?

4.) This famous scientific couple died of radiation poisoning from their own experiments.
Curie, Pierre and Marie.

5.) A lot of revisionist historians are claiming that it actually John Holliday, not the Clantons, who fired the first shot this legendary gun battle.
Zzzzz...

6.) What was “Seward’s Ice Box?”
The place where Seward kept his six packs. :D

7.) Pickett’s Charge happened during which battle?
Dunno.

8.) What Old West sidearm was known as “The Thumb-buster” because of its cumbersome hammer?
No idea.

9.) There is a rumor that a Hungarian Welder knew this ship was doomed because he saw the ID number of the ship, 409093, which he read as “NO POPE”
Zzzzz...

10.) Early in World War I, there were rumors that a woman flew this ace’s infamous red Fokker triplane.
Baron von Richtoffen's?


MODERN WORLD
1.) He was refused to several Viennese Art schools for “lack of talent.”
Adolf.

2.) He flew the U2 Spy Plane that crashed, survived capture and interrogation by the Russians… and died in a helicopter accident a few years later.
Dunno.

3.) A lot of people seem to think that “Deep Throat” was this member of Nixon’s cabinet.
Zzzz...

4.) Bernard Montgomery called this general, “a boorish lout who will not be denied his ride to glory, even if it is borne on the blood of his men.”
Patton. Has to be.

5.) This American Heavy Gunship actually automatically aims anywhere the pilot is looking.
Eh?

6.) American Battleships are always named after what?
States?

7.) Which member of the Armstrong Apollo Crew never set foot on the moon?
Collins.

8.) This British Prime Minister coined the term “Iron Curtain.”
Churchill. But I've read it was used by one of the allied premiers at Versailles in 1919. :p

9.) After this tense event, Krouschev allegedly told Kennedy, “This time, WE blinked. Next time, you’d better blink.”
Cuban Missile Crisis?

10.) This president said of Vietnam, “I’m not going to be the first president to lose a war, and I sure as hell am not going to lose it to some raggedy ass third world jungle!”
Reagan? Nixon?

Give us some decent colonial world question! :D

2a) "Into the Valley of Death rode the six hundred" refers to what military event?
Battle of Balaklava, the Charge of the Light Brigade.

2b) In what war did this occur?
Crimean.

3) What battle saw the defeat of the Imperial Russian navy by the Japanese?
Tsushima.

4) The development of what weapon started a new arms race and indirectly led to Britains involvement in WWI?
Dreadnought-Class battleship.

5) Who was the leading ALLIED ace in WWI?
Woof! ;)

7) The bombing of this city during the Spanish Civil War foretold events in WW2
Guernica.

3a) Octavian ended a civil war and became Caesar Augustus after winning this battle in in 31BC.
Issus?

3b) Which general did he defeat?
Marc Antony?

4) Nelson was made a Viscount after success at which battle?
The one in Egypt, when he sunk Napoleon's fleet, what was it called dammit!

5) The 1812 overture was written to commemorate which battle?
Borodino.

6) This pair of German generals combined to defeat the Russians at Tannenburg in August, 1914.
von Hindenburg and I can't remember the other one.

7) Alexander the Great was tutored by this famous scholar.
Aristotle.

8) This English king was defeated by William the Conqueror.
Harold I.

9) The Hundred Years War was decided in Englands favour by what famous battle?
Crecy or Agincourt.

9) The doomed HMS Invincible took part in this battle against Admiral Graf Spee.
Is this when they break through from Tientsin?