Cumulative PM-based History Quiz III

[Atticus]

Dragonlord's suggestion is good: it brings some social pressure and the duty to make questions makes winning more honorable.

I might remember 6b soon, he has probably been in a cover of a book I read once, but the sad news is it was about pretty broad era.

 

[Steph]

I'll try to answer tomorrow. I've been to the big city to train some people recenlty, I haven't got enough time to carefully read the quizz.

 

[Olav]

Here's a little hint for #4 in 6a:

You have ~24 hours left before you get the names for all persons in question 6a...

 

[Olav]

A new man enters the podium: Steph, with 27 points

Dachs 34
BananaLee 30
Steph 27
Sydhe 26
Dragonlord 25
Innonimatu 23
Atticus 22
Yeekim 20
Taliesin 17
Dutchfire 10

Edit: Steph adds 6 points to his score!

Dachs 34
Steph 33
BananaLee 30
Sydhe 26
Dragonlord 25
Innonimatu 23
Atticus 22
Yeekim 20
Taliesin 17
Dutchfire 10

 

[Olav]

Irish Caesar joins the show with 11 points. Meanwhile, Yeekim and BananaLee improves their score with 5 and 6 points respectively. BananaLee is the first one to nail 6b, and therefore pushes Dachs down to second place again. This will be interesting.

BananaLee 36
Dachs 34
Steph 33
Sydhe 26
Dragonlord 25
Yeekim 25
Innonimatu 23
Atticus 22
Taliesin 17
Irish Caesar 11
Dutchfire 10

I gave BananaLee a hint though, for 6b:
Think about their nationality... (btw, I don't count #3 as American)
Since question 6 is completed, I won't give you the answers for 6a...

I think I will give you the answers to the quiz in 36 hours.

Edit. Dragonlord nails #4 in 6a: + 1 point!
Edit: So does Dachs! He also got 6b, so now Dachs is back on top.
Edit: Yeekim jumps up two places, with 2 points!
Edit: Steph nails the last person on 6a, and also 6b! + 5 points.
Edit: Steph is now in the lead, after completing question 1! +2 points.

Steph 40
Dachs 39
BananaLee 36
Yeekim 27
Sydhe 26
Dragonlord 26
Innonimatu 23
Atticus 22
Taliesin 17
Irish Caesar 11
Dutchfire 10

 

[Olav]

Dragonlord solved the 6b mystery, and adds 4 points to his score. See the above post for some edits!

Steph 40
Dachs 39
BananaLee 36
Dragonlord 30
Yeekim 27
Sydhe 26
Innonimatu 23
Atticus 22
Taliesin 17
Irish Caesar 11
Dutchfire 10

 

[Steph]

At least we have some suspens in this game!

 

[Olav]

I got a load of answers now. I don't have time right now to correct them - I'll do that tomorrow. However I can say that all questions have been completed. Sydhe nailed the last one.

 

[Olav]

Two new particpants: Heretic_Cata got 18 points, while Japanrocks12 got 17 points. Many improved their score as well: Atticus + 1 point, Dachs + 1 point, Sydhe + 5 points and Irish Caesar + 5 points.

Dachs 40
Steph 40
BananaLee 36
Sydhe 31
Dragonlord 30
Yeekim 27
Innonimatu 23
Atticus 23
Heretic_Cata 18
Taliesin 17
Japanrocks12 17
Irish Caesar 16
Dutchfire 10

I put Dachs above Steph, as Steph was quizmaster "recently" (and not because D is before S in the alphabet. ). I'm a bit interested in seeing what Sydhe could do, as he is the only one to get question 7. If he improves his score in other questions, we may see a new leader.

Final deadline in 11 hours. (11pm GMT)

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Not last place

Thanks to Olav for not making this an esoteric quiz like the others.

 

[Steph]

Dachs 40
Steph 40


I put Dachs above Steph, as Steph was quizmaster "recently" (and not because D is before S in the alphabet. )

Anyway, I would have conceded victory to Dachs. I finished question 1) only because you told me there was an error, and there was only two I wasn't sure of, I just swapped them. It's not like if I knew it!
So I think I should be entitled to 38 points, not 40. Dachs deserve the first place.

 

[Olav]

The Menace is probably the last one to submit, with 14 points.

Dachs 40
Steph 40
BananaLee 36
Sydhe 31
Dragonlord 30
Yeekim 27
Innonimatu 23
Atticus 23
Heretic_Cata 18
Taliesin 17
Japanrocks12 17
Irish Caesar 16
The Menace 14
Dutchfire 10

Only 3,5 hours till deadline!

Glad you liked it HC.

True sportsmanship, Steph. And you deserve 40 points. I didn't tell what places were correct, and what weren't, so those two extra points are deserved. Anyway, it looks like you should start prepare the next quiz Dachs!

 

[Olav]

As the deadline has passed, and I have recieved no new answers, I'm happy to announce that Dachs is the winner! Congratulations. And thanks to all the rest of you for participating. It's nice to see that there is still interest in this quiz after the long break. I hope you enjoyed the quiz. And again, I'm sorry for it being so Eurocentric.

