# 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:** 24
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/461 "2008-02-26T18:48:58Z")
Some Australian history? 1. Name Australia’s first Prime Minister. 2. Which Australian politician said, “Two Wongs don’t make a White?” 3. Which English explorer “discovered” Australia and in what year? 4. Which city served as national capital until Canberra was built? 5. Which American architect(s) designed Canberra (bonus points for the city he/they came from)? ---
**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 26, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/462 "2008-02-26T20:03:39Z")
[QUOTE=Dottygumdrop] 302. Which English explorer “discovered” Australia and in what year? 303. Which city served as national capital until Canberra was built? 304. Which American architect(s) designed Canberra (bonus points for the city he/they came from)? [/QUOTE] 1. Captain (James?) Cook, sometime around 1742 (??) 2. Brisbane 3. Frank Lloyd Wright, maybe? He/she/they designed the whole city, or just the Parliamentary buildings and such? ---
**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 27, 2008, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/463 "2008-02-27T03:38:19Z")
[QUOTE=Dottygumdrop] 302. Which English explorer “discovered” Australia and in what year? 303. Which city served as national capital until Canberra was built? 304. Which American architect(s) designed Canberra (bonus points for the city he/they came from)? [/QUOTE] 1. Yes, it was Captain Cook as mentioned above, but the year, I think, was 1787. The discovery was a godsend to Britain, because it no longer could send prisoners to Georgia. 2. Sydney? 3. Cannot think of their names, but I believe it was the same team that designed Washington DC. ---
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/464 "2008-02-27T04:30:07Z")
302 - Captain James Cook is right, but the year is neither 1742 or 1787. The First Fleet of convicts was already en route to what is now Sydney by 1787. They landed in Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788. 303 - it wasn’t Brisbane or Sydney! 304 - it wasn’t Frank Lloyd Wright, nor (I believe) was the architect the same as the one who designed DC. The architect (and his wife - they were a team) designed the whole of Canberra! ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/465 "2008-02-27T06:11:33Z")
300 - Edmund Barton [QUOTE=Dottygumdrop] 302 - Captain James Cook is right, but the year is neither 1742 or 1787. The First Fleet of convicts was already en route to what is now Sydney by 1787. They landed in Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788. [/quote] 1770 for Captain Cook. The ships of the First Fleet, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, started arriving in Botany Bay from about 19 January 1788 onwards. They then decided to move the settlement north to Port Jackson and assembled there on 26 January 1788. 303 - Melbourne 304 - Walter Burley Griffin and his wife Marion Mahony ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/466 "2008-02-27T06:24:27Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [QUOTE=Wargamer] > 18. Who was the last Governour-General of India? 1. Lord Louis Mountbattan [/quote] This is not correct. Lord Louis Mountbatten was succeeded as Governor-General of India by [Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajaji) ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/467 "2008-02-27T06:38:05Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] **silenus** is correct as to Harry “Breaker” Morant, but who was the other man? Half credit. [/QUOTE] 295. Handcock. I can’t recall a first name. 1. Arthur Calwell ---
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/468 "2008-02-27T09:19:22Z")
**Cunctator** nails the rest of the Aussie history questions (300 to 304)! Any idea as to which US city Walter Burley Griffin and his wife were from? ---
**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 27, 2008, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/469 "2008-02-27T12:39:20Z")
[QUOTE=Dottygumdrop] Any idea as to which US city Walter Burley Griffin and his wife were from? [/QUOTE] I read something about the Canberra architects a couple of weeks ago, but couldn’t remember their names to answer the main question. However, IIRC they were from **Chicago**. _[And given that Washington DC was laid out in the 18th Century and Canberra in the 20th, it would have been quite miraculous for the same team to have done both! (as it was, Pierre Charles l’Enfant did most of the layout for DC).]_ ---
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/470 "2008-02-27T15:49:43Z")
Yep - Walter and Marion were from Chicago! ---
**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 27, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/471 "2008-02-27T16:04:05Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] 295. Handcock. I can’t recall a first name… [/QUOTE] Correct. Today is the 106th anniversary of their execution, as it happens. I believe Handcock’s first name was Peter. World flags. 1. This is the only national flag which is meant to be flown upside-down in wartime. 2. This beast appears on the flag of Wales. 3. These are the two royal colors of Spain. 4. Only one country has a flag all of a single color, with no insignia or other marks. What is the country and the color? 5. A Scottish parliamentarian recently caused a stir in referring to the British Union Flag (or Union Jack) as “the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_'s \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.” ---
**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 27, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/472 "2008-02-27T16:24:03Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 306. This beast appears on the flag of Wales. 307. These are the two royal colors of Spain. 309. A Scottish parliamentarian recently caused a stir in referring to the British Union Flag (or Union Jack) as “the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_'s \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.” [/QUOTE] 1. A red dragon 2. Red and yellow? 3. Sassenach’s something, maybe? Must say I’m rather curious as to what the answer to 308 is… ---
**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 27, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/473 "2008-02-27T16:49:27Z")
1. Libya, I believe. Solid green. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/474 "2008-02-27T17:57:23Z")
1. Oman, which I believe is solid red. ---
**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 27, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/475 "2008-02-27T18:07:30Z")
[QUOTE=want2know] 308. Oman, which I believe is solid red. [/QUOTE] Nah. Flag of Oman is a red T with its head at the flagpole, white stripe on top, green on the bottom, with the national emblem - a design featuring crossed swords and a khunjar (Omani curved dagger) depicted in the head of the T. ---
**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 27, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/476 "2008-02-27T21:00:05Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] 306. A red dragon 307. Red and yellow? 309. Sassenach’s something, maybe?.. [/QUOTE] 1. Correct. 2. Correct. 3. No. **Alessan** is right about Libya’s all-green flag. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/477 "2008-02-28T01:09:05Z")
1. The Philippines ---
**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 28, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/478 "2008-02-28T03:32:31Z")
[QUOTE=Antonius Block] \*[And given that Washington DC was laid out in the 18th Century and Canberra in the 20th, it would have been quite miraculous for the same team to have done both! [/QUOTE] Um, yes, well, there IS that. :o ---
**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 28, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/479 "2008-02-28T14:09:07Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] 305. The Philippines [/QUOTE] Correct! 1. As a young man, Churchill almost drowned when his rowboat drifted away from him while swimming in a lake in this country. 2. This Irish landlord gave his name to a time-honored form of protest. 3. This was the codename for the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. 4. Catherine the Great corresponded extensively with this Enlightenment philosopher. 5. You can find this tiny country in the mountains between France and Spain. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/480 "2008-02-28T14:17:15Z")
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