Cumulative PM-based History Quiz III
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1) This question was a little sneaky. The Dalmatian town of Curzola officially claims, with the support of a small minority of historians, to be the birthplace of Marco Polo. (Dalmatia was held by Venice at the time, so it's not implausible, but the theory seems a little too convenient for the Croatian tourism board. 
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2) Helen Duncan, a Scottish charlatan and pretended medium, had a history of convictions for faking contact with the other world. However, in 1941, she announced that she had contacted a dead sailor from the recently sunk battleship HMS Barham. This was a slight problem, since the British High Admiralty completely suppressed the news of the Barham's sinking for two months after the event, for propaganda reasons. In 1944, Duncan was brought to trial on a somewhat trumped-up charge of witchcraft. (Under the 1735 Witchcraft Act, which replaced previous laws banning actual witchcraft, it became a crime to pretend to be a witch.) This was done due to rather improbable fears that she might reveal details of the upcoming D-Day assault.
3) The massively influential English romantic William Wordsworth was most controversial in his day for his enthusiastic support of the French Revolution. "Europe at that time was thrilled with joy,/ France standing on the top of golden hours,/ And human nature seeming born again," he wrote. "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,/ But to be young was very Heaven!" As Bertrand Russell's formulation implies, Wordsworth later became a Tory and wrote reams of forgettable verse, his genius apparently exhausted. Like the former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Stevie Wonder, Wordsworth had no sense of smell.
4) Peyton Randolph was the first to preside at the Continental Congress, which he did for a month and a half in 1774.
5) The Terrace Mutiny occurred in 1944 on Canada's west coast, when a French Canadian unit revolted against its officers and seized weaponry. It was caused by rumours that conscripted soldiers were imminently to be sent overseas. This was not true, but conscription (and, in fact, military commitments of any kind) has always been explosively unpopular in Quebec. The Army regained control after five days.
6) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of Le Petit Prince, disappeared in 1944 while flying a reconnaissance mission in the Mediterranean. Perhaps more famous in the English-speaking world, Roald Dahl crashed his fighter plane in the Libyan desert in 1940, an event which he used in his first published work, a short story called "Shot Down Over Libya".
7) Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, PM 1905-1908, was the first First Lord of the Treasury on whom the title of Prime Minister was officially bestowed, though the term was used as early as Walpole's administration. He is also the only PM to have died while in residence at 10 Downing Street.
8) The central figure in this question is Ossian, a character in and the supposed author of a revolutionary epic published by the Scot James Macpherson in the second half of the 18th century. Macpherson claimed to be translating a 3rd-century Scottish epic from various documents and oral traditions. This claim was sharply questioned by some critics in his lifetime, and is now known to be problematic at best-- while it's certainly true that the Ossian poems were really translated from Scottish originals, their antiquity is unclear, and Macpherson creatively altered and redacted his source materials in order to suit contemporary tastes. In any event, there's no particular reason to credit Macpherson's notion of Ossian as a Scottish Homer, and we simply don't know whether there is a single poet responsible for the epic. Regardless, Ossian created a literary firestorm that endured until Byron's time, and many ranked him alongside Homer and Virgil.
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy visited Scotland and wrote (among other things) the overture known as Fingal's Cave. Fingal was Macpherson's rendering of the Scottish version of the Irish hero Finn MacCool, and featured prominently in the epic as Ossian's king. Samuel Johnson was one of the leaders of the chorus denouncing Macpherson's epic as fraudulent. Goethe, like many other luminaries of his day, was infatuated with Ossian, and the hero of his The Sorrows of Young Werther likewise. (Werther was so iconic that his suicide at the end of the novel inspired dozens of young European men to off themselves.) The last picture is one of a series of riotous Ossian-related paintings executed by the French romantic Anne-Louis Girodet.
