Cumulative PM-based History Quiz

[SeleucusNicator]

Okay, this is bad. I lost my original answer sheet, which had on it a hard-to-spell answer to question #6, so I cannot give the answers until I find that. (Its not Zhukov -- it was a minor artillery general. Stalin was so enraged at this that he ordered a second surrender, where Zhukov was the rep.)

Pawpaw did win, however. I will post the answers as soon as I get all of them.

 

[blindside]

Was it General Susloparov?

 

[SeleucusNicator]

Was it General Susloparov?

Yes it was. Thank you. I remembered that it began with "Sus", and the rest was just a blank.

 

[pawpaw]

Pawpaw did win .

been working mega hours lately, will whip up some questions tonite.

 

[pawpaw]

1--how many kings of ancient rome were there?

2--what brother team ( one governor, one as general) broke the power of the mahraha's in india in the early 1800's?

3--when narathihapate (of burma) killed the mongol ambassadors in 1287, what was his bizzare reason?

4--what was william of normandy's claim to the english throne in 1066a.d.?

5--who was armand jean du plessis?

6--what was the mau mau movement?

7--who was hassen-I-sabbah?

8--the japanese tittle of shogun is short for seii-taisogun, what does it mean?

9--the role of richard chamberlains backthrone in" shogun" is based on who's real life?

10-john hus's last words were " in a 100 years god will raise up a man whose calls for reform cannot be suppressed" who fulfilled these prophecy 102 years later?

 

[pawpaw]

loulong--7
specialist290--7
privitehudson--6
gagliaudo--5
serutan--5
blindside--4
constantine--3 1/2
northking--1

 

[privatehudson]

Hmmm, wonder which I got wrong, I only answered 7

 

[pawpaw]

Hmmm, wonder which I got wrong, I only answered 7

you answered 8 answers tonite

 

[privatehudson]

I didn't count wild guesses

 

[pawpaw]

1--how many kings of ancient rome were there? 7 4/7
2--what brother team ( one as governor, one as general ) broke the power of the mahraha's in india in the early 1800's? the welleslys, richard and arthur 3/7
3--when narathihapale ( of burma ) killed the mongol ambassadors in 1287, what was his bazzare reason? believe it or not with an invincible mongol army massed on his borders, he executed their envoys for not removing their shoes fast enough and often enough in his presence 0/7
4--what was william of normandy's claim to englands throne in 1066a.d.? when the godwins rose against edward the confessor in the 1050's he recieved aid from william, williams price was to be named heir to the throne. 5/7
5--who was armand jean du plessis? cardinal richelieu 4/7
6--what was the mau mau movement? independence movement in 1960's kenya 5/7
7--who was hassin-i-sabbah? the old man on the mountain, founder of the assassins of almut. 2/7
8--the japanese tittle of shogun was short for seii taisogun, what does it mean? "barbarian defeating general" or "general who defeats barbarians" 0/7
9--the role of richard chamberlains blackthrone on "shogun" is based on who's real life? william dunn2/7
10-john hus's final words were " in 100 years god will raise up a man whose calls for reform cannot be supressed" who fulfilled this prophecy 102 years later? martin luther 6/7

loulong & specialist290 tied

 

[North King]

I'd debate your answer for 4. There were a wide variety of reasons he believed he had a legitamite claim, not least of which was the one I raised as primary. Since Harold had sworn an oath of fealty, the pious William belived him to be swearing vassalage, and thus he had the only legit claim to the throne.

 

[pawpaw]

I'd debate your answer for 4. There were a wide variety of reasons he believed he had a legitamite claim, not least of which was the one I raised as primary. Since Harold had sworn an oath of fealty, the pious William belived him to be swearing vassalage, and thus he had the only legit claim to the throne.

the reigning king named him as heir--that a pretty good claim. harold had no claim to the throne ( the nobles put him up because after the years of danish rule they didn't want another non english king again ).

 

[LouLong]

I let specialist290 take over as I have done this quizz a few times before.

