Cumulative PM-based History Quiz
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Orange Shrooms!
I really dont think so hey.
Adler17
Prussian Feldmarschall
Rasputin was able to heal the Czarevich, who was blooding (I don´t know the English word for "Bluter"). He could heal him. That´s why he had big influence on the Imperial family. Too much influence in a time in which the Czar was more and more questioned. The population didn´t know that the Czarevich, Alexeij I think, was so sick. Nevertheless his influence grew and grew. He also determined offensives and military operations of the Russian forces in ww1. That he wasn´t a military ingenium we all know... He was removed too late. He was ONE factor of the fall of the Romanovs. Also he was not a man who did not drink or who did not have many women...
Adler
Adler
Adler17
Prussian Feldmarschall
Thanks Pawpaw.
However here are my questions:
1. I am a Roman. I was twice dictator. Twice I resigned after the danger for Rome was over. I did not want the power. Who am I?
2. Here the first shots of WW1 were fired. I don´t mean the assassination of Franz- Ferdinand!!
3. What incident gave the Germans the "reason" for invading Norway?
4. I am architect and medic. I became a god. I was building something which became later the model of other buildings of the same style. One of these is considered to be one of the 7 wonders. It still exists today. Who am I?
5. I am a sportsman, born in 1905. I died in the age of 99. I was boxer, and although I was world champion my greatest fight was a non championship fight. Later I was soldier and businessman. Who am I?
6. What is the name of the Japanese flagship in the battle of Tsushima and what was the fate of this ship? (Latter is a bonus).
7. I am Gokhlayeh, chief of the Apaches. I fought against the US soldiers and was against the law imprisoned until my death. What´s my Spanish name? Bonus: What is my Indian name mean?
8. This is a German organisation. It existed in the Wehrmacht and still exist today but under another name. The organisation was not destroyed after ww2 because of the changed political situation. In the time after ww2 and the introducing into the west German governmental structures the organisation was named after their leader, a general. What is the current name of the organisation? Bonus: What are the names the organisation had from the beginning?
9. What was most probably the biggest defeat of the Royal Australian Navy in ww2?
10. I was born under the name Temujin. I became (in)famous under another name. Who am I?
These are my questions: Some of them are harder than the others.
Good Luck!
Adler
However here are my questions:
1. I am a Roman. I was twice dictator. Twice I resigned after the danger for Rome was over. I did not want the power. Who am I?
2. Here the first shots of WW1 were fired. I don´t mean the assassination of Franz- Ferdinand!!
3. What incident gave the Germans the "reason" for invading Norway?
4. I am architect and medic. I became a god. I was building something which became later the model of other buildings of the same style. One of these is considered to be one of the 7 wonders. It still exists today. Who am I?
5. I am a sportsman, born in 1905. I died in the age of 99. I was boxer, and although I was world champion my greatest fight was a non championship fight. Later I was soldier and businessman. Who am I?
6. What is the name of the Japanese flagship in the battle of Tsushima and what was the fate of this ship? (Latter is a bonus).
7. I am Gokhlayeh, chief of the Apaches. I fought against the US soldiers and was against the law imprisoned until my death. What´s my Spanish name? Bonus: What is my Indian name mean?
8. This is a German organisation. It existed in the Wehrmacht and still exist today but under another name. The organisation was not destroyed after ww2 because of the changed political situation. In the time after ww2 and the introducing into the west German governmental structures the organisation was named after their leader, a general. What is the current name of the organisation? Bonus: What are the names the organisation had from the beginning?
9. What was most probably the biggest defeat of the Royal Australian Navy in ww2?
10. I was born under the name Temujin. I became (in)famous under another name. Who am I?
These are my questions: Some of them are harder than the others.
Good Luck!
Adler
Adler17
Prussian Feldmarschall
So far:
Pawpaw: 7
Dragonlord: 5
Shortguy: 3
Adler
Pawpaw: 7
Dragonlord: 5
Shortguy: 3
Adler
Sheep
Orange Shrooms!
Sorry my bad.
Adler17
Prussian Feldmarschall
Only 3 who answered me so far. And tomorrow I will solve it!!! So I want YOUR answer!
