Cumulative PM-based History Quiz

[Steph]

They were not all French! There were a lot from Savoy

I wonder were I made two mistakes...

 

[privatehudson]

They're still obscure

 

[pawpaw]

1--last english king to die in battle? richard III 4/6
2--what dynasty started the great wall ( united the various fortications into one)? bonus; during what dynasty was most of it built? the qin & ming 2/6
3--what was the ottoman turks first foothold in europe? gallipoli 3/6
4--i had a state in the 14th century that included thessaly,macadonia,albania,serbia,bosnia & montergero. who am I? stefan dusan of serbia 3/6
5--byzantine emperor that saved it from existion in the 7th century? heraclios 5/6
6--what was the "testament of augustus"? when augustus's will was found, another ducument was with it. it stated how he wanted his sucessor's to follow all his policies and procedures. #1 was DO NOT EXPAND THE EMPIRE ANY MORE 2/6
7--what was the immediate cause of the sepoy munity? the changing of the cartridges the british weapons used led to rumors that they were smeared with pig or cow fat. the cartridge had to to ripped with your mouth and touching it was a violation to hindu's or muslems 7/7
8--what was tumir the lames relation to genghis khan? none , it wasn't till late in his rise to power did he start " stories" showing his relations to the khan. he even married a decendent of the khan. to kinda " justify" his reuniting the empire 2/6
9--who were the strelty? a semi permement army formed by ivan the terriable, revolted against peter the great when he begain to westernize the army 4/6
10--association of merchants and cities that wheeled great influence in n. germany and the baltics in the 12th - 14th century? hanseatic league

 

[pawpaw]

steph's turn

due to reports of the quiz being to hard i tried to make this one evenhanded:

easy questions--1 everyone got right
fairly easy--4 that 4-5 people got right
hard--2 that 3 got right
very hard--3 that 2 or less got right.

thats 5 mostly easy, 5 harder

 

[Steph]

1) My first name is Stephane, and my son's his Aymeric (other spelling Emeric). Why is it a funny coincidence historically speaking ? (hint : look circa 1000 AD).

2) What happened exactly 181 years before my birth day?

3) According to the original law, what is celebrated every 14th of July in France?

4) Midway was the first Japanese naval defeat since what year?

5) What happened the 27th of October 1582?

6) What French unit landed in Normandy on DDay?

7) What battle ended the massive presence of Reitres in the French army?

8) William Tell is a famous Swiss, hero of the fight for independance. But there is another hero, who allowed the victory of Sempach. Who is he? What did he do exactly?

9) When was the first French Royal guard created? What was the nationality of their members? Who was the first king to hire mercenaries from there?

10) In what battle was Charles the Bold killed? Against what forces? Who betrayed him?

 

[privatehudson]

Methinks next time we should have a conspiracy to make sure Steph never wins, there's such a thing as TOO hard

 

[Steph]

Harder than finding what were the 3 men to get twice the Victoria cross?

Come on, they are not so hard. Just asked in a original way

I've corrected question 9, it was asked a bit akwardly

Result for now :
Privatehudson : 2.6
PawPaw: 2.5

 

[privatehudson]

Course they're not too hard, they're impossible Especially given the "interesting" form of marking you give... *mutters*

 

[pawpaw]

Harder than finding what were the 3 men to get twice the Victoria cross?

yeah, what kinda question is that, wait a minute, its one of mine

 

[privatehudson]

I guess I'm just driving at the theory that people might get put off by the difficulty of the questions sometimes, to be frank, I'd have got .6 had I not read a recent thread in the OT, so if we're not using google searches etc, and I'd not seen that, I doubt I'd have bothered

 

[pawpaw]

to be frank, I'd have got .6 had I not read a recent thread in the OT, so if we're not using google searches etc, and I'd not seen that, I doubt I'd have bothered

it's one of the few answers i was sure of too--must likely the same thread in o.t.

 

[privatehudson]

Guess it's just one of those problems, we each tend to specialise/like in certain periods or areas of history, so it's difficult to tailor it to everyone or enough for people to have a chance.

 

[Steph]

I'll keep Merc score secret for now. But I can tell you it's low...

Why do you find my questions so hard? Difficult to google ?

 

[pawpaw]

They tried it on another forum, but it had died away...

Rules : -

1) Send your answers to the questioner using a private message. Do not post in the thread.
2) 10 questions - can be specialized or general.
3) Runs for a period of time, as decided by questioner.
4) Will announce points won by each challenger in thread.
5) Will announce answers at end of round - arguments over answers can take place now.
6) Highest scorer gets to set the next round of questions, and cycle is repeated.
7) no research from net or books or other-makes it more challanging
8) No publishing of names if didn't manage to get any answers correct.
9) Poster who won prev round and prepared quiz, need not prepare quiz again if he wins again in the round after his prepared quiz - so as not to turn quiz into a 2 persons affair.
10) In the event of a tie at the top, questioner to decide who gets to do next quiz.



First round on me...

 

[privatehudson]

Why do you find my questions so hard? Difficult to google

Nope, I don't bother with that. However, non-British history outside of my periods is beyond me at the best of times, asking for details in it is not even possible beyond guesses.

Example, though I had an idea about the Japanese question, there's no way in hell I'd know the date of the battle I was thinking of without looking through a book or google.

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

Why do you find my questions so hard? Difficult to google ?

I don't Google... I consider that cheating (stupid self-imposed morality)

 

[Merc]

Yeah, I figured there was something else I had to do, but I didn't really feel like looking at the first post. Ignore me.

 

[Steph]

I don't Google... I consider that cheating (stupid self-imposed morality)

That's why I seldom answer the quizz. Most of the time I can answer only very few questions.

 

[Steph]

And Italy takes the lead!

Gagliaudo : 4.1
Privatehudson : 2.6
PawPaw: 2.5
Loulong : 2.3

Common, you can still answer!

 

[Gagliaudo]

june 2004

I propose a motion to forbid Gagliaudo to ask any more quizz. Anybody second that motion ? ;-)

... Once upon a time...


july 2004

Methinks next time we should have a conspiracy to make sure Steph never wins, there's such a thing as TOO hard

...History repeats herself... (it seems the "Club of the Conspirators")

Harder than finding what were the 3 men to get twice the Victoria cross?

... a correct remark...

Guess it's just one of those problems, we each tend to specialise/like in certain periods or areas of history, so it's difficult to tailor it to everyone or enough for people to have a chance.

... at last, the wisdom !!!

And Italy takes the lead!

... hope it continues, at the "Tour de France" too