9) Geoffrey Chaucer (chausseur). The short answers are: the siege of Rheims, Edward III, and Wat Tyler's 1381 Peasant Revolt. Chaucer lived in an apartment above the New Gate, through which Tyler's rebels marched into London. As I rather coyly said, Chaucer was an author (arguably second only to Shakespeare among English poets), best known in our time for his Canterbury Tales. His most significant textual influences were Ovid and Boethius, but luceafarul's answer of Boccaccio was equally acceptable, since Chaucer drew on Boccaccio for both the Tales and for his masterpiece Troilus and Criseyde. Chaucer's allegorical poem The House of Fame contains the first written reference to the Milky Way. (Incidentally, I've no idea what he did with a daily gallon of wine-- my imagination pictures him using some of it to water his rose bushes or something.)
10) Timothy the tortoise served as ship mascot aboard the HMS Queen, a ship-of-the-line that bombarded Sevastopol. She died in 2004.
11) When Magellan's ship Victoria limped back to Spanish port after its circumnavigation of the globe, it was a Thursday on the ship and a Friday on land, since the voyage meant that the sailors had experienced one fewer rotation of the Earth than everybody else. This oddity, after careful verification of the ship's logs, demonstrated the need to have an International Date Line.
12) Martin Luther was a very peculiar man, and among his peculiarities was a tendency to constipation which caused him to spend a lot of his time in his privy. It goes, er, deeper than that, though, because he has these extremely coarse, er, passages in which he insists that Satan lives quite literally in human filth, or in which he describes having faeces-flinging fights with the devils he routinely saw. Get thee behind me, Satan, indeed.
)2) Helen Duncan, a Scottish charlatan and pretended medium, had a history of convictions for faking contact with the other world. However, in 1941, she announced that she had contacted a dead sailor from the recently sunk battleship HMS Barham. This was a slight problem, since the British High Admiralty completely suppressed the news of the Barham's sinking for two months after the event, for propaganda reasons. In 1944, Duncan was brought to trial on a somewhat trumped-up charge of witchcraft. (Under the 1735 Witchcraft Act, which replaced previous laws banning actual witchcraft, it became a crime to pretend to be a witch.) This was done due to rather improbable fears that she might reveal details of the upcoming D-Day assault.
3) The massively influential English romantic William Wordsworth was most controversial in his day for his enthusiastic support of the French Revolution. "Europe at that time was thrilled with joy,/ France standing on the top of golden hours,/ And human nature seeming born again," he wrote. "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,/ But to be young was very Heaven!" As Bertrand Russell's formulation implies, Wordsworth later became a Tory and wrote reams of forgettable verse, his genius apparently exhausted. Like the former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Stevie Wonder, Wordsworth had no sense of smell.
4) Peyton Randolph was the first to preside at the Continental Congress, which he did for a month and a half in 1774.
5) The Terrace Mutiny occurred in 1944 on Canada's west coast, when a French Canadian unit revolted against its officers and seized weaponry. It was caused by rumours that conscripted soldiers were imminently to be sent overseas. This was not true, but conscription (and, in fact, military commitments of any kind) has always been explosively unpopular in Quebec. The Army regained control after five days.
6) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of Le Petit Prince, disappeared in 1944 while flying a reconnaissance mission in the Mediterranean. Perhaps more famous in the English-speaking world, Roald Dahl crashed his fighter plane in the Libyan desert in 1940, an event which he used in his first published work, a short story called "Shot Down Over Libya".
7) Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, PM 1905-1908, was the first First Lord of the Treasury on whom the title of Prime Minister was officially bestowed, though the term was used as early as Walpole's administration. He is also the only PM to have died while in residence at 10 Downing Street.
8) The central figure in this question is Ossian, a character in and the supposed author of a revolutionary epic published by the Scot James Macpherson in the second half of the 18th century. Macpherson claimed to be translating a 3rd-century Scottish epic from various documents and oral traditions. This claim was sharply questioned by some critics in his lifetime, and is now known to be problematic at best-- while it's certainly true that the Ossian poems were really translated from Scottish originals, their antiquity is unclear, and Macpherson creatively altered and redacted his source materials in order to suit contemporary tastes. In any event, there's no particular reason to credit Macpherson's notion of Ossian as a Scottish Homer, and we simply don't know whether there is a single poet responsible for the epic. Regardless, Ossian created a literary firestorm that endured until Byron's time, and many ranked him alongside Homer and Virgil.