Adler
Adler
Adler17
Prussian Feldmarschall
Okay it is over. Here is the solution:
1. Cincinattus
2. Belgrad. The fortress of Belgrade shot at Austrian ships and Austrian monitors answered the fire.
3. The Altmark incident. The German supply ship Altmark was on its way home from the mission with the Admiral Graf Spee in the South Atlantic. It had British PoW on board. While being in neutral Norwegian waters, the ship was stopped by the British DD Cossack and the PoW were liberated after the ship was entered against the law of the sea.
4. Imhotep, who buil Djoser´s step pyramide of Saqqara.
5. Max Schmeling
6. Mikasa. She is now a museums ship in Japan.
7. Geronimo. His Indian name means "the one who yawns".
8. Bundesnachrichtendienst BND. Before Fremde Heere Ost and Organisation Gehlen.
9. The sinking of HMAS Sydney due to the German raider Kormoran. All of the Sydney´s crew died.
10. Genghis Khan
Since the rules forbid new questions by pawpaw this time, Dragonlord is the one who can come up.
Herr der Drachen: Deine Runde.
Adler
1. Cincinattus
2. Belgrad. The fortress of Belgrade shot at Austrian ships and Austrian monitors answered the fire.
3. The Altmark incident. The German supply ship Altmark was on its way home from the mission with the Admiral Graf Spee in the South Atlantic. It had British PoW on board. While being in neutral Norwegian waters, the ship was stopped by the British DD Cossack and the PoW were liberated after the ship was entered against the law of the sea.
4. Imhotep, who buil Djoser´s step pyramide of Saqqara.
5. Max Schmeling
6. Mikasa. She is now a museums ship in Japan.
7. Geronimo. His Indian name means "the one who yawns".
8. Bundesnachrichtendienst BND. Before Fremde Heere Ost and Organisation Gehlen.
9. The sinking of HMAS Sydney due to the German raider Kormoran. All of the Sydney´s crew died.
10. Genghis Khan
Since the rules forbid new questions by pawpaw this time, Dragonlord is the one who can come up.
Herr der Drachen: Deine Runde.
Adler
Dragonlord
Fantasy Warlord
Oh oh... and here I am, up to my ears in work again.
I'll try to come up with something by tomorrow though - unless Shortguy would like to have a go?
I'll try to come up with something by tomorrow though - unless Shortguy would like to have a go?
Dragonlord
Fantasy Warlord
All right, these should be pretty easy, if eurocentric, since I am pressed for time
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Also, I feel that the questions on this thread are often too obscure, after all, theyre supposed to be answerable without googling or research. Here goes:
1.) Who was Kaspar Hauser?
2.) Where was the German Reich proclaimed (unified) in 1871? Why there?
3.) Who was the Lakota (Sioux) war chief who led them against Custer at Little Bighorn? Bonus: What was his Indian name? Bonus: How did he die?
4.) Napoleon was exiled twice to islands. Which were they? Bonus: he is alleged to have been murdered. How?
5.) Who was Dicke Bertha (Fat Bertha)?
6.) What happened at Wounded Knee?
7.) Who was the Iron Chancellor?
8.) Where was the French capitulation to Germany in WW II signed and why there? Bonus: Hitler is supposed to have danced a jig at the capitulation. What actually happened?
9.) What is Otto Skorzenys principal claim to fame?
10.) Who was the (scientific) head of the German atomic program in WWII? Bonus: What scientific principle bears his name?
I confidently expect some of you to have 10+ points on this
Answers on Monday.
Also, I feel that the questions on this thread are often too obscure, after all, theyre supposed to be answerable without googling or research. Here goes:
1.) Who was Kaspar Hauser?
2.) Where was the German Reich proclaimed (unified) in 1871? Why there?
3.) Who was the Lakota (Sioux) war chief who led them against Custer at Little Bighorn? Bonus: What was his Indian name? Bonus: How did he die?
4.) Napoleon was exiled twice to islands. Which were they? Bonus: he is alleged to have been murdered. How?
5.) Who was Dicke Bertha (Fat Bertha)?
6.) What happened at Wounded Knee?
7.) Who was the Iron Chancellor?
8.) Where was the French capitulation to Germany in WW II signed and why there? Bonus: Hitler is supposed to have danced a jig at the capitulation. What actually happened?
