World History trivia quiz

[Really Not All That Bright]

Just like the US History one, only with different-looking currency.

1. Who designed the iconic Porsche 911?
2. Who was Prime Minister of India during "the Emergency"?
3. Who was the first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope?

[5 time champ]

and so it begins

1. Ferdinand Porsche ?
2. Indira Gandhi ?
3. Bartalameo Diaz

[Really Not All That Bright]

and so it begins

1. Ferdinand Porsche ?
2. Indira Gandhi ?
3. Bartalameo Diaz
Close, yes, yes.

[5 time champ]

4. He had the Taj Mahal built in memory of his favorite wife

5. These two commanding generals both died at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham

6. Carolingian minuscule writing began here.

[Governor Quinn]

5. These two commanding generals both died at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham


5. Wolfe is one, but I can't remember his opponent.

[Spavined Gelding]

5. Wolfe is one, but I can't remember his opponent.
Louis Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, marquis de Saint-Véran

[Really Not All That Bright]

4. He had the Taj Mahal built in memory of his favorite wife

4. Shah Jahan

[Spavined Gelding]

6. Carolingian minuscule writing began here.

Just a guess, but Aachen, Charlemagne’s capitol.

[Spavined Gelding]

My turn?

7. What revolutionary innovation was introduced by the Huns? And, how did it change Western Civilization?

[5 time champ]

4. Shah Jahan
correct

[silenus]

My turn?

7. What revolutionary innovation was introduced by the Huns? And, how did it change Western Civilization?

The stirrup? If so, then it revolutionized the world by allowing effective mounted warfare, leading to the armored knight, feudalism, the manor system, and all that.

[Really Not All That Bright]

My turn?

7. What revolutionary innovation was introduced by the Huns? And, how did it change Western Civilization?
Beheading as a punishment for capital crimes?

[Governor Quinn]

It may not be my turn, but I owe the US History thread a bunch, so I'll place them here:

8. Which war is usually credited as being the origin of the term "concentration camps"?

9. Which European state spent a little over four months as a Communist state in 1919, and who was the de facto head of government?

10. The British Army suffered two major defeats slightly a year apart from one another, in 1879 and 1880. What were they?

11. Which Australian Prime Minister, after his service as PM, later entered the United Kingdom House of Commons?

12. The term "Popular Front" is frequently used to describe the first two governments of which French Prime Minister?

[silenus]

8. The Boer War

10. Isandahlwana and...

12. Blum

[Really Not All That Bright]

It may not be my turn, but I owe the US History thread a bunch, so I'll place them here:

8. Which war is usually credited as being the origin of the term "concentration camps"?

9. Which European state spent a little over four months as a Communist state in 1919, and who was the de facto head of government?

12. The term "Popular Front" is frequently used to describe the first two governments of which French Prime Minister?
8. The Boer/Transvaal War
9. Spain?
12. De Gaulle.

[Spavined Gelding]

The stirrup? If so, then it revolutionized the world by allowing effective mounted warfare, leading to the armored knight, feudalism, the manor system, and all that.

Gold star for silenus!

[Slithy Tove]

9. Which European state spent a little over four months as a Communist state in 1919, and who was the de facto head of government?

Hungary; Bela Kuhn?

[Elendil's Heir]

Thanks for starting this, Really Not All That Bright! I just hope it doesn't cannibalize the U.S. History trivia thread.

My answer:
10. Khartoum, last stand of Gen. George "Chinese" Gordon.

New questions.
13. Who was Montcalm's boss, the last governor of New France?
14. An Australian of this profession helped JFK and his crew after PT-109 was sunk.
15. This English king was legendarily assassinated by the insertion of a red-hot poker into his anus.
16. What did the Soviets call their far-flung Siberian prison system?
17. He led a successful slave uprising on what is now Haiti.

[Really Not All That Bright]

Thanks for starting this, Really Not All That Bright! I just hope it doesn't cannibalize the U.S. History trivia thread.

New questions.
13. Who was Montcalm's boss, the last governor of New France?
14. An Australian of this profession helped JFK and his crew after PT-109 was sunk.
15. This English king was legendarily assassinated by the insertion of a red-hot poker into his anus.
16. What did the Soviets call their far-flung Siberian prison system?
17. He led a successful slave uprising on what is now Haiti.
I think things will even out after a few pages of this one.

15. Edward... the Confessor?
16. the Gulags

[Elendil's Heir]

...
15. Edward... the Confessor?
16. the Gulags

15. It was an Edward, but not the Confessor.
16. Correct.

[Tapioca Dextrin]

9. Which European state spent a little over four months as a Communist state in 1919, and who was the de facto head of government?

I'm pretty sure that Slithy Tove had the correct answer, but I could also mention that there were several other Communist outposts post WWI.

There was the Bavarian Soviet Republic (6th April - 3rd May 1919), the Alsace Soviet Republic (9-22 November 1918) and the Lithuanian-Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (2nd January - 25 August 1919)

[Elendil's Heir]

...
There was the Bavarian Soviet Republic (6th April - 3rd May 1919), the Alsace Soviet Republic (9-22 November 1918) and the Lithuanian-Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (2nd January - 25 August 1919)

Either you have a particularly good memory, which I envy, or you're looking things up. A question for our OP, Really Not: if this is "just like" the U.S. History thread, is research forbidden either in formulating or answering questions?

[OtakuLoki]

14. I believe it was a Coast Watcher who got Kennedy's message out.


BTW, RE: #7, the stirrup and the Huns, I thought that it had been the Mongols that pioneered the stirrup, not the Huns.

[Really Not All That Bright]

Either you have a particularly good memory, which I envy, or you're looking things up. A question for our OP, Really Not: if this is "just like" the U.S. History thread, is research forbidden either in formulating or answering questions?
You tell us. I started the thread, but you started the movement, brutha.

[Alessan]

15. It was an Edward, but not the Confessor.
.
Edward II. The person behind the assasination was his wife, and the method was chosen because of his sexual orientation.

[An Gadaí]

Thanks for starting this, Really Not All That Bright! I just hope it doesn't cannibalize the U.S. History trivia thread.

My answer:
10. Khartoum, last stand of Gen. George "Chinese" Gordon.

New questions.
13. Who was Montcalm's boss, the last governor of New France?
14. An Australian of this profession helped JFK and his crew after PT-109 was sunk.
15. This English king was legendarily assassinated by the insertion of a red-hot poker into his anus.
16. What did the Soviets call their far-flung Siberian prison system?
17. He led a successful slave uprising on what is now Haiti.

17. Toussaint L'ouverture, the black napoleon.

[Slithy Tove]

Edward II. The person behind the assasination was his wife, and the method was chosen because of his sexual orientation.

Also because it left no visible wound (if you used a funnel as well as the poker)

[Elendil's Heir]

14. I believe it was a Coast Watcher who got Kennedy's message out....

Right you are. Alessan and An Gadai are also correct about Edward II and L'ouverture.

Really Not, I personally think it's more fun and challenging if we all have to rely on our memories rather than simply having this be a test of Google and Wiki skills. That's the rule in the other thread, but this one's all yours, baby. I'll abide by your decision, whatever it is.

[Siam Sam]

Also because it left no visible wound (if you used a funnel as well as the poker)
I remember reading the main reason was because it was believed the blood of kings should not be shed, and this cauterized as it went in.

[Really Not All That Bright]

Really Not, I personally think it's more fun and challenging if we all have to rely on our memories rather than simply having this be a test of Google and Wiki skills. That's the rule in the other thread, but this one's all yours, baby. I'll abide by your decision, whatever it is.
Yeah, I don't see the point of the thread if everyone just looks it up.

So remember people, your Googlu Fu is no good here!

[Wargamer]

OK, I'll add a few questions.

18. Who was the last Governour-General of India?

19. What was the name of the Inter-War treaty that attempted to legislate European disarmament in the 1920s.

20. What was the name of the meeting that set the canon for the Christian Bible as we know it today?

[Really Not All That Bright]

19. What was the name of the Inter-War treaty that attempted to legislate European disarmament in the 1920s.

20. What was the name of the meeting that set the canon for the Christian Bible as we know it today?
19. One of the many Treaties of Paris?