Final scores:

Dachs 40
Steph 40
BananaLee 36
Sydhe 31
Dragonlord 30
Yeekim 27
Innonimatu 23
Atticus 23
Heretic_Cata 18
Taliesin 17
Japanrocks12 17
Irish Caesar 16
The Menace 14
Dutchfire 10

Spoiler The Questions with answers :

1. Place all the statements/events/pics on the map with their corresponding numbers. There's no need to give the answers; only a-1, b-2 etc. 1 point for each correct answer.

Spoiler :

a - A famous battle between King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and Count Tilly occured here: 2 Battle of Breitenfeld 1631, near Leipzig.
b - The Alhambra can be found here: 15 A palace for the Moorish rulers in Granada
c - A national hero in this country: 13 Skanderbeg (Dragon of Albania), fended off Ottoman attacks in the middle of the 15th century
d - The oldest university in Europe is located here: 1 University of Bologna
e - Napoleon was born here: 4 Corsica
f - This man was born here: 6 Franz Kafka, born in Prague
g - The first naval battle in WWI occured here: 10 Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1914
h - The oldest functioning salt mine in Europe can be found here: 14 Near Krakow
i - A strange looking sea fort: 9 Maunsell Forts. Found this by accident when looking for questions.
j - The last country in Europe with women's suffrage: 7 Liechtenstein
k - Europe's worst maritime disaster (in terms of casualties) in the 1990's happened here: 11 MS Estonia in 1994
l - This place marks the most northern border of the Roman Empire: 5 Hadrians wall (more correct: Antonine Wall)
m - The tallest construction that has ever been moved to another position is found here: 12 The Troll A platform in the North Sea
n - The Varangian Guard served in this city: 8 Vikings serving the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople/Miklagard
o - Another famous battle: 3 Battle of Tours/Poitiers. Charles Martel stopped the Muslims.

2.a) What battle is depicted here? 1 point

Battle of the Nile

b) What is the name of the burning ship? 2 points

L'Orient

c) What famous admiral led the winning side? 2 points

Horatio Nelson

d) What was the name of his ship (the flag-ship)? 3 points

HMS Vanguard

3. Who is regarded as "the father of history"? 2 points

Herodotus

4. What French mathematician is known for his "Last Theorem"? 2 points

Pierre de Fermat

5.a) A duchy (or nation?) used this flag back in the days. Which one? 2 points

Hint: It was the smallest nation to colonize the Americas.

Courland

b) Today two nations use national flags very similar to the one above. What nations? 1 point for each correct. (Maybe not a history question... )

Monaco and Indonesia

6. a) ID the persons below. 1 point for each correct

Spoiler :

Adolf Hitler (Austrian, ruler of Germany), Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (French, ruler of Sweden), George Washington (British, ruler of USA), William the Conqueror (French/from Normandy, ruler of England) and Louis XIV (French, ruler of France)

b) Who doesn't belong in the group? 4 points

Louis XIV, as he was the only ruler that led a country that he was born in. Don't hate me for this one.


7. Name the country where the 19th-Century queen that started her reign with 2,000,000 subjects then systematically slaughtered an estimated 1 million of them in her reign (a little over 30 years). 5 points

Ranavalona I, queen of Madagascar.

If you see some mistakes in my answers, please tell me. And check your score, I might have counted wrong...

 

[Dachs]

Aaaaargh, Ranavalona I! Nice one, Olav. I fear, though, that I've got enough stuff on my plate right now. If Steph's okay with it, I'll abdicate quizmaster in favor of him.

 

[Olav]

What do you say Steph? Do you want to make a new one, or will you grant BananaLee the honour?

 

[Steph]

BananaLee can have it

 

[Heretic_Cata]

BananaLee can have it

No he can't - not untill he posts the answers to his music quiz.

 

[vogtmurr]

Name the country where the 19th-Century queen that started her reign with 2,000,000 subjects then systematically slaughtered an estimated 1 million of them in her reign (a little over 30 years). 5 points

Ranavalona I, queen of Madagascar.

Surely this woman ranks with Elizabeth Bathory, but on a massive scale as the most demonic femme fatale in history. It is in fact unprecedented for a major ruler to succeed in killing off half of their own population. I think Pol Pot got about a third, but that's closest, and mostly by starvation. We should have a 'Villains' mod in this game, her banner can be a medusa headed gorgon. I almost laughed in a sickened way when I read this in Wiki:

"Many Africans, especially people in Madagascar, do not share that point of view; while they recognize that her regime was autocratic they see her as a ruler who resisted foreign economic and cultural invasion. The death of nearly half the population (largely by torture) during her reign is seen as a unique cultural quirk"

I guess as long as she resisted the threat 'colonialism' posed to her power, she wasn't so bad. By the way, can colonialism be a cultural quirk of the British and French ?

 

[sydhe]

Since she killed the million people over thirty years, there may not have been that many fewer Madagascans at the end of her reign.

 

[BananaLee]

No he can't - not untill he posts the answers to his music quiz.

<_<

I'll take the history one. Give me 24 hours.