# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/161 "2008-02-11T06:26:00Z")
“Felonius Monk” Snerk! ---
**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:** [February 11, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/162 "2008-02-11T10:14:30Z")
Here (I hope!) is some cleanup on clues from a couple of pages back: [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? [/QUOTE] The Eddystone lighthouse is in the English Channel off Plymouth in Southwest England, nowhere near the mouth of the Thames! _[Well, except from the US perspective that the UK is so small that **everything** is near the mouth of the Thames 😉]_ Anyway, the first one was washed away in a storm, and the second one burnt down (as previously mentioned). The third one was dismantled and rebuilt in a park in Plymouth, and the fourth still operates – although there’s no keeper on it any more. [QUOTE=5 time champ] 44. A 16th Century earthquake that devastated this city also shook the Faith of some Christians. 1. Name the Holyday on which the earthquake happened. [/QUOTE] Hmm, you’ve accepted Lisbon for 44. However, the really **big** earthquake that devastated Lisbon was in the mid- **18th** Century (not 16th), on **All Saints’ Day** (Nov 1st). Was it 1750? Sometime around then. It certainly shook Christian Faith throughout Europe, and was part of Voltaire’s inspiration for _Candide_ (a major chunk of which takes place in Lisbon). ---
**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 11, 2008, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/163 "2008-02-11T11:17:47Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] 84. Orde Wingate. [/QUOTE] Correct. A fascinating character. I’d love to see a movie made about his life. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/164 "2008-02-11T13:33:00Z")
[QUOTE=Antonius Block] The Eddystone lighthouse is in the English Channel off Plymouth in Southwest England, nowhere near the mouth of the Thames! _[Well, except from the US perspective that the UK is so small that **everything** is near the mouth of the Thames 😉]_ [/quote] Mea culpa > [@](#): > > Anyway, the first one was washed away in a storm, and the second one burnt down (as previously mentioned). The third one was dismantled and rebuilt in a park in Plymouth, and the fourth still operates – although there’s no keeper on it any more. Absolutely correct about the fate of the first Eddystone lighthouse. The first winter was not kind to the light, and it was notably worse for wear after that. So the designer began a massive reconstruction effort, and boasted (often AIUI) that he hoped to be in the light come the greatest storm God ever sends. There is room to believe that The Great Storm of 1703 met that criteria. The damages done in the UK were astronomical. The only other detail of that storm that I recall was that it blew so strongly that some of the windmills powering pumps to keep the Fens drained were turning so fast that frictional heating caused them to ignite! And, as **Antonius Block** said, it left nothing behind of the lighthouse. Oh, FWIW, the third lighthouse isn’t completely dismantled. It had to be replaced because the tides were undercutting the rocks it was built upon, but when it came time to bring it down, the decision was made to leave the lowest sections in place, where they can still be seen today. ---
**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 11, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/165 "2008-02-11T14:49:04Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] **Publio Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus**. Happy? 😃 [/QUOTE] Yes. Publius Scipio would have done 😉 [QUOTE=Darryl Lict] 1. Ferdinand Porsche’s kid. Junior? Fred? Frank? [/QUOTE] You’re on the right lines, just not actually right. [QUOTE=5 time champ] 94 Timbur the Lame [/QUOTE] Tamerlane? ---
**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 11, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/166 "2008-02-11T14:57:57Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] Tamerlane? [/QUOTE] I believe Tamerlane was actually a corruption of Timur the Lame. EDIT: Oh, wait, YOU were answering the question. This is getting a bit confusing. ☹ I’ll bump my question up. I worried at the time it might be a little too obscure, but here it is again. Will give it another 24 hours or so: 1. This 19th-century French explorer, while trying to find a riverine back entrance into China, “discovered” Angkor Wat in Cambodia. ---
**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 11, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/167 "2008-02-11T15:00:28Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] 86. This 19th-century French explorer, while trying to find a riverine back entrance into China, “discovered” Angkor Wat in Cambodia. [/QUOTE] I’ll take a guess: Bonin? (Banin?) ---
**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 11, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/168 "2008-02-11T15:03:32Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] I’ll take a guess: Bonin? (Banin?) [/QUOTE] No. Hint: He died of malaria during the same trip, near the royal Lao capital of Luang Prabang. ---
**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 11, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/169 "2008-02-11T15:57:24Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] Oh, FWIW, the third lighthouse isn’t completely dismantled. It had to be replaced because the tides were undercutting the rocks it was built upon, but when it came time to bring it down, the decision was made to leave the lowest sections in place, where they can still be seen today. [/QUOTE] Wasn’t it more a decision based on money, ie the sucker was so well built it would take a nuke to take out the rest of the light? 