# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/121 "2008-02-10T04:40:31Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 77. Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. 1. An army marches on its stomach. [OK, attributed] 2. Paris is well worth a Mass.\* [/QUOTE] 3. Archimedes 4. Napoleon 5. Henri something or other. I think the second. ---
**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 10, 2008, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/122 "2008-02-10T04:41:48Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 1. An army marches on its stomach. [OK, attributed]\* [/QUOTE] 2. Julius Caesar? ---
**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 10, 2008, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/123 "2008-02-10T05:07:26Z")
1. Henry of Navarre (Henry IV) ---
**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 10, 2008, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/124 "2008-02-10T06:14:35Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] 64. Zheng He. [/QUOTE] Correct. 1. Cataline? 2. Royal Mail Steamship or, more recently, Ship 3. Yes, RMS _Queen Elizabeth 2_ and _Queen Mary 2_ 4. The warship hit the ocean bottom vertically and is still standing almost straight up. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/125 "2008-02-10T06:19:55Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 70. Royal Mail Steamship or, more recently, Ship 71. Yes, RMS _Queen Elizabeth 2_ and _Queen Mary 2_ 74. The warship hit the ocean bottom vertically and is still standing almost straight up. [/QUOTE] 1. Yes. 2. Actually, those were the ships I was trying to exclude - they’ve the title, but they’re not working any regular run, or really expected to deliver the Royal Mail. 3. Yes. ---
**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 10, 2008, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/126 "2008-02-10T06:30:39Z")
1. Correct, I used that line a couple weeks ago. Someone at work wondered how I lifted a heavy generator into the back of a truck. Though I used an inclined plane, rather than a fulcrum. 2. Correct, generally attributed to Napoleon, though one would expect that Og the Caveman would have said that the first time he went off to war. 3. Correct, the French crown devolved upon the Protestant Henri of Navarre. He became Catholic and Henri IV. ---
**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 10, 2008, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/127 "2008-02-10T09:26:08Z")
Here are some of mine. All of them have some connction to both Jewish and British history: 1. Which ruler exiled the Jews from England? 81 Which ruler allowed them to return? 2. What was the name of the knight who founded the first neighborhoods in Jerusalem to lie outside the city walls? 3. Which general conquered Jerusalem in WW1? 4. Which British WW2 general, famed for his actions in Indochina, is also an Israeli national hero? Here’s a French one: 85. What Israeli city managed to withstand a two-month seige by Napoleon Bonaparte? ---
**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:** [February 10, 2008, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/128 "2008-02-10T09:39:23Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] Here are some of mine. All of them have some connction to both Jewish and British history: 1. Which ruler exiled the Jews from England? 81 Which ruler allowed them to return? [/QUOTE] 80 Edward I 81 Oliver Cromwell ---
**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 10, 2008, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/129 "2008-02-10T09:44:27Z")
Correct and correct. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2008, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/130 "2008-02-10T09:46:18Z")
Cromwell was a bit of a guess, but I figured you wouldn’t have used the word ruler without a reason 🙂 ---
**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 10, 2008, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/131 "2008-02-10T10:05:00Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 56. Before the British Royal Family was called the House of Windsor, it was the House of \_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_. [/QUOTE] I have racked my brain’s on this one and just cannot remember. In hopes that it will jog someone else’s memory, I can tell you that it was a German name and that they changed it during World War I, because they felt it unseemly to have that name at that time. But I cannot remember what it was. Saxe-something??? Saxe-Colburg? ---
**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:** [February 10, 2008, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/132 "2008-02-10T10:08:14Z")
pssst post #95 🙂 ---
**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 10, 2008, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/133 "2008-02-10T10:10:56Z")
[QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin] pssst post #95 🙂 [/QUOTE] Whoops! :o I seem to have missed that one. Post #101 still guessing threw me. And the sun was in my eyes. But I was partially correct! Thankee. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/134 "2008-02-10T15:07:02Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 79. Correct, the French crown devolved upon the Protestant Henri of Navarre. He became Catholic and Henri IV. [/QUOTE] Wasn’t he assasinated by a priest or some sort of felonious monk? ---
**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 10, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/135 "2008-02-10T15:38:20Z")
[QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin] That would be Scipio (at least according to Russell Crowe) [/QUOTE] Yes, but I need his first name too. There were two Roman generals of note named Scipio - Africanus, the famous one we’re looking for, and a less well known fellow who led a legion in Britain. [QUOTE=Siam Sam] An eye? [/QUOTE] Good guess, but no. [QUOTE=silenus] 1. Ferdinand Porsche? 2. Scipio the Younger (Africanus) 3. Capitoline? [/QUOTE] No; yes, but see above; No. [QUOTE=5 time champ] Aeneas fled the destruction of Troy [/QUOTE] Correct. [QUOTE=OtakuLoki] 65. Wasn’t it the Syrian Bull - a man-headed winged bull? [/QUOTE] Also a good guess, but no. ---
**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 10, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/136 "2008-02-10T15:43:08Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] Wasn’t he assasinated by a priest or some sort of felonious monk? [/QUOTE] Henry IV was also an interesting main character, in his pre-king days, in Dumas’ La Reine Margot, the story of which centers on the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. Thought of one of my own: 1. This 19th-century French explorer, while trying to find a riverine back entrance into China, “discovered” Angkor Wat in Cambodia. (“Discovered” it despite it being a prosperous monastery tended by 1000 herditary slaves at the time. In all fairness, though, he himself did not say he discovered it, but rather the credit was forced onto him posthumously.) ---
**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 10, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/137 "2008-02-10T18:37:52Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] … 71. Actually, those were the ships I was trying to exclude - they’ve the title, but they’re not working any regular run, or really expected to deliver the Royal Mail. … [/QUOTE] 1. Then I’d say no, the Royal Mail is entirely carried by train, truck or airplane nowadays. 2. Winston Churchill was offered, but declined, this title of nobility after WW2. 3. This top Nazi flew to the UK on a harebrained peace mission. 4. This French finance minister was a key supporter of the American Revolution. 5. He was the first to reach the South Pole. 6. After capturing it, what did the North Vietnamese rename Saigon? ---
**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 10, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/138 "2008-02-10T19:16:21Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 71. Then I’d say no, the Royal Mail is entirely carried by train, truck or airplane nowadays. 1. Winston Churchill was offered, but declined, this title of nobility after WW2. 2. This top Nazi flew to the UK on a harebrained peace mission. 3. After capturing it, what did the North Vietnamese rename Saigon? [/QUOTE] 4. The Duke of Marlborough? Just guessing here. 5. Goebbels. He ended up in the Tower of London. 6. Ho Chi Min City. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/139 "2008-02-10T19:22:12Z")
1. Heinrich Himmler ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/140 "2008-02-10T19:23:13Z")
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