# 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:** 10
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/181 "2008-02-11T22:16:03Z")
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: 1. One of Honours of Scotland has some unusual damage to it. What is the object and how was it damaged? 2. Who was shot in the Arctic wilderness on February 17, 1931? 3. What speck on the map nearly brought Britain and France to war in the 1890s? 4. Where was Princess Margriet of the Netherlands born, and what made it unusual? ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/182 "2008-02-11T22:18:50Z")
Oh, and #114. What was stolen on Christmas Day, 1950? One or both of its names are acceptable. ---
**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 11, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/183 "2008-02-11T22:25:07Z")
1. The Stone of Scone? ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/184 "2008-02-11T22:35:35Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] 114. The Stone of Scone? [/QUOTE] 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?) ---
**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 11, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/185 "2008-02-11T22:46:02Z")
question [QUOTE=Antonius Block] 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!”**]_ [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**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 11, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/186 "2008-02-11T23:21:53Z")
[QUOTE=Antonius Block] 107. HMS Warrior, which is now a museum at Portsmouth. 109. Hampton Court. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**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 11, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/187 "2008-02-11T23:27:44Z")
1. The Yalu River. (Thank you, M_A_S\*H!) ---
**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 11, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/188 "2008-02-11T23:30:04Z")
[QUOTE=Rodd Hill] # 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. [/QUOTE] 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_ ---
**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 11, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/189 "2008-02-11T23:47:27Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 110. This was the _de facto_ northern boundary of US and UN combat operations during the Korean War. [/QUOTE] Tumen River. ---
**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 11, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/190 "2008-02-11T23:49:45Z")
[QUOTE=Rodd Hill] #110. 38th Parallel–beyond that point was North Korea. [/QUOTE] American troops crossed the 38th parallel during the war, at which point the Chinese army came flooding across the border and sent them packing. ---
**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 11, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/191 "2008-02-11T23:55:34Z")
[QUOTE=Panurge] 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”? [/QUOTE] 1. (Sir) William Jones 2. Kalidasa (although IIRC there’s some debate about this, _a la_ Shakespeare) 3. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/192 "2008-02-12T09:24:44Z")
1. Yes 2. 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. 3. 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) ---
**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 12, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/193 "2008-02-12T14:20:51Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] 110. The Yalu River. (Thank you, M_A_S\*H!) [/QUOTE] That’s it! 1. This was the codename of the never-implemented German plan to invade the UK during WW2. 2. In official Japanese parlance, Hirohito is now called the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Emperor. 3. Henry V won a great victory over the French in 1415 where? 4. This noted Roman orator ended every speech with the declaration, “Carthage must be destroyed!” 5. Hitler said he’d rather do what than ever meet with Spain’s Generalissimo Francisco Franco again? ---
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[QUOTE=Panurge] 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) [/QUOTE] 1. Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Well, according to Salman Rushdie anyway. > [@](#): > > 1. This was the codename of the never-implemented German plan to invade the UK during WW2. > 2. In official Japanese parlance, Hirohito is now called the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Emperor. > 3. Henry V won a great victory over the French in 1415 where? > 4. This noted Roman orator ended every speech with the declaration, “Carthage must be destroyed!” 1. Operation Case White 2. Last? 3. Agincourt 4. I think this is the wrong timeframe, but Cicero? ---
**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 12, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/195 "2008-02-12T14:42:30Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] … 115. Operation Case White 116. Last? 117. Agincourt 118. I think this is the wrong timeframe, but Cicero? [/QUOTE] 1. No 2. No 3. Yes 4. Also 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 12, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/196 "2008-02-12T14:56:51Z")
1. Operation Sealöwe (Sealion) ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/197 "2008-02-12T15:00:31Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] 105. Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Well, according to Salman Rushdie anyway. … [/QUOTE] 1. And Rushdie is correct, too. Jinnah it is. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/198 "2008-02-12T15:35:15Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 116. In official Japanese parlance, Hirohito is now called the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Emperor. [/QUOTE] 1. Showa, I believe. And I think it came up in this thread already. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/199 "2008-02-12T15:39:58Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] 72. The Turkish Dreadnought style battlecruiser _Yavuz_ is more famously known by another name. What was it? 1. What was the name of the other ship that became famous with the ship that would become the _Yavuz_? [/QUOTE] 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_.) ---
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