# 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:** 28
**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:** [March 5, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/541 "2008-03-05T15:43:03Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] 352. Ernest, Lord Shackleton. 353. _Endurance_, which I always found more ironic than appropriate, considering that it couldn’t endure. 354. Elephant To give something back: 1. Who was first to reach the South Pole? 2. What was the name of the ship he used for that expedition? 3. Who said, “I’m going out for a walk. I may be a while.”? 4. What were the circumstances? 5. Who lead a disastrous Royal Navy expedition to find the Northwest Passage in the late 1840s? [/QUOTE] 6. Correct. 7. Ah, but the expedition endured! Correct, anyway. 8. Correct. They’d step on the heads of convicted bad guys. Ewwww. 9. Roald Amundsen. 10. _Norge_. 11. You got me there! 12. The guy was one of the last remaining men in Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed “race to the South Pole” party. He knew he was a goner and didn’t want to be a burden on the rest of the party, so he walked out into the night and was never seen again. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/542 "2008-03-05T15:45:19Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 352. Correct. 353. Ah, but the expedition endured! Correct, anyway. 354. Correct. They’d step on the heads of convicted bad guys. Ewwww. 1. Roald Amundsen. 2. _Norge_. 3. You got me there! 4. The guy was one of the last remaining men in Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed “race to the South Pole” party. He knew he was a goner and didn’t want to be a burden on the rest of the party, so he walked out into the night and was never seen again. [/QUOTE] Correct on 355, and 356. 358, you’ve got the circumstances mostly right - he was the first of the pole party to die, he was weakening faster than the others, and apparently decided to remove himself from being a burden in their attempt to walk back out of the interior. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/543 "2008-03-05T16:10:12Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] 357. Who said, “I’m going out for a walk. I may be a while.”? 1. Who lead a disastrous Royal Navy expedition to find the Northwest Passage in the late 1840s? [/QUOTE] 2. ? Owens 3. Frobisher? (There was a PBS special several years ago, about the finding of three crewmembers bodies preserved in the permafrost. Apparently the whole crew was driven insane by metal contaminents used for the solder of their tinned food.) ---
**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:** [March 5, 2008, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/544 "2008-03-05T16:14:16Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 351. This was the last British sovereign to use the Royal Veto. [/QUOTE] George II ---
**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:** [March 5, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/545 "2008-03-05T17:16:06Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] George II [/QUOTE] Incorrect. But that is, oddly enough, the correct answer to a still-unanswered question from earlier in the thread. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/546 "2008-03-05T17:39:00Z")
[QUOTE=Saratoga Sam] 357. ? Owens 1. Frobisher? (There was a PBS special several years ago, about the finding of three crewmembers bodies preserved in the permafrost. Apparently the whole crew was driven insane by metal contaminents used for the solder of their tinned food.) [/QUOTE] These are both wrong, though the NOVA special you’re talking about was about the three known graves from the expedition. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/547 "2008-03-06T00:00:56Z")
1. Lawrence “Titus” Oates 2. The Franklin Expedition ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/548 "2008-03-06T00:03:00Z")
Both correct, **Governor Quinn**. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/549 "2008-03-06T03:31:25Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 354. Correct. They’d step on the heads of convicted bad guys. Ewwww. [/QUOTE] I did not see this in time, or else I’d have guessed it. But ya know what? I’ve never really heard of this. I don’t think it was common. Beheading seem to have been the rule. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/550 "2008-03-06T07:07:16Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [QUOTE=Cunctator] > I must check my copy of Brewer’s when I get home tonight. I’m pretty sure that it attributes the original peccavi/Sindh pun to someone else (a woman whose name I don’t recall) before Napier and claims that Napier just lifted it and that it has been incorrectly attributed to him ever since.Of course, Brewer’s isn’t 100% reliable either. My copy of Brewer’s attributes it to Napier. [/quote] I looked at my copy of Brewer’s. In the entry under the phrase ‘to cry Peccavi’ it notes the standard attribution to Napier. It then goes on to say that this is incorrect and that the pun was actually the work of: > [@Brewer's](#): > > Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878), translator from the German of such familiar hymns as ‘Now thank we all our God’. One day at school she remarked to her teacher that since Napier had been criticised in Parliament for his ruthless campaign, his despatch should have read “Peccavi”. She sent her pun to _Punch_, which printed it in its edition of 18 May 1844 as a factual report, with the result that it came to be credited to Napier. The fourth edition of the _Oxford Dictionary of Quotations_ (1996) attributes the saying correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/551 "2008-03-06T07:16:46Z")
1. Anne ---
**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:** [March 6, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/552 "2008-03-06T21:45:20Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] I did not see this in time, or else I’d have guessed it. But ya know what? I’ve never really heard of this. I don’t think it was common. Beheading seem to have been the rule. [/QUOTE] I learned about the head-squashing a few years ago in a documentary about elephants. Seemed like a well-researched, reputable show, FWIW. **Cunctator** is correct about Queen Anne being the last British ruler to veto a bill. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/553 "2008-03-07T03:08:23Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] I learned about the head-squashing a few years ago in a documentary about elephants. Seemed like a well-researched, reputable show, FWIW. [/QUOTE] Oh, I’m not doubting you. That just doesn’t seem to be widely known here. I suspect it was used only for special occasions. Mostly it’s been beheadings. But King Taksin was put in a velvet sack and beaten to death with sandalwood in 1782; the reason for that method was the belief that royal blood should not touch the ground. In recent times, it’s been by machine gun. They switched to lethal injection a few years ago. ---
**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:** [March 8, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/554 "2008-03-08T04:53:56Z")
1. This chainsmoking author and dissident became president of Czechoslovakia after the collapse of the USSR. 2. The Shah of Iran sat upon the \_\_\_\_\_\_ Throne. 3. The Emperor of Japan sits upon the \_\_\_\_\_\_ Throne. 4. Korea used to be called the \_\_\_\_\_\_ Kingdom. 5. While under British rule, Sri Lanka was called \_\_\_\_\_\_. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/555 "2008-03-08T05:19:37Z")
360 Vaclev Havel. 361 peacock 362 Chrysthanamum (no way I can spell that right) 364 Ceylon ---
**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:** [March 8, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/556 "2008-03-08T15:52:17Z")
[QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin] 360 Vaclev Havel. 361 peacock 362 Chrysthanamum (no way I can spell that right) 364 Ceylon [/QUOTE] All correct. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/557 "2008-03-09T01:18:20Z")
1. Hermit ---
**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:** [March 10, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/558 "2008-03-10T04:13:39Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] 363. Hermit [/QUOTE] Righto. C’mon, sportsfans, you can/should be asking more questions, too! 1. This new type of hat was introduced during the Crimean War. 2. This article of clothing was named after a British general of that era, who allegedly invented it. 3. This nation experimented in the 19th C., unsuccessfully, with circular gunboats. 4. When a new pope has been elected, these two words traditionally begin the announcement in St. Peter’s Square. 5. This was the Nazi labor and public works organization. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2008, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/559 "2008-03-10T04:52:26Z")
Well, ya stumped me on that quintet. I should know the answer about the new Pope- “We have a new Pope” in Latin? Voltaire With what line did Voltaire often close his correspondence? Voltaire dedicated a church on his estate to whom, because he believed that no other church was so dedicated. Voltaire dubbed this person “_merde_ in a silk stocking” Voltaire had an estate here, a short distance from the Swiss border, in case he needed to flee France quickly. Voltaire wrote a dictionary of this. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/560 "2008-03-10T04:58:38Z")
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