9.) What is Otto Skorzenys principal claim to fame?
10.) Who was the (scientific) head of the German atomic program in WWII? Bonus: What scientific principle bears his name?
I confidently expect some of you to have 10+ points on this
Answers on Monday.
Dragonlord
Fantasy Warlord
Answers to date: Adler17 12 points
Pawpaw 9
DexterJ 7.5 points
Regentman 6
I had a feeling this was too easy...
Adler is still beatable since he missed one (only one!) question, with all boni 15 points are possible, and besides, he's not in competition since he asked the last one...
So come on everybody, get off your b***!
Or is it too easy?
Edit: Ok, some more answers now... come on, people, are you going to let Pawpaw run off with it AGAIN?
No offence, pawpaw j/k
Pawpaw 9
DexterJ 7.5 points
Regentman 6
I had a feeling this was too easy...
Adler is still beatable since he missed one (only one!) question, with all boni 15 points are possible, and besides, he's not in competition since he asked the last one...
So come on everybody, get off your b***!
Or is it too easy?
Edit: Ok, some more answers now... come on, people, are you going to let Pawpaw run off with it AGAIN?
No offence, pawpaw j/k
mitsho
Deity
@dragonlord Didn't you get my pm? I answered too.
Do I need to do it again?
mitsho
Do I need to do it again?
mitsho
Dragonlord
Fantasy Warlord
Sorry, I wasn't online over the weekend, but here are the results. I'm glad so many of you answered!
Adler 17 12
Serutan 11
Pawpaw 9
North King 9
Shortguy 8 1/2
DexterJ 7 1/2
mitsho 7 1/2
Regentman 6
Since Adler17 asked the last questions, it's Serutans turn again, if I remember the rules correctly. Have at it!
I'll post the answers shortly...
Adler 17 12
Serutan 11
Pawpaw 9
North King 9
Shortguy 8 1/2
DexterJ 7 1/2
mitsho 7 1/2
Regentman 6
Since Adler17 asked the last questions, it's Serutans turn again, if I remember the rules correctly. Have at it!
I'll post the answers shortly...
Dragonlord
Fantasy Warlord
OK, and here are the answers:
1.) Who was Kaspar Hauser?
A strange boy who was found in Nürnberg (Nuremburg) in 1828. He had been kept in seclusion all his life and was thus ********; he was murdered in 1833 and it was alleged that he was the legitimate heir to the Grand Duke of Baden. Heres a link to the story, its fascinating.
http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/me/notes/kaspar-hauser.html
2.) Where was the German Reich proclaimed (unified) in 1871? Why there?
In the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Prussia had just won their war against France and signed the peace treaty there. I counted to humiliate the French as correct also.
3.) Who was the Lakota (Sioux) war chief who led them against Custer at Little Bighorn? Bonus: What was his Indian name? Bonus: How did he die?
Most of you said Sitting Bull, but he was not the war chief and did not lead the warriors into combat that was Crazy Horse. His Indian name was Tashunka-witko (different spellings), of which Crazy Horse is a bad translation; its more like Furious Horse. After being forced to surrender some years later, he was murdered by his guards; when he balked at being thrown into a dark prison, a guard held his arms while a second bayonetted him. A shameful death for a brave warrior who was never defeated in battle!
Heres a link:
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/crazyhorse.htm
4.) Napoleon was exiled twice to islands. Which were they? Bonus: he is alleged to have been murdered. How?
First to Elba and then to St. Helena. It was alleged that his British jailors had murdered him by slow arsenic poisoning, though modern analysis of his remains suggests that was not the case.
5.) Who was Dicke Bertha (Fat Bertha)?
A German 42 cm mortar of WWI, used to destroy otherwise impregnable fortifications. It was nicknamed after Bertha Krupp (Krupp built the mortar). Heres a picture:
http://www.westfront.de/00289.htm
6.) What happened at Wounded Knee?
The last of the Indian massacres. The US Army massacred an Indian encampment of mostly women and children, using Hotchkiss cannon. Heres another link:
http://www.lastoftheindependents.com/wounded.htm
7.) Who was the Iron Chancellor?
Otto von Bismarck
8.) Where was the French capitulation to Germany in WW II signed and why there? Bonus: Hitler is supposed to have danced a jig at the capitulation. What actually happened?