😃 **Siam Sam** got #98. **Elendil’s Heir** got #100. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/170 "2008-02-11T18:36:44Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Wasn’t it more a decision based on money, ie the sucker was so well built it would take a nuke to take out the rest of the light? 😃 [/QUOTE] I don’t know the exact reasoning, but given that we’re talking about Victorian era explosives work, I wonder if there were concerns about whether the explosives necessary to take down the light would affect the surveyed foundation for the fourth light. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/171 "2008-02-11T19:30:24Z")
Well - I got question 94 right (post #146), so I hope I qualify for posting the next five: 101: Name the two largest cities of the Indus Valley civilization. 102: Name the founder of the Asiatic Society (Calcutta, 1784) 103: The same man translated the play Sakuntala to English. Who wrote it? 104: Of which city did Mark Twain write the following: “X is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together”? Finally a contemporary one: 105: Whose portrait can be found on all Pakistani paper currency? ---
**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:** [February 11, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/172 "2008-02-11T20:00:28Z")
[QUOTE=Panurge] 101: Name the two largest cities of the Indus Valley civilization. [/QUOTE] Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/173 "2008-02-11T20:01:53Z")
[QUOTE=Panurge] 104: Of which city did Mark Twain write the following: “X is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together”? [/QUOTE] Varanasi (i.e. Benares) - He wasn’t lying from what I saw 6 months ago. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/174 "2008-02-11T20:20:43Z")
1. Quaid-e-Azam? I probably butchered the spelling of that ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/175 "2008-02-11T20:29:56Z")
[QUOTE=Antonius Block] Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. [/QUOTE] Yes. [QUOTE=Sitnam] Varanasi (i.e. Benares) - He wasn’t lying from what I saw 6 months ago. [/QUOTE] True - but the city has changed tremendously during the 10 years I have been coming there, the population has almost doubled. Quadrupled compared with 20 years ago. I imagine it must have been a beautiful place 120 years ago. [QUOTE=Sunshine and Smiles] Quaid-e-Azam? I probably butchered the spelling of that [/QUOTE] Nope. It is amazing how many people don’t know the answer to that question - he was just as important to the Partition of India and Pakistan as Nehru or Gandhi were on the Indian side. ---
**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 11, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/176 "2008-02-11T20:40:27Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] [89.] Burlington? ☹ [/QUOTE] A Frenchman named Burlington? :dubious: 😃 Um, no. 1. Long before the American Civil War, crude ironclad warships were first used by what Asian nation? 2. This was the first British ironclad. 3. This was the first French ironclad. 4. Henry VIII confiscated this wonderful palace from his disgraced chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey (sp?). 5. This was the _de facto_ northern boundary of US and UN combat operations during the Korean War. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/177 "2008-02-11T21:01:24Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 107. This was the first British ironclad. 109. Henry VIII confiscated this wonderful palace from his disgraced chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey (sp?). [/QUOTE] 107. HMS Warrior, which is now a museum at Portsmouth. 109. Hampton Court. ---
**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 11, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/178 "2008-02-11T21:18:00Z")
[QUOTE=Antonius Block] Hmm, you’ve accepted Lisbon for 44. However, the really **big** earthquake that devastated Lisbon was in the mid- **18th** Century (not 16th), on **All Saints’ Day** (Nov 1st). Was it 1750? Sometime around then. It certainly shook Christian Faith throughout Europe, and was part of Voltaire’s inspiration for _Candide_ (a major chunk of which takes place in Lisbon). [/QUOTE] You are, of course, correct. :smack: I misremembered it as 1570, sorry. With your knowledge of the Lisbon earthquake of 1750 you may know the answer to this unanswered question: 1. Bury the dead, feed the living. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/179 "2008-02-11T21:31:42Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 108. This was the first French ironclad. [/QUOTE] 1. _Gloire_? ---
**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:** [February 11, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/180 "2008-02-11T21:38:52Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 75. Bury the dead, feed the living. [/QUOTE] Well, if it’s someone taking charge and making sense after the Lisbon earthquake, it must be the **Marquis of Pombal**. After the dust had settled, he got down to work and redesigned the new city to replace the 80% or so that was lost. So, in place of all of the medieval Manueline architecture, we have “Pombaline”. [Some great examples of Manueline still exist, however, such as the Monastery of Jeronimus (sp?), and the Moorish quarter of Alfama was also spared]. We have Pombal to thank for all of modern Lisbon’s wide boulevards and parks. _[One can only wonder if political opponents of his ever said: **“That Pombal! Every sentence of his consists of a noun, a verb, and November 1st!”**]_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759.md?page=10)