World History trivia quiz

The Game Room
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[QUOTE=Governor Quinn]

  1. Bismarck said that he would call a policeman and have him arrest it.
    [/QUOTE]

That, of course, should be 387.

:smack:

602
  1. The only Western European nation to be govern by Communists. (Hint: It has already shown up in this thread.)

Albania…Albania…you border on the A-dri-atic… :stuck_out_tongue:

603
  1. That’s odd. I could have sworn that Italy was governed by the Communist Party at one point. Was it France? I don’t think Albania is really Western Europe.
604

[QUOTE=Antonius Block]
392. Patent clerk
393. Niccolo
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Both correct.

want2know is correct about George IV (her non-invitation caused quite a scene when she tried to crash the coronation anyway), but incorrect as to the Japanese Diet.

Panurge is correct about the Mughals and their hunting cheetahs, as is Governor Quinn about Bismarck’s sarcastic dismissal of the insignificant (to him) British Army.

605

[QUOTE=Danimal]
Wild guess: Bohemond of Taranto?
[/QUOTE]

Nope.

Hint: it was much more recent than that.

606

  1. I know Akbar the Great of India had tons and tons of cheetahs, is that it?

  2. The Imperial Council?

607

[QUOTE=Zsofia]
391. I know Akbar the Great of India had tons and tons of cheetahs, is that it?

  1. The Imperial Council?
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  2. He was one of them, yes. Panurge got it earlier.

  3. No.

Here are some more.

  1. Samurai without lords were called ______.
  2. Iwo Jima was returned to Japanese jurisdiction during the Presidency of this American leader.
  3. The big guns of this fortified British-held city were pointing the wrong way when an enemy attacked during WWII.
  4. This dish took its name from a month in the Revolutionary French calendar.
  5. Oliver Cromwell was backed up by his ______ ______ Army.
608

[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
395. Samurai without lords were called ______.
397. The big guns of this fortified British-held city were pointing the wrong way when an enemy attacked during WWII.
399. Oliver Cromwell was backed up by his ______ ______ Army.
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  1. Ronin
  2. Somewhere near Israel/Palestine… Tyre?
  3. New Model
609
  1. Singapore
  2. Lobster Thermidor
610
  1. Nixon
611

Some Australian political history:

  1. How many double dissolutions have there been of the Commonwealth Parliament since federation?
  2. And how many of them were followed by a joint sitting of both houses?
612

[QUOTE=An Gadaí]
Karakorum?
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That’s right.

Some cursory research in Wikipedia tells me that Tamerlane did not claim the title Great Khan, only Emir. Ergo, I think Samarkand doesn’t qualify as a capital of the Great Khans, unless somebody other than Tamerlane ruled from there with that title.

613

[QUOTE=Danimal]
That’s right.

Some cursory research in Wikipedia tells me that Tamerlane did not claim the title Great Khan, only Emir. Ergo, I think Samarkand doesn’t qualify as a capital of the Great Khans, unless somebody other than Tamerlane ruled from there with that title.
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According to this page, Kublai Khan established his capital at Tatu/Beijing, so that would count too, right?
http://www.voyagemongolie.com/Index_fichiers/History_Mongolia_mongolian_empire.htm
(I’ve actually forgotten what the wording of the original question was…)

614

[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
395. Ronin
397. Somewhere near Israel/Palestine… Tyre?
399. New Model
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  1. Correct.
  2. Incorrect.
  3. Correct.

Silenus and Governor Quinn were correct as to their answers.

615

[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
According to this page, Kublai Khan established his capital at Tatu/Beijing, so that would count too, right?
http://www.voyagemongolie.com/Index_fichiers/History_Mongolia_mongolian_empire.htm
(I’ve actually forgotten what the wording of the original question was…)
[/QUOTE]

Looks like you’re right, especially given that it says Kublai defeated his rival Great Khan from Karakorum.

It was a poorly phrased question. My apologies.

Some more, hopefully better questions…

  1. Who was the head of Stalin’s NKVD secret police during and after World War II?

  2. What was the capital city of Grand Duke Vladimir, the first Russian ruler to convert to Christianity?

  3. What was the decisive battle of the Great Northern War between Russia and Sweden?

  4. Who was the only Soviet premier to have previously served as director of the KGB?

  5. What was the name of the treaty by which Lenin’s Bolshevist government made peace with Germany in World War I?

616

[QUOTE=Danimal]
Looks like you’re right, especially given that it says Kublai defeated his rival Great Khan from Karakorum.

It was a poorly phrased question. My apologies.

Some more, hopefully better questions…

  1. Who was the head of Stalin’s NKVD secret police during and after World War II?

  2. What was the capital city of Grand Duke Vladimir, the first Russian ruler to convert to Christianity?

  3. What was the decisive battle of the Great Northern War between Russia and Sweden?

  4. Who was the only Soviet premier to have previously served as director of the KGB?

  5. What was the name of the treaty by which Lenin’s Bolshevist government made peace with Germany in World War I?
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406- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

617

[QUOTE=Danimal]
402. Who was the head of Stalin’s NKVD secret police during and after World War II?

  1. What was the capital city of Grand Duke Vladimir, the first Russian ruler to convert to Christianity?

  2. Who was the only Soviet premier to have previously served as director of the KGB?
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  3. Wasn’t this Beria?

  4. Kiev, I think…

  5. I’m going to guess Yuri Andropov. And ISTR the rumors running hard and fast for the link between that, and his death after such a short time in the top seat.

618

[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
402. Wasn’t this Beria?

  1. Kiev, I think…

  2. I’m going to guess Yuri Andropov. And ISTR the rumors running hard and fast for the link between that, and his death after such a short time in the top seat.
    [/QUOTE]

Correct on all three (Lavrenti Beria, to be precise).

An Gadai is correct on the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

619
  1. Poltava
  2. Andropov
620

[QUOTE=silenus]
404. Poltava
405. Andropov
[/QUOTE]

  1. Yes.

  2. Correct, but OtakuLoki already got this one.

More treaties:

  1. Which war was settled by the Treaty of Shimonoseki?

  2. After World War I, what treaty required the newly independent nation of Hungary to cede Transylvania to Romania?

  3. In the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, ending the Thirty Years’ War, Spain finally recognized the independence of what former imperial possession?

  4. Whose succession to the throne of Austria was guaranteed by the Pragmatic Sanction?

  5. What two foreign ministers signed the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939?