scienide09
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I've just PM'd with a partial submission. I won't have the time to consider the quiz again in the next little while, so don't wait on me.
Thanks again for the quiz, Smidgey!
Thanks again for the quiz, Smidgey!
Cumulative PM-based History Quiz III
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Smidgey
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Okay, here is the final score:
1) Lucearaful 93
2) Steph 81
3) Taliesin 77
4) Innonimatu 72
5) Illdisposed 71
6) Sydhe 66
7) Atticus 63
8) Phillipe 54
9) Plotinus 48
10) Scienide09 44
11) Cheezy the Wiz 35
12) Dutchfire 31
I am going to post the final answers in a few hours.
P.S. I must apologise for being so late to mark some scores.
1) Lucearaful 93
2) Steph 81
3) Taliesin 77
4) Innonimatu 72
5) Illdisposed 71
6) Sydhe 66
7) Atticus 63
8) Phillipe 54
9) Plotinus 48
10) Scienide09 44
11) Cheezy the Wiz 35
12) Dutchfire 31
I am going to post the final answers in a few hours.
P.S. I must apologise for being so late to mark some scores.
philippe
FYI, I chase trains.
you know, it feels good to end above Plotinus. 
(just kidding, I'm really happy you particapate in these quizzes!
)
I'm going to be very happy I ended up the 8th spot, considering how i screwed up with the statues and the classical songs.
Thank you Smidgey for your quiz!
(just kidding, I'm really happy you particapate in these quizzes!
)I'm going to be very happy I ended up the 8th spot, considering how i screwed up with the statues and the classical songs.
Thank you Smidgey for your quiz!
sydhe
King of Kongs
I really need to take a music appreciation class. I got none of them.
Smidgey
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Thank you for the praise. 
Here are the answers:
John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding - 1690 - British or English.
Adam Smith - An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - 1776 - British or Scottish
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract - 1762 - Swiss
Voltaire - Candide - 1759 - French
Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Women - 1792 - British or English
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason - 1781 - Russian
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals - 1751 - British or Scottish
Rene Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy - 1641 - French
Karl Marx - The Poverty of Philosophy - 1847 - German
Frederich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra - 1883 - German
This was probably the best answered question. I was tempted to put in a few more difficult ones - for example, J.S. Mill's 'The Subjection of Women' to throw people off the obvious Wollstonecraft title. Maybe I should have.
1) Hammurabi's Code
2) The Twelve Tables of Rome
3) The Declaration of Arbroath
4) The Rosetta Stone
5) Code Civil or Napoleonic Code
6) The English Bill of Rights
Music:
1) Boccherini - Flute Concerto in D, Op. 27, III. Rondeau (Allegretto)
2) Handel - Music for the Royal Fireworks IV. La Rejouissance
3) Beethoven - Symphony 5 c-moll op.67 - 3rd Movement - Allegro - attacca
4) Corelli: Concerto Grosso in G minor, op.6 no.8 (Fatto per la notte di Natale) IV. Adagio - Allegro - Adagio (Better known in the English-speaking world as the Christmas Concerto
5) Handel - Judas Maccabaeus (Not Messiah!!) Finale - Act III - Chorus - 'Hallelujah - Amen'
6) Vivaldi - Gloria In D, RV 589 - Cum Sancto Spiritu
7) Mozart - Exsultate, Jubilate K. 165 Allegro
8) Bach - Magnificat - Gloria Patri
I tried to include 50% secular music and 50% religious (since just like other kinds of art, historically the church would be one of the few institutions that could afford such music - perhaps with the exception of Handel who wrote for the Protestant audiences of Britain and Northern Germany).
Busts:
1) Marcus Aurelius
2) Constantine
3) Socrates
4) Pericles
5) Thucydides
6) Antoninus Pious
7) Sulla
8) Cicero
Quotes:
1) Lincoln
2) Twain
3) Ford
4) Hitler
5) Einstein
6) Bill Gates
7) Bismark
8) Sun Tzu
9) Napoleon
10) Che Guevara
Physics Question:
Niels Bohr was the Danish physicist, Heisenberg was his student and he had famous discussions/arguments with Einstein
Crimean War:
The combatants were: Russia, France, Britain, The Ottoman Empire and The Kingdom of Sardinia. It was fought during the 1850's, the Holyland or Palestine was the territory the war began over and Florence Nightingale was the famous nurse.
I think if we combined everyones answers together then the only unanswered question would be the first music piece by Boccherini.
Thank you for your answers - I especially liked that around half of you attributed the first quote to George Bush (obviously not seriously).
That's it!
Here are the answers:
John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding - 1690 - British or English.
