# 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:** 36
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/701 "2008-03-25T18:00:20Z")
1. The Piranha brothers 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/702 "2008-03-25T18:18:53Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 457. If these ever leave the Tower of London, it is said, Great Britain will fall. [/QUOTE] I think we’ve had this one. It’s the ravens. ---
**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 25, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/703 "2008-03-25T19:49:20Z")
1. A sex scandal involving this Cabinet minister shook the British government in the early 1960s. John Profumo ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/704 "2008-03-25T21:05:59Z")
1. Black Rod 2. The Kray twins ---
**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 25, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/705 "2008-03-25T22:51:13Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] 455. Black Rod 1. The Kray twins [/QUOTE] Extra credit: Technically, the “Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod”. First names of the Kray twins: Reggie and Ronnie. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/706 "2008-03-25T23:05:46Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] Technically, the “Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod”. [/QUOTE] Even when Black Rod is a woman? 🙂 ---
**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 25, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/707 "2008-03-25T23:14:57Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] Even when Black Rod is a woman? 🙂 [/QUOTE] In such instances, “Bitch with big stick! Run!” I don’t there had been a female Black Rod when I was in school, so this was never addressed during History. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/708 "2008-03-25T23:27:26Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] In such instances, “Bitch with big stick! Run!” [/quote] 🙂 > [@Really Not All that Bright](#): > > I don’t there had been a female Black Rod when I was in school, so this was never addressed during History. There may not have been in the UK. In the Australian Senate the Usher of the Black Rod is currently a woman. Some of the state parliaments could well have women in the role too. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/709 "2008-03-26T01:21:49Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] 452. What Canadian third party long controlled Alberta and British Columbia and was prominent in rural Quebec into the late 1970s? [/QUOTE] Read my sig. 😃 ---
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[QUOTE=Hypnagogic Jerk] Read my sig. 😃 [/QUOTE] Well played, and quite right. (Social Credit, for those reading the thread years from now.) ---
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[QUOTE=Cunctator] > [@Hypnagogic Jerk](#): > > 1. Two, I believe? Incorrect [/QUOTE] I don’t think anyone gave the right answer, so I checked on [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_electoral_system#Double_Dissolutions), and it turns out it’s happened much more often than I thought. So the answer is no less than six times. ---
**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 26, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/712 "2008-03-26T04:45:30Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] Extra credit: Technically, the “Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod”. First names of the Kray twins: Reggie and Ronnie. [/QUOTE] All correct, as were the earlier answers by **Cunctator, 5 time champ** and **OtakuLoki**. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/713 "2008-03-27T04:16:46Z")
[QUOTE=Hypnagogic Jerk] I don’t think anyone gave the right answer, so I checked on [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_electoral_system#Double_Dissolutions), and it turns out it’s happened much more often than I thought. So the answer is no less than six times. [/QUOTE] As I noted [earlier](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9607340&postcount=692). Australian states: 1. Which state voted in 1933 to secede from Australia? 2. Which is the only state to have abolished its upper house of Parliament? ---
**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 27, 2008, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/714 "2008-03-27T14:32:34Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] 460. Which state voted in 1933 to secede from Australia? [/QUOTE] I’ll take a stab at Tasmania. ---
**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 27, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/715 "2008-03-27T15:34:45Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] … 461. Which is the only state to have abolished its upper house of Parliament? [/QUOTE] 1. Nebraska. 😉 Who said it? Bonus points for context. 1. “How can anyone hope to rule a nation with over 400 kinds of cheese?” 2. “We are not amused.” (attrib.) 3. “Paint me as I am, warts and all.” 4. “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” 5. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” ---
**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 27, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/716 "2008-03-27T15:52:20Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 463. “We are not amused.” (attrib.) 464. “Paint me as I am, warts and all.” 465. “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” 466. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” [/QUOTE] 1. Queen Victoria 2. Elizabeth I posing for a portrait shortly after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, I think. 3. Henry II referring to then-Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas More, who refused to go along with his scheme to steal all the Church’s stuff. I’ve always heard it as “turbulent priest”, though. 4. Karl Marx in _The Communist Manifesto_. ---
**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 27, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/717 "2008-03-27T20:18:43Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] 463. Queen Victoria 464. Elizabeth I posing for a portrait shortly after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, I think. 465. Henry II referring to then-Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas More, who refused to go along with his scheme to steal all the Church’s stuff. I’ve always heard it as “turbulent priest”, though. 466. Karl Marx in _The Communist Manifesto_. [/QUOTE] 1. Yes 2. No 3. Oooooo, so close, but no cigar 4. Yes, although the ghost of Friedrich Engels tells me he insists on coauthor credit ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/718 "2008-03-27T21:06:24Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] I’ll take a stab at Tasmania. [/QUOTE] I’m afraid not. > [@Elendil's heir](#): > > 1. Nebraska. 🙂 Très amusant. But no. 1. Oliver Cromwell ---
**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 27, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/719 "2008-03-27T21:16:58Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] 1. Henry II referring to then-Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas More, who refused to go along with his scheme to steal all the Church’s stuff. I’ve always heard it as “turbulent priest”, though. . [/QUOTE] Wrong Thomas, **RNATB** , it was Thomas a Becket. And it was another question of royal divorce, IIRC. ---
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[QUOTE=Cunctator] … 464. Oliver Cromwell [/QUOTE] Correct. And **5 time champ** is right about Thomas Becket (or a’ Becket, in some older sources). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759.md?page=35) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759.md?page=37)