Cumulative PM-based History Quiz II

[Ciceronian]

Well, that was a low winning score! I think I should have guessed some more, I was about to guess no.3 right, and I knew 7. was SE-Asian. And 8. had to be in West Africa somewhere.
I will make a quiz soon, although it might take a while, perhaps until tomorrow. I hope the submissions pick up a bit again, now in the summer holidays nobody really seems to very involved with the quizzes.

 

[Ciceronian]

Just to tell everyone I haven't forgotten about this quiz, but am busy preparing it and concocting questions. I will hopefully have it up soon but I am taking my time in making it so it lives up to the high standards I set with my last quiz (although I'm afraid this one will fall short). Expect the usual picture questions and some other tidbits. Luceafarul is set to return from his holidays in a couple of days, so he will be able to enter the quiz again as hot favourite. Until then, patience everyone!

 

[Ciceronian]

Sorry everyone for taking so long, but now I'm finally done, and I promise you it was worth the wait!

The quiz will come in two parts, it being too long for one post. As usual, there will be plenty of pictures, and lots of picture questions. This is because I believe that learning through pictures and completing riddles which involve them has a greater educational effect and is more fun! There are also some ordinary questions though, which only require textbook knowledge. There are some simpler questions, but also a few tough ones. I encourage everyone to submit, beginner or history buff!

I've also as usual included a question about philsophy. I think it is an important element in history as it had profound effects on the way people behaved and thought. The philsopher this time also had a deep impact on history with his teachings.

To give everybody enough time to submit, and since everybody is generally more sluggish over the summer, for now I will set the deadline to Thursday, the 8th of September, 8 pm CET.

Research, as you all know, is discouraged, but I will allow an exception: For some of the picture quizzes, if you think you know who a person is, you may check (on google) to see if your guess was right or continue guessing, to a reasonable extent. So you may check to see if you recognized pictures, but no more.

 

[Ciceronian]

So here is the quiz. There's a total of 40 points up for grabs.


1. To start us off the usual format: these 4 pictures are connected to a certain person. Who is he? (4 points)

Now identify the two persons and the town (3 x 1 point). The first picture below is a clue to recognize the first person, and the second picture below will help you to recognize the town.

2. Edward Gibbon, author of the famous “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” wrote the following about the significance of a certain battle:

A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles from the rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire; the repetition of an equal space would have carried the Saracens to the confines of Poland and the Highlands of Scotland; the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Qur'an would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Muhammed.

Which battle was this? (2 points) Which century did it take place in? (0.5 points) Name the leader of the force opposing the Saracens. (1 point)
An extra picture clue to help with the above:

3. Since Nobel Price questions seem to have come into fashion lately, I will follow suit and pose the following question: Who is the only Icelander ever to have won a Nobel Prize? (1 point) In which of the five categories was he successful? (0.5 points) Here’s a picture of him if it helps at all:

4. The following are two extracts from the same writer/philsopher. Who is he? (3 points)

All ideas come from sensation or reflection. Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas:- How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE. In that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives itself. Our observation employed either, about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.

AND also:

Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a “property” in his own “person.” This nobody has any right to but himself. The “labour” of his body and the “work” of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that Nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property. It being by him removed from the common state Nature placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it that excludes the common right of other men. For this “labour” being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good left in common for others.

 

[Ciceronian]

5. Another picture quiz about a person. The three pictures are allusions to some of his works. As a fourth clue I give a number: 10,000. Who is the required person? (4 points)

6. An easy question for grabbing lots of points: Below is a map of Africa. The different colours indicate the possesions of different European countries before the outbreak of World War I. Match the colours (yellow, bright orange, dark orange, red, green, blue, purple) to the countries they represent. Also name the two countries shaded grey. There is a total of 5 points, with 1 point being deducted for every mistake or omission (you can’t score negative, though).

7. Who was officially Chancellor of Germany for only one day? (1 point)

8. Who or what was a satrap? (1 point)

9. (6 points in total) Below is a famous caricature. The six people each represent a different nation. Name the nationalities, starting with the man in the background and then proceding clockwise around the table. (2 points, minus 0.5 point for each mistake or omission) The man in the background and the two rightmost people at the table are stereotypes / symbols of their countries, while the three leftmost at the table are actual rulers. Name these three. (2 points, minus 1 point per mistake or omission) What then ruling dynasty of his country does the man in the background represent? (1 point) Finally very briefly outline what is happening and the policy of the nations seated at the table. (1 point)

10. Between 1772 and 1795 Poland was divided up between Austria, Prussia and Russia in three steps. However, in one of these steps, one nation was left out and gained no territory. Which step was this and which nation missed out? (1 point if you get both right. Nothing if you make a mistake. You could be guessing. )

11. Why was Fabius Maximus, dictator of Rome during the Second Punic War, nicknamed “Cunctator”? (1 point) After his term had expired, he was replaced by two consuls, who fielded the largest Roman army ever against Hannibal… and lost. Which battle was this? (1 point)

12. Name the four men below. Hint: the first is English; the second is Czech/Bohemian. (4 x 0.5 points) What did they all have in common? (1 point) But who is the odd one out and why? (2 points) (Note: The answer has nothing to do with their theological/philosophical opinions, their teachings or their followers. It is something about the persons themselves. It also has nothing to do with their names. Also saying they are all wearing hats but number 3 is the only one without a beard will not get you any points!)