20. The Council/Diet of Niciea (sp?)

[silenus]

18. Lord Louis Mountbattan

19. The Kellog-Briand Pact

20. Council of Nicea?

[Really Not All That Bright]

21. What meeting, presided over by Emperor Charles V, was called to address the issues raised by Martin Luther?

22. Who was Benjamin Disraeli's chief rival (and counterpart in the Liberal Party)?

[Giles]

11. Which Australian Prime Minister, after his service as PM, later entered the United Kingdom House of Commons?
George "Yes-No" Reid.

(He got his nickname from his sitting on the fence about whether Australia should become a federation while Premier of New South Wales in the 1890s).

[Alessan]

22. Who was Benjamin Disraeli's chief rival (and counterpart in the Liberal Party)?
Gladstone?

[An Gadaí]

21. What meeting, presided over by Emperor Charles V, was called to address the issues raised by Martin Luther?

22. Who was Benjamin Disraeli's chief rival (and counterpart in the Liberal Party)?


21. The Diet Of Worms?

[Really Not All That Bright]

Gladstone and the Diet of Worms are both correct.

I just love that name "Diet of Worms". Even made me sit up and pay attention in class until I realized a diet was a meeting and not a meal plan...

[Giles]

I just love that name "Diet of Worms". Even made me sit up and pay attention in class until I realized a diet was a meeting and not a meal plan...
Yes -- the Diet of Japan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_of_Japan) does not consist of sushi, onigiri and noodle soup.

[An Gadaí]

Can I ask some now?

[Really Not All That Bright]

Can I ask some now?
No.

Just kidding. Of course- that's the point of the thread, and the more the merrier.

[silenus]

A-ha! I just remembered the answer to #13!

13. Vedroy, Vidreuy, Voodroy...something like that. The only time I've ever run across the name is on a video that I show my class each year. I've never seen it spelled out. Some bizarre French spelling, I'm sure.

[irishgirl]

23. Who lead the United Irishmen and how did he die?

[An Gadaí]

23. Theobald Wolfe Tone? Suicide?

[An Gadaí]

24. This World War II Norwegian leader's name became synonymous with traitor.

25. What is the capital city of Madagascar?

26. What is the capital city of Lichtenstein (spelling might be wrong!)?

27. This geographical area of Germany was considered the most likely area for a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.

28. What is the modern name for Konigsberg?

[silenus]

24. Vidkun Quisling

26. Lichtenstein City?

27. The Fulda Gap

[Really Not All That Bright]

26. What is the capital city of Lichtenstein (spelling might be wrong!)?

27. This geographical area of Germany was considered the most likely area for a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.

28. What is the modern name for Konigsberg?
26. Vaduz
27. Bavaria.
29. Kaliningrad.

[An Gadaí]

24. and 27. go to Silenus.
26. and 29 go to Really Not.

[Zsofia]

25. Antanarivo (sp?)

[An Gadaí]

29. Who led South Africa during World War II?

30. What is the last word in the bible?

31. "All changed, changed utterly, a terrible beauty is born." Name the poet and the poem.

[An Gadaí]

Zsofia, close enough on 25!

[Really Not All That Bright]

31. "All changed, changed utterly, a terrible beauty is born." Name the poet and the poem.
Milton, Paradise Lost (I think)

[An Gadaí]

Nope.

[Giles]

31. "All changed, changed utterly, a terrible beauty is born." Name the poet and the poem.
It has to be Irish, of course! I think W.B. Yeats, and "Sailing to Byzantium".

[Giles]

It has to be Irish, of course! I think W.B. Yeats, and "Sailing to Byzantium".
Just checked on the 'net -- I got the poet right, but it's a different poem. I'll see if anyone else remembers which poem without Googling.

[An Gadaí]

Hey no checking, hehe.

[silenus]

32. What 18th Century war between England and Spain was caused by (and named after) a body part?

33. What treaty legitimitized Lutheranism in the German states?

34. The ugliest monument in Rome is one to this 1st King of a united Italy.

35. Who was often refered to as "The Prince of Humanists?"

36. Who was Dante's guide through Purgatory in "The Divine Comedy?"

[Sunshine and Smiles]

29. Who led South Africa during World War II?

30. What is the last word in the bible?


30. Amen.

or AMEN.

isn't it...?

[Really Not All That Bright]

35. Who was often refered to as "The Prince of Humanists?"

36. Who was Dante's guide through Purgatory in "The Divine Comedy?"
35. da Vinci

36. For some reason I'm thinking of the Roman poet Virgil, but that's too random be right, right?

[Sunshine and Smiles]

32. What 18th Century war between England and Spain was caused by (and named after) a body part?

The War of Johnson's Ear?

[Alessan]

32. What 18th Century war between England and Spain was caused by (and named after) a body part?

34. The ugliest monument in Rome is one to this 1st King of a united Italy.


32. The War of Jenkin's (or possibly Jensen's) Ear.

34. Victor Immanuel.

[silenus]

RNATB - 35 - no, 36 - yes

Alessan - right on both

[An Gadaí]

30 is correct! Amen to that.

[OtakuLoki]

33. What treaty legitimitized Lutheranism in the German states?

33. I believe this is a reference to the Peace of Augsberg, which also enshrined the idea of Religion of the Prince, Religion of the People - leaving the common folk's religious affiliation at the mercy of the territorial prince.



37. What German Protestant thinker, and theologian, is famous for having castigated some of his followers for using theology to support their attempts to change the secular world?

38. What was restored by the Meiji Restoration?

39. What was known as The Most Serene Republic?

40. There have been four lighthouses established on the Eddystone shoals near the mouth of the Thames. What happened to the first and second lighthouses?

41. What two innovations ended the era of the Tea Clipper ships?

[Really Not All That Bright]

40. There have been four lighthouses established on the Eddystone shoals near the mouth of the Thames. What happened to the first and second lighthouses?

41. What two innovations ended the era of the Tea Clipper ships?
40. I'm going to guess at pillaging Vikings, and German bombs.
41. Vaguely remembered from my trip to the Cutty Sark when I was a wee'un - the steam engine and the Suez Canal (does that count as an innovation?)

[5 time champ]

31. "All changed, changed utterly, a terrible beauty is born." Name the poet and the poem.
It was about the Easter Rebellion, wasn't it called "Rebellion"

38. What was restored by the Meiji Restoration?
The Japanese Emperor, Hirohito's father

39. What was known as The Most Serene Republic?
San Marino

[An Gadaí]

31. "All changed, changed utterly, a terrible beauty is born." Name the poet and the poem.
It was about the Easter Rebellion, wasn't it called "Rebellion"


Twas about the Rising but nope it isn't called "Rebellion".

[Governor Quinn]

Responding to the answers:

silenus: 8 is correct, 10 is half-correct, and 12 is correct.

Really Not All That Bright: 8 is correct, and 9 and 12 are wrong.

Slithy Tove: 9 is correct.

Elendil's Heir: 10 is incorrect.

Giles: 11 is correct.

[Governor Quinn]

29 is Jan Smuts, who also played a major role in WWI, and whom led commandos against the British in the Boer War.

[OtakuLoki]

40. I'm going to guess at pillaging Vikings, and German bombs.
41. Vaguely remembered from my trip to the Cutty Sark when I was a wee'un - the steam engine and the Suez Canal (does that count as an innovation?)


40. Nope. You're putting it waaaay too late for the first two lights.

41. Yes, that's what I was thinking of.

[5 time champ]

42. Martin Luther sought refuge in this German castle.

43. Name two famous and influential books published in 1776. Yes, I realize this is World History trivia, these books have nothing to do with the American Revolution.

44. A 16th Century earthquake that devastated this city also shook the Faith of some Christians.

45. Name the Holyday on which the earthquake happened.

46. Henry VIII was awarded this title from the Pope for his efforts against Martin Luther.

[Wargamer]

43. Is one The Wealth of Nations by Smith?

44. Rome?

45. Easter?

46. Defender of the Faith (!)- I know this one...

[OtakuLoki]

44. A 16th Century earthquake that devastated this city also shook the Faith of some Christians.

46. Henry VIII was awarded this title from the Pope for his efforts against Martin Luther.


44. Lisbon

46. Defender of the Faith


ETA: I just realized that I might have confused people with my comments to Really Not All That Bright about the lighthouse at Eddystone shoals. Twentieth Century Germans are too late to have had a chance to affect the first two lights. And the Vikings predated either of the first two lights there.