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy visited Scotland and wrote (among other things) the overture known as Fingal's Cave. Fingal was Macpherson's rendering of the Scottish version of the Irish hero Finn MacCool, and featured prominently in the epic as Ossian's king. Samuel Johnson was one of the leaders of the chorus denouncing Macpherson's epic as fraudulent. Goethe, like many other luminaries of his day, was infatuated with Ossian, and the hero of his The Sorrows of Young Werther likewise. (Werther was so iconic that his suicide at the end of the novel inspired dozens of young European men to off themselves.) The last picture is one of a series of riotous Ossian-related paintings executed by the French romantic Anne-Louis Girodet.
9) Geoffrey Chaucer (chausseur). The short answers are: the siege of Rheims, Edward III, and Wat Tyler's 1381 Peasant Revolt. Chaucer lived in an apartment above the New Gate, through which Tyler's rebels marched into London. As I rather coyly said, Chaucer was an author (arguably second only to Shakespeare among English poets), best known in our time for his Canterbury Tales. His most significant textual influences were Ovid and Boethius, but luceafarul's answer of Boccaccio was equally acceptable, since Chaucer drew on Boccaccio for both the Tales and for his masterpiece Troilus and Criseyde. Chaucer's allegorical poem The House of Fame contains the first written reference to the Milky Way. (Incidentally, I've no idea what he did with a daily gallon of wine-- my imagination pictures him using some of it to water his rose bushes or something.)
10) Timothy the tortoise served as ship mascot aboard the HMS Queen, a ship-of-the-line that bombarded Sevastopol. She died in 2004.
11) When Magellan's ship Victoria limped back to Spanish port after its circumnavigation of the globe, it was a Thursday on the ship and a Friday on land, since the voyage meant that the sailors had experienced one fewer rotation of the Earth than everybody else. This oddity, after careful verification of the ship's logs, demonstrated the need to have an International Date Line.
12) Martin Luther was a very peculiar man, and among his peculiarities was a tendency to constipation which caused him to spend a lot of his time in his privy. It goes, er, deeper than that, though, because he has these extremely coarse, er, passages in which he insists that Satan lives quite literally in human filth, or in which he describes having faeces-flinging fights with the devils he routinely saw. Get thee behind me, Satan, indeed.
Richard Cribb
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Excellent quiz, with quite a few tricky and entertaining questions.Shame on me for not answering #1 correctly.
The only thing I find objectionable is the answer to #4. In my opinion the correct answer should indeed be George Washington.
As for my new quiz, it is unfortunately a bit delayed, but will materialize some time next week.
I hope that the community understands that I have to give priority to some other issues, and offer my apologies for testing your patience.
The only thing I find objectionable is the answer to #4. In my opinion the correct answer should indeed be George Washington.
As for my new quiz, it is unfortunately a bit delayed, but will materialize some time next week.
I hope that the community understands that I have to give priority to some other issues, and offer my apologies for testing your patience.
sydhe
King of Kongs
Glad to hear it. I'm looking forward to it.
Richard Cribb
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I am very sorry for my long silence and not having posted a new quiz within the time promised.
However, it so happens that what I believed to be a small health nuisance turned out to be chicken pox, and for a person my age that is not exactly a joyride.
So that means that I must again ask for understanding for my delay, I am slowly recovering, and I hope that my quiz finally will be up about a week from now.
However, it so happens that what I believed to be a small health nuisance turned out to be chicken pox, and for a person my age that is not exactly a joyride.
