World History trivia quiz

The Game Room
521
  1. An Edward. IV?
  2. George II
  3. Lord-Marshal?
522
  1. Incorrect
  2. Correct (and silenus had it, too).

RNATB, incorrect on each. Sorry. A hint: the answer to question 339 is a single unhyphenated word.

523

Defender of the Faith (Fide Deo); the reigning monarch was also “Supreme Head” of the Church starting with Henry VIII, then “Supreme Governor” starting with Elizabeth I - is that what you’re looking for?

524
  1. George VI
525

Who are they?
340. Gunpowder Plotter
341. Blue Pottery Maker
342. Chronometer Maker
343. Made the steel for the Chronometer Maker
344. Made the calculations to make Scotch Whiskey more efficiently.

526
  1. Guido (Guy) Fawkes
  2. Wedgwood
  3. Harrison
  4. Wilkinson
  5. Crap, Burke talked about this guy in Connections…
527

<shakes fist at Silenus> I knew Guy Fawkes. “The last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions.”

528

  1. Incorrect

  2. Both answers given are incorrect.

  3. Incorrect.

529

Viscount Palmerston sat in the Commons, not the Lords.

  1. The Earl of Rosebery?
530
  1. Correct.
531

Fawkes Wedgwood & Harrison are correct, sounds like one tough law firm.

  1. IIRC my Burke, it was not Wilkinson that made the coiled steel that John Harrison used to fabricate his chronometer.

  2. You can’t remember the Scotch guy? :slight_smile:

532

Actually, I did remember him, but now am totally blanking on the steelmaker (It’s been a few months since we watched that episode). He was based in Sheffield, IIRC.

  1. The dude with the funny name: Joe Black
533

Precisely. And Cunctator is correct about George VI being the last Emperor of India.

Who said it? Bonus points for context.

  1. “It seems to me to be quite effectively concealed.”
  2. “This is the sort of errant pedantry up with which I will not put.” (attrib.)
  3. “Two nations… the rich and the poor.”
  4. “Pecavi.”
  5. “J’accuse!”
534
  1. Churchill, after being corrected on ending sentences with a preposition. I think Samuel Johnson said something similar, though.
  2. Marx?
  3. C.J. Napier, upon conquering Multan or some other bit of what is now Pakistan

ETA: To add to 348 that it was Sindh that he conquered, and “peccavi” was some sort of play on words - Latin for “I have sinned”. I may not be remembering this correctly - Sindh might be a person, for all i know.

535
  1. General Napier on the conquest of Sind. (“Peccavi” = “I have sinned.”)
  2. Emile Zola on the Dreyfuss Affair.
536
  1. Correct. Never heard of it attributed to Johnson.
  2. No.
  3. Yes. One of the greatest historical puns ever.

Silenus has both right, as well.

537

I must check my copy of Brewer’s when I get home tonight. I’m pretty sure that it attributes the original peccavi/Sindh pun to someone else (a woman whose name I don’t recall) before Napier and claims that Napier just lifted it and that it has been incorrectly attributed to him ever since.

Of course, Brewer’s isn’t 100% reliable either.

538
  1. He was the first Governor-General of Canada.
  2. This was the last British sovereign to use the Royal Veto.
  3. This noted British polar explorer heroically saved all of his men after his ship was crushed in pack ice in the 1910s.
  4. This was the (appropriate) name of his ship.
  5. This animal was long used for criminal executions in Siam.
539
  1. Ernest, Lord Shackleton.
  2. Endurance, which I always found more ironic than appropriate, considering that it couldn’t endure.
  3. Elephant

To give something back:

  1. Who was first to reach the South Pole?
  2. What was the name of the ship he used for that expedition?
  3. Who said, “I’m going out for a walk. I may be a while.”?
  4. What were the circumstances?
  5. Who lead a disastrous Royal Navy expedition to find the Northwest Passage in the late 1840s?
540

My copy of Brewer’s attributes it to Napier.