Cumulative PM-based History Quiz II

[Rambuchan]

I think you can be really proud of the amount of entrants there have been on this quiz Ciceronian.

 

[Ciceronian]

I think you can be really proud of the amount of entrants there have been on this quiz Ciceronian.

I certainly am, but what makes me even happier than many entrants are the entries which have clearly had a lot of effort put into them.

 

[thetrooper]

Rambuchan, with a Promethean effort scores 1 point, putting himself into a position to potentially topple Adler and win this one!

What!?! Uno punta...

It's payback time!

Damned, I'm getting hammered here.

Well that feeling is not new for you when it comes to quizzes.

 

[Rambuchan]

Aye, my entry was a little homage to the trooper.

 

[Ciceronian]

I think you can safely submit troop, knowing that you will surely humiliate Ram with manifold his score.

 

[Ciceronian]

The latest update occurs amidst a buzz of acitivity, with 3 people improving their scores and two new submissions:

1. Shortguy claims 2 more points to reach a total of 17.5.

2. This is however not sufficient to ward off Till, who adds 4 points to his score, getting half a point ahead of Shortguy.

3. Taliesin submits, scoring 10 points.

4. Our recent host over at the researchable quiz Aion reveals his non-reasarch knowledge, submitting for 17 points.

5. And finally, Asclepius manages to come up with the 3 points needed to draw level with Adler17, tieing with him for top place! This could be a nailbiter.

The updated scoreboard:

Adler17/Asclepius...36
Sydhe..................33.5
Till.......................18
Shortguy..............17.5
Aion.....................17
Taliesin................10
Rambuchan...........1

 

[Ciceronian]

There have been no more submissions, but Adler17 has improved his score by 4 points to a total of 40, answering a question he was previously unsure about. Till has added another 2 points to his score thanks to an inspirational moment.
Remember, the deadline is tomorrow evening, so there is still time!

 

[Ciceronian]

Time is up, and the only update is that Adler17 adds another point to his already prodigious score, and winning the quiz. These are the final standings:

Adler17................41
Asclepius..............36
Sydhe..................33.5
Till.......................20
Shortguy..............17.5
Aion.....................17
Taliesin................10
Rambuchan...........1

I am still busy writing up the answers in a detailed fashion, I will hopefully have completed doing that and post them tomorrow.

 

[Adler17]

I will come with a new quiz after Ciceronian posts his answers. Otherwise it could be misunderstanding. Also I need some time for new good questions.

Adler

 

[Asclepius]

Bugger, I knew I'd kick myself for not getting Hipparchus in Q7. I actually have photos of those two statues, but remembering their names and connecting Hipparchus' murder with the end of Etruscan Rome is a total bastard of a question

Well done Ciceronian for a great set of questions

 

[Ciceronian]

I've written up most of the answers now, here is the first part of them, the rest will hopefully follow soon:

1. Following the format pioneered by luceafarul recently on the Cumulative Quiz, the below pictures all have a connection to an ancient city. Name the city (3 points) and what in particular it was famed for. (1 point) Also tell me who the person / deity in picture #1 is (1 point) and what picture #2 has to do with the city. (1 point) Name the event that took place every four years at the place depicted in picture #3 (which is located in the city I am looking for). (1 point)

The name of the required city is Delphi. Delphi was of course famed for the Delphic Oracle which was located there, and was dedicated to Apollo, the god of dance, poetry, archery and medicine amongst others, and is depicted in the first picture. The second picture shows shows a navel, which is a reference to the fact that δελφυς or delphus means navel, as Delphi was considered to be the "navel" or centre of the world. The fourth picture shows the racetrack were the Pythian Games were held, almost equal to in importance to the Olympian Games. Pythias is another name for Apollo, hence the name. Some people answered the Isthmian Games, but those were held in Corinth. And just for info, the Nemean Games (at Nemea) were said to complete the list of prestigious athletic contests.
Some people gave the answer as being Olympia, reasoning that the first picture was Hermes, the second showed that the atheletes performed nude and the third was the racetrack there. A famous statue of Hermes was indeed found at Olympia but the deity depicted is Apollo.

