mitsho
Deity
@Mongoloid Cow I just want to know if you knew exactly where the Habsbrug lies or did you just know Switzerland and learnt the rest from me? ... 
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I think who makes the quiz is glad to learn something new about his own question 
IMHO one of the nice expects of this forum is to learn more and more
Btw, about Hapsburg, I answered "north of Switzerland" (they were original from there) cause I was in hurry, but I knew Aargau too (capital: Aarau)
IMHO one of the nice expects of this forum is to learn more and more
Btw, about Hapsburg, I answered "north of Switzerland" (they were original from there) cause I was in hurry, but I knew Aargau too (capital: Aarau)
Mongoloid Cow
Great Khan
I actually did know it was in Aargau. One of my hobbies is historical Chronology-type things. I know where a lot of the German castles and states were.
Adler17
Prussian Feldmarschall
Here are my questions. This time it is open until Monday morning. I don´t know if I have time for it on Sunday. So deadline is Monday morning CET!
1. I was the first German federal chancellor (Bundeskanzler). Who am I? BONUS: How long did I rule as federal chancellor?
2. Emperor Augustus was military quite successful. He only lost 2 major battles against foreign enemies. The most famous one is the clades variana (Varus battle) against Arminius. What is the other? BONUS: Who was his opponent? Who was his general?
3. Who was the highest medalled US soldier in ww2?
4. What was the last city the crusaders had in the wholy land? BONUS: Who were the defenders?
5. I was a ruler and I was quite enlighted. I am a prototype of a knight although there is something wrong with me. I fought in the 2nd crusade. Who am I? BONUS: My person was used in many novels and even movies. But also in one of the masterpieces of the literature of the enlightment. What is this masterpiece and who has written it?
6. I was the last Christian ruler of the Holy Land. Who am I? BONUS: Where did my biggest battle took place to conquer Jerusalem? BONUS: What did the Pope say to this result?
7. I am a scientist, medic and philosopher in medievil. I am a great fan of Aristoteles. The history gave me a sur name nearly only rulers got. Who am I?
8. I am a location in Africa. Here were many fossils found from the Jurassic time. 2 nations digged here but only the first was really successful. What I am? BONUS: Who is the man who digged here at first?
9. I am a ship. I sunk two enemy ships, among them a cruiser. However I was lost due to artillery fire guided by a plane. This plane was shot down, for the first time in history a plane was shot down by a ship. What´s my name? Tips: I am named after a city which has at this moment not his original name. Also the location where I was sunk is near to the location of another question. Be aware: It might not be asked after this question!
10. I am a German born princess but became ruler of another country. I introduced many enlightened reforms and got the sur name the Great. Who am I? BONUS: Whats my birth name?
This time it is a bit difficultier I admit. 19 pts in total.
Adler
1. I was the first German federal chancellor (Bundeskanzler). Who am I? BONUS: How long did I rule as federal chancellor?
2. Emperor Augustus was military quite successful. He only lost 2 major battles against foreign enemies. The most famous one is the clades variana (Varus battle) against Arminius. What is the other? BONUS: Who was his opponent? Who was his general?
3. Who was the highest medalled US soldier in ww2?
4. What was the last city the crusaders had in the wholy land? BONUS: Who were the defenders?
5. I was a ruler and I was quite enlighted. I am a prototype of a knight although there is something wrong with me. I fought in the 2nd crusade. Who am I? BONUS: My person was used in many novels and even movies. But also in one of the masterpieces of the literature of the enlightment. What is this masterpiece and who has written it?
6. I was the last Christian ruler of the Holy Land. Who am I? BONUS: Where did my biggest battle took place to conquer Jerusalem? BONUS: What did the Pope say to this result?
7. I am a scientist, medic and philosopher in medievil. I am a great fan of Aristoteles. The history gave me a sur name nearly only rulers got. Who am I?
8. I am a location in Africa. Here were many fossils found from the Jurassic time. 2 nations digged here but only the first was really successful. What I am? BONUS: Who is the man who digged here at first?
9. I am a ship. I sunk two enemy ships, among them a cruiser. However I was lost due to artillery fire guided by a plane. This plane was shot down, for the first time in history a plane was shot down by a ship. What´s my name? Tips: I am named after a city which has at this moment not his original name. Also the location where I was sunk is near to the location of another question. Be aware: It might not be asked after this question!