Adam Smith - An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - 1776 - British or Scottish
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract - 1762 - Swiss
Voltaire - Candide - 1759 - French
Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Women - 1792 - British or English
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason - 1781 - Russian
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals - 1751 - British or Scottish
Rene Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy - 1641 - French
Karl Marx - The Poverty of Philosophy - 1847 - German
Frederich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra - 1883 - German
This was probably the best answered question. I was tempted to put in a few more difficult ones - for example, J.S. Mill's 'The Subjection of Women' to throw people off the obvious Wollstonecraft title. Maybe I should have.
1) Hammurabi's Code
2) The Twelve Tables of Rome
3) The Declaration of Arbroath
4) The Rosetta Stone
5) Code Civil or Napoleonic Code
6) The English Bill of Rights
Music:
1) Boccherini - Flute Concerto in D, Op. 27, III. Rondeau (Allegretto)
2) Handel - Music for the Royal Fireworks IV. La Rejouissance
3) Beethoven - Symphony 5 c-moll op.67 - 3rd Movement - Allegro - attacca
4) Corelli: Concerto Grosso in G minor, op.6 no.8 (Fatto per la notte di Natale) IV. Adagio - Allegro - Adagio (Better known in the English-speaking world as the Christmas Concerto
5) Handel - Judas Maccabaeus (Not Messiah!!
) Finale - Act III - Chorus - 'Hallelujah - Amen'6) Vivaldi - Gloria In D, RV 589 - Cum Sancto Spiritu
7) Mozart - Exsultate, Jubilate K. 165 Allegro
8) Bach - Magnificat - Gloria Patri
I tried to include 50% secular music and 50% religious (since just like other kinds of art, historically the church would be one of the few institutions that could afford such music - perhaps with the exception of Handel who wrote for the Protestant audiences of Britain and Northern Germany).
Busts:
1) Marcus Aurelius
2) Constantine
3) Socrates
4) Pericles
5) Thucydides
6) Antoninus Pious
7) Sulla
8) Cicero
Quotes:
1) Lincoln
2) Twain
3) Ford
4) Hitler
5) Einstein
6) Bill Gates
7) Bismark
8) Sun Tzu
9) Napoleon
10) Che Guevara
Physics Question:
Niels Bohr was the Danish physicist, Heisenberg was his student and he had famous discussions/arguments with Einstein
Crimean War:
The combatants were: Russia, France, Britain, The Ottoman Empire and The Kingdom of Sardinia. It was fought during the 1850's, the Holyland or Palestine was the territory the war began over and Florence Nightingale was the famous nurse.
I think if we combined everyones answers together then the only unanswered question would be the first music piece by Boccherini.
Thank you for your answers - I especially liked that around half of you attributed the first quote to George Bush (obviously not seriously).
That's it!
Adler17
Prussian Feldmarschall
As being of German parents, Kant would have also the German citizenship!
Adler
Adler
Ouf! Thanks Lucearaful! I will not have to prepare the next quizz
Richard Cribb
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Yes, yes, yes.
But why can people never get me off the hook!
Very well, I'll see if I can put up a new one next week.
But why can people never get me off the hook!
Very well, I'll see if I can put up a new one next week.
Good quiz, enough easy questions.
Those busts really drove me crazy, especially Constantine and Sulla, which I surely had seen and are distnctive enough to be remembered, but which I just couldn't remember (and the worst thing is that while trying you know that you'll remember them after you stop trying. This time it didn't work though).
Those busts really drove me crazy, especially Constantine and Sulla, which I surely had seen and are distnctive enough to be remembered, but which I just couldn't remember (and the worst thing is that while trying you know that you'll remember them after you stop trying. This time it didn't work though).
Richard Cribb
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I can assure everybody that it is still my intention to present to you a new quiz.
I am trying to get it finished to Sunday, so stay tuned.
I am trying to get it finished to Sunday, so stay tuned.
Richard Cribb
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confess that I am still not finished with preparing a new quiz.
Unfortunatley the last months has been filled with excitement even for my standards and my mind has been elsewhere.
I will now try to have my quiz ready until the end of the month, if not I will hand it over to anybody interested.
My sincere apologies for this.
Unfortunatley the last months has been filled with excitement even for my standards and my mind has been elsewhere.
I will now try to have my quiz ready until the end of the month, if not I will hand it over to anybody interested.
My sincere apologies for this.
Specially for you only: name a famous theologian and philosopher whose execution in 1415 caused a widespread rebellion...
...and yes, luce, there can never be too many history quizes. So don't you fail us!
Thats too hard, widespread is relativeSpecially for you only: name a famous theologian and philosopher whose execution in 1415 caused a widespread rebellion...
I suppose that distinction between "theologian" and "philosopher" was not too clear at the time. However, I suppose calling him "philosopher" can be challenged, since most of the ideas he manifested were apparently Wycliffe's, rather than his own...
That's true, although there is good reason to think that he arrived at many of those ideas independently. Still, I think these were really theological ideas rather than philosophical ones. Wycliffe is a little different because he was a philosopher in addition to the theological stuff. Although not a very good one. His book on universals was one of the daftest pieces of philosophy I've ever read, but highly entertaining.
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