World History trivia quiz

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

Molotov and Ribbentrop

  1. The Netherlands
  2. Molotov and…I forget the German’s name.

Correct, Vyachezlav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop.

Correct.

  1. I’m going to guess that this was the treaty that ended the 1905 Russo-Japanese War.
  1. After World War I, what treaty required the newly independent nation of Hungary to cede Transylvania to Romania?
    I’ll go with the obvious, Treaty of Versailles

  2. Whose succession to the throne of Austria was guaranteed by the Pragmatic Sanction?
    Maria Theresa ?

  1. Not so, I’m afraid.

  2. You got it!

OtakuLoki, good guess, but wrong.

  1. The Treaty of Trianon?

Right!

Rather than post new questions, I have decided to repost every question that I have asked in this thread and have not received a correct answer for.

  1. The British Army suffered two major defeats slightly a year apart from one another, in 1879 and 1880. What were they? (Note: Isandlwana is one of the answers, and has been guessed. What the other?)

  2. For what group did Cecil Rhodes organize the Jameson Raid?

  3. What were they doing in the South African Republic?

(I have altered wording of the previous two questions to make them clear and in response to correct answers.)

  1. Who, in French politics, was “the man on the white horse?”

  2. The earliest surviving television broadcasts come from what country, and use what type of broadcasting system?

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

  4. This Eastern European country is of some notoriety for preserving the vast majority of its silent films, and as being a major source for the silent films of other countries.

  5. What did the Count de Chambord demand that may have been the reason he never became King of France?

If I receive no correct answers in the next few days, I will answer these questions myself.

  1. I know there’s some British stuff recorded on gramophone records. Is that what you’re looking for?

Yes, the material is British, and on records. Now, what process of television broadcasting was being used?

Well, I don’t know that!

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

France under Leon Blum (Popular Front).

I mentioned this in lecture Friday, so it may be regarded as “using references” as I refered to my class notes.

I guessed France, too, as my second choice since it wasn’t Italy but have not heard back. Post #603.

Ah, Imperialism!

  1. The British Empire was usually shown on maps of the period in which color?
  2. Complete this imperialist doggerel: “Whatever happens, we have got the ______ _____, and they _____ _____.”
  3. He was called the “poet laureate of imperialism.”
  4. The minions of this king shockingly exploited the Belgian Congo.
  5. The top British civil official in India held this title.

The Baird 30-line electromechanical system.

  1. Red
  2. “Whatever happens, we have got the Gatling Gun, and they have not.”
  3. Rudyard Kipling
  4. Leopold
  5. Viceroy

Governours-general. The Viceroys were all drawn from the peerage.

Not all of them. Sir John Lawrence, Viceroy from 1864 to 1869, was not a peer during his term as Viceroy. He was raised to the peerage after his term was finished.