10. I am a German born princess but became ruler of another country. I introduced many enlightened reforms and got the sur name the Great. Who am I? BONUS: Whats my birth name?
This time it is a bit difficultier I admit. 19 pts in total.
Adler
Adler17
Prussian Feldmarschall
We have a new leader- but that´s not very interesting since he is the first to PM to me:
Dragonlord: 3 pts.
Adler
Dragonlord: 3 pts.
Adler
Adler17
Prussian Feldmarschall
Plotonius: 6 pts.
Serutan: 4 pts.
Shortguy: 4 pts.
Dragonlord: 3 pts.
qummik: 2.5 pts.
Greekguy: 2 pts.
Adler
Serutan: 4 pts.
Shortguy: 4 pts.
Dragonlord: 3 pts.
qummik: 2.5 pts.
Greekguy: 2 pts.
Adler
Adler17
Prussian Feldmarschall
Only 6 have sent PM. Come on guys. It is a difficult quiz indeed but have courage and PM me! I don´t bite.
Adler
Adler
Adler17
Prussian Feldmarschall
Hey guys, come on! Only ONE day left. I know it is a difficult quizz but where is your courage? PM me!
Adler
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privatehudson
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No point me trying, I go on holiday after tomorrow, so no time to organise a quiz.
Adler17
Prussian Feldmarschall
This quizz was indeed very difficulty. Also it had some tricky questions. So I was glad that 6 of you PM me.
The answeres:
1. Otto von Bismarck! Yes HE was the first German federal chancellor. Many have posted Konrad Adenauer but that would whave been only a valid question if it was asked after the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. Indeed Bismarck was federal chancellor of the North German Federation from 1867- 1870/71. The North German Federation (Norddeutscher Bund) was the predecessor of the German Reich and also a federal state like the German Reich. Only the southern states were missing. So Bismarck was the first German Federal Chancellor! A tricky question indeed!
2. The Germanic tribe of the Sugambrer was defeating the Roman Tribune Marcus Lollius and made him ridiculous. That was in 17 BC. It was not the catastrophy of 9 AD but it was still the 2nd big defeat of Augustus.
3. Audy Murphy, who became later actor in Hollywood.
4. Acre or Akkon. The Templar knights were the last defenders.
5. Here most of you told me something about king Richard and Ivanhoe. Both are wrong. I do not say Richard wasn´t a chivalrous king but I meant another man: His opponent Saladin. He was indeed acting most like a knight and was a man of honour. The mistake he had I spoke of was that he was a muslim. Also Ivanhoe is not a masterpiece of the enlightment. This was Nathan the wise (Nathan der Weise) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
6. Emperor Frederic II. von Hohenstaufen. He was able to conquer the Holy Land by no battle but negotiations with the Egyptian Sultan. That he didn´t conquer the Holy land with the "blood of the muslims" made the pope angry (the pope was a foe for Frederic) and he indeed excommunicated Frederic! You liberate the Holy alnd and you will be excommunicated!
7. Albertus Magnus
8. Tendaguru Hill, German East Africa. The German palaeontologist Werner Janensch digged there from 1909- 1912. 250 ts of fossils were sent to Germany. They are the African aequivalents of the North American animals of that time. Later the Brits digged there too but they didn´t find much.
9. SMS Königsberg. The cruiser hide herself in the Rufudij- Delta in German East Africa. In 1915 the Brits use a plane to detect the ship and guide the fire of the monitors. When the deadly slavo was fired to the Königsberg, which sank the ship, the FlaK was able to shoot the plane down. To my infos it is the first time in history a ship shot down a plane.
10. Cathrine the Great. She was born as the Prussian princess Sophie von Anhalt- Zerbst.
Plotonius: 6 pts.
Serutan: 4 pts.
Shortguy: 4 pts.
Dragonlord: 3 pts.
qummik: 2.5 pts.
Greekguy: 2 pts.
Plotinus is here the winner. Congratulations.
Adler
The answeres:
1. Otto von Bismarck! Yes HE was the first German federal chancellor. Many have posted Konrad Adenauer but that would whave been only a valid question if it was asked after the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. Indeed Bismarck was federal chancellor of the North German Federation from 1867- 1870/71. The North German Federation (Norddeutscher Bund) was the predecessor of the German Reich and also a federal state like the German Reich. Only the southern states were missing. So Bismarck was the first German Federal Chancellor! A tricky question indeed!