So that means that I must again ask for understanding for my delay, I am slowly recovering, and I hope that my quiz finally will be up about a week from now.
sydhe
King of Kongs
Campbell-Bannerman, it should be noted, was not actually Prime Minister when he died. He'd resigned a few weeks earlier due to the illness which eventually killed him and they let him stay at 10 Downing Street until he died. Apparently he was a well-loved figure in his time. His government was responsible for the Anglo-Russian Entente which completed the Triple Entente.
Cheezy the Wiz
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Ugh, I'm glad I had that when I was four. I've heard it's a lot worse the older you get. Best of luck, and take your time. As Thomas Jefferson said, "Health is worth more than learning."
Dragonlord
Fantasy Warlord
Luceafarul, are you OK? Hope you're fully recovered....
Richard Cribb
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Luceafarul, are you OK? Hope you're fully recovered....
Actually I am not.
I managed to get some sort of flu to top it all, and because of that I unfortunately haven't been able to finish my quiz yet.
I will see if I can post a redux version some day this week.
Richard Cribb
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Once again I can just apologize to those who are waiting for a quiz.
It is no exaggeration to say that this autumn will be one to remember for me for quite a while, and I am just out of hospital recovering from something that was uncomfortably close to being curtains down.
So I can't guarantee exactly when my quiz will be up, but I will do my best to get it posted soon.
It is no exaggeration to say that this autumn will be one to remember for me for quite a while, and I am just out of hospital recovering from something that was uncomfortably close to being curtains down.
So I can't guarantee exactly when my quiz will be up, but I will do my best to get it posted soon.
Dragonlord
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Luceafarul, are you OK? Hope you're fully recovered....
Again................
Richard Cribb
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Yes, I am very sorry for having kept you waiting in vain.
This whole autumn turned out quite nightmarish for me; just after having recovered from chicken poxes I got a really nasty gastritis. I barely survived and was left with a dramatic weight loss and quite a damaged liver. Due to this, I am on some quite heavy recreation program and am going to spend Christmas and half of January at my parents-in-law abroad.
If nobody else wants to do this, I will promise to put up a quiz on the 25th of January, no sooner I am afraid. But then it will indeed appear.
Let me also take the opportunity to wish the History Forum a Marry christmas and a happy New Year and I just hope next year will turn out better.
Ciceronian
Latin Scholar
I have conferred with luceafarul via PM, and we have agreed that I shall host the forthcoming quiz. I have prepared one which is now almost ready, and I hope to have it up by the weekend.
Ciceronian
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Finally, the long awaited day is here: a new cumulative pm-based history quiz is ready. It is indeed regretable that an unfortunate series of obstacles prevented our friend luceafarul from posting a quiz. Luckily I already had something half-made up my sleeve myself, else it would have take me quite long to produce something too. Since the last quiz dates back half a year, there is harldy any hurry now, and I will grant a generous timeline (especially seeing as a few members like Till have exams to deal with in the next few weeks). After a provisional deadline of the 27th of January, the new one is now Sunday the 17 of February. I have tried not to make the quiz too hard, and have included plenty of knowable questions, and others where intelligent guesswork may yield correct results. I hope this will attract plenty of candidates. On the other hand, I hope that none of the resident professors absolutley rinse this quiz either. There are a total of 60 points up for grabs. You may attempt questions multiple times, except those were the answer consists of one of several given possibilites (questions 4, 6 and 8). Good luck, and remember, no research!
EDIT: Since the Upload Server went down, I had to re-upload all the pictures manually from my computer back in Germany. They should be viewable at the bottom of the relevant set of questions, in the correct order. If you're not sure which question a picture is for, right-click it and select "save as", and it will display the title of the picture, which will be "cicerquiz" and then the number of the question, possibly followed by a letter if the question includes several pictures. Since there is also a limit of 10 attachments per post, I had to add the pictures for questions 9 and 10 to post #38.
