World History trivia quiz

The Game Room
221

Hipper, no.

Deutschland/Lutzow, yes.

222

Outstanding questions (well, mine):
124. This was the second VTOL-capable fighter to enter service.
126. Who was the Captain (Kommandant) of the battleship Bismarck?

I’m going to give the answer for #1 now because it occurs to me that it has technically been answered correctly (Who designed the Porsche 911?):
Somebody said Ferdinand Porsche; there have been three Ferdinand Porsches involved in the designed and manufacture of Porsche cars - Ferdinand Sr., Ferdinand “Ferry” Jr., and Ferdinand Alexander, “Butzi” (the nephew of Ferd Sr.)

Butzi was the correct answer, but since his real name was Ferdinand Porsche we’ll take it.

223
  1. The Hawker Harrier?
  2. Lutjens or Leutjens?
224

A couple three odd questions

  1. This battle in the Napoleonic Wars gave us the name of this food dish. [The food itself, not the dish you eat it from]

131 This famous author fought in the Battle of Lepanto.

132 Who was the central character in Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror?

225

Here some questions of mine from two pages ago that have yet to be answered:

  1. What was the name of the knight who founded the first neighborhoods in Jerusalem to lie outside the city walls?
  2. Which general conquered Jerusalem in WW1?
  3. What Israeli city managed to withstand a two-month seige by Napoleon Bonaparte?
226
  1. Henry de Cucy?
227

The Battle of Marengo gave us Chicken Marengo (Thank you, James Burke!).

228

The Harrier was the first - want the second (not including the Harrier GR2, etc.)

Lutjens was the Admiral in charge of the Bismarck’s first (and only) mission, not her captain.

229

General Allenby.

These questions all relate to the same voyage:
[133] What was the name of the first ship to circumnavigate the world?
[134] What was its port of departure / return?
[135] Who was in charge of the expedition when it set sail?
[136] Who was in charge of the ship when it finally returned “home”?

230
  1. Lisbon?
  2. Ferdinand Magellan, but he was killed by marauding natives in Java (I think).
231
  1. When you started talking about a special dish, I thought you were referring to Beef Wellington, which was concocted to honor Wellington after his victory at Waterloo, but I suspect this is wrong.
  1. The Golden Hind
  2. Lisbon (?)
  3. Ferdinand Magellan
  4. Someone else, since Magellan didn’t finish his voyage, being killed in the Philippines.
232

Very good.

233

That was the one I was going for.

I will be getting a lot of my questions & answers from James Burke, and Will Durant’s Story of Civilization

But I guess that one is true also.

234
  1. Acre (though I don’t believe it was Israeli at the time…)
235

Really Not All That Bright and OtakuLoki:

  1. The Golden Hind ----- [No, sorry.]
  2. Lisbon (?) ------------- [No, sorry.]
  3. Ferdinand Magellan - [Yes!]
  4. Someone else… ----- [While this is strictly correct, I was rather hoping for a name :wink: ]
236

I believe my answer, therefore, is also correct. I merely went with the Pakistani name, seeing as it was Pakistani money we were jawin’ about.

237

Yes, can’t remember his first name, he was known as the Sieur de Coucy.

238

I thought we were relying on our memories only?

239

Elendil’s Heir - I took that mean that 5 time champ was going by his memory of those sources. (grinning) I’d already added Connections to my Netflix queue, so I know what he means when he credits James Burke with filling one with a goodly amount of trivia.

240

Oh dear.

I thought that only applied to answering questions, rather than asking them.