World History trivia quiz

The Game Room
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  1. Union of Kalmar (Thank you, David Weber!)
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A real view of a person does include flaws, and often the flaws make their virtues even more laudable, IMNSHO. I’m mostly being foolishly stubborn, here, and know it. If he were one of my heros I’d want to know it all. I’m probably going to end up doing the research, anyways. But there’s still some kicking and grousing to do, yet.

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  1. Name the 19th century German Customs union that helped pave the way for German unification.

  2. This “Father of the Package Tour” got his start running temperance excursions.

  3. Bismarck’s doctoring of this document helped trigger the Franco-Prussian War.

  4. Which British imperialist giant proposed a “Cape Town to Cairo” railway?

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[178] Thomas Cook
[180] Cecil Rhodes

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  1. The Ems Telegram?
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You the mothers who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears. Your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. Having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

307

Since the question is well and truly answered, see this: http://www.mch.govt.nz/emblems/monuments/ataturk.html

Apparently there are parallel memorials in Turkey, New Zealand and Australia.

308

Correct. In the beginning the union was rule by a woman - Queen Margrethe I of Denmark. Quite unheard of at that time, I suspect.

309

Antonius and **An Gadai ** - both correct.

310

166 David Lloyd George was the ‘Welsh Wizard’

311
  1. Zollverien (sp?)
  2. The Dutch East India Company?
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The answer to 180 attempted to overthrow the government of a sovereign nation.

  1. What nation (proper name, please) was the target?

  2. Who led the government in question?

  3. What is the name given to the action that was attempted?

  4. Which notable Liberal Unionist politician had advance knowledge about this action, which, had this been revealed, would have ended his career?

  5. What neighbor to the answer to 181 grew to be more closely tied to said nation as a result of this action?

313

Correct.

  1. Cecil Rhodes (I think Antonius Block already correctly answered this question).
  2. The Orange Free State.
  3. Krueger.
  4. The Jamerson Raid.
  5. Joseph Chamberlain.
  6. The Republic of the Transvaal?

Who said it? Bonus points for context.

  1. “Winston Churchill would skin his own mother to make a drum with which to beat his own praises.”
  2. “I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” (attrib.)
  3. “The State, it is I.”
  4. “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”
  5. “They wanted me to be another Washington.”
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  1. Louis XIV
315

  1. “I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” (attrib.)
    Voltaire

  2. “The State, it is I.”
    Louis XIV, in response to a call for Parlement

316

Since no one more confident has taken a stab at these - I’ll offer my guesses:

  1. I don’t know which monarch would have been on the throne, but was Iceland claimed about then by the Danish Throne?

  2. In Copenhagen, I’d expect.

317

  1. Where did French Revolutionaries take a famous oath?

  2. What did Chou En-Lai say were the lessons of the French Revolution?

  3. This famous painting by Jacques-Louis David showed an historical figure dead in a bathtub, who was it and who killed him?

  4. This expensive gift from Louis XVI to Marie Antoinette led to the French Revolution.

  5. This medical condition caused problems early in the marriage of Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette. The problem was solved with some advice from Marie’s brother, Joseph.

318
  1. I believe the title is The Murder of Marat, and it shows the aforementioned Marat, and his killer, Charlotte Corday.
319
  1. George III said it of George Washington, IIRC after hearing that the latter was going to hang up his uniform to return to life as a gentleman farmer.
  2. Napoleon Bonaparte, late in life. GW resisted the urge to proclaim himself Emperor. Boney… well, not quite so immune to temptation, was he?

ETA

  1. That would be the Tennis Court Oath; the court in question would have been for jeu de paume, aka Real Tennis (UK) / Court Tennis (US) / Royal Tennis (Oz). Don’t know which specific court … was it the one in the Tuileries that became the Musee du Jeu de Paume?

[Antonius Block, former real tennis player.]

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Both correct. OtakuLoki also got question 188.

Antonius Block is quite correct as to questions 189 and 190.

  1. A tennis court.