To sum it all up: 40 points in total and submit by Thursday, 8th of September, 8 pm CET. Have fun everyone!

 

[Ciceronian]

We have our first submission, greekguy scoring 5 points.

 

[Ciceronian]

With an amazing set of answers Adler17 takes the lead (for good?) with an incredible 34 points. to Adler! The only questions he failed to get correct are number 4 and he didn't get the odd one out in the last question. Who will be the first to crack these?

 

[Ciceronian]

A great PM-based quiz debut from Jeriko one scores 24.5 points. Well done! He was also the first to find the author of the philsophical passages in #4. Only the odd one out in #12 remains undiscovered.

The scoreboard now reads:

Adler17.........34 points
Jeriko one.....24.5 points
Greekguy......5 points

 

[Ciceronian]

Sydhe has submitted, scoring 24 points. However he has not fully answered everything and obviously overlooked some bits and will probably resubmit later. Now the scoreboard reads thus:

Adler17......34 points
Jeriko one..24.5 points
Sydhe.......24 points
Greekguy...5 points

 

[Ciceronian]

Another PM-based debut, this time from Till, scores 19 points. Sydhe has also brought up his score by 1.5 points, launching into second place. Here's the leaderboard:

Adler17.......34 points
Sydhe........25.5 points
Jeriko one...24.5 points
Till............19 points
Greekguy....5 points

 

[Ciceronian]

Here's the newest update: shortguy has submitted, scoring 18 points. Furthermore Greekguy has improved his score by 1 point, and Jeriko one has added 3 points to his score, overtaking sydhe for second place. The updated leaderboard reads:

Adler17......34 points
Jeriko one...27.5 points
Sydhe........25.5 points
Till............19 points
Shortguy....18 points
Greekguy....6 points

Adler is still in the lead, but historical genius luceafarul has promissed to submit by tomorrow... Watch out, German eagle!

 

[Richard Cribb]

Adler is still in the lead, but historical genius luceafarul has promissed to submit by tomorrow... Watch out, German eagle!

A promise is a promise, so I will submit before the time limit.
But I am afraid the "genius" will fail to pluck the feathers of the Eagle this time...

 

[Ciceronian]

Loulong returns to the PM-based Quiz stage, submitting for a score of 24 points.

 

[Ciceronian]

Some people are struggling with the last question, only one person has so far got the intended solution. Therefore I have tried to clarify it a little and have added the following note:

Note: The answer has nothing to do with their theological/philosophical opinions, their teachings or their followers. It is something about the persons themselves.

To give everybody enough time to rethink their answers and adapt to this new information, and to give those people enough time who still want to submit I have decided to extend the deadline to Saturday, the 10th of September, 8 pm CET. So there is still time everyone!

Further I may announce that Loulong has filled in some points he forgot, for an extra 4 points, which pushes him into 2nd place with 28 points.

 

[Ciceronian]

Sydhe has also added 4 points to his score, overtaking Loulong and leaping into 2nd place. New scoreboard:

Adler17......34 points
Sydhe........29.5 points
Loulong......28 points
Jeriko one...27.5 points
Till............19 points
Shortguy....18 points
Greekguy....6 points

 

[Ciceronian]

In case somebody misunderstood me... I extended the deadline so people could submit their answers...

 

[Ciceronian]

After a long absence Rambuchan returns. He told me he was in a rush so he only submitted some hasty answers scoring 8 points.

 

[Ciceronian]

Loulong further improves his score by 5 points to a total of 33, creeping to within 1 point of Adler. But the big news of the day are that the ferocious Viking has bludgeoned the german eagle: Luceafarul submits for a score of 34.5 points, breathing past Adler with the narrowest of margins. However he has made one or two obvious oversights which he should be able to correct soon. So our current leaderboard reads:

Luceafarul...34.5 points
Adler17.......34 points
Loulong.......33 points
Sydhe.........29.5 points
Jeriko one....27.5 points
Till.............19 points
Shortguy.....18 points
Rambuchan..8 points
Greekguy.....6 points

So it remains very close at the top. One submission could change everything!

 

[Richard Cribb]

Yes, I just noticed a big and very stupid howler ( Odin be thanked that none of my students noticed). I happen to be slightly colour-blind, but I will not be remembered for such a blunder anyway, so for once I re-submitted. I even came up with a suggestion on the "impossible" last one, but I don't have illusions about that being correct, really.

 

[Ciceronian]

Yes, I just noticed a big and very stupid howler ( Odin be thanked that none of my students noticed). I happen to be slightly colour-blind, but I will not be remembered for such a blunder anyway, so for once I re-submitted. I even came up with a suggestion on the "impossible" last one, but I don't have illusions about that being correct, really.

Why, of course it's correct! And since you have resubmitted the question which disadvantages colour-blind people, you've pushed your score up by 4 points, hence you now stand at 38.5 points! Very impressive indeed, almost full score!