[silenus]

42. The Wartberg

Didn't the first two Eddystone lighthouses burn down?

[OtakuLoki]

Didn't the first two Eddystone lighthouses burn down?


The second one did. The builder said something very ironic, when you know what happened to the first light.


And I'm afraid I missed 5 time champ's answers to 38 and 39.

38, I believe is right - I don't know the exact Emporer, but it was the restoration of rule in the name of the Emporer, instead of in the name of the Shogun.

39, however, is wrong.

[bmoak]

43) Adam Smith's the Wealth of Nations and Edward Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

[bmoak]

Hirohito, whois posthumously known as Emperor Showa, was the Meiji Emperor's grandson. Emperor Taisho was in in between them.

[silenus]

46. What was the first legal distillery in Scotland?

47. As thanks for aiding in his escape, Bonnie Prince Charlie gave the recipe for what to the MacKinnon family (supposedly)?

48. Legend has it that Britain will fall when what leave the Tower of London?

49. Which French Emperor invaded Mexico?

50. The discovery of what, by French troops stationed in Egypt, led to the deciphering of heiroglyphics?

[An Gadaí]

50 The Rosetta Stone



Governer Quinn You are correct on 29!

[OtakuLoki]

48. Legend has it that Britain will fall when what leave the Tower of London?

49. Which French Emperor invaded Mexico?

50. The discovery of what, by French troops stationed in Egypt, led to the deciphering of heiroglyphics?


48. The ravens.

49. Napoleon III

50. The Rosetta Stone

[An Gadaí]

48. The Crown Jewels?

[5 time champ]

42. Wartburg Castle is correct

43. Name two famous and influential books published in 1776. Yes, one is Smith's On the Wealth of Nations; the other is Volume One of Gibbon Decline & Fall.

44. A 16th Century earthquake devastated Lisbon

45. Easter is not the Holyday on which the earthquake happened.

46. Henry VIII was awarded Defender of the Faith from the Pope


39 Not San Marino, eh

[OtakuLoki]

39 Not San Marino, eh

Not so far as I know. Certainly it's not the Republic I was thinking of.

[5 time champ]

49. Which French Emperor invaded Mexico?
Maximiilian

51. Who led the translation of the Rosetta Stone?

[OtakuLoki]

39 Not San Marino, ehNot so far as I know. Certainly it's not the Republic I was thinking of.


A little quick Googling has left me with egg on my face. San Marino was and remains known as The Most Serene Republic. The Republic I was thinking of for #39 is a former Republic.

[5 time champ]

A little quick Googling has left me with egg on my face. San Marino was and remains known as The Most Serene Republic. The Republic I was thinking of for #39 is a former Republic.
Venice by any chance?

[OtakuLoki]

Venice by any chance?


Yes, that's it.


52. What happened to end The Most Serene Republic of Venice?

[5 time champ]

52. The last doge of Venice was deposed by Napoleon.

52 Who was the last doge?

[OtakuLoki]

That one I can't tell you. ;)

[bmoak]

54) What 4 Latin American countries were involved in the War of the Triple Alliance?

[Spavined Gelding]

54) What 4 Latin American countries were involved in the War of the Triple Alliance?

In South America about the time of the American Civil War or just after. Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay on one side and Paraguay on the other. About control of the River Platte. The British were somehow involved. Damn near extinguished Paraguay, which was the principal instigator. That from a vague memory of a survey of modern Europe (post 1500) course taken 45 years ago.

I think it's the Easter Uprising.

[Spavined Gelding]

45. Easter is not the Holyday on which the earthquake happened.

Good Friday?

[5 time champ]

Nope

[Elendil's Heir]

A little quick Googling has left me with egg on my face. San Marino was and remains known as The Most Serene Republic. The Republic I was thinking of for #39 is a former Republic.

Um... no Googling, right?

35. Voltaire
39. Monaco

Silenus, as to question 13, you're close: it's Vaudreuil, who was an ancestor of mine. He and Montcalm constantly quarreled, largely because Montcalm thought he was a corrupt meddler, and disagreed with the governor's belief that better and broader military use should be made of New France's Indian allies.

55. Winston Churchill said that the Iron Curtain ran between what two Eastern European cities?
56. Before the British Royal Family was called the House of Windsor, it was the House of ____ _____ _____.
57. What genocidal Communist regime ruled Cambodia during the last half of the 1970s?
58. The regime renamed Cambodia what?
59. This was their most notorious prison.

[Tapioca Dextrin]

55 From Trieste in the South to Stechin(??) in the North
56 Saxe Coburg Gotha

[Elendil's Heir]

55 From Trieste in the South to Stechin(??) in the North
56 Saxe Coburg Gotha

55. Yes; it's Stettin
56. Correct.

[An Gadaí]

Um... no Googling, right?

35. Voltaire
39. Monaco

Silenus, as to question 13, you're close: it's Vaudreuil, who was an ancestor of mine. He and Montcalm constantly quarreled, largely because Montcalm thought he was a corrupt meddler, and disagreed with the governor's belief that better and broader military use should be made of New France's Indian allies.

55. Winston Churchill said that the Iron Curtain ran between what two Eastern European cities?
56. Before the British Royal Family was called the House of Windsor, it was the House of ____ _____ _____.
57. What genocidal Communist regime ruled Cambodia during the last half of the 1970s?
58. The regime renamed Cambodia what?
59. This was their most notorious prison.


57. Khmer Rouge

[OtakuLoki]

Um... no Googling, right?

I only Googled after I'd realized I had no idea where, nor what, the Republic of San Marino might be. The Googling didn't affect the question I'd asked (If you look at the original question the confusion was possible because "was" in English can indicate the perfect tense as well as the imperfect tense.) nor my intended answer. Just done in response to a growing dread that my question may not have been properly designed to yield only one answer.

I'd had the impression that in cases where the questioner had reason to doubt the accuracy of the intended answer Googling had been allowed, grudgingly, in the US History thread.



57. What genocidal Communist regime ruled Cambodia during the last half of the 1970s?

57. The Khmer Rouge

[5 time champ]

58. The regime renamed Cambodia what?
Kampuchea

[Siam Sam]

59. This was their most notorious prison.
Saw this too late to answer #57 and #58, but:

59. Tuol Sleng. It began life as a high school and was turned into a prison and torture center by the Khmer Rouge. I can tell you the mundane setting in a typical residential neighborhood makes it a bit eerie (that is, even more so).

[Really Not All That Bright]

55. Winston Churchill said that the Iron Curtain ran between what two Eastern European cities?
56. Before the British Royal Family was called the House of Windsor, it was the House of ____ _____ _____.
55. "From Stettin on the Baltic, to Trieste on the Adriatic..."
56. Stuart.

[Really Not All That Bright]

I'd had the impression that in cases where the questioner had reason to doubt the accuracy of the intended answer Googling had been allowed, grudgingly, in the US History thread.
Googling the answer to your own question is fine - you don't really have to share it unless it turns out there are fifty possible answers or something.

[silenus]

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[Saratoga Sam]

47. As thanks for aiding in his escape, Bonnie Prince Charlie gave the recipe for what to the MacKinnon family (supposedly)?



47. Drambuie

[silenus]

Correct.

[Elendil's Heir]

Correct answers as to the Khmer Rouge, Kampuchea, and the Tuol Sleng prison.

Some more questions (limiting myself to five at a time, as in the other thread):
60. The Duke of Marlborough named his palace after a smashing victory he won.
61. This French officer was at the center of an anti-Semitic scandal in the late 1800s.
62. This great liberator of South America had an entire country named after him.
63. This man, of Indian heritage, was the first democratically-elected president of Mexico.
64. This Chinese admiral's voyages took him as far as the African coast.

