# 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:** 15
**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 14, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/281 "2008-02-14T14:29:05Z")
[QUOTE=Antonius Block] …and for cleanup on 146 (I don’t think this was cleared up), Heydrich was assassinated in Prague. [/QUOTE] Correct. **An Gadai** , if, as the OP said, this thread is “just like” the U.S. History thread in its rules, I respectfully suggest you limit yourself to asking five questions at a time. 1. Given the later course of history, Annie Oakley later said she wished she’d missed what trick shot? 2. Who was the “Grandmother of Europe”? 3. “The Welsh Wizard”? 4. “The Sick Man of Europe”? 5. Despite the leading role he played in killing its troops, Kemal Ataturk is still honored by what foreign country? ---
**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 14, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/282 "2008-02-14T14:42:45Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 168. Despite the leading role he played in killing its troops, Kemal Ataturk is still honored by what foreign country? [/QUOTE] Greece and/or Cyprus? ---
**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, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/283 "2008-02-14T14:43:10Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] Which leave 156 not answered correctly yet and 158 not answered at all yet. [/QUOTE] 1. OK, if you aren’t going for the 26+6 counties, you must be going for the 4 ancient provinces: Ulster, Munster, Leinsterand…Connaugh. 2. Don Rickles 3. The Ottoman Empire 4. Turkey ---
**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 14, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/284 "2008-02-14T14:43:14Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] Greece and/or Cyprus? [/QUOTE] Nope. ---
**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 14, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/285 "2008-02-14T14:44:27Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] … 167. The Ottoman Empire 1. Turkey [/QUOTE] 2. Correct. 3. I see where you’re going with that… but no. ---
**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, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/286 "2008-02-14T14:46:23Z")
1. England? Mustafa Kemal was a leader of Ottoman troops during the battle of Gallipolli. ---
**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, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/287 "2008-02-14T14:50:54Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > 1. Don Rickles No. [QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 164. Given the later course of history, Annie Oakley later said she wished she’d missed what trick shot? 165. Who was the “Grandmother of Europe”? [/QUOTE] 1. I believe that she once shot a lit cigarette from the mouth of Kaiser Wilhelm. I suspect that would be the shot she might regret not having missed. 2. Queen Victoria? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/288 "2008-02-14T14:52:48Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Correct. **An Gadai** 165. Who was the “Grandmother of Europe”? 168. Despite the leading role he played in killing its troops, Kemal Ataturk is still honored by what foreign country? [/QUOTE] 1. Queen Victoria 2. Great Britain. I was at the Military Museum in Istanbul, once - I can’t recommend it enough for mil history buffs - and I was shocked, and then vastly amused by the Gallipoli Audio-Visual Extravaganza room. We’re all so used to thinking of the Dardanelles Campaign as a massive fiasco, but as far as the Turks are concerned it’s one of their most glorious victories, and rightly so. Anyway, a couple of mine: 1. Moshe Dayan had his eye shot out by soldiers of what army? 2. Why was Yitzhak Rabin hospitalized a few days before the Six Day War? ---
**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, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/289 "2008-02-14T15:06:31Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > 1. 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? > > 2. The Turkish Dreadnought style battlecruiser Yavuz is more famously known by another name. What was it? > > 3. What was the name of the other ship that became famous with the ship that would become the Yavuz? 1. Martin Luther, at the time of the Peasant’s Rebellion, wrote some very strong letters condemning the leaders of the rebellion for daring to use his theology to support their revolutionary ideals. 2. The _Yavuz_ began life as the _SMS Goeben_. When the British Mediterranean fleet failed to engage or stop the Goeben, she ended up escaping into the Dardenelles, where the German gov’t ended up transferring her to the Ottomans. The name changed, then, but the crew remained the same. It was one of the key incidents in getting the Ottomans to come in on the Central Powers side, and lead to the closing of the Dardanelles to Russian trade, which contributed to the worsening of the Russian economy, and thus to the Russian Revolution. 3. The _Breslau_ was a light cruiser escort of the _Goeben_. ---
**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 14, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/290 "2008-02-14T15:10:17Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] 168. England? Mustafa Kemal was a leader of Ottoman troops during the battle of Gallipolli. [/QUOTE] Getting warmer, but no (likewise **Alessan** ). **OtakuLoki** is correct as to Queen Victoria and Kaiser Wilhelm. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/291 "2008-02-14T15:16:43Z")
I misnumbered a question a couple of posts ago - count 179 as 170. [QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Getting warmer, but no (likewise **Alessan** ). [/QUOTE] Then Australia/New Zealand, obviously. A related question: 1. What was the historical significance of the WW1 Battle of Beersheba? ---