 

[privatehudson]

To be fair number 4 has a number of answers, all of which are quite valid. Edward's declaration may now be seen to be the most important, but back in 1066 the oath Harold swore when shipwrecked in Normandy shortly before was done on Saints bones. To break the oath as he did was seen as "heretical". This was very important to William as it gave his attempt foreign and religious support, making his claim stand out above the others even further, almost like a crusade.

 

[Specialist290]

I'll come up with questions... later.

 

[Specialist290]

Aah, forget it. Have too much to do already; don't wanna add more work to my list. Hudson can do it.

Sorry guys.

 

[privatehudson]

1) Which civilization included cities such as Tikal and Tulum?
2) What Island did the Turks capture from the Knights of St John in 1522?
3) People from which European country were the first to reach Japan?
4) What name did the only English pope take?
5) Who was the French revolutionist and member of the Convention who was murdered in 1793 by Charlotte Corday?
6) During the early 1700's, the most infamous pirate of all, Blackbeard, commanded 'Queen Anne's Revenge.' What was the name of this French warship before Blackbeard commanded and renamed it?
7) What connection does Denmark have with the battle of Waterloo?
8) Which treaty ended the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1?
9) How many legitimate children of Louis XIV lived to adulthood?
10) For what amusing reason did the first English attack on Jamaica fail in 1655?

Answers sometime Thursday evening (GMT)

 

[privatehudson]

Early results:

Superbeaverinc: 6
Bigfatron: 6
Serutan: 5
Mongolid Cow: 4
Dragonlord: 4
North King: 3
Redtooth: 3
XIII: 3

I should also add that the question about the Franco-Prussian war apparently has two answers, an interim and final treaty. In fairness, anyone who gets either will earn a point This is why Dragonlord's total just rose by a point

But you won't get two for both

 

[privatehudson]

Answers:

1) Mayan
2) Rhodes
3) Portugal
4) Adrian IV
5) Jean Paul Marat
6) Concorde
7) Wellington's horse, Copenhagen had been born on campaign there earlier in the wars (sorry, I like amusing questions)
8) Versailles or Frankfurt
9) One
10) Cromwell's Western Design was an attempt to wrest the carribean from Spain, initially targetting Barbados. Unfortunately, in typical English style, the combine operations took on a note of farce. On Barbados, the Spanish had paid a bounty per english head brought back to the slaves, who gladly accepted. The slaves would hide in tall grasses and undergrowth and ambush the English forces who were confined to roads and woefully underarmed (believe it or not the English, either by a mistake didn't bring pikes, or the navy "hid" them to sell later, they ended up making makeshift ones in the caribean out of cabage stalks!). The English came to fear these attacks, and after failing at Barbados they instead attacked Jamaica, an easier target. Arriving there they landed an advanced party on the beach only to hear rustling in the undergrowth nearby. Panicked by this and fearing another attack they fled back to the boats and off to the waiting ships. After finally re-starting the attack and capturing the island (Spain didn't much bother to defend it to be frank) they discovered what had caused the noise. Local people told them that the noise was a whole load of land crabs!

It was a tie between superbeaverinc and bigfatron, but as bigfatron gave more detail in a couple of answers, and got the closest on question 10 (he mentioned the slave bounty) I'll pass it onto him

 

[bigfatron]

Blow me down - I wasn't expecting to win at all. Well, here is what I can come up with in a lunchtime with a tiny bit of help from Google checking my facts! Hope I've got the level right...

1. What last-minute change in arrangements caused the Von Stauffenburg plot to fail?
2. The death of which 'paragon of a prince' at the age of eighteen threw England into mourning and arguably led to the English Civil War?
3. Which European country first colonised Mauritius?
4. Name the Chinese admiral who commanded the 1420 imperial treasure fleet.
5. Whose death saved western Europe from the Mongol hordes?
6. Poland celebrates the year of its founding as 966. What did who do in this year that qualifies it to mark the founding of a nation?
7. Which noble's fight with local citizens at Dover led to the exile of Earl Godwin? For a bonus, what fundamental legal difference made the quarrel unresolvable?
8. Which war began on 3 October 1935?
9. What military 'first' occured in August 1914 at Liege, Belgium?
10. The largest man-made explosion prior to Hiroshima occurred where, when and why?