# 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:** 23
**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 23, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/441 "2008-02-23T03:24:06Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] I feel certain this is about Archduke Franz Ferdinand being shot. [/QUOTE] You’re in the ballpark, so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/442 "2008-02-23T04:04:47Z")
I Googled 289 for my own personal knowledge, not for this thread, and found that it seems to be attributed to They. ---
**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 23, 2008, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/443 "2008-02-23T06:33:36Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 1. We will run wild for 6 months, after that I cannot say. [/QUOTE] Admiral Yamamoto, who was eerily prescient (Midway was roughly six month after Pearl Harbor). ---
**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 23, 2008, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/444 "2008-02-23T08:11:30Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 287. If you seek my monument, look around you. [/QUOTE] 287: as **Governor Quinn** , said, it’s Sir Christopher Wren, but it’s **St Paul’s** Cathedral. IIRC, it’s “Si monumentum requiris, circumspice” in the original Latin. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/445 "2008-02-23T09:17:43Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] They said it, 285. Treaties and sausages should be made in secret. [/QUOTE] 1. Not the quote you’re looking for, but it’s very similar to one from Ben Franklin, IIRC, that goes something along the lines of, ‘Unless a man has a strong stomach he won’t want to watch the making of laws, nor sausage.’ ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/446 "2008-02-23T13:30:29Z")
1. A mermaid, I think. If it had a name, I forget. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/447 "2008-02-23T16:54:20Z")
[QUOTE=Panurge] 282. A mermaid, I think. If it had a name, I forget. [/QUOTE] 1. The mummified mermaid (monkey body mated to a fish back end) wasn’t exposed as a fraud until it was x-rayed recently (within the past ten years, IIRC). The fraud I’m thinking of was known to be a fraud at the time that Barnum had his own counterfeit of the fraud made. ---
**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 24, 2008, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/448 "2008-02-24T03:44:31Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] 277. Swordfish torpedo bombers 1. UK 2. _Pelican_, I think. (or am I conflating this commerce raider with the one that got the copies of the British OOB for Singapore during WWII?) If not _Pelican_, _Zee Adler_. [/QUOTE] 1. Correct. 2. Incorrect. 3. Neither is correct. ---
**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 24, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/449 "2008-02-24T03:46:13Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 275. Admiral Togo [/QUOTE] Correct. And **silenus** is right about Lord Nelson. ---
**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 24, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/450 "2008-02-24T03:52:43Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] [286. re: “Running wild”] Admiral Yamamoto, who was eerily prescient (Midway was roughly six month after Pearl Harbor). [/QUOTE] Often attributed, never verified. But it sounds like something he might have said. 1. What is the British prime minister’s official country home? 2. What is the full name of Canada’s Mounties? 3. Revoking the Edict of Nantes allowed resumption of the persecution of the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_. 4. German submarines in WW2 had the prefix U-. Their torpedo boats had this one-letter prefix. 5. Bismarck said he pursued a policy of “\_\_\_\_\_\_ and \_\_\_\_\_\_.” ---
**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 24, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/451 "2008-02-24T03:57:04Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Often attributed, never verified. But it sounds like something he might have said. 1. What is the British prime minister’s official country home? 2. What is the full name of Canada’s Mounties? 3. Revoking the Edict of Nantes allowed resumption of the persecution of the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_. 4. German submarines in WW2 had the prefix U-. Their torpedo boats had this one-letter prefix. 5. Bismarck said he pursued a policy of “\_\_\_\_\_\_ and \_\_\_\_\_\_.” [/QUOTE] 6. Chequers? 7. Royal Canadian Mounted Police 8. Hugenots? (French protestants) 9. E- 10. Blut und Eisen (Blood and Iron) ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/452 "2008-02-24T21:19:08Z")
1. P.T. Barnum wanted to exhibit this famous fraud, but the owners denied him the opportunity. So he had his own copy of the fraud made up, and it drew more visitors than the original fraud. Also the Cardiff Giant, IIRC. > [@](#): > > 1. Not the quote you’re looking for, but it’s very similar to one from Ben Franklin, IIRC, that goes something along the lines of, ‘Unless a man has a strong stomach he won’t want to watch the making of laws, nor sausage.’ I’d always heard the quote as “People who love sausages and the law should never watch either being made”. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/453 "2008-02-24T23:37:24Z")
[QUOTE=want2know] 282. P.T. Barnum wanted to exhibit this famous fraud, but the owners denied him the opportunity. So he had his own copy of the fraud made up, and it drew more visitors than the original fraud. Also the Cardiff Giant, IIRC. [/quote] Correctamundo! > [@](#): > > I’d always heard the quote as “People who love sausages and the law should never watch either being made”. You’re probably right. Either way, it’s the sense of the quote that **5 time champ** listed, but not the one he mentioned. ---
**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 25, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/454 "2008-02-25T01:12:59Z")
“Treaties and sausages should be made in secret” comes from Frederick the Great. At least according to the aforementioned Will Durant, it does. Of course that is a translation from German or French, since I believe Frederick spoke pretty good French. But obviously the expression has been said many times and many ways throughout history. And while we are on the subject of quotes. Adm Yamamoto’s quote about “running will for six months. . .” IIRC, is supported. It is the quote in the movie Tora, Tora, Tora " I fear all we have accomplished is to awaken a sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve" is not supported in fact. ---
**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 25, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/455 "2008-02-25T14:18:16Z")
[QUOTE=Saratoga Sam] 290. Chequers? 291. Royal Canadian Mounted Police 292. Hugenots? (French protestants) 293. E- [294]. Blut und Eisen (Blood and Iron) [/QUOTE] All correct. Well done! One comedian once called the RCMP “taxidermy’s greatest achievement.” 1. These two men were executed by a British firing squad in Pretoria in 1902. 2. This small boat gave its name to the official Cuban government news service. 3. The sinking of this sub was a major embarrassment to the Putin government. 4. Lyndon Johnson hyperbolically compared this man to both George Washington and Winston Churchill. 5. The British ruling structure of India before independence was called this. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/456 "2008-02-25T14:31:37Z")
1. Kursk 2. The Raj ---
**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 25, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/457 "2008-02-25T14:41:09Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 298. Lyndon Johnson hyperbolically compared this man to both George Washington and Winston Churchill. [/QUOTE] JFK? ---
**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 25, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/458 "2008-02-25T14:58:30Z")
1. One of them was Breaker Morant. ---
**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 25, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/459 "2008-02-25T16:44:17Z")
1. This small boat gave its name to the official Cuban government news service. Just read this the other day because of Castro’s resignation. _Granma_ ---
**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 26, 2008, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/460 "2008-02-26T14:16:42Z")
[QUOTE=Panurge] 297. Kursk 299. The Raj [/QUOTE] Both correct. **Really Not All That Bright** is incorrect as to LBJ’s misplaced praise. **silenus** is correct as to Harry “Breaker” Morant, but who was the other man? Half credit. **5 time champ** is correct about the _Granma_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759.md?page=24)