In the forest of Compiegne outside Paris (no, NOT Versailles this time) at the same place and in the very same railroad car where the Germans signed the armistice of 1918.
Surprisingly, most of you knew the real story about Hitlers jig: it was a propaganda device where Allied newsmen spliced newsreel footage cleverly, repeating certain movements, so it looked like Hitler was dancing for joy.
9.) What is Otto Skorzenys principal claim to fame?
He rescued Hitlers ally Benito Mussolini from his confinement at Gran Sasso in the Alps with a commando of parachutists.
10.) Who was the (scientific) head of the German atomic program in WWII? Bonus: What scientific principle bears his name?
Werner Heisenberg. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Originally stating that you can only measure the speed or the position of an electron, never both, its more generally used as a statement that no scientific observation is possible uninfluenced by the observer.
Heres another link:
http://www.aip.org/history/heisenberg/p01.htm
1.) Who was Kaspar Hauser?
A strange boy who was found in Nürnberg (Nuremburg) in 1828. He had been kept in seclusion all his life and was thus ********; he was murdered in 1833 and it was alleged that he was the legitimate heir to the Grand Duke of Baden. Heres a link to the story, its fascinating.
http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/me/notes/kaspar-hauser.html
2.) Where was the German Reich proclaimed (unified) in 1871? Why there?
In the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Prussia had just won their war against France and signed the peace treaty there. I counted to humiliate the French as correct also.
3.) Who was the Lakota (Sioux) war chief who led them against Custer at Little Bighorn? Bonus: What was his Indian name? Bonus: How did he die?
Most of you said Sitting Bull, but he was not the war chief and did not lead the warriors into combat that was Crazy Horse. His Indian name was Tashunka-witko (different spellings), of which Crazy Horse is a bad translation; its more like Furious Horse. After being forced to surrender some years later, he was murdered by his guards; when he balked at being thrown into a dark prison, a guard held his arms while a second bayonetted him. A shameful death for a brave warrior who was never defeated in battle!
Heres a link:
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/crazyhorse.htm
4.) Napoleon was exiled twice to islands. Which were they? Bonus: he is alleged to have been murdered. How?
First to Elba and then to St. Helena. It was alleged that his British jailors had murdered him by slow arsenic poisoning, though modern analysis of his remains suggests that was not the case.
5.) Who was Dicke Bertha (Fat Bertha)?
A German 42 cm mortar of WWI, used to destroy otherwise impregnable fortifications. It was nicknamed after Bertha Krupp (Krupp built the mortar). Heres a picture:
http://www.westfront.de/00289.htm
6.) What happened at Wounded Knee?
The last of the Indian massacres. The US Army massacred an Indian encampment of mostly women and children, using Hotchkiss cannon. Heres another link:
http://www.lastoftheindependents.com/wounded.htm
7.) Who was the Iron Chancellor?
Otto von Bismarck
8.) Where was the French capitulation to Germany in WW II signed and why there? Bonus: Hitler is supposed to have danced a jig at the capitulation. What actually happened?
In the forest of Compiegne outside Paris (no, NOT Versailles this time) at the same place and in the very same railroad car where the Germans signed the armistice of 1918.
Surprisingly, most of you knew the real story about Hitlers jig: it was a propaganda device where Allied newsmen spliced newsreel footage cleverly, repeating certain movements, so it looked like Hitler was dancing for joy.
9.) What is Otto Skorzenys principal claim to fame?
He rescued Hitlers ally Benito Mussolini from his confinement at Gran Sasso in the Alps with a commando of parachutists.
10.) Who was the (scientific) head of the German atomic program in WWII? Bonus: What scientific principle bears his name?
Werner Heisenberg. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Originally stating that you can only measure the speed or the position of an electron, never both, its more generally used as a statement that no scientific observation is possible uninfluenced by the observer.
Heres another link:
http://www.aip.org/history/heisenberg/p01.htm
Serutan
Eatibus Anythingibus
OK, I'll try to have something up in a day or so.
Dragonlord
Fantasy Warlord
Plotinus said:
Never heard of him - could you elaborate?
Anyway, no one named him - if so, I might have given the point.
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