# 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:** 4
**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 8, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/61 "2008-02-08T21:47:22Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] 32. What 18th Century war between England and Spain was caused by (and named after) a body part? 1. The ugliest monument in Rome is one to this 1st King of a united Italy. [/QUOTE] 1. The War of Jenkin’s (or possibly Jensen’s) Ear. 2. Victor Immanuel. ---
**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 8, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/62 "2008-02-08T22:01:12Z")
**RNATB** - 35 - no, 36 - yes **Alessan** - right on both ---
**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:** [February 8, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/63 "2008-02-08T22:04:47Z")
30 is correct! Amen to that. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/64 "2008-02-08T22:14:15Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] 33. What treaty legitimitized Lutheranism in the German states? [/QUOTE] 1. I believe this is a reference to the Peace of Augsberg, which also enshrined the idea of Religion of the Prince, Religion of the People - leaving the common folk’s religious affiliation at the mercy of the territorial prince. 2. What German Protestant thinker, and theologian, is famous for having castigated some of his followers for using theology to support their attempts to change the secular world? 3. What was restored by the Meiji Restoration? 4. What was known as The Most Serene Republic? 5. There have been four lighthouses established on the Eddystone shoals near the mouth of the Thames. What happened to the first and second lighthouses? 6. What two innovations ended the era of the Tea Clipper ships? ---
**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 8, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/65 "2008-02-08T22:30:35Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] 40. There have been four lighthouses established on the Eddystone shoals near the mouth of the Thames. What happened to the first and second lighthouses? 1. What two innovations ended the era of the Tea Clipper ships? [/QUOTE] 2. I’m going to guess at pillaging Vikings, and German bombs. 3. Vaguely remembered from my trip to the Cutty Sark when I was a wee’un - the steam engine and the Suez Canal (does that count as an innovation?) ---
**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 8, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/66 "2008-02-08T22:50:23Z")
1. “All changed, changed utterly, a terrible beauty is born.” Name the poet and the poem. **It was about the Easter Rebellion, wasn’t it called "Rebellion"** 2. What was restored by the Meiji Restoration? **The Japanese Emperor, Hirohito’s father** 3. What was known as The Most Serene Republic? **San Marino** ---
**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:** [February 8, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/67 "2008-02-08T23:11:10Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 31. “All changed, changed utterly, a terrible beauty is born.” Name the poet and the poem. **It was about the Easter Rebellion, wasn’t it called “Rebellion”** [/QUOTE] Twas about the Rising but nope it isn’t called “Rebellion”. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/68 "2008-02-08T23:42:52Z")
Responding to the answers: **silenus** : 8 is correct, 10 is half-correct, and 12 is correct. **Really Not All That Bright** : 8 is correct, and 9 and 12 are wrong. **Slithy Tove** : 9 is correct. **Elendil’s Heir** : 10 is incorrect. **Giles** : 11 is 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:** [February 8, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/69 "2008-02-08T23:46:03Z")
29 is Jan Smuts, who also played a major role in WWI, and whom led commandos against the British in the Boer War. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/70 "2008-02-08T23:51:39Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] 40. I’m going to guess at pillaging Vikings, and German bombs. 41. Vaguely remembered from my trip to the Cutty Sark when I was a wee’un - the steam engine and the Suez Canal (does that count as an innovation?) [/QUOTE] 1. Nope. You’re putting it waaaay too late for the first two lights. 2. Yes, that’s what I was thinking of. ---
**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 8, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/71 "2008-02-08T23:57:00Z")
1. Martin Luther sought refuge in this German castle. 2. Name two famous and influential books published in 1776. Yes, I realize this is World History trivia, these books have nothing to do with the American Revolution. 3. A 16th Century earthquake that devastated this city also shook the Faith of some Christians. 4. Name the Holyday on which the earthquake happened. 5. Henry VIII was awarded this title from the Pope for his efforts against Martin Luther. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/72 "2008-02-09T00:00:22Z")
1. Is one _The Wealth of Nations_ by Smith? 2. Rome? 3. Easter? 4. Defender of the Faith (!)- I know this one… ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/73 "2008-02-09T00:04:33Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 44. A 16th Century earthquake that devastated this city also shook the Faith of some Christians. 1. Henry VIII was awarded this title from the Pope for his efforts against Martin Luther. [/QUOTE] 2. Lisbon 3. Defender of the Faith ETA: I just realized that I might have confused people with my comments to **Really Not All That Bright** about the lighthouse at Eddystone shoals. Twentieth Century Germans are too late to have had a chance to affect the first two lights. And the Vikings predated either of the first two lights there. ---
**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 9, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/74 "2008-02-09T00:09:13Z")
1. The Wartberg Didn’t the first two Eddystone lighthouses burn down? ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/75 "2008-02-09T00:14:15Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Didn’t the first two Eddystone lighthouses burn down? [/QUOTE] The second one did. The builder said something very ironic, when you know what happened to the first light. And I’m afraid I missed **5 time champ** ’s answers to 38 and 39. 38, I believe is right - I don’t know the exact Emporer, but it was the restoration of rule in the name of the Emporer, instead of in the name of the Shogun. 39, however, is wrong. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/76 "2008-02-09T00:20:53Z")
1. Adam Smith’s the Wealth of Nations and Edward Gibbons’ Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/77 "2008-02-09T00:23:34Z")
Hirohito, whois posthumously known as Emperor Showa, was the Meiji Emperor’s grandson. Emperor Taisho was in in between them. ---
**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 9, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/78 "2008-02-09T00:35:25Z")
1. What was the first legal distillery in Scotland? 2. As thanks for aiding in his escape, Bonnie Prince Charlie gave the recipe for what to the MacKinnon family (supposedly)? 3. Legend has it that Britain will fall when what leave the Tower of London? 4. Which French Emperor invaded Mexico? 5. The discovery of what, by French troops stationed in Egypt, led to the deciphering of heiroglyphics? ---
**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:** [February 9, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/79 "2008-02-09T00:37:46Z")
50 The Rosetta Stone \*\*Governer Quinn \*\*You are correct on 29! ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/80 "2008-02-09T00:39:12Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] 48. Legend has it that Britain will fall when what leave the Tower of London? 1. Which French Emperor invaded Mexico? 2. The discovery of what, by French troops stationed in Egypt, led to the deciphering of heiroglyphics? [/QUOTE] 3. The ravens. 4. Napoleon III 5. The Rosetta Stone [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759.md?page=5)