[Alessan]

Correct answers as to the Khmer Rouge, Kampuchea, and the Tuol Sleng prison.

Some more questions (limiting myself to five at a time, as in the other thread):
60. The Duke of Marlborough named his palace after a smashing victory he won.
61. This French officer was at the center of an anti-Semitic scandal in the late 1800s.
62. This great liberator of South America had an entire country named after him.
.
60. Blenheim.
61. Alfred Dreyfus.
62. Simon Bolivar.

[silenus]

63. Benito Juarez

[silenus]

We are still missing correct answers for, or confirmation of correct answers to:

23. Who lead the United Irishmen and how did he die?

35. Who was often refered to as "The Prince of Humanists?"

40. There have been four lighthouses established on the Eddystone shoals near the mouth of the Thames. What happened to the first and second lighthouses?

45. Name the Holyday on which the earthquake happened.

46. What was the first legal distillery in Scotland?

51. Who led the translation of the Rosetta Stone?

52. Who was the last doge?

The answer to #51 is Champollion.

[Indistinguishable]

Whoops, didn't notice Alessan beat me.

[Elendil's Heir]

60. Blenheim.
61. Alfred Dreyfus.
62. Simon Bolivar.

All correct. And silenus is correct about Benito Juarez (after whom Ciudad Juarez is named).

Since it's been mentioned but not linked to, here's the U.S. History trivia quiz thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=441644

[Siam Sam]

64. This Chinese admiral's voyages took him as far as the African coast.
64. Zheng He.

[Really Not All That Bright]

My as-yet unanswered question:
1. Who designed the iconic Porsche 911?

I would give the answer but it was the first one in the thread and I want to see how far we get before someone gets it....

And some new ones:
65. What image was at the top of the stele on which Hammurabi's Code was displayed?
66. Which Roman general defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama? (looking for his given name, not agnomen).
67. Who was the hero of the epic poem which the Roman poet Virgil became known for, and where was he from (the hero)?
68. How many verses make up the Bhagavad Gita?
69. Upon which of the Seven Hills was Rome originally founded, according to the story of Romulus and Remus?

[Tapioca Dextrin]

66. Which Roman general defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama? (looking for his given name, not agnomen).

That would be Scipio (at least according to Russell Crowe)

[Siam Sam]

65. What image was at the top of the stele on which Hammurabi's Code was displayed?
An eye?

[silenus]

My as-yet unanswered question:
1. Who designed the iconic Porsche 911?

I would give the answer but it was the first one in the thread and I want to see how far we get before someone gets it....

And some new ones:
65. What image was at the top of the stele on which Hammurabi's Code was displayed?
66. Which Roman general defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama? (looking for his given name, not agnomen).
67. Who was the hero of the epic poem which the Roman poet Virgil became known for, and where was he from (the hero)?
68. How many verses make up the Bhagavad Gita?
69. Upon which of the Seven Hills was Rome originally founded, according to the story of Romulus and Remus?

1. Ferdinand Porsche?

66. Scipio the Younger (Africanus)

69. Capitoline?

[Slithy Tove]

silenus is correct about Benito Juarez (after whom Ciudad Juarez is named).

as was Benito Mussolini.

70. Under which Roman emperor was St. Valentine martyred?

What anatomical similarites did these people have in common?
71: Bela Lugosi & Lee Marvin
72: Mata Hari and Geronimo
73: impresario Billy Rose and King Farouk

[OtakuLoki]

65. What image was at the top of the stele on which Hammurabi's Code was displayed?
67. Who was the hero of the epic poem which the Roman poet Virgil became known for, and where was he from (the hero)?
68. How many verses make up the Bhagavad Gita?


65. Wasn't it the Syrian Bull - a man-headed winged bull?

67. Anaeus No clue where he was from, though.

68. Lots and lots and lots ;)




70. RMS refers to what, when we're talking about British merchant shipping?

71. Are there any remaining working RMS ships afloat today? (I'm using the word "working" to differentiate from any ships that may have the RMS designation solely for honorary reasons.)

72. The Turkish Dreadnought style battlecruiser Yavuz is more famously known by another name. What was it?

73. What was the name of the other ship that became famous with the ship that would become the Yavuz?

74. Why is the wreck of the HMS Victoria considered so unusual, and possibly unique?

[5 time champ]

67. Who was the hero of the epic poem which the Roman poet Virgil became known for, and where was he from (the hero)?
Aeneas fled the destruction of Troy

[5 time champ]

They said it
75. Bury the dead, feed the living.

76. The only place there is a vacuum is in Pascal's head.

77. Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.

78. An army marches on its stomach. [OK, attributed]

79. Paris is well worth a Mass.

[OtakuLoki]

77. Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.

78. An army marches on its stomach. [OK, attributed]

79. Paris is well worth a Mass.[/i]



77. Archimedes

78. Napoleon

79. Henri something or other. I think the second.

[Siam Sam]

78. An army marches on its stomach. [OK, attributed][/i]
78. Julius Caesar?

[silenus]

79. Henry of Navarre (Henry IV)

[Elendil's Heir]

64. Zheng He.

Correct.

69. Cataline?
70. Royal Mail Steamship or, more recently, Ship
71. Yes, RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 and Queen Mary 2
74. The warship hit the ocean bottom vertically and is still standing almost straight up.

[OtakuLoki]

70. Royal Mail Steamship or, more recently, Ship
71. Yes, RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 and Queen Mary 2
74. The warship hit the ocean bottom vertically and is still standing almost straight up.


70. Yes.
71. Actually, those were the ships I was trying to exclude - they've the title, but they're not working any regular run, or really expected to deliver the Royal Mail.
74. Yes.

[5 time champ]

77. Correct, I used that line a couple weeks ago. Someone at work wondered how I lifted a heavy generator into the back of a truck. Though I used an inclined plane, rather than a fulcrum.

78. Correct, generally attributed to Napoleon, though one would expect that Og the Caveman would have said that the first time he went off to war.

79. Correct, the French crown devolved upon the Protestant Henri of Navarre. He became Catholic and Henri IV.

[Alessan]

Here are some of mine. All of them have some connction to both Jewish and British history:

80. Which ruler exiled the Jews from England?
81 Which ruler allowed them to return?
82. What was the name of the knight who founded the first neighborhoods in Jerusalem to lie outside the city walls?
83. Which general conquered Jerusalem in WW1?
84. Which British WW2 general, famed for his actions in Indochina, is also an Israeli national hero?

Here's a French one:
85. What Israeli city managed to withstand a two-month seige by Napoleon Bonaparte?

[Tapioca Dextrin]

Here are some of mine. All of them have some connction to both Jewish and British history:

80. Which ruler exiled the Jews from England?
81 Which ruler allowed them to return?


80 Edward I
81 Oliver Cromwell

[Alessan]

Correct and correct.

[Tapioca Dextrin]

Cromwell was a bit of a guess, but I figured you wouldn't have used the word ruler without a reason :)

[Siam Sam]

56. Before the British Royal Family was called the House of Windsor, it was the House of ____ _____ _____.
I have racked my brain's on this one and just cannot remember. In hopes that it will jog someone else's memory, I can tell you that it was a German name and that they changed it during World War I, because they felt it unseemly to have that name at that time. But I cannot remember what it was. Saxe-something??? Saxe-Colburg?

[Tapioca Dextrin]

pssst post #95 :)

[Siam Sam]

pssst post #95 :)
Whoops! :o I seem to have missed that one. Post #101 still guessing threw me. And the sun was in my eyes. But I was partially correct!

Thankee. :)

[Slithy Tove]

79. Correct, the French crown devolved upon the Protestant Henri of Navarre. He became Catholic and Henri IV.

Wasn't he assasinated by a priest or some sort of felonious monk?

[Really Not All That Bright]

That would be Scipio (at least according to Russell Crowe)
Yes, but I need his first name too. There were two Roman generals of note named Scipio - Africanus, the famous one we're looking for, and a less well known fellow who led a legion in Britain.
An eye?
Good guess, but no.
1. Ferdinand Porsche?

