Cumulative PM-based History Quiz

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Doc Tsiolkovski said:
I'd see nothing wrong with you submitting, Adler. Of course, 'out of competition' (no clue if that is an English phrase, but you know what I mean).
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"Außer Konkurrenz"?
Anyway, I could do with some clarification on no.10. What does it mean that their invention sounds like them?
 
;) Well, that is the entire point of that question. Read again...

It does of course not mean that those two invented a machine that makes noices like their names. It's not Mr. Jean Kaboom, inventor of dynamite, and Mr. Ulysses Frrtfrrt, the one who came up with the 2-stroke engine...
 
Oh! That's *exactly* the sort of thing I thought it was! I'm most disappointed. I would have guessed Dr Abraham VrmmmvrmmmWHOOSH, the inventor of the washing machine, but that pleasant image is now fading...
 
damn, I never get a chance these days *sighs*
 
Runners up don't get to ask the next questions :p

I've had a few for ages in my head but never seem to get the chance to ask them
 
PM them to luceafarul, then you'll have a good chance of getting the highest score on his quiz.
 
Seems like Luceafarul disencouraged further attempts ;).

Time to solve it:

  1. St. Petersburg:
    Remember, Peter studied shipbuilding in the Netherlands for a short time...and the plans for his new capital are inspired by Amsterdam; so it shouldn't surprise the city was called Sankt Pieterburch when founded in 1703. The German name came into use soon after; no exact date to find, but in the 1720ies already the Dutch name seemed to have vanished.
  2. Leonardo's Tank:
    That thing has a simple gearwheel transmission and '4WD', with a blatant flaw: The wheels are turning in opposite directions...
    Reason:
    Pacificism? An oversight? Near impossible. But, it was common practise in a time without any patent rights to include such easy to correct errors in such plans when shown around.
    Sure, any mechanicus or watchmaker would notice that when studying carefully; but, that wasn't the point: It was a protection against someone having a short look at the plan, and drawing from memory.
  3. The Oath of Hippocrates
    Complete text:
    Spoiler :

    "Above All, Do No Harm"​
    I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius, and Hygeia, and Panacea and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill, according to my ability and judgment, this Oath and covenant:
    To hold him, who has taught me this art, as equal to my parents, and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage, and to teach them this artÑif they desire to learn itÑwithout fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me, and to pupils who have signed the covenant and who have taken an oath according to the medical law, but to no one else.
    I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.
    I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness, I will guard my life and my art.
    I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are [skilled] in this work.
    Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief, and in particular of sexual relations with both male and female persons, be they free or slaves.
    What I may see or hear in the course of treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account [ought to be] spread abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
    If I fulfill this Oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.

  4. The painting:
    Impressions du Soleil Levant by Monet. Impressions of the rising sun. A journalist used the title to give the name to this new painting technic : impressionism. (Loulong's entirely correct answer).
  5. The cross:
    Admittedly, not easy. Now, what would you expect the pigeon to stand for? The Holy Ghost, of course. And indeed it is the symbol for a religious group - the Huguenots.
  6. New Friesland:
    Alternative name for (West) Spitzbergen, main island of the Svalbard archipel. Given this name by Willem Barents.
 
  • (7) Church orientation:
    If I'd asked about mosques, guess everyone would have known the correct answer...
    Western Churches are orientated in straight East-West direction, with the aspis to the East (solution b).
    East = the rising sun, Jesus
    West = the setting sun, the dark, the evil.
    Never wondered why the western ends of the big Christian churches, especially pre-1100, appear more like a fortification than a sacral building? That has no practical use - it's for the symbolical fight against the evil.
  • (8) Rotten Buroughs:
    A rotten borough was a parliamentary constituency that had declined in size but still had the right to elect members of the House of Commons. For example, Dunwich in Suffolk, as a result of coastal erosion, had almost fallen into the sea and by 1831 only had thirty-two people had the vote. Old Sarum, in Wiltshire, only had three houses and a population of fifteen people. A rotten borough was controlled by a patron and used by the patron to exercise undue and unrepresentative influence within parliament. (YNCS).
  • (9) That king in Hassia:
    I'm disappointed. Noone knew this one...The person I was asking for was born on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi; died in August 16, 1977 (Graceland, Tennessee) - and served his military duty in Friedberg, Hassia, from 1958-60.
    His name ;) ? Elvis Aaron Presley, The King.
  • (10)
    Adolphe Sax and John Phillip Souza, responsible for the Sax-o-phon and the Souza-phon (or Susaphon).
  • (11)
    75. Heinrich LXXV, Count of Reuß zu Koestritz (1800-1801).
    The somewhat interesting fact behind are the name rules in the Thuringian House of Reuß: All males were called "Heinrich", to honor Emperor Heinrich VI (who established the county). The Reuß soon split into two lines, Reuß senior branch and junior branch. Both had slightly different naming rules:
    The senior branch kept counting on, while the junior branch did reset the count at start of each century.
    Perhaps the real irony is that there were very few male births in the senior branch, so Heinrich XXVII was the last count here.
    But the junior branch breeded like rabbits...yes, they really had 75 sons in the 18th century.
    Note both the Reuß branches ruled small, nevertheless prosperous territories among the most industrialized in the 19th/early 20th century, and with Gera they also owned the largest Thuringian city of that time. So, they both are pretty unknown today, but their lands had a much more healthy economy than e.g. a declining Hanse city like Lübeck. More like Luxembourg today.

    Closest guess here was privatehudson with 35; 1pt for him.

So the final standings are:

luceafarul - 14pts :king:

privatehudson - 8pts
YNCS, Loulong -7pts
Plotinus - 4pts
Serutan -3pts.
 
Pacificism? An oversight? Near impossible. But, it was common practise in a time without any patent rights to include such easy to correct errors in such plans when shown around. Sure, any mechanicus or watchmaker would notice that when studying carefully; but, that wasn't the point: It was a protection against someone having a short look at the plan, and drawing from memory.
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It's not totally impossible that he made a mistake, after all he wasn't completely perfect. His drawing of a child in the womb for example is wrong despite being drawn from an autopsy subject. I'd still maintain though that it was hardly great protection, as surely anyone who copied it and found it didn't work would just dig up a watchmaker from somewhere and get the corrections needed?

All in all I doubt we can say with any degree of certainty why it contains such an error.
 
True, I just like to explain my reasoning afterwards :)
 
I am about to start on a new quiz , but don't be disappointed if it does not appear before Friday (Saturday is actually more realistic).
And I suppose I should try to make it a bit more privatehudson-friendly this time. :)
 
luceafarul said:
And I suppose I should try to make it a bit more privatehudson-friendly this time. :)
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No worries, I'll bide my time and try not to forget the questions :p
 
Doc Tsiolkovski said:
That king in Hassia:
(9) I'm disappointed. Noone knew this one...The person I was asking for was born on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi; died in August 16, 1977 (Graceland, Tennessee) - and served his military duty in Friedberg, Hassia, from 1958-60.
His name ? Elvis Aaron Presley, The King.
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Besides Freidberg, Sergeant Presley was also stationed in Bad Nauheim for several months.
 
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