World History trivia quiz

The Game Room
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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?
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and so it begins

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

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

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

  3. Carolingian minuscule writing began here.

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

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  1. Shah Jahan
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Just a guess, but Aachen, Charlemagne’s capitol.

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My turn?

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

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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.

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Beheading as a punishment for capital crimes?

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

  1. Which war is usually credited as being the origin of the term “concentration camps”?

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

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

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

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

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  1. The Boer War

  2. Isandahlwana and…

  3. Blum

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  1. The Boer/Transvaal War
  2. Spain?
  3. De Gaulle.
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Gold star for silenus!

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Hungary; Bela Kuhn?

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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.

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I think things will even out after a few pages of this one.

  1. Edward… the Confessor?
  2. the Gulags
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  1. It was an Edward, but not the Confessor.
  2. Correct.