2. The Germanic tribe of the Sugambrer was defeating the Roman Tribune Marcus Lollius and made him ridiculous. That was in 17 BC. It was not the catastrophy of 9 AD but it was still the 2nd big defeat of Augustus.
3. Audy Murphy, who became later actor in Hollywood.
4. Acre or Akkon. The Templar knights were the last defenders.
5. Here most of you told me something about king Richard and Ivanhoe. Both are wrong. I do not say Richard wasn´t a chivalrous king but I meant another man: His opponent Saladin. He was indeed acting most like a knight and was a man of honour. The mistake he had I spoke of was that he was a muslim. Also Ivanhoe is not a masterpiece of the enlightment. This was Nathan the wise (Nathan der Weise) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
6. Emperor Frederic II. von Hohenstaufen. He was able to conquer the Holy Land by no battle but negotiations with the Egyptian Sultan. That he didn´t conquer the Holy land with the "blood of the muslims" made the pope angry (the pope was a foe for Frederic) and he indeed excommunicated Frederic! You liberate the Holy alnd and you will be excommunicated!
7. Albertus Magnus
8. Tendaguru Hill, German East Africa. The German palaeontologist Werner Janensch digged there from 1909- 1912. 250 ts of fossils were sent to Germany. They are the African aequivalents of the North American animals of that time. Later the Brits digged there too but they didn´t find much.
9. SMS Königsberg. The cruiser hide herself in the Rufudij- Delta in German East Africa. In 1915 the Brits use a plane to detect the ship and guide the fire of the monitors. When the deadly slavo was fired to the Königsberg, which sank the ship, the FlaK was able to shoot the plane down. To my infos it is the first time in history a ship shot down a plane.
10. Cathrine the Great. She was born as the Prussian princess Sophie von Anhalt- Zerbst.
Plotonius: 6 pts.
Serutan: 4 pts.
Shortguy: 4 pts.
Dragonlord: 3 pts.
qummik: 2.5 pts.
Greekguy: 2 pts.
Plotinus is here the winner. Congratulations.
Adler
Dragonlord
Fantasy Warlord
Very tricky on Bismarck and Saladin, indeed, Adler! 
I actually thought about Nathan der Weise when you asked for a great work of the Enlightenment, but I was fixated on Richard Lionheart...never thought of Saladin!
I actually thought about Nathan der Weise when you asked for a great work of the Enlightenment, but I was fixated on Richard Lionheart...never thought of Saladin!
Here we go, then. Fifteen questions this time, and of course they're on things that I know about, so no apologies for that. It's now roughly lunchtime GMT on Monday, so you have until lunchtime GMT on Thursday. I think some of these are pretty easy and some are pretty hard. If you don't know, guess! Because some of these are probably guessable.
(1) Many people travel to Montsegur in southwest France to see the ruins of the great Cathar fortress in which, in the thirteenth century, 650 people were beseiged by the French Catholics for ten months. But most of those visitors are disappointed, although most of them dont know it. Why?
(2) He is a man of very hot temper, soon inflamed and very brutal in his passion. He raises his natural heat by drinking much brandy, which he rectifies himself with great application. He is subject to convulsive motions all over his body, and his head seems to be affected with these. He wants not capacity, and has a larger measure of knowledge than might be expected from his education, which was very indifferent. A want of judgment, with an instability of temper, appear in him too often and too evidently. Who was Bishop Burnet describing?
(3) The fifth ecumenical council was called in 553 at Constantinople by the emperor Justinian the Great. The main business was the condemnation of the Three Chapters. What were the Three Chapters? A bonus point if you can name any of their authors. Another if you know all three.
(4) By what name is Li-ma-teu better known in the West?
(5) In 1618, the synod of Dort set out five propositions of orthodox Calvinism which are commonly remembered as a five-letter mnemonic. What is the word spelled by the five letters?
(6) Who wrote the following: Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our countrys most urgent needs.
(7) One of the most important church leaders of the early Middle Ages was the Patriarch Timothy I (Ive anglicised the name), who reigned from 780 to 823. He was an enlightened man who discussed philosophy with the secular rulers of the day and guided his church with a strong hand. But where was he patriarch of, and what major church did he lead? Hint 1: there are two possible answers to the first part. Hint 2: he spoke one language in church and another language at the palace. A bonus point if you can name both languages.
(8) One of the most significant religious figures of the fourteenth century was the heretic Ewostatewos. What country was he from?