66. Scipio the Younger (Africanus)

69. Capitoline?
No; yes, but see above; No.
Aeneas fled the destruction of Troy
Correct.
65. Wasn't it the Syrian Bull - a man-headed winged bull?
Also a good guess, but no.

[Siam Sam]

Wasn't he assasinated by a priest or some sort of felonious monk?
Henry IV was also an interesting main character, in his pre-king days, in Dumas' La Reine Margot, the story of which centers on the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

Thought of one of my own:

86. This 19th-century French explorer, while trying to find a riverine back entrance into China, "discovered" Angkor Wat in Cambodia. ("Discovered" it despite it being a prosperous monastery tended by 1000 herditary slaves at the time. In all fairness, though, he himself did not say he discovered it, but rather the credit was forced onto him posthumously.)

[Elendil's Heir]

...
71. Actually, those were the ships I was trying to exclude - they've the title, but they're not working any regular run, or really expected to deliver the Royal Mail.
....

71. Then I'd say no, the Royal Mail is entirely carried by train, truck or airplane nowadays.

87. Winston Churchill was offered, but declined, this title of nobility after WW2.
88. This top Nazi flew to the UK on a harebrained peace mission.
89. This French finance minister was a key supporter of the American Revolution.
90. He was the first to reach the South Pole.
91. After capturing it, what did the North Vietnamese rename Saigon?

[Alessan]

71. Then I'd say no, the Royal Mail is entirely carried by train, truck or airplane nowadays.

87. Winston Churchill was offered, but declined, this title of nobility after WW2.

88. This top Nazi flew to the UK on a harebrained peace mission.

91. After capturing it, what did the North Vietnamese rename Saigon?

87. The Duke of Marlborough? Just guessing here.

88. Goebbels. He ended up in the Tower of London.

89. Ho Chi Min City.

[bmoak]

88) Heinrich Himmler

[bmoak]

90) Roald Asmussen?

[5 time champ]

88. This top Nazi flew to the UK on a harebrained peace mission.
That would be Rudolf Hess

89. This French finance minister was a key supporter of the American Revolution.
Colbert ? or am I 100 years too early

91. After capturing it, what did the North Vietnamese rename Saigon?
Ho Chi Minh City

[5 time champ]

AKA [I think everything is spelled close enough to be correct]
92 Ras Tasfari
93 Temijen
94 Timbur the Lame
95 Marie Francois Arouet
96 George Gordon

[Alive At Both Ends]

88. Goebbels. He ended up in the Tower of London.

Goebbels committed suicide in Hitler's bunker. The correct answer is Rudolf Hess, who ended up in Spandau prison in Berlin.

[Alive At Both Ends]

90) Roald Asmussen?
Roald Amundsen.

[silenus]

AKA [I think everything is spelled close enough to be correct]
92 Ras Tasfari
93 Temijen
94 Timbur the Lame
95 Marie Francois Arouet
96 George Gordon

92. Helie Selassie
93. Ghengis Khan
94.
95. Voltaire
96.


89. Jacques Necker

[Panurge]

94. Tamerlane

[OtakuLoki]

71. Then I'd say no, the Royal Mail is entirely carried by train, truck or airplane nowadays.

71. Incorrect, again. This is a huge corner case, though. There is one ship, RMS St. Helena, which is the only regular, scheduled link between the outside world and the Island of St. Helena. I will admit, however, that she is going to be retired in a few short years, when the airstrip on the island is finished.

[silenus]

Yes, but I need his first name too. There were two Roman generals of note named Scipio - Africanus, the famous one we're looking for, and a less well known fellow who led a legion in Britain.

Jeez, make me break out my reference books, why don't you?

Publio Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus. Happy? :D


Oh, and 96. Lord Byron.

[Governor Quinn]

84. Orde Wingate.

87. The Duke of London.

[Elendil's Heir]

Correct about the Duke of London, Rudolf Hess, Roald Amundsen, and Ho Chi Minh City. Incorrect about the French finance minister. A hint: a town in Vermont is named after him.

silenus, you're just joking about looking in reference books, right? :dubious:

96. "Chinese"

[silenus]

If this were a school day, "maybe." All my reference books are in my classroom, I'm afraid. :D

[Siam Sam]

Incorrect about the French finance minister. A hint: a town in Vermont is named after him.
89. Montpelier?

[5 time champ]

AKA: 92-96 are all correctly answered

[Darryl Lict]

1. Ferdinand Porsche's kid. Junior? Fred? Frank?

New question:

97. Who was the curiously named military leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. Every damn main boulevard in every podunk town in Chile seems to be named after the guy.

[silenus]

97. Who was the curiously named military leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. Every damn main boulevard in every podunk town in Chile seems to be named after the guy.

That has to be Bernardo O'Higgins.

[silenus]

98. This Italian born French Queen is credited with introducing the fork to common tablesettings.

99. What was the name given to Bismarck's "war" against the Catholic Church's influence in Germany?

100. The "Final Solution" to the Jewish Problem was decided at what conference?

[Siam Sam]

98. This Italian born French Queen is credited with introducing the fork to common tablesettings.
98. Catherine de Medicis, wife of I think it was Henry II.

[Elendil's Heir]

89. Montpelier?

No.

100. The Wannsee Conference.

[Siam Sam]

No.

100. The Wannsee Conference.
Burlington? :(

[Darryl Lict]

That has to be Bernardo O'Higgins.
You are correct, of course.

[movingfinger]

"Felonius Monk" Snerk!

[Antonius Block]

Here (I hope!) is some cleanup on clues from a couple of pages back:

40. There have been four lighthouses established on the Eddystone shoals near the mouth of the Thames. What happened to the first and second lighthouses?The Eddystone lighthouse is in the English Channel off Plymouth in Southwest England, nowhere near the mouth of the Thames! [Well, except from the US perspective that the UK is so small that everything is near the mouth of the Thames ;) ]

Anyway, the first one was washed away in a storm, and the second one burnt down (as previously mentioned). The third one was dismantled and rebuilt in a park in Plymouth, and the fourth still operates -- although there's no keeper on it any more.

44. A 16th Century earthquake that devastated this city also shook the Faith of some Christians.

45. Name the Holyday on which the earthquake happened.Hmm, you've accepted Lisbon for 44. However, the really big earthquake that devastated Lisbon was in the mid-18th Century (not 16th), on All Saints' Day (Nov 1st). Was it 1750? Sometime around then. It certainly shook Christian Faith throughout Europe, and was part of Voltaire's inspiration for Candide (a major chunk of which takes place in Lisbon).

[Alessan]

84. Orde Wingate.



Correct.

A fascinating character. I'd love to see a movie made about his life.

[OtakuLoki]

The Eddystone lighthouse is in the English Channel off Plymouth in Southwest England, nowhere near the mouth of the Thames! [Well, except from the US perspective that the UK is so small that everything is near the mouth of the Thames ;) ] Mea culpa

Anyway, the first one was washed away in a storm, and the second one burnt down (as previously mentioned). The third one was dismantled and rebuilt in a park in Plymouth, and the fourth still operates -- although there's no keeper on it any more.


Absolutely correct about the fate of the first Eddystone lighthouse. The first winter was not kind to the light, and it was notably worse for wear after that. So the designer began a massive reconstruction effort, and boasted (often AIUI) that he hoped to be in the light come the greatest storm God ever sends.

There is room to believe that The Great Storm of 1703 met that criteria. The damages done in the UK were astronomical. The only other detail of that storm that I recall was that it blew so strongly that some of the windmills powering pumps to keep the Fens drained were turning so fast that frictional heating caused them to ignite! And, as Antonius Block said, it left nothing behind of the lighthouse.

Oh, FWIW, the third lighthouse isn't completely dismantled. It had to be replaced because the tides were undercutting the rocks it was built upon, but when it came time to bring it down, the decision was made to leave the lowest sections in place, where they can still be seen today.

[Really Not All That Bright]

Publio Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus. Happy? :D
Yes. Publius Scipio would have done ;)
1. Ferdinand Porsche's kid. Junior? Fred? Frank?
You're on the right lines, just not actually right.
94 Timbur the Lame
Tamerlane?

