History Quiz III (with rules)

[nixon]

Pont du Gard, between 14 A.D. and 15 A.D.

 

[polymath]

Heh, I've beem there, it's the Pont Du Gard at Nimes, I don't know exactly the year so I'll say 0 BC (or 0 AD, same thing), that's about the right date.

Beautiful isn't it? Fascinating even. And look at the rubbish things we build nowadays.

 

[polymath]

You bugger, Nixon. have you been sending Liddy round to look over my shoulder?

 

[Finmaster]

I knew it would have been too easy if I just asked for the name of the facility . Pont Du Gard is correct, of course. It runs across the Gardon river to the city of Nimes. But the year... nobody knows it? Whaddya think, should I just tell it and let Nixon ask the next question lol

 

[nixon]

19 A.D., then?

 

[Finmaster]

Nope, 19 BC

Go ahead and ask Nixon. Let's say that you were close enough when you got the number right even though the letters behind it went wrong

 

[nixon]

Huh? I was right

What was the river route running through Kievan Rus called, i.e., not the name of the river, but rather the informal name of that particular waterway.

 

[Ukas]

From the Varangians to the Greeks.

 

[nixon]

Yes, the man is correct. You don't live far from there, do you?

Well done, now your turn.

 

[Porphyrogenitos]

Seeing as it has been over three days and no one has posted a new question I took the liberty of adding one to keep this thread going.

When was the Bishop of Rome (the Pope) invested with temporal authority?

 

[YNCS]

In 492, after the Sack of Rome by the Vandals.

 

[Porphyrogenitos]

Sorry, but that is not the right answer. Also, the Vandals sacked Rome in 455.

 

[Serutan]

1095, after the final split with Constantinople?

 

[Porphyrogenitos]

I'm afraid that isn't it either. Keep trying though.

 

[Porphyrogenitos]

Well, it has been a while so I'll post the answer and allow someone else to post a question.

The answer is 476 AD, after the forced abdictaion of Romulus Augustulus by Odoacer.

The floor is now open for a new question.

 

[Serutan]

(Insipred by the Insults thread in Off-Topic...)

In 1945, King George offered Churchill the Order of the Garter.
Churchill declined, citing an "honor" recently given him by the British people. What did Churchill call this "honor"? (Bonus: What was it really?

 

[polymath]

Oh, I know, it was the 'Order of the Boot', as he had just been voted out of office. Churchill was fantastically funny!

 

[Serutan]

Yes, he was funny!

Your turn, Polymath.

 

[Pangur Bán]

Well, the time has passed. Someone should ask another question

 

[polymath]

Oh sorry,
OK I'll ask a quick one:
About 2,350 years ago, Darius the Mede's forces were marching to strike at Athens. An Athenian army, half the size of the Medes, was hastily assembled. It included Callimachus the pole-march and Methistocles (who would go on to create the Athenian Navy). The Greeks trounced the Medean army in a decisive battle that defined the progress of Western civilisation. What was the battle and who was (supposedly) the last man to do die because of it.