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[QUOTE=Alessan] 171. What was the historical significance of the WW1 Battle of Beersheba? [/QUOTE] Wasn’t that the battle in the movie “The Lighthorsemen?” If so,it would be the last city captured by cavalry, or something like that. ---
**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, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/293 "2008-02-14T15:29:29Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] 156. OK, if you aren’t going for the 26+6 counties, you must be going for the 4 ancient provinces: Ulster, Munster, Leinsterand…Connaugh. 1. Don Rickles 2. The Ottoman Empire 3. Turkey [/QUOTE] 4. Yep, there were five ancient provinces (the extra one was Meath which was later incorporated into Leinster. The four provinces are Ulster, Munster, Leisnter and Connaught/Connacht. I didn’t realise there was a 5 question limit. Ooopsy! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/294 "2008-02-14T15:40:00Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Wasn’t that the battle in the movie “The Lighthorsemen?” If so,it would be the last city captured by cavalry, or something like that. [/QUOTE] Close enough. It was the last successful use of massed cavalry in modern warfare. ---
**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 14, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/295 "2008-02-14T16:19:50Z")
[QUOTE=Saratoga Sam] 149. Landsbau? [/QUOTE] I believe it was Landesberg Otherwise, you all know your Nazis. 1. What is the largest lake in the UK? Loch Lomond? ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/296 "2008-02-14T16:38:28Z")
1. The answer could be both Australia and New Zealand - in memory of the ANZAC (Australia and New Zealand Armed Corps) troops who lost their lives at Gallipoli both countries have an annual ANZAC day. I forget the date, though. ---
**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 14, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/297 "2008-02-14T16:47:12Z")
[QUOTE=Panurge] 168. The answer could be both Australia and New Zealand - in memory of the ANZAC (Australia and New Zealand Armed Corps) troops who lost their lives at Gallipoli both countries have an annual ANZAC day. I forget the date, though. [/QUOTE] You and **Alessan** have it right. I was thinking of Australia; there’s an Australian monument in Ankara, I think, saluting Ataturk as an honorable opponent who after WWI welcomed grieving Australian families to the Gallipoli battlefields, and paid homage to their fallen. ---
**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, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/298 "2008-02-14T19:25:40Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] You and **Alessan** have it right. I was thinking of Australia; there’s an Australian monument in Ankara, I think, saluting Ataturk as an honorable opponent who after WWI welcomed grieving Australian families to the Gallipoli battlefields, and paid homage to their fallen. [/QUOTE] His words at the ANZAC gravesite are wonderful. I’ve been reluctant to read more about him, just because I’d hate to have that image of the man revised by feet of clay. ---
**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 14, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/299 "2008-02-14T21:04:01Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] His words at the ANZAC gravesite are wonderful. I’ve been reluctant to read more about him, just because I’d hate to have that image of the man revised by feet of clay. [/QUOTE] He was a very interesting guy, in many ways as dominant in the Turkish imagination and polity as George Washington is here, if not more so. I think even heroes with major flaws are worth learning about. You can appreciate, admire and laud a great leader with remarkable accomplishments even as you acknowledge his or her shortcomings. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/300 "2008-02-14T21:44:31Z")
It seems that most questions have been answered (and I don’t know the answers to the rest), so here goes: 1. What is the name of the union, founded in 1397, that united Denmark, Sweden and Norway under a single monarch? 2. What is the name of the German union leader who was kidnapped and killed by the Rote Armee Fraktion in 1977? 3. Who “liberated” Iceland in 1809, declaring himself “protector” of the nation, promising he would let the island be self-governed? 4. And where did this revolutionary end his life? 5. Name 3 of the 4 Kumbha Mela sites. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759.md?page=16)