EDIT: Since the Upload Server went down, I had to re-upload all the pictures manually from my computer back in Germany. They should be viewable at the bottom of the relevant set of questions, in the correct order. If you're not sure which question a picture is for, right-click it and select "save as", and it will display the title of the picture, which will be "cicerquiz" and then the number of the question, possibly followed by a letter if the question includes several pictures. Since there is also a limit of 10 attachments per post, I had to add the pictures for questions 9 and 10 to post #38.
Ciceronian
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1. Which book (after the Bible) has sold the second most copies ever (2 points)?
2. This question is concerned with US Presidents and Vice Presidents.
a) Only one US President served more than two terms. Who (1 point)?
b) The assasinations of Lincoln and Kennedy are still well-remembered to this day, but two other US Presidents were also assasinated since George Washington first took office. Name the two other presidents who were assasinated for 1 point each. (HINT: A large North American mountain (also known by a lesser-used name) was named after one of them, the other has the same surname as the name of a popular comic character.)
c) Dick Cheney wasnt the first Vice President to shoot someone. In the early 19th century, a Vice President shot a political opponent dead in a duel. Who was the Vice President and who was the other duellist (1 point each)?
3. Which was the last English/British monarch to lead his countrys forces into battle personally? 1 point each for both the king and the battle.
4. Below you can see a map of Europe with 15 locations marked on it, followed by a list of items pointing to each of the 15 locations. Match them all up correctly for a maximum of 8 points, with 2 points being deducted for each mistake (mixing up two locations counts as one mistake).
a) The man that this device is named after was born in this town, lived here, and was eventually killed here during the Second Punic War.
b) The worlds tallest church is located here, on the banks of Europes second longest river.
c) Peace treaty marking the exit of Russia from World War I signed here between Russia and the Central Powers on the 3rd of March 1918.
d) This object was discovered here.
e) This university attracted many notable individuals, including the two gentlemen depicted below. It is also the oldest in its country, stemming from the 15th century.
f) The Palace of Parliament shown below is located here. It is the building with the third largest total useable floor space in the world (350 000 m2).
g) The battle which took place here in 1746 ended the Jacobite Uprising.
h) Here stands the worlds largest brick castle, built by the Teutonic Order.
i) This photo was taken here in early February 1945.
j) This man was shot by Gavrilo Princip here.
k) Seat of seven popes from 1309 to 1377.
l) This city currently has the same name as the city in c).
m) The besieging of this town by Hannibal in 218 BC was either the cause or the first action of the Second Punic War, depending on which historians you choose to believe.
n) This object was discovered here.
o) Two of the Holy Roman Emperors officials are thrown out of this towns castles windows, but survive the 15m drop. The event leads to the Thirty Years War.
5. Listed here are the first words of several famous works of literature. Name them for 1 point each.
a) Call me Ishmael
b) A spectre is haunting Europe
c) I sing of arms and of a man
d) Of man's disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree... sing heav'nly muse
e) When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
f) Here are presented the results of the enquiry carried out by ---- of Halicarnassus
2. This question is concerned with US Presidents and Vice Presidents.
a) Only one US President served more than two terms. Who (1 point)?
b) The assasinations of Lincoln and Kennedy are still well-remembered to this day, but two other US Presidents were also assasinated since George Washington first took office. Name the two other presidents who were assasinated for 1 point each. (HINT: A large North American mountain (also known by a lesser-used name) was named after one of them, the other has the same surname as the name of a popular comic character.)
c) Dick Cheney wasnt the first Vice President to shoot someone. In the early 19th century, a Vice President shot a political opponent dead in a duel. Who was the Vice President and who was the other duellist (1 point each)?
3. Which was the last English/British monarch to lead his countrys forces into battle personally? 1 point each for both the king and the battle.