[Siam Sam]

Tamerlane?
I believe Tamerlane was actually a corruption of Timur the Lame. EDIT: Oh, wait, YOU were answering the question. This is getting a bit confusing. :(

I'll bump my question up. I worried at the time it might be a little too obscure, but here it is again. Will give it another 24 hours or so:

86. This 19th-century French explorer, while trying to find a riverine back entrance into China, "discovered" Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

[Really Not All That Bright]

86. This 19th-century French explorer, while trying to find a riverine back entrance into China, "discovered" Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
I'll take a guess: Bonin? (Banin?)

[Siam Sam]

I'll take a guess: Bonin? (Banin?)
No.

Hint: He died of malaria during the same trip, near the royal Lao capital of Luang Prabang.

[silenus]

Oh, FWIW, the third lighthouse isn't completely dismantled. It had to be replaced because the tides were undercutting the rocks it was built upon, but when it came time to bring it down, the decision was made to leave the lowest sections in place, where they can still be seen today.

Wasn't it more a decision based on money, ie the sucker was so well built it would take a nuke to take out the rest of the light? :D


Siam Sam got #98. Elendil's Heir got #100.

[OtakuLoki]

Wasn't it more a decision based on money, ie the sucker was so well built it would take a nuke to take out the rest of the light? :D


I don't know the exact reasoning, but given that we're talking about Victorian era explosives work, I wonder if there were concerns about whether the explosives necessary to take down the light would affect the surveyed foundation for the fourth light.

[Panurge]

Well - I got question 94 right (post #146), so I hope I qualify for posting the next five:

101: Name the two largest cities of the Indus Valley civilization.
102: Name the founder of the Asiatic Society (Calcutta, 1784)
103: The same man translated the play Sakuntala to English. Who wrote it?
104: Of which city did Mark Twain write the following: "X is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together"?
Finally a contemporary one:
105: Whose portrait can be found on all Pakistani paper currency?

[Antonius Block]

101: Name the two largest cities of the Indus Valley civilization.Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.

[Sitnam]

104: Of which city did Mark Twain write the following: "X is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together"?
Varanasi (i.e. Benares) - He wasn't lying from what I saw 6 months ago.

[Sunshine and Smiles]

105. Quaid-e-Azam? I probably butchered the spelling of that

[Panurge]

Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.
Yes.

Varanasi (i.e. Benares) - He wasn't lying from what I saw 6 months ago.
True - but the city has changed tremendously during the 10 years I have been coming there, the population has almost doubled. Quadrupled compared with 20 years ago. I imagine it must have been a beautiful place 120 years ago.
Quaid-e-Azam? I probably butchered the spelling of that
Nope. It is amazing how many people don't know the answer to that question - he was just as important to the Partition of India and Pakistan as Nehru or Gandhi were on the Indian side.

[Elendil's Heir]

[89.] Burlington? :(

A Frenchman named Burlington? :dubious: :D Um, no.

106. Long before the American Civil War, crude ironclad warships were first used by what Asian nation?
107. This was the first British ironclad.
108. This was the first French ironclad.
109. Henry VIII confiscated this wonderful palace from his disgraced chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey (sp?).
110. This was the de facto northern boundary of US and UN combat operations during the Korean War.

[Antonius Block]

107. This was the first British ironclad.
109. Henry VIII confiscated this wonderful palace from his disgraced chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey (sp?).107. HMS Warrior, which is now a museum at Portsmouth.
109. Hampton Court.

[5 time champ]

Hmm, you've accepted Lisbon for 44. However, the really big earthquake that devastated Lisbon was in the mid-18th Century (not 16th), on All Saints' Day (Nov 1st). Was it 1750? Sometime around then. It certainly shook Christian Faith throughout Europe, and was part of Voltaire's inspiration for Candide (a major chunk of which takes place in Lisbon).
You are, of course, correct. :smack: I misremembered it as 1570, sorry. With your knowledge of the Lisbon earthquake of 1750 you may know the answer to this unanswered question:

75. Bury the dead, feed the living.

[OtakuLoki]

108. This was the first French ironclad.


108. Gloire?

[Antonius Block]

75. Bury the dead, feed the living.Well, if it's someone taking charge and making sense after the Lisbon earthquake, it must be the Marquis of Pombal. After the dust had settled, he got down to work and redesigned the new city to replace the 80% or so that was lost. So, in place of all of the medieval Manueline architecture, we have "Pombaline". [Some great examples of Manueline still exist, however, such as the Monastery of Jeronimus (sp?), and the Moorish quarter of Alfama was also spared]. We have Pombal to thank for all of modern Lisbon's wide boulevards and parks.

[One can only wonder if political opponents of his ever said: "That Pombal! Every sentence of his consists of a noun, a verb, and November 1st!"]

[Rodd Hill]

Wow, I'm late to this one.

Batting a little cleanup:

# 10. We already heard Ishandlwana (January 21, 1879); the 1880 battle was either Spion Kop, or the ambush in the orchard whose location I can't recall (both from the First Boer War of 1880-81). General Gordon (Charlton Heston) wasn't killed until 1885.

# 23. Wasn't Wolfe Tone hanged?

# 30. "Rutabega." (Just kidding)

# 34. We had the correct answer, but I'd just like to add that Romans call the monument "The Wedding Cake."

# 56. From my office window, I can see Saxe Point, the Coburg Peninsula, and Gotha Point.

#110. 38th Parallel--beyond that point was North Korea.

And some questions:

110. One of Honours of Scotland has some unusual damage to it. What is the object and how was it damaged?

111. Who was shot in the Arctic wilderness on February 17, 1931?

112. What speck on the map nearly brought Britain and France to war in the 1890s?

113. Where was Princess Margriet of the Netherlands born, and what made it unusual?

[Rodd Hill]

Oh, and

#114. What was stolen on Christmas Day, 1950? One or both of its names are acceptable.

[silenus]

114. The Stone of Scone?

[Rodd Hill]

114. The Stone of Scone?

Indeed, yes. The "Stone of Destiny" would also have been acceptable. It was heisted by a group of Scottish students in a small rented car. It was recovered at Arbroath Abbey a few months later (or was it a cunning replica?)

[5 time champ]

question Well, if it's someone taking charge and making sense after the Lisbon earthquake, it must be the Marquis of Pombal. After the dust had settled, he got down to work and redesigned the new city to replace the 80% or so that was lost. So, in place of all of the medieval Manueline architecture, we have "Pombaline". [Some great examples of Manueline still exist, however, such as the Monastery of Jeronimus (sp?), and the Moorish quarter of Alfama was also spared]. We have Pombal to thank for all of modern Lisbon's wide boulevards and parks.

[One can only wonder if political opponents of his ever said: "That Pombal! Every sentence of his consists of a noun, a verb, and November 1st!"]
Correct, Pombal it is.

This is why I prefer answering the questions, as opposed to asking them.

When you ask the question, you have to know the 2 or 3 parts of the question, plus the answer. When you answer the question, you can often deduce then answer from 1 or 2 parts of the question.

And it is not nearly embarrassing to answer the question wrong, as it is to ask the question wrong.

[Elendil's Heir]

107. HMS Warrior, which is now a museum at Portsmouth.
109. Hampton Court.

Correct. And OtakuLoki is correct about the Gloire.

Rodd Hill, as to question 110 (the first one, not the one you asked!), that wasn't quite what I was looking for. I was thinking of a river.

[silenus]

110. The Yalu River. (Thank you, M*A*S*H!)

[Governor Quinn]

# 10. We already heard Ishandlwana (January 21, 1879); the 1880 battle was either Spion Kop, or the ambush in the orchard whose location I can't recall (both from the First Boer War of 1880-81). General Gordon (Charlton Heston) wasn't killed until 1885.


Spion Kop is 1900. I believe you are thinking of Majuba, and, at any rate, while a defeat, it wasn't as bad as the one I'm thinking of.

Hint: The battle in question did not take place in Africa.

To answer a question, 99 is the Kulturkampf

[Really Not All That Bright]

110. This was the de facto northern boundary of US and UN combat operations during the Korean War.
Tumen River.

[Really Not All That Bright]

#110. 38th Parallel--beyond that point was North Korea.

