Cumulative History Quiz #4

[Knight-Dragon]

Joespaniel, you are correct. The tribe's name is the Masagatae and the location is in north-eastern Iran, somewhere near the Caspian Sea. Next question is all yours.

I could have sworn that it's Cyprus. That's the problem with quoting fr memory.

 

[joespaniel]

Name the military unit that liberated Kuwait City in 1991.

 

[Andu Indorin]

Supported by U.S. Marines, the honor of liberating the hastily evacauated Kuwait City went to Kuwait's 35th Armored brigade, aka the "Martyr Brigade."

 

[joespaniel]

You left out the Saudi Royal Marines, but its good enough for government work, as they say.

AI, its your question.

 

[Andu Indorin]

At the Battle of Lechfeld (ad 955), after the Magyars routed the Bohemians and Swabians, whom did Otto the Great dispatch in order to restore the rear at the rear of his army before launching his decisive attack

 

[Andu Indorin]

Perhaps too obscure ...

By way of a hint: Otto entrusted this task to a noble who the previous year -- and in rebellion against Otto -- allied himself with Magyars and aided their crossing of the Rhine at Worms, resulting in the devestation of northeastern France and Burgandy.

 

[duke o' york]

It's Duke Conrad of Lotharingia, but I'm afraid that I can't be bothered to come up with another question before I leave work and so will throw it open to whoever comes next to this thread. The question is yours!

 

[Andu Indorin]

Duke Conrad is correct; interestingly enough, he died at the moment of Otto's victory -- which raises the remote possibility that Otto decided that Conrad was too much of threat and had him killed in battle once the victory was secure.

At any rate, since I don't have any challenging questions at present, let the next person ask the next question, as the Duke o' York suggested.

 

[duke o' york]

I've got a new question everybody! And it's dead easy!

In 1615 which company was awarded the national monopoly for North American trade by the Dutch government?

 

[Sodak]

The Dutch West Indies company? Was this the outfit Stuyvesant was part of?

 

[duke o' york]

Not according to my saucy source Land o' lakian.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

The New Amsterdam Co (if it had existed)?

 

[duke o' york]

If it had existed then I guarantee you that they would have had the contract, but since they didn't, it's wrong .

 

[Sodak]

How about Douwe Egberts? That just popped into my head as I read the last responses.

 

[cataclysm]

Does it have something to do with Canada and fur trade?

Was that company competing with Hudson's Bay company?

 

[duke o' york]

By way of a clue, SKM has one word wrong in his answer.
Another clue: the wrong word is Amster*** - that would be giving too much away.
And the monopoly only lasted for a few years before it was rescinded.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

New Rotterdam Co.

 

[duke o' york]

No, no that's not right either. Good guess though.

 

[MCdread]

The New England Co?

 

[dtziouf]

The New Indies Co ?