Delphi

2. Who said the following (3 points):
My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.

Rudolf Hess said this, referring to his daring flight to Scotland. Hess had been Hitler's deputy in the Nazi party. Like Goebbels, Hess was distressed by the declaration of war by Britain and so secretly flew to Britain in 1941, parachuting onto the ground and breaking his ankle. He was hoping to gain a stunning diplomatic victory, but the government did not negotiate with him and detained him. He was tried at Nuernberg after the war and sentenced to life imprisonment, which was felt by many to be unfair, as he had not played a major role in the Nazi atrocities and sacrificed a lot by coming to Britain. He was imprisoned for over 40 years until his death in 1987, which was probably suicide, at the age of 93.

Rudolf Hess

3. Most countries assign their national day to a day which was a key event in their history. The Germans, for instance, celebrate the reunification on the 3rd of October. The Austrians celebrate theirs on the 26th of October. What happened on a 26th of October which the Austrians now celebrate (2 points) and which year did this take place in? (1 point)

On the 25th October 1955 the last foreign troops left Austrian ground, therefore making the 26th October the first day since Hitler's occupation where no foreign troops were on Austrian ground.

4. Ragnar Lodbrok, the civ leaderhead for the Vikings, was semi-legendary rather than certainly real. According to legend, he met a very strange end. Who had him killed (1 point) and how? (1 point) His sons avenged him by killing his killer. In what way are they said to have done this? (1 point)

King Aelle II of Northumbria had Lodbrok thrown into a pit filled with poisonous snakes, after he had defeated Ragnar Lodbrok in battle (his first defeat). The story goes that the next year Lodbrok's sons captured Aelle and killed him with the method of Rista Blodörn, also known as the Blood Eagle, an extremely painful method of execution. Whether this was ever actually practiced remains open to doubt.

Ragnar Lodbrok being thrown into the snake pit

5. Where is this gate to be found (1 point) and what is called? (1 point)

The picture shows the so-called Lion Gate located in Μυκηναι or Mycenae. It was probably built in around 1250 BC, and is the best known feature of the city.

 

[Ciceronian]

6. Which person is connected to the following four pictures? (4 points)

The correct answer is Admiral Horatio Nelson. The first picture shows some wrestlers, a reference to the wrestling grip known as the Neslon. The second picture shows Nelson being shot dead in the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The third picture depicts the Battle of the Nile which took place in 1798, where Neslon helped to decisively defeat the French. On the last picture we see Emma Hamilton, a long-time mistress of Nelson.

Admiral Nelson

7. Which two persons do these statues depict? (2 points) Whom did they kill? (1 point) What was the historical significance of the murder? (2 point) [NOTE: For further clarification I have added a second picture, a vase painting depicting the incident.] Which event resembling this one took place just several years later in another ancient Mediterranean county and played a similarly key role in its history? (2 points)

The two persons are Harmodius and Aristogeiton, two homosexual lovers. In 514 BC they assasinated Hipparchus, the tyrant of Athens. His brother Hippias continued ruling for a while but was also soon overthrown, and this paved the way for the Athenian democracy. This bears a striking resemblance to the casting out of Tarquin, the last king for Rome in 509 BC, just 5 years later.
The two are were very famous after their death and were called the "tyrannicides", in honour of their role in overthrowing the tyranny. However, the murder was not politically motivated but by a quarrel between them and Hipparchus.

8. As a result of the Nuernberg Trials in 1945/46 most of the Nazi leaders / functionaries were either imprisoned or executed, but three were acquitted. However, two of them were again tried by a German court and sentenced to brief prison sentences. Only one escaped punishment completely. Who was he? (2 points)

Franz von Papen escaped punishment completely. He was German Chancellor before Hitler took power for several months. He was also briefly Vice Chancellor under Hitler, but spent most of the war as an ambassador to Turkey. At the Nuernberg Trials the court acquitted von Papen and stated that he had in the court's view committed a number of political immoralities, but that these actions were not punishable under the "conspiracy to commit crimes against peace" charged in von Papen's indictment.

