Cumulative PM-based History Quiz III

[Steph]

I was very busy the whole week with the users conference for my software.

Now it's over, I'll have more time to prepare a quizz next week.

 

[Yeekim]

I was very busy the whole week with the users conference for my software.

Now it's over, I'll have more time to prepare a quizz next week.

Any hope for it before you get shipped off into Kashmir?

 

[Steph]

Karachi, not Kashmir. I'll try to make one...

 

[Yeekim]

Karachi, not Kashmir.

That's what they've been telling you so far...

I'll try to make one...

Nice...I can play without risk of having to make the next one, that's why I'm being so impatient.

 

[Steph]

Here it is. Questions are in a PDF in a zip...

I made it quickly, I hope you'll find it challenging nevertheless.

 

[Steph]

Innonimatu fires the first shot with 136 points.

There is a small error in the quizz, in the royal couple, where two mens are labelled J.
The last line should be K, L, not J, K.

 

[Steph]

BTW, maximum is 284 points.

And I made a small mistake with the magic formula... Here is the correct one, and with some uppercase to help.

BaCaLuAmPrTiScFoPa

Innonimatu : 136 points
civ_king : 14 points

 

[say1988]

BTW: are you counting the UK as a country or do we need Scotland/England/Wales

 

[Steph]

UK will do

 

[Yeekim]

I was hoping to submit this weekend, but my home is still computerless. Hopefully within this week...

 

[Steph]

Say1988 found the magical formula, and a good part of what is behind the letters, and with this takes the lead!

Say1988: 148
Innonimatu : 136 points
civ_king : 14 points

 

[Steph]

Sydhe takes 3rd place.

Say1988: 148
Innonimatu : 136 points
Sydhe : 106 points
civ_king : 14 points

 

[Steph]

Yeekim just in the middle with 133 points.

Say1988: 148
Innonimatu : 136 points
Yeekim : 133 points
Sydhe : 106 points
civ_king : 14 points

 

[Steph]

Sydhe grabs 18 more points. But this doesn't change the ranking.

Say1988: 148
Innonimatu : 136 points
Yeekim : 133 points
Sydhe : 124 points
civ_king : 14 points

Deadline for submission: end of this week.

 

[Steph]

The line is dead, long live the line!

Here are the answers :


Question 1:
BaCaLuAmPrTiScFoPa.

Each two letters correspond to a name of a city

Bale
Campo Formio
Lunéville
Amien
Pressburg
Tilsit
Schönbrun
Fontainebleau
Paris

And this give the treaties of the Revolutionnary and Napoleonic wars in the correct order.

Only one guessed that, but failed to identify all the cities correctly.

Question 2:
A - Louis XV, France + 8 - Marie Leszczyńska, Poland
B - James VI, UK + 3 - Anne of Denmark
C - Peter I, russia + 10 - Catherine I (Marta Helena Skowrońska), Estonia
D - George III, UK + 1 - Charlotte, Germany
E - Henri VIII, UK + 4 - Anne Boleyn, England
F - Nicolas II, Russia + 2 - Alexandra, Germany
G - Peter III, Germany + 6 - Catherine II, Poland
H - Henri IV, France + 9 - Marie de Médici, Italy.
I - Philippe II, Spain + 5 - Mary I, UK
J - François 1er, France + 11 - Eleanor, Belgium
K - Alexander I, Russia + 7 - Louise Augusta of Baden, (Elisabeth Alexeïevna), Germany
L - Louis XVI, France + 12 - Marie Antoinette, Austria

Question 3:
A - Blenheim, 1704, Bavaria + 3 - Eugène of Savoy, France
B - Borodino, 1812, Russia + 1 - Kutuzov, Russia
C - Dunes, 1658, France + 5 - Turenne, France
D - Trafalgar, 1805, Spain + 6 - Nelson, UK
E - Yorktown, 1781, USA + 4 - Washington, USA
F - Balaclava, 1854, Ukraine + 2 - FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan

Question 4:
1 - Rodhesia
2 - Trinidad
3 - Rif
4 - Manchukuo
5 - Yucatan
6- Free territory of Triest
7- South Vietnam
8- Republic of crête
9- Kindgom of Hawai
10- Easter Island
11- Texas

Question 5:
Hugues de Payens : Knight Templar
Robert of Molesme: Cistercian
Ignatius of Loyola : Jesuits
William Booth: Salvation army
Henry Dunant: Red cross
Morihei Ueshiba : Aikido
Joseph Smith: Mormon
Jigoro Kano: Judo
Pierre de Coubertin : International Olympic Commitee

Question 6:
A: Replica of the Eiffel tower, Las Vegas, USA
B: Replica of the Statue of Liberty, Paris, France
C : Replica of the Tower of Pisa, Niles, USA
D: Washington square arch, New York, USA
E: Moscow Triumphal gate, St Petersburg, Russia
F: Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, UK
G : Millau Viaduc, Millau, France

 

[say1988]

Maybe I am wrong here, but I believe that is not a "replica" of the Statue of Liberty, but a earlier model on which the main one was based, so in a sense THE Statue of Liberty is a replica of that one not the other way around.

BTW: What are the numbers in questions 2 and 3?

 

[Dachs]

The numbers that correspond to the commanders or royal spouses in question. They were matching questions.

 

[say1988]

Oh yeah, forgot....

 

[Atticus]

So, are you going to make the next quiz, Say1988, or does it go to Innonimatu?

 

[Yeekim]

It has been two months since the last one, doesn't anybody feel like he could be up to the task?