# World History trivia quiz **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 8, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759 "2008-02-08T02:54:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/1 "2008-02-08T02:54:26Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/2 "2008-02-08T03:06:29Z")
and so it begins 1. Ferdinand Porsche ? 2. Indira Gandhi ? 3. Bartalameo Diaz ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/3 "2008-02-08T03:16:19Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] and so it begins 1. Ferdinand Porsche ? 2. Indira Gandhi ? 3. Bartalameo Diaz [/QUOTE] Close, yes, yes. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/4 "2008-02-08T03:50:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/5 "2008-02-08T03:54:19Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 1. These two commanding generals both died at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham [/QUOTE] 1. Wolfe is one, but I can’t remember his opponent. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/6 "2008-02-08T04:00:32Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] 5. Wolfe is one, but I can’t remember his opponent. [/QUOTE] Louis Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, marquis de Saint-Véran ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/7 "2008-02-08T04:01:15Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 4. He had the Taj Mahal built in memory of his favorite wife [/QUOTE] 1. Shah Jahan ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/8 "2008-02-08T04:07:34Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 1. Carolingian minuscule writing began here. [/QUOTE] Just a guess, but Aachen, Charlemagne’s capitol. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/9 "2008-02-08T04:10:28Z")
My turn? 1. What revolutionary innovation was introduced by the Huns? And, how did it change Western Civilization? ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/10 "2008-02-08T04:18:24Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] 4. Shah Jahan [/QUOTE] correct ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/11 "2008-02-08T04:21:11Z")
[QUOTE=Spavined Gelding] My turn? 1. What revolutionary innovation was introduced by the Huns? And, how did it change Western Civilization? [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/12 "2008-02-08T04:21:36Z")
[QUOTE=Spavined Gelding] My turn? 1. What revolutionary innovation was introduced by the Huns? And, how did it change Western Civilization? [/QUOTE] Beheading as a punishment for capital crimes? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/13 "2008-02-08T04:29:15Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/14 "2008-02-08T04:42:36Z")
1. The Boer War 2. Isandahlwana and… 3. Blum ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/15 "2008-02-08T04:45:02Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] 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 term “Popular Front” is frequently used to describe the first two governments of which French Prime Minister? [/QUOTE] 4. The Boer/Transvaal War 5. Spain? 6. De Gaulle. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/16 "2008-02-08T13:31:41Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] 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. [/QUOTE] Gold star for silenus! ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/17 "2008-02-08T13:54:30Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] 1. Which European state spent a little over four months as a Communist state in 1919, and who was the _de facto_ head of government? [/QUOTE] Hungary; Bela Kuhn? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/18 "2008-02-08T14:57:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/19 "2008-02-08T15:09:36Z")
[QUOTE=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. 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. [/QUOTE] I think things will even out after a few pages of this one. 1. Edward… the Confessor? 2. the _Gulags_ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/20 "2008-02-08T15:13:12Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] … 15. Edward… the Confessor? 16. the _Gulags_ [/QUOTE] 1. It was an Edward, but not the Confessor. 2. Correct. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759.md?page=2)