World History trivia quiz

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[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
Elendil’s Heir - I took that mean that 5 time champ was going by his memory of those sources…
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OK, fine. Sorry - I don’t mean to keep playing threadcop, I just want everyone to be on the same level playing field.

  1. This German military leader met up with the Duke of Wellington and helped him win at Waterloo.
  2. A painting of that meeting is still featured in what notable British building?
  3. How many times did J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel, musical geniuses and contemporaries, personally meet?
  4. What year of failed European social democratic revolutions led many Germans and Hungarians, in particular, to emigrate to the U.S.?
  5. Stalin scoffed of the Pope, “How many ________ does he have?”
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[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
124. This was the second VTOL-capable fighter to enter service.
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IIRC, the Russians had one. Was it the Yak-38?

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Who said it, and why?
142. “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.”
143. How did Will Durant spend his honeymoon?

  1. Divisions.
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[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
Oh dear.

I thought that only applied to answering questions, rather than asking them.
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Well, again, you’re the OP. It’s your call. But see posts 1, 22, 24, 28 and 30.

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  1. “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.”

That was the British Commander at the Battle of Jutland. He was slightly upset at his ships (light cruisers or possibly battle cruisers) were exploding with depressing regularity.

His name was … it was either Jellicoe or Beatty. I’ll guess Beatty.

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Tapioca Dextrin, you’re right - it was Beatty, after a report that another of his battlecruisers had blown up.

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
OK, fine. Sorry - I don’t mean to keep playing threadcop, I just want everyone to be on the same level playing field.

  1. This German military leader met up with the Duke of Wellington and helped him win at Waterloo.

  2. A painting of that meeting is still featured in what notable British building?

  3. How many times did J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel, musical geniuses and contemporaries, personally meet?

  4. What year of failed European social democratic revolutions led many Germans and Hungarians, in particular, to emigrate to the U.S.?

  5. Stalin scoffed of the Pope, “How many ________ does he have?”
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  6. Marshal Blucher

  7. 1848

Edited cuz OtakuLoki beat me on 141

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
138. A painting of that meeting is still featured in what notable British building?
141. Stalin scoffed of the Pope, “How many ________ does he have?”
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  1. 10 Downing Street?
  2. Battalions. At least, I’ve always heard “battalions”, but I imagine he said it in Russian and I don’t know what the Russian word for “battalion” is. So - military units of 1000-ish.

Ah. I see what you mean… didn’t notice the “or formulating” part of post #22.

Okay, no looking up anything at all, guys. Except in the case of disputed answers, and then only the person posing the question originally.

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[QUOTE=Saratoga Sam]
85. Acre (though I don’t believe it was Israeli at the time…)
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Yeah, but saying “city in the Ottoman Villaya of Damascus” doesn’t fall all that trippingly from the tongue.

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[QUOTE=Saratoga Sam]
137. Marshal Blucher

  1. 1848

Edited cuz OtakuLoki beat me on 141
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All correct - and it was “divisions,” as I’ve always read it.
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Really Not All That Bright**, no, it’s not 10 Downing Street.

  1. Who chaired the Wannsee Conference?
  2. What was his best-known nickname?
  3. Where and by whom was he assassinated?
  4. What was the codename of the operation which killed him?
  5. What village was utterly destroyed in retribution for his assassination?
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
All correct - and it was “divisions,” as I’ve always read it.
**
Really Not All That Bright**, no, it’s not 10 Downing Street.

  1. Who chaired the Wannsee Conference?

  2. What was his best-known nickname?

  3. Where and by whom was he assassinated?

  4. What was the codename of the operation which killed him?

  5. What village was utterly destroyed in retribution for his assassination?
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  6. Reinhardt Heydrich

  7. Heydrich the Hangman

  8. By Czech resistance in Lidice

  9. Lidice (Bohemia)…a town in Illinois promptly renamed itself Lidice when the news broke.

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
I thought we were relying on our memories only?
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My memories from reading The Story of Civilization twice through, though it has been more than ten years. I re-watced Connections a couple months ago.

I swear, on the souls of my grandchildren, I have never consulted reference materials for questions or answers in either of the threads.

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  1. How did Will Durant spend his honeymoon?
    Hot monkey sex with Ariel.
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[QUOTE=Saratoga Sam]
144. Reinhardt Heydrich
145. Heydrich the Hangman
146. By Czech resistance in Lidice

  1. Lidice (Bohemia)…a town in Illinois promptly renamed itself Lidice when the news broke.
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  2. Yes (but drop the “t”).

  3. Never heard of that - I was thinking of another, more common one.

  4. Yes, by the Czech resistance, but not in Lidice. Half credit.

  5. Yes. There are several other Lidices, too, in honor of the destroyed town.

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  1. What year of failed European social democratic revolutions led many Germans and Hungarians, in particular, to emigrate to the U.S.?
    1848

Elendil You read my mind on Reinhard Heydrich questions, he was going to be part of my “Name your [least] favorite Nazis”

  1. What was his best-known nickname?
    The nickname I remember is Heyrich the Hangman, although that probably doesn’t alliterate in German or Czech. He also was referred to as The Butch of Prague, I think.
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[QUOTE=5 time champ]
…He also was referred to as The Butch of Prague, I think.
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That’s odd, I don’t remember seeing a rainbow ribbon on his SS uniform. :confused: :stuck_out_tongue:

Yes, “the Butcher of Prague.” He was evil to the core, but an interesting guy nevertheless. I’ve read two bios of him and he definitely bears closer study. Many historians think he could have succeeded Himmler and, maybe in time, Hitler himself. He was just that smart, cunning and ruthless.

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[QUOTE=5 time champ]
My memories from reading The Story of Civilization twice through, though it has been more than ten years. I re-watced Connections a couple months ago.

I swear, on the souls of my grandchildren, I have never consulted reference materials for questions or answers in either of the threads.
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I watch the entire Connections series, along with Connections[sup]2[/sup] and Connections[sup]3[/sup] with my students every year. I have those suckers memorized by now.

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The Nazis
149. Where did Hitler do time after the Beer Hall Putsch?

  1. Armaments minister

  2. This leader of the SA was purged after Hitler became Chancellor.

  3. What did SS mean?

  4. What is the origin of the word Gestapo?

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  1. Ernst Rohmer.
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  1. Albert Speer
  2. Ernst Röhm