I felt generous, so I made 25 questions. I also tried to avoid too many exotic questions, so I feel that this is an easier quiz than those I made before, even if there are a couple of brain-twisters here as well...
Given the size of this, I will give you 5 days to turn in answers, so the time-limit will be Tuesday 10.May GMT 16.00.
So here it is. Good luck, and hope many of you will like this one!
1.What event is depicted here? Bonus: Who made this painting?
2.What was the lobotomobile?
3. Who wrote this:
We are not free unless the men who frame and execute the laws represent the interests of the lives of the people and no other interest. The ballot does not make a free man out of a wage slave. there has never existed a truly free and democratic nation in the world. From time immemorial men have followed with blind loyalty the strong men who had the power of money and of armies. Even while battlefields were piled high with their own dead they have tilled the lands of the rulers and have been robbed of the fruits of their labor. They have built palaces and pyramids, temples and cathedrals that held no real shrine of liberty.
As civilization has grown more complex the workers have become more and more enslaved, until today they are little more than parts of the machines they operate. Daily they face the dangers of railroad, bridge, skyscraper, frieght train, stokehold, stockyard, lumber raft and min. Panting and training at the docks, on the railroads and underground and on the seas, they move the traffic and pass from land to land the precious commodities that make it possible for us to live. And what is their reward? A scanty wage, often poverty, rents, taxes, tributes and war indemnities.
4.The following Latin words is different types of what occupation in ancient Rome: meretrix, proseda, scortum,diobolares?
5.What was the treaty of Quillin?
6. This composer was described by the aesthetician Schubart as "a thinker, a diligent, refined man, but no genius". Mozart liked and admired him immensely, writing in a letter that "[---] who is the best director that I have ever seen, has the love and awe of those under him".
What was his name?
7.
From what text is this:
---. If anyone slay a man or woman in a quarrel, he shall bring this one. He shall also give four persons, either men or women, he shall let them go to his home.
--. If anyone injure a man so that he cause him suffering, he shall take care of him. Yet he shall give him a man in his place, who shall work for him in his house until he recovers. But if he recover, he shall give him six half-shekels of silver. And to the physician this one shall also give the fee.
---. If a free man set a house ablaze, he shall build the house, again. And whatever is inside the house, be it a man, an ox, or a sheep that perishes, nothing of these he need compensate.
8. What was the Babington plot?
9. Who were the Knights of Labour?
10.Which people are described here? Bonus: Who wrote this?
[---]to whom this embassy was sent are said to be the tallest and handsomest men in the whole world. In their customs they differ greatly from the rest of mankind, and particularly in the way they choose their kings; for they find out the man who is the tallest of all the citizens, and of strength equal to his height, and appoint him to rule over them....The spies were told that most of them lived to be a hundred and twenty years old, while some even went beyond that age---they ate boiled flesh, and had for their drink nothing but milk.
11. What is this?
12. From which century was the tomato used as food in Europe?
13.What inspired the maker of the perfume Mitsouko? Bonus: What does the word Mitsouko mean?
14. What was the Menstad battle?
15. What was the Creel Commision?
16. Why are carrots orange today?
17. In military history, what was a caracole?
18. Why did the Vikings call Jesus Whitechrist? There are more than one explanation to this, and I will consequently accept different plausible ones.
19. What popular and useful item was:
- already known in Ancient Egypt
- advocated in the 1500s Gabrielle Fallopius as a protection against certain diseases.
- perhaps given its name after the physician of Charles II of England.
- Mass produced from about 1840 as a result of the rubber vulcanisation process invented by Goodyear and Hancock.
20. When and where was the first international chess tournament arranged? Bonus: Who won second price?
21. What is the origin of the expression "one for the road"?
22. What was a þræll(thrall)?
23. What was the pseudonym used by George Kennan for his influental article "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" from 1947?
24.What was invented by John Stith Pemberton?
25. What event is depicted here? Bonus: Who made this painting?
