World History trivia quiz

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210. One honorific which Churchill accepted after WW2 was "Lord Admiral of the
212. The assassination of this potentate is usually considered the trigger to WWI.

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  1. High Seas? I thought he was just First Lord of the Admiralty.
  2. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
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210. High Seas? I thought he was just First Lord of the Admiralty.
212. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
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  1. No. Remember, this is after WW2.
  2. Right guy, wrong realm. It was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, wasn’t it?
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  1. The concept of metal coins as currency is believed to have originated with this civilization.
  2. This was the first known city to use plumbing (hint: it wasn’t Roman).
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216. This was the first known city to use plumbing (hint: it wasn’t Roman).
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  1. Wasn’t this Minos on Crete?
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
210. No. Remember, this is after WW2.
212. Right guy, wrong realm. It was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, wasn’t it?
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Well, yeah, that’s what I meant. I swear.

No sir.

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213. The French installed this emperor in Mexico, but he didn’t do well there.
214. In what country was the Duke of Wellington born?
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213. Emperor Maximilian.
215. The first Duke Of Wellington (i.e. the most famous one) was born in Ireland.

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  1. The French installed this emperor in Mexico, but he didn’t do well there.
    Maximillian

  2. In what country was the Duke of Wellington born?
    Ireland?

  3. The concept of metal coins as currency is believed to have originated with this civilization.
    Lydia; King Croesus

  4. This was the first known city to use plumbing (hint: it wasn’t Roman).
    Babylon in the Hanging Gardens

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  1. One honorific which Churchill accepted after WW2 was “Lord Admiral of the ______ ______.”
    British Empire ?
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[QUOTE=5 time champ]
215. The concept of metal coins as currency is believed to have originated with this civilization.
Lydia; King Croesus

  1. This was the first known city to use plumbing (hint: it wasn’t Roman).
    Babylon in the Hanging Gardens
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  2. Correct.

  3. Quite some time earlier than the Hanging Gardens. But geographically, quite close.

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[QUOTE=Siam Sam]
Slight nitpick: That’s Kalakaua.
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Hey, I got “David” right… :smiley:

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  1. Ur?

They said it, bonus for context
217. Don’t step on my circles.

  1. Keep the right strong [IIRC question]

  2. Soldiers! 40 centuries look down upon you.

  3. War is too important left to the generals

  4. The die is cast

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[QUOTE=5 time champ]
216. Ur?

  1. Soldiers! 40 centuries look down upon you.

  2. The die is cast
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Not that close.

  1. Pompey

  2. Julius Caesar on crossing the Rubicon - “Alea iacta est.”

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Not that close.

  1. Pompey

  2. Julius Caesar on crossing the Rubicon - “Alea iacta est.”
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  3. Not that far back

  4. Just right.

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
211. Before Henry VIII took the prefix “Your Majesty,” English monarchs were typically called “______ ______.”

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  1. “My Lord King.”
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216. This was the first known city to use plumbing (hint: it wasn’t Roman).
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  1. I believe that was Mohenjo-Daro.
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[QUOTE=Panurge]
It seems that most questions have been answered (and I don’t know the answers to the rest), so here goes:

  1. What is the name of the union, founded in 1397, that united Denmark, Sweden and Norway under a single monarch?
  2. What is the name of the German union leader who was kidnapped and killed by the Rote Armee Fraktion in 1977?
  3. Who “liberated” Iceland in 1809, declaring himself “protector” of the nation, promising he would let the island be self-governed?
  4. And where did this revolutionary end his life?
  5. Name 3 of the 4 Kumbha Mela sites.
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Well only one of these has been answered correctly (Silenus #172), so I’ll provide the rest:

  1. Hanns-Martin Schleyer

  2. Jørgen Jürgensen (or Jorgen Jorgensen, if you will)

  3. He died in Hobarth, Tasmania, having lived a life so packed with adventure it is hard to believe. Between ruling Iceland and being deported down under, he witnessed the battle of Waterloo as a spy. On Tasmania, he wrote one of the earliest accounts of the Tasmanian aboriginal tribes.

  4. The 4 Kumbha Mela festival sites are Ujjain, Nasik, Haridwar, and Prayag (Allahabad). At the 2001 Kumbh Mela in Prayag, the most auspicious dates saw more than 30 million pilgrims trying to get a dip in the holy rivers.

  5. I did not pose the question, but I think you’re right, Siam Sam. Amazingly, the city of Mohenjo Daro was built using a standardized brick size. The same size bricks were used for several of the Indus valley cities, including Harappa.

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[QUOTE=5 time champ]
216. Ur?

They said it, bonus for context
217. Don’t step on my circles.

  1. Keep the right strong [IIRC question]

  2. Soldiers! 40 centuries look down upon you.

  3. War is too important left to the generals

  4. The die is cast
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  5. Archimedes, just before a Roman soldier killed him at the Siege of Syracuse

  6. Marshal von Schlieffen, on his deathbed around 1912(?), urging the German General staff not to weaken the right wing of the army in his plan to sweep through Belgium should war break out. They didn’t listen, partly because the German Crown Prince was to command the less important central front, and they were worried lest he get into difficulties.

  7. Napoleon’s address to his troops just before the Battle of the Pyramids.

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  1. The Orange Free State.
  2. Krueger.
  3. The Jamerson Raid.
  4. Joseph Chamberlain.
  5. The Republic of the Transvaal?

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182 and 184 are correct, 183 is correct enough (Jameson), and 181 and 185 are wrong.

As two follow-ups:

  1. What group did Rhodes do this for?

  2. Why were they in the answer to 181?

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[QUOTE=Antonius Block]
213. Emperor Maximilian.
215. The first Duke Of Wellington (i.e. the most famous one) was born in Ireland.
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Both correct (5 time champ also got 'em right)! The Duke, who considered himself an Englishman to the core, was born in Dublin to a British official and his wife while assigned to Ireland. When asked why that didn’t make him Irish, the Duke is reported to have said, “Being born in a stable doesn’t make you a horse.”

5 time champ, incorrect as to question 210. Likewise Alessan as to 211. Sorry.

Some more questions.

  1. The SS destroyed this French village in retribution for partisan attacks in the area; it was preserved as a war memorial.
  2. Winston Churchill’s father is now thought to have died as an ultimate result of having contracted this disease in his youth.
  3. What was Nelson’s flagship at Trafalgar?
  4. What was the Aztec capital city?
  5. Ferdinand and Isabella completed the military explusion of the Moors from Spain in what year?
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
227. What was the Aztec capital city?
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  1. Tenochtitlan