Cumulative History Quiz #3

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Sounds good enough to me.
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Only one thing: the Great Wall wa started far before that, in the 3rd age B.C. at the northern border. The plan wasn't to make the wall that long yet, but it was the first piece of the wall. Next question is yours.

I came to this question because of Prometheus' scenario 'Zanghuo' that is about the conquests of the Ch'in. Too bad he chose the wrong years in his scen'.

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How Many People Died on working at the Great-Wall?
And how the Empire Of the Great-Wall Still Got "defeated"?
 
OK, here goes - Hopefully this isn't too obscure:

Q: It's the last two weeks of December - including Christmas - and the enemy have landed at the confluence of Lake Ontario and the Niagara River, seizing the 150 year old fort and burning down the surrounding towns (Youngstown, Lewiston, etc.) Though the area's population is in terror, the enemy then withdraws, much to everyone's relief. However, on the second-to-last day of December, the enemy re-appears at the other end of the Niagara River, landing at the village of Blackrock. After burning it down (with its population either killed or fleeing into the wintery interior), the enemy marches south towards Lake Erie, into the area's prominant town - though it's really just a frontier village - of Buffalo. In Buffalo, the enemy begins methodically burning down every building, sparing only one home where a widow refused to vacate, and they hang posters on trees addressing the citizens of Buffalo, reminding them of York. The enemy then marched briefly southward along the lake, laying waste to homes and food supplies as they went, before withdrawing. Today if you visit this area's older cemetaries, you can see many tombstones for families of this period who died of exposure, starvation, etc.

1. While this must be partially obvious, who is the enemy in the narrative above? (Hint: It's really more than one group.)

2. What war did this take place in? (There are several names for this war, depending whom you ask. One of them will do.)

3. What did the enemy mean with the reference to York?





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No answers yet - was this too obscure? I apologise if so. Just say so and I'll nix it.

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The War of 1812; in late 1813, the British, Canadians, and the Indian allies under Gordon Drummond seized Ft. Niagara, then burned Buffalo -- and apparently other settlement in the region. The reference to York, I guess, refers to the American capture and burning of York earlier that year by the Americans under Zebulon Pike -- for whom a mountain outside my window is somewhat ridiculously named.
 


The War of 1812; in late 1813, the British, Canadians, and the Indian allies under Gordon Drummond seized Ft. Niagara, then burned Buffalo -- and apparently other settlement in the region. The reference to York, I guess, refers to the American capture and burning of York earlier that year by the Americans under Zebulon Pike -- for whom a mountain outside my window is somewhat ridiculously named.
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Andu -

Brilliant! You got it. It was a mixed force of British regulars and Canadian militia who laid waste to western New York state in the War of 1812 (December, 1813 actually) in retaliation for the burning of York. Zebulon Pike, facing what he thought was a superior force the year before in American-occupied York, burned it before retreating - though he later claimed by mistake, when the powder magazine caught fire... (No one believed him.) I can't believe someone would name a mountain - or anything - after this guy. After the war the Canadians & Brits rebuilt York, re-naming it Toronto...

Andu - you're next!

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Must have been Pike's second-in-command who claimed that, since Pike managed to get himself killed in the magazine explosion. In 1806-1807 he led an American exploration party into the west which "discovered" the peak that now bears his name; he claimed it was 18,000 feet high and unclimable! He then managed to get his party lost in the mountains and wound captured by the Spanish for trespassing in the territory of New Spain. Needless to say, in Colorado Springs such "inconvenient" facts are overlooked ... (The term "idiot" comes to my mind.)

Question 24: Blue jeans are perhaps the most durable and universal item in the history of clothing. What are three European elements in the design of this archetypal American product?

 
Two days no answer. A tip for all those who want to try? (I have no clue, don't get the question I think).
If I said wool or something, would that be the kind of things you're looking for.

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Originally posted by Andu Indorin:
Question 24: Blue jeans are perhaps the most durable and universal item in the history of clothing. What are three European elements in the design of this archetypal American product?
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Okay, some hints, in three parts:
(1) Levi-Strauss (not Claude) was an immigrant to the U.S from Europe: but from where?
(2) The the term "jeans" is Franco/Anglo-Americanized from a specific cut of sailor's pants, referring to the city where that cut of pants comes from (Europe, again).
(3) The "blue" in "Blue Jeans" comes from denim; another derivative from a city that specialized in the production of this specific cloth, originally used for sails on fishing boats (again, in Europe).

I.E., About the only thing American about Blue Jeans are the rivets (from Cowboys' chaps) and that they happened to be originally invented during the California Gold Rush of '48.

 
Oh, you just worded the question badly!
I thought of the Levi-Strauss being European thing and that the word denim derives from the French de Nîmes but reasoned that they didn't have anything to do with the actual design of jeans. I thought you meant stuff like the crotch stud they used to have, like in that advert a while back and the general cut, watchpockets, etc.

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Duke,

this question's getting a bit stale; since you answered one-third of it (Denim = de Nimes), why don't you ask the next.

(By the way, Jeans is corrupted from Genoa; the cut was common among sailors there. And Levi-Strauss was Bavarian).
 
Are u meaning my infamous idol, Fidel Castro?

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Q-26: IN WHICH YEAR THE SHAKA BECAME THE LEADER OF THE ZULUS?
Just tell me if this question is too hard.

[Edit: Jesus christ! What I was mumbling about?! Oh more coffee pliiz...]
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Hmm. Two hours and no suggestions. This is normal to quiz, but I'm so impatient that
I'll give you a tip: Argentina came independent in the same year. Now it should
be easy as dell.

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-I'm a communist pig and proud of it.
-Sweden - the number #1 country in the world!
-97% of finns don't trust politics; 38%
of 'em don't vote 'cause of this.
 
1816?

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You're right, Az! The question 27 will be yours.

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-Sweden - the number #1 country in the world!
-97% of finns don't trust politics; 38%
of 'em don't vote 'cause of this.
 
ok....

Question 27:
I was the Csar's minister of foreign affairs.
When the Helvetic Confederation was formed I was sent as Russia's representative and I contributed in writing the first Helvetian constitution.
When my country of origin became independant I resigned from my position and left Russia for that country. There I became general governor (head of state).
Who am I...

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Tooooooooooo easy.
I 'll wait for a couple of hours and then I 'll post the answer.

PS. AZ check your messages.

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