4. Below you can see a map of Europe with 15 locations marked on it, followed by a list of items pointing to each of the 15 locations. Match them all up correctly for a maximum of 8 points, with 2 points being deducted for each mistake (mixing up two locations counts as one mistake).
a) The man that this device is named after was born in this town, lived here, and was eventually killed here during the Second Punic War.
b) The worlds tallest church is located here, on the banks of Europes second longest river.
c) Peace treaty marking the exit of Russia from World War I signed here between Russia and the Central Powers on the 3rd of March 1918.
d) This object was discovered here.
e) This university attracted many notable individuals, including the two gentlemen depicted below. It is also the oldest in its country, stemming from the 15th century.
f) The Palace of Parliament shown below is located here. It is the building with the third largest total useable floor space in the world (350 000 m2).
g) The battle which took place here in 1746 ended the Jacobite Uprising.
h) Here stands the worlds largest brick castle, built by the Teutonic Order.
i) This photo was taken here in early February 1945.
j) This man was shot by Gavrilo Princip here.
k) Seat of seven popes from 1309 to 1377.
l) This city currently has the same name as the city in c).
m) The besieging of this town by Hannibal in 218 BC was either the cause or the first action of the Second Punic War, depending on which historians you choose to believe.
n) This object was discovered here.
o) Two of the Holy Roman Emperors officials are thrown out of this towns castles windows, but survive the 15m drop. The event leads to the Thirty Years War.
5. Listed here are the first words of several famous works of literature. Name them for 1 point each.
a) Call me Ishmael
b) A spectre is haunting Europe
c) I sing of arms and of a man
d) Of man's disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree... sing heav'nly muse
e) When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
f) Here are presented the results of the enquiry carried out by ---- of Halicarnassus
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6. Below are depicted five Chinese (or else they were produced in China) artifacts/buildings. Arrange them in chronological order. 5 points for the correct order, 3 points if there is one mistake.
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7. Name the following five buildings for 1 point each. Tell me what they have in common for another 3 points.
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8. The following question is about battles fought by the Romans in Republican times. Simply match up the names of the battles (I) with their respective dates (II), the winning (III) and losing (IV) sides, and the locations of the battles (V). Give your answer as six separate five-letter codes, e.g. BDCEE. Match everything up correctly for a maximum of 8 points, 2 points being deducted per mistake (again, mixing up two letters counts as one mistake).
I. Name of Battle
a) Telamon
b) Cynoscephalae
c) Pydna
d) Carrhae
e) Zama
f) Cannae
II. Date
a) 216 BC
b) 202 BC
c) 53 BC
d) 225 BC
e) 168 BC
f) 197 BC
III. Victors
a) Romans under C. Atilius Regulus and L. Aemilius Papus
b) Parthians under Surena
c) Romans under L. Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus
d) Carthaginians under Hannibal
e) Romans under T. Quinctius Flamininus
f) Romans under P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus
IV. Vanquished
a) Romans under M. Licinius Crassus Dives
b) Carthaginians under Hannibal
c) Macedonians under Philip V
d) Macedonians under Perseus
e) Gauls under Concolitanus and Aneroestes
f) Romans under C. Terentius Varro and L. Aemilius Paullus
V. Location
a) South-eastern Italy
b) North-western Italy
c) South-west of Carthage
d) South-east of modern Turkey
e) Macedon
f) Thessaly
9. The surname of the artist who painted the first picture is identical to the name of the battle depicted in the second picture. (This only quite works if one uses a slightly less common variant of the spelling of the battle, but the two names are highly similar in any case.) Give the name of both the battle and the artist for 3 points, name the century in which both the artist was born and the battle took place for 1 more point, and name the artist of the second picture for 1 further point.
10. In 1668 I took up the post as organist at the church shown below, after having married the previous organistist's daughter. In 1703 Georg Friedrich Händel and Johann Mattheson visited me, and I felt it was time to retire. I therefore offered them my post on the same condition on which I had received my post, that they should marry my daughter. They however both refused. Two years later, the young Johann Sebastian Bach walked the distance of more than 400 km from Arnstadt just to meet me and hear me play. Who am I (3 points)? Name the town in which I held the post as organist for 1 extra point, and name the previous organist for another.
11. St. Augustine of Hippo once wrote: "It is said that X, who lived but lately, understood Plato best of any." Who is X (2 points)?
