# 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:** 14
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/261 "2008-02-13T22:09:59Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 143. How did Will Durant spend his honeymoon? Hot monkey sex with Ariel. [/QUOTE] šŸ˜› Actually, Iā€™d heard that he and Ariel spent much of their honeymoon working on the next volume of their history. ---
**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 13, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/262 "2008-02-13T22:18:54Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] 150. Albert Speer 151. Ernst Rƶhm [/QUOTE] So far, so good, BTW, I think Burkeā€™s best series is _The Day the Universe Changed_. That must be a pretty cool class to be able to watch James Burke for half a semester. @ **Elendilā€™s Heir** The Butch of Prague šŸ˜ƒ , why do I even bother previewing :smack: . ---
**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 13, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/263 "2008-02-13T22:22:10Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] I watch the entire Connections series, along with Connections[sup]2[/sup] and Connections[sup]3[/sup] with my students every year. I have those suckers memorized by now. [/QUOTE] Quā€™est-ce cā€™est _Connections_? ---
**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 13, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/264 "2008-02-13T22:24:18Z")
[Connections.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_%28TV_series%29) My biggest score this year was finding **The Day The Universe Changed** on DVD. My tapes were getting rather worn. ---
**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 13, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/265 "2008-02-13T22:37:41Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] @ **Elendilā€™s Heir** The Butch of Prague šŸ˜ƒ , why do I even bother previewing :smack: . [/QUOTE] Never fear: [The Butch of Prague.](http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=280291726) ---
**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 13, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/266 "2008-02-13T23:03:38Z")
1. _Schutzstaffel_. 2. A contraction of (my German is very bad, forgive me) _Geheime Staatspolizei_, or the like. ---
**Author:** ![Saratoga\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Saratoga\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saratoga_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/267 "2008-02-14T00:57:40Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] The Nazis 149. Where did Hitler do time after the Beer Hall Putsch? [/QUOTE] 1. Landsbau? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/268 "2008-02-14T01:09:51Z")
[QUOTE=Elendilā€™s Heir] 153. A contraction of (my German is very bad, forgive me) _Geheime Staatspolizei_, or the like. [/QUOTE] I believe thatā€™s actually _Geheimnisse Staatspolizei_, or ā€œSecret State Police.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/269 "2008-02-14T01:35:06Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] 86. This 19th-century French explorer, while trying to find a riverine back entrance into China, ā€œdiscoveredā€ Angkor Wat in Cambodia. (ā€œDiscoveredā€ 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.) [/QUOTE] Okay, I worried that this might be too esoteric, so I think I will go ahead and tell you the answer: Henri Mouhot. The funny thing is, a French missionary wrote of Angkor Wat a decade before Mouhot did, but his report did not even raise an eyebrow. (There had been other reports over the centuries, too, including by a Japanese pilgrim who drew detailed diagrams but actually thought he was in India!) Mouhotā€™s report caused quite a sensation. Must have been a better writer, but he also included lots of good illustrations. Paris went wild toasting him. Alas! He was already dead, having died near the old Lao royal capital of Luang Prabang. And in one of those ironic twists of history, Mouhotā€™s tomb outside of Luang Prabang was itself lost, only to be rediscovered in 1990 by an NGO worker. Iā€™ve taken some good photos of it. Looks like something out of, say, _Time Bandits_, like this huge white-marble tomb just landed in the middle of all this jungle from some portal. BTW: Myself, Iā€™ve been acting on the premise that even the questions should come from memory and not be looked up. Isnā€™t that what weā€™ve been doing in the US History thread? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/270 "2008-02-14T02:21:36Z")
Dang I was close, stupid er. Some easy ones now. 1. In which country is the worldā€™s largest pyramid? 2. Name six Celtic languages. 3. How many provinces does Ireland have? 4. What is the largest lake in the UK? 5. What was the main battle in the Feniansā€™ abortive invasion of Canada? 6. How old is the Eiffel Tower? 7. What is the French term for the English Channel? 8. In what country was science fiction pioneer Hugo Gernsback born? 9. What was Sojourner Truthā€™s first language? ---
**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 14, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/271 "2008-02-14T02:25:52Z")
1. Mexico? 2. 26 + 6 ---
**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 14, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/272 "2008-02-14T02:27:35Z")
1. Welsh, Irish, Cornish, Manx, Gaelic, and Breton. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/273 "2008-02-14T02:36:55Z")
[QUOTE=An GadaĆ­] 156. How many provinces does Ireland have? [/QUOTE] 1. Iā€™m going to take a wild guess and say none. (Trick question? Doesnā€™t Ireland have ā€œcounties,ā€ not ā€œprovincesā€?) I still have what I think is #124 out (although there was some confusion about numbering; may be a different number): 124. What was the name of DW Griffithā€™s follow-up film the next year, which he made in response to charges of racism in _The Birth of a Nation_? This one Iā€™m not giving up the answer so easily. There MUST be someone among us who knows. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/274 "2008-02-14T02:38:58Z")
See post #211 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/275 "2008-02-14T02:43:12Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] See post #211 [/QUOTE] Ah yes, thank you. I completely missed that. **Elendilā€™s Heir** , \*Intolerence \* is correct. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/276 "2008-02-14T03:05:23Z")
1. Dutch. I have no idea how I know that. ---
**Author:** ![Saratoga\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Saratoga\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saratoga_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/277 "2008-02-14T04:13:47Z")
[QUOTE=An GadaĆ­] Dang I was close, stupid er. Some easy ones now. 1. How many provinces does Ireland have? 2. What is the French term for the English Channel? [/QUOTE] 1. At a guess, five: Munster, Leinster, Ulster, Meath, and ? 2. La manche ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/278 "2008-02-14T04:28:22Z")
[QUOTE=An GadaĆ­] 157. What is the largest lake in the UK? 159. How old is the Eiffel Tower? 160. What is the French term for the English Channel? 161. In what country was science fiction pioneer Hugo Gernsback born? [/QUOTE] [157] Lough Neagh (Northern Ireland) [159] 1889 _[I remember the centennial as being 1989.]_ [160] La Manche (ā€œThe Sleeveā€) [161] Luxembourg and for cleanup on 146 (I donā€™t think this was cleared up), Heydrich was assassinated in Prague. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/279 "2008-02-14T10:58:00Z")
[QUOTE=Antonius Block] [157] Lough Neagh (Northern Ireland) [159] 1889 _[I remember the centennial as being 1989.]_ [160] La Manche (ā€œThe Sleeveā€) [161] Luxembourg and for cleanup on 146 (I donā€™t think this was cleared up), Heydrich was assassinated in Prague. [/QUOTE] 157- Correct 158- I asked how old it is, not year it was built but youā€™re correct! 160- Correct 161- Correct again! **Saratoga Sam** got 160 too. **Zsofia** youā€™re correct on 162 **Governor Quinn** got 155 correct. **Silenus** got 154 correct. Which leave 156 not answered correctly yet and 158 not answered at all yet. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/280 "2008-02-14T12:32:35Z")
Hereā€™s one: 163. What actor, a 10 year Navy vet, and former star of a naval sit-com, was recently (2003-2006, somewhere in there) awarded an honorary promotion to CPO? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759.md?page=15)