# 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:** 29
**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:** [March 10, 2008, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/561 "2008-03-10T10:22:27Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] Voltaire dubbed this person “_merde_ in a silk stocking” [/QUOTE] Hmm, I’d always heard that it was Napoleon Bonaparte who said that of Talleyrand. Did he plagiarize it from Voltaire? ---
**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, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/562 "2008-03-10T14:25:51Z")
Hmm- I always thought it was Voltaire- but Talleyrand had a long career. ---
**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, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/563 "2008-03-10T14:42:17Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] Well, ya stumped me on that quintet. I should know the answer about the new Pope- “We have a new Pope” in Latin? Voltaire [370.] With what line did Voltaire often close his correspondence? [371.] Voltaire dedicated a church on his estate to whom, because he believed that no other church was so dedicated. [372.] Voltaire dubbed this person “_merde_ in a silk stocking” [373.] Voltaire had an estate here, a short distance from the Swiss border, in case he needed to flee France quickly. [374.] Voltaire wrote a dictionary of this. [/QUOTE] Right on the Pope. **Cunctator** is right on both questions. Numbers added to your questions for later reference. ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/564 "2008-03-10T23:45:53Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 1. This was the Nazi labor and public works organization. [/QUOTE] Organization Todt? ---
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 336. He was the last reigning British monarch to lead an army in battle. [/QUOTE] King George II. At Fontenoy, I think. ---
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 313. Catherine the Great corresponded extensively with this Enlightenment philosopher. [/QUOTE] Voltaire? If that’s wrong, I have another guess. ---
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 1. Lyndon Johnson hyperbolically compared this man to both George Washington and Winston Churchill. [/QUOTE] Nguyen Van Thieu? ---
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[QUOTE=5 time champ] 1. Thou hast conquered, Galilean. [wrongfully alleged] [/QUOTE] 1. Julian the Apostate, the last pagan Roman emperor. ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/569 "2008-03-10T23:58:14Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 1. The SS destroyed this French village in retribution for partisan attacks in the area; it was preserved as a war memorial. [/QUOTE] 1. Oradour-sur-Glane, destroyed by the 2nd Waffen-SS Panzer Division, “Das Reich.” IIRC, Rommel demanded the murderers be punished, only to be overruled by Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/570 "2008-03-11T00:00:13Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] 1. What was the name of the knight who founded the first neighborhoods in Jerusalem to lie outside the city walls? [/QUOTE] Wild guess: Bohemond of Taranto? ---
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1. Balaclava? ---
**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 11, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/572 "2008-03-11T00:48:00Z")
Some more questions, somewhat offbeat in nature: 1. The only Western European nation to be govern by Communists. (Hint: It has already shown up in this thread.) 2. This Eastern European country is of some notoriety for preserving the vast majority of its silent films, and as being a major source for the silent films of other countries. 3. What did the Count de Chambord demand that may have been the reason he never became King of France? 4. This island is regarded as being the most isolated inhabited place in the world. 5. What party has ruled Singapore since independence? ---
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[QUOTE=Danimal] 288. Julian the Apostate, the last pagan Roman emperor. [/QUOTE] Correct ---
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1. This island is regarded as being the most isolated inhabited place in the world. The more I think about it, the more islands I come up with. Tristan da Cunha \ ---
**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:** [March 11, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/575 "2008-03-11T01:16:36Z")
1. Grand Pitcairn? ---
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**5 time champ** has 378. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/577 "2008-03-11T02:51:04Z")
1. The People’s Action Party ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/578 "2008-03-11T03:39:46Z")
The Far East… 1. What is the title of Japan’s first novel, written by the Lady Murasaki? 2. The Eight Banners composed the army organization of what dynasty that came to rule China? 3. What was the Central Asian capital city of the Great Khans, to whom all the other Mongol khans paid tribute? 4. What Burmese man served as Secretary General of the United Nations? 5. In the Sino-Japanese war, Japan robbed China of control over what tributary kingdom? ---
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[QUOTE=Danimal] 382. What was the Central Asian capital city of the Great Khans, to whom all the other Mongol khans paid tribute? 1. In the Sino-Japanese war, Japan robbed China of control over what tributary kingdom? [/QUOTE] 2. Samarkand 3. Okinawa ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/580 "2008-03-11T03:46:26Z")
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