American troops crossed the 38th parallel during the war, at which point the Chinese army came flooding across the border and sent them packing.

[Really Not All That Bright]

102: Name the founder of the Asiatic Society (Calcutta, 1784)
103: The same man translated the play Sakuntala to English. Who wrote it?
104: Of which city did Mark Twain write the following: "X is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together"?
103. (Sir) William Jones
104. Kalidasa (although IIRC there's some debate about this, a la Shakespeare)
105. I'm guessing here, based on the general subcontinental bent of these questions, but I'm going to say Varanasi.

Sorry about the triple-post action. Hard to review everything at the same time.

[Panurge]

102. Yes
103. Kalidasa is right, although perhaps I should have phrased the question "... to whom is the authorship traditionally ascribed?" or something like this. Tremendous poet, he was - his mastership of the Sanskrit language was just phenomenal.
104. Varanasi is correct, but Sitnam beat you to it (#173).

only 105 left: Whose face is found on all Pakistani money bills? (Hint: He was the leader of the All India Muslim League throughout the 30s. He died in 1948)

[Elendil's Heir]

110. The Yalu River. (Thank you, M*A*S*H!)

That's it!

115. This was the codename of the never-implemented German plan to invade the UK during WW2.
116. In official Japanese parlance, Hirohito is now called the _______ Emperor.
117. Henry V won a great victory over the French in 1415 where?
118. This noted Roman orator ended every speech with the declaration, "Carthage must be destroyed!"
119. Hitler said he'd rather do what than ever meet with Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco again?

[Really Not All That Bright]

only 105 left: Whose face is found on all Pakistani money bills? (Hint: He was the leader of the All India Muslim League throughout the 30s. He died in 1948)
105. Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Well, according to Salman Rushdie anyway.

115. This was the codename of the never-implemented German plan to invade the UK during WW2.
116. In official Japanese parlance, Hirohito is now called the _______ Emperor.
117. Henry V won a great victory over the French in 1415 where?
118. This noted Roman orator ended every speech with the declaration, "Carthage must be destroyed!"
115. Operation Case White
116. Last?
117. Agincourt
118. I think this is the wrong timeframe, but Cicero?

[Elendil's Heir]

...
115. Operation Case White
116. Last?
117. Agincourt
118. I think this is the wrong timeframe, but Cicero?

115. No
116. No
117. Yes
118. Also correct.

[silenus]

115. Operation Sealöwe (Sealion)

[Panurge]

105. Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Well, according to Salman Rushdie anyway.
...

105. And Rushdie is correct, too. Jinnah it is.

[OtakuLoki]

116. In official Japanese parlance, Hirohito is now called the _______ Emperor.


116. Showa, I believe. And I think it came up in this thread already. ;)

[OtakuLoki]

72. The Turkish Dreadnought style battlecruiser Yavuz is more famously known by another name. What was it?

73. What was the name of the other ship that became famous with the ship that would become the Yavuz?


A couple of hints, here: The Yavuz, also changed nationality when she changed her name the first time. (When first taken into Turkish service Yaviz had been named something like, Yavuz Sultan Selim.)

[silenus]

119. Who was the founder of the "Council of Blood?"

120. What was the first name of the ship Francis Drake sailed around the world?

121. What family did Pope Leo X come from?

122. Who was the first president of the Irish republic?

123. Who was nicknamed "The Sword of Italy?"

[OtakuLoki]

119. Who was the founder of the "Council of Blood?"

119. I know it's wrong, but it would be so delicious for the answer to have been Elizabet Bathori.



So, my addition:

124. By what title is Elizabet Bathori most well known to posterity, and why would she have been a perfect founder of something called "The Council of Blood?"

[Really Not All That Bright]

120. This was the second VTOL-capable fighter to enter service.
121. Although it never entered full scale production, the surviving prototype of this tank is the largest ever built.
122. Who was the Captain (Kommandant) of the battleship Bismarck?
123. Who directed the pro-Klan film Birth of a Nation?

[Really Not All That Bright]

124. By what title is Elizabet Bathori most well known to posterity, and why would she have been a perfect founder of something called "The Council of Blood?"
She imprisoned local peasant girls and drew and drank their blood.

Dunno what she's called, though - Countess Dracula?

[Really Not All That Bright]

120. What was the first name of the ship Francis Drake sailed around the world?

121. What family did Pope Leo X come from?
120. The Golden Hind?
121. The Medicis

[OtakuLoki]

She imprisoned local peasant girls and drew and drank their blood.

Dunno what she's called, though - Countess Dracula?


Actually, she bathed in their blood, not drank it. But, certainly close enough.

As for the title, you're incorrect, though I believe she was related to Vlad Tepes, certainly from the same general area.




And the name of the captain of the Bismark is hiding just out of reach in the back of my head, dammit. Maybe it'll come to me before trying to remember drives me nuts today. ;)

[Siam Sam]

115. This was the codename of the never-implemented German plan to invade the UK during WW2.
115. Barbarossa?

[Siam Sam]

121. What family did Pope Leo X come from?
121. The Borgias?

[Siam Sam]

123. Who directed the pro-Klan film Birth of a Nation?
123. DW Griffith

As a follow-up question: 124. What was the name of DW Griffith's follow-up film the next year, which he made in response to charges of racism in The Birth of a Nation?

[5 time champ]

122. Who was the first president of the Irish republic?
Eamon deValera

123. Who directed the pro-Klan film Birth of a Nation?
DW Griffith

[Panurge]

121: The Medici family. (His name was Giovanni Medici, I think)

[Elendil's Heir]

...
124. What was the name of DW Griffith's follow-up film the next year, which he made in response to charges of racism in The Birth of a Nation?

Intolerance.

silenus is correct about Operation Sealion. OtakuLoki is correct about the Showa emperor.

My guesses:

121. The foolishly gargantuan and ironically-named Nazi tank Maus.
122. Lutjens.
123. Giuseppe Garibaldi.

[An Gadaí]

122. Who was the first president of the Irish republic?
Eamon deValera


It definitely wasn't Eamon DeValera. Was it Douglas Hyde?

[An Gadaí]

We have got mixed up on numbers I do believe.

[Really Not All That Bright]

123. DW Griffith

As a follow-up question: 124. What was the name of DW Griffith's follow-up film the next year, which he made in response to charges of racism in The Birth of a Nation?
Correct.

Gentleman's Agreement?


120. This was the second VTOL-capable fighter to enter service.
121. Although it never entered full scale production, the surviving prototype of this tank is the largest ever built.
122. Who was the Captain (Kommandant) of the battleship Bismarck?
123. Who directed the pro-Klan film Birth of a Nation?
Please refer to the above questions as 124-127- simulpost.

[Really Not All That Bright]

121. The foolishly gargantuan and ironically-named Nazi tank Maus.
Yes. (n/k/a question 125.)

[Siam Sam]

Gentleman's Agreement?
No.

So my question is #128?

[silenus]

120. The Golden Hind?
121. The Medicis

No and yes.

122. Who was the first president of the Irish republic?
Eamon deValera

No.

An Gadai got it right.

Elendil's Heir got #123 correct.

[silenus]

I'm going to take a wild-ass guess on #73 and say Graf Spee?

[OtakuLoki]

I'm going to take a wild-ass guess on #73 and say Graf Spee?


Nope. Wrong war.


129. Speaking of the Graf Spee - name one of her two sister ships.

[Elendil's Heir]

...
129. Speaking of the Graf Spee - name one of her two sister ships.

Hipper and Deutschland?

[OtakuLoki]

Hipper and Deutschland?


Hipper, no.

Deutschland/Lutzow, yes.

[Really Not All That Bright]

Outstanding questions (well, mine):
124. This was the second VTOL-capable fighter to enter service.
126. Who was the Captain (Kommandant) of the battleship Bismarck?

I'm going to give the answer for #1 now because it occurs to me that it has technically been answered correctly (Who designed the Porsche 911?):
Somebody said Ferdinand Porsche; there have been three Ferdinand Porsches involved in the designed and manufacture of Porsche cars - Ferdinand Sr., Ferdinand "Ferry" Jr., and Ferdinand Alexander, "Butzi" (the nephew of Ferd Sr.)