(9) Who wrote the following: I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
(10) Who wrote under the pseudonym Prisoner C33?
(11) Arnold Geulincx and Nicolas Malebranche are the most well-known representatives of occasionalism. What is occasionalism?
(12) Who is the only Pope to have canonised himself?
(13) Who wrote a poem containing the following verses:
At the Sign of the Cross in St James's Street,
When next you go thither to make yourselves sweet
By buying of powder, gloves, essence, or so,
You may chance to get a sight of Signior Dildo.
You would take him at first for no person of note,
Because he appears in a plain leather coat,
But when you his virtuous abilities know,
You'll fall down and worship Signior Dildo.
(14) He was the last great writer to be a major influence on both Catholic and Orthodox churches, yet he was not a member of either.
He is probably the most famous non-Latin writer of the sixth century, yet we do not know his name.
He is most famous for his account of how the individual comes to know God, yet he wrote the justification for medieval social hierarchy in fact, he invented the word hierarchy.
He wrote about truth and reality, yet his writings take the form of one enormous lie.
By what name is he generally known?
(15) The Primrose League was so-called because the primrose was supposedly whose favourite flower?
(1) Many people travel to Montsegur in southwest France to see the ruins of the great Cathar fortress in which, in the thirteenth century, 650 people were beseiged by the French Catholics for ten months. But most of those visitors are disappointed, although most of them dont know it. Why?
(2) He is a man of very hot temper, soon inflamed and very brutal in his passion. He raises his natural heat by drinking much brandy, which he rectifies himself with great application. He is subject to convulsive motions all over his body, and his head seems to be affected with these. He wants not capacity, and has a larger measure of knowledge than might be expected from his education, which was very indifferent. A want of judgment, with an instability of temper, appear in him too often and too evidently. Who was Bishop Burnet describing?
(3) The fifth ecumenical council was called in 553 at Constantinople by the emperor Justinian the Great. The main business was the condemnation of the Three Chapters. What were the Three Chapters? A bonus point if you can name any of their authors. Another if you know all three.
(4) By what name is Li-ma-teu better known in the West?
(5) In 1618, the synod of Dort set out five propositions of orthodox Calvinism which are commonly remembered as a five-letter mnemonic. What is the word spelled by the five letters?
(6) Who wrote the following: Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our countrys most urgent needs.
(7) One of the most important church leaders of the early Middle Ages was the Patriarch Timothy I (Ive anglicised the name), who reigned from 780 to 823. He was an enlightened man who discussed philosophy with the secular rulers of the day and guided his church with a strong hand. But where was he patriarch of, and what major church did he lead? Hint 1: there are two possible answers to the first part. Hint 2: he spoke one language in church and another language at the palace. A bonus point if you can name both languages.
(8) One of the most significant religious figures of the fourteenth century was the heretic Ewostatewos. What country was he from?
(9) Who wrote the following: I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
(10) Who wrote under the pseudonym Prisoner C33?
(11) Arnold Geulincx and Nicolas Malebranche are the most well-known representatives of occasionalism. What is occasionalism?
(12) Who is the only Pope to have canonised himself?
(13) Who wrote a poem containing the following verses:
At the Sign of the Cross in St James's Street,
When next you go thither to make yourselves sweet
By buying of powder, gloves, essence, or so,
You may chance to get a sight of Signior Dildo.
You would take him at first for no person of note,
Because he appears in a plain leather coat,
But when you his virtuous abilities know,
You'll fall down and worship Signior Dildo.
(14) He was the last great writer to be a major influence on both Catholic and Orthodox churches, yet he was not a member of either.
He is probably the most famous non-Latin writer of the sixth century, yet we do not know his name.
He is most famous for his account of how the individual comes to know God, yet he wrote the justification for medieval social hierarchy in fact, he invented the word hierarchy.
He wrote about truth and reality, yet his writings take the form of one enormous lie.
By what name is he generally known?
(15) The Primrose League was so-called because the primrose was supposedly whose favourite flower?
@Plotinus:Plotinus said:
"chapeau" for you knowledge of thology, heresy and related themes 
, I confess my ignorance... really, too difficult (for me). I'll wait 
for answers to improve my culture Maybe I could try to answer quiz 6)...
Dragonlord
Fantasy Warlord
I gave it my best shot, but I'm shockingly ignorant on these topics... tried 6 and 9, all others are waaaayyy beyond me.... 
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