12. I was one of a thousand Greeks who were taken to Italy as hostages in the aftermath of the battle of Pydna. I was lucky enough to be quartered at Rome, where I struck up a friendship with an influential young Roman of noble ancestry. I was intrigued by the rapid expansion of Roman dominion, and I decided to write a history describing how Rome conquered virtually the whole known world. I was also fascinated by the Roman constitution, which seemed to me an example of a constitiution with a perfect balance of three different elements (monarchy, aristocracy, democracy). Who am I (3 points)? My friend at Rome was the son of someone already mentioned in this quiz. Who (1 point)?
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7. Name the following five buildings for 1 point each. Tell me what they have in common for another 3 points.
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8. The following question is about battles fought by the Romans in Republican times. Simply match up the names of the battles (I) with their respective dates (II), the winning (III) and losing (IV) sides, and the locations of the battles (V). Give your answer as six separate five-letter codes, e.g. BDCEE. Match everything up correctly for a maximum of 8 points, 2 points being deducted per mistake (again, mixing up two letters counts as one mistake).
I. Name of Battle
a) Telamon
b) Cynoscephalae
c) Pydna
d) Carrhae
e) Zama
f) Cannae
II. Date
a) 216 BC
b) 202 BC
c) 53 BC
d) 225 BC
e) 168 BC
f) 197 BC
III. Victors
a) Romans under C. Atilius Regulus and L. Aemilius Papus
b) Parthians under Surena
c) Romans under L. Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus
d) Carthaginians under Hannibal
e) Romans under T. Quinctius Flamininus
f) Romans under P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus
IV. Vanquished
a) Romans under M. Licinius Crassus Dives
b) Carthaginians under Hannibal
c) Macedonians under Philip V
d) Macedonians under Perseus
e) Gauls under Concolitanus and Aneroestes
f) Romans under C. Terentius Varro and L. Aemilius Paullus
V. Location
a) South-eastern Italy
b) North-western Italy
c) South-west of Carthage
d) South-east of modern Turkey
e) Macedon
f) Thessaly
9. The surname of the artist who painted the first picture is identical to the name of the battle depicted in the second picture. (This only quite works if one uses a slightly less common variant of the spelling of the battle, but the two names are highly similar in any case.) Give the name of both the battle and the artist for 3 points, name the century in which both the artist was born and the battle took place for 1 more point, and name the artist of the second picture for 1 further point.
10. In 1668 I took up the post as organist at the church shown below, after having married the previous organistist's daughter. In 1703 Georg Friedrich Händel and Johann Mattheson visited me, and I felt it was time to retire. I therefore offered them my post on the same condition on which I had received my post, that they should marry my daughter. They however both refused. Two years later, the young Johann Sebastian Bach walked the distance of more than 400 km from Arnstadt just to meet me and hear me play. Who am I (3 points)? Name the town in which I held the post as organist for 1 extra point, and name the previous organist for another.
11. St. Augustine of Hippo once wrote: "It is said that X, who lived but lately, understood Plato best of any." Who is X (2 points)?
12. I was one of a thousand Greeks who were taken to Italy as hostages in the aftermath of the battle of Pydna. I was lucky enough to be quartered at Rome, where I struck up a friendship with an influential young Roman of noble ancestry. I was intrigued by the rapid expansion of Roman dominion, and I decided to write a history describing how Rome conquered virtually the whole known world. I was also fascinated by the Roman constitution, which seemed to me an example of a constitiution with a perfect balance of three different elements (monarchy, aristocracy, democracy). Who am I (3 points)? My friend at Rome was the son of someone already mentioned in this quiz. Who (1 point)?
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Latin Scholar
Dutchfire is in a hurry, and has submitted already. He only attempted questions 1, 2, 4 and 7, and garnered a total of 6 points for his efforts.
EDIT: Dutchfire is the first person to get number 1.
EDIT: Dutchfire is the first person to get number 1.
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