Butzi was the correct answer, but since his real name was Ferdinand Porsche we'll take it.

[Elendil's Heir]

...Outstanding questions (well, mine):
124. This was the second VTOL-capable fighter to enter service.
126. Who was the Captain (Kommandant) of the battleship Bismarck?....


124. The Hawker Harrier?
126. Lutjens or Leutjens?

[5 time champ]

A couple three odd questions

130. This battle in the Napoleonic Wars gave us the name of this food dish. [The food itself, not the dish you eat it from]

131 This famous author fought in the Battle of Lepanto.

132 Who was the central character in Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror?

[Alessan]

Here some questions of mine from two pages ago that have yet to be answered:

82. What was the name of the knight who founded the first neighborhoods in Jerusalem to lie outside the city walls?
83. Which general conquered Jerusalem in WW1?
85. What Israeli city managed to withstand a two-month seige by Napoleon Bonaparte?

[Alessan]

132 Who was the central character in Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror?

132. Henry de Cucy?

[silenus]

130. This battle in the Napoleonic Wars gave us the name of this food dish. [The food itself, not the dish you eat it from]

The Battle of Marengo gave us Chicken Marengo (Thank you, James Burke!).

[Really Not All That Bright]

124. The Hawker Harrier?
126. Lutjens or Leutjens?
The Harrier was the first - want the second (not including the Harrier GR2, etc.)

Lutjens was the Admiral in charge of the Bismarck's first (and only) mission, not her captain.

[Antonius Block]

83. Which general conquered Jerusalem in WW1?General Allenby.

These questions all relate to the same voyage:
[133] What was the name of the first ship to circumnavigate the world?
[134] What was its port of departure / return?
[135] Who was in charge of the expedition when it set sail?
[136] Who was in charge of the ship when it finally returned "home"?

[Really Not All That Bright]

[134] What was its port of departure / return?
[135] Who was in charge of the expedition when it set sail?
134. Lisbon?
135. Ferdinand Magellan, but he was killed by marauding natives in Java (I think).

[OtakuLoki]

130. This battle in the Napoleonic Wars gave us the name of this food dish. [The food itself, not the dish you eat it from]

130. When you started talking about a special dish, I thought you were referring to Beef Wellington, which was concocted to honor Wellington after his victory at Waterloo, but I suspect this is wrong.

[133] What was the name of the first ship to circumnavigate the world?
[134] What was its port of departure / return?
[135] Who was in charge of the expedition when it set sail?
[136] Who was in charge of the ship when it finally returned "home"?

133. The Golden Hind
134. Lisbon (?)
135. Ferdinand Magellan
136. Someone else, since Magellan didn't finish his voyage, being killed in the Philippines.

[Alessan]

General Allenby.


Very good.

[5 time champ]

The Battle of Marengo gave us Chicken Marengo (Thank you, James Burke!).
That was the one I was going for.

I will be getting a lot of my questions & answers from James Burke, and Will Durant's Story of Civilization



130. This battle in the Napoleonic Wars gave us the name of this food dish. [The food itself, not the dish you eat it from]


130. When you started talking about a special dish, I thought you were referring to Beef Wellington, which was concocted to honor Wellington after his victory at Waterloo, but I suspect this is wrong.
But I guess that one is true also.

[Saratoga Sam]

Here some questions of mine from two pages ago that have yet to be answered:

85. What Israeli city managed to withstand a two-month seige by Napoleon Bonaparte?


85. Acre (though I don't believe it was Israeli at the time...)

[Antonius Block]

Really Not All That Bright and OtakuLoki:

133. The Golden Hind ----- [No, sorry.]
134. Lisbon (?) ------------- [No, sorry.]
135. Ferdinand Magellan - [Yes!]
136. Someone else... ----- [While this is strictly correct, I was rather hoping for a name ;) ]

[Sunshine and Smiles]

105. And Rushdie is correct, too. Jinnah it is.

I believe my answer, therefore, is also correct. I merely went with the Pakistani name, seeing as it was Pakistani money we were jawin' about.

[5 time champ]

132. Henry de Cucy?
Yes, can't remember his first name, he was known as the Sieur de Coucy.

[Elendil's Heir]

... I will be getting a lot of my questions & answers from James Burke, and Will Durant's Story of Civilization....


I thought we were relying on our memories only?

[OtakuLoki]

Elendil's Heir - I took that mean that 5 time champ was going by his memory of those sources. (grinning) I'd already added Connections to my Netflix queue, so I know what he means when he credits James Burke with filling one with a goodly amount of trivia.

[Really Not All That Bright]

I thought we were relying on our memories only?
Oh dear.

I thought that only applied to answering questions, rather than asking them.

[Elendil's Heir]

Elendil's Heir - I took that mean that 5 time champ was going by his memory of those sources....

OK, fine. Sorry - I don't mean to keep playing threadcop, I just want everyone to be on the same level playing field.

137. This German military leader met up with the Duke of Wellington and helped him win at Waterloo.
138. A painting of that meeting is still featured in what notable British building?
139. How many times did J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel, musical geniuses and contemporaries, personally meet?
140. What year of failed European social democratic revolutions led many Germans and Hungarians, in particular, to emigrate to the U.S.?
141. Stalin scoffed of the Pope, "How many ________ does he have?"

[Tapioca Dextrin]

124. This was the second VTOL-capable fighter to enter service.

IIRC, the Russians had one. Was it the Yak-38?

[OtakuLoki]

Who said it, and why?


142. "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today."


143. How did Will Durant spend his honeymoon?




141. Stalin scoffed of the Pope, "How many ________ does he have?"

141. Divisions.

[Elendil's Heir]

Oh dear.

I thought that only applied to answering questions, rather than asking them.

Well, again, you're the OP. It's your call. But see posts 1, 22, 24, 28 and 30.

[Tapioca Dextrin]

142. "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today."

That was the British Commander at the Battle of Jutland. He was slightly upset at his ships (light cruisers or possibly battle cruisers) were exploding with depressing regularity.

His name was ...... it was either Jellicoe or Beatty. I'll guess Beatty.

[OtakuLoki]

Tapioca Dextrin, you're right - it was Beatty, after a report that another of his battlecruisers had blown up.

[Saratoga Sam]

OK, fine. Sorry - I don't mean to keep playing threadcop, I just want everyone to be on the same level playing field.

137. This German military leader met up with the Duke of Wellington and helped him win at Waterloo.
138. A painting of that meeting is still featured in what notable British building?
139. How many times did J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel, musical geniuses and contemporaries, personally meet?
140. What year of failed European social democratic revolutions led many Germans and Hungarians, in particular, to emigrate to the U.S.?
141. Stalin scoffed of the Pope, "How many ________ does he have?"

137. Marshal Blucher

140. 1848

Edited cuz OtakuLoki beat me on 141

[Really Not All That Bright]

138. A painting of that meeting is still featured in what notable British building?
141. Stalin scoffed of the Pope, "How many ________ does he have?"
138. 10 Downing Street?
141. Battalions. At least, I've always heard "battalions", but I imagine he said it in Russian and I don't know what the Russian word for "battalion" is. So - military units of 1000-ish.

Well, again, you're the OP. It's your call. But see posts 1, 22, 24, 28 and 30.
Ah. I see what you mean... didn't notice the "or formulating" part of post #22.

Okay, no looking up anything at all, guys. Except in the case of disputed answers, and then only the person posing the question originally.

[Alessan]

85. Acre (though I don't believe it was Israeli at the time...)

Yeah, but saying "city in the Ottoman Villaya of Damascus" doesn't fall all that trippingly from the tongue.

[Elendil's Heir]

137. Marshal Blucher

140. 1848

Edited cuz OtakuLoki beat me on 141

All correct - and it was "divisions," as I've always read it.

Really Not All That Bright, no, it's not 10 Downing Street.

144. Who chaired the Wannsee Conference?
145. What was his best-known nickname?
146. Where and by whom was he assassinated?
147. What was the codename of the operation which killed him?
148. What village was utterly destroyed in retribution for his assassination?