Franz von Papen

 

[Asclepius]

The name of the required city is Delphi. [...]The second picture shows shows a navel, which is a reference to the fact that δελφυς or delphus means navel, as Delphi was considered to be the "navel" or centre of the world.

This is right but for the wrong reason! The most revered sanctuary at Delphi, where the consultation with the Oracle took place, was called the adytum. The centre of this space was marked with a stone, which was considered the center of the world, and was called the navel or omphalos. Delphus more specifically means womb.

 

[Till]

Ow.. when those vikings were out for revenge, they didn't fool around, did they?

 

[Adler17]

So since it seems, Ciceronian needs a bit longer I will post a quiz here. Be aware that the next solution is part of the previous quiz.

1. What is the origin of the word "quiz"? (5 pts.)

2. What am I (7 pts.)? I was a prosperous city state. I was a very wealthy city but was attacked like my neighbours of a new threat from the North. Like all my neighbours I was destroyed. My ally from the south did not come to help me, because there a new monotheistic religion introduced. Later both powers fought relative near to me (in the country), but under other kings. Who were my ally and enemy (3 pts each)? Who was ruling in my ally´s country in that time (3 pts. each)? Who was leading the battle I mentioned on both sides and what is the name of the battle (3 pts. each)? What happened for the first time after the battle (5 pts.)? (30 pts. in total)

3. Who am I (6 pts.) and in which relation are the pictures to me (5 pts. each)?

Bonus: Where is the institute which has my name? (4 pts.)
(35 pts. in total)

4. Who said this (4 pts.)? What name has the speech? (3 pts.)? Can you translate that? (8 pts.)

O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit. Consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit? immo vero etiam in senatum venit, fit publici consilii particeps, notat et designat oculis ad caedem unum quemque nostrum. Nos autem fortes viri satis facere rei publicae videmur, si istius furorem ac tela vitemus. Ad mortem te, Catilina, duci iussu consulis iam pridem oportebat, in te conferri pestem, quam tu in nos [omnes iam diu] machinaris.

(15 pts. in total)

5. Many of us know Manitu as the supreme spirit or god of the Indians. However only one tribe (or perhaps better family of tribes) is believing in him. Which one? (6 pts.)

6. The British lost shortly after ww1 broke out the Dreadnought HMS Audacious. However they kept it secret, but indeed soon everyone knew it. Why? (6 pts.)

7. What was after Pearl Harbour the most successful attack against enemy ships in harbour (6 pts.) and why exactly was that lowering the danger of even further escalation (10 pts)? (16 in total)

8. Describe the coin system of Athens. (I mean for example 100 Cent= 1 &#8364 (5* 2 pts.= 10 pts. in total)

9. What mean the colours of following national ensigns?
a) USA (1 pt. (sorry, too easy for more points ))
b) UK (3 pts.)
c) Germany (3 pts.)
d) Jamaica (6 pts.)
e) France (3 pts.)
(16 pts in total)

10. The word "solid" has its origin in what? (4 pts.)

11. What revolution in the history of earth is the most important and why? (7 pts.)

150 pts. to get! Have fun. I know it is difficult, but it is still solveable. This is my last quiz here until at least March, so you can be proud of it for a long time, if you participate. It is over to you to!

End of the quiz: December 6th morning CET. Can be extended.

Adler

 

[Adler17]

Till tried it and achieved a score of 18 points. He is the first one to try the quiz.
Come on, folks, his score is to be beaten.

Adler

 

[Aion]

Does the use of a dictionary for question #4 count as research?

EDIT: Could you specify number 9: Is ensign the maritime flag, or what do you mean?

 

[Adler17]

Of course not. Like in school, Stowasser and similar dictionarys are strictly allowed!

Adler

 

[Adler17]

Number 9 shall be the colours of the national ensigns.

Auf Deutsch: Ich meine damit die Nationalfarben der Länder, also Schwarz- Rot- Gold oder Blau- Weiß- Rot, oder das Sternenbanner oder den Union Jack.

Adler

 

[Till]

Of course not. Like in school, Stowasser and similar dictionarys are strictly allowed!

Adler

Oh i did't know that. Then i might have been able to deliver a better translation. (If that is possible at all )