World History trivia quiz

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So I had the right Henry?

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Yes, you the right Henry- Henry II.

Henry II had his Thomas a’Becket
Henry VIII had his Thomas More

That’s all I’ll say in order to not spoil any more questions :slight_smile:

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  1. This wasn’t some stunt of Lang’s in New South Wales, was it?

  2. Queensland.

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No

Correct

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Sorry, didn’t see it.

Western Australia

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Correct

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Here are questions which I posed earlier which haven’t yet, I think, been correctly answered. After a few days, I’ll post the answers.

  1. This French finance minister was a key supporter of the American Revolution (Hint: a town in Vermont, but not Montpelier or Burlington, is named after him).

  2. Long before the American Civil War, crude ironclad warships were first used by what Asian nation?

  3. Hitler said he’d rather do what than ever meet with Spain’s Generalissimo Francisco Franco again?

  4. A painting of [Blucher and the Duke of Wellington’s Waterloo] meeting is still featured in what notable British building? (Not 10 Downing Street, as earlier guessed)

  5. How many times did J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel, musical geniuses and contemporaries, personally meet?

  6. What was the codename of the operation which killed [Reinhard Heydrich]?

Who said it? Bonus points for context.
186. “Winston Churchill would skin his own mother to make a drum with which to beat his own praises.”

  1. One honorific which Churchill accepted after WW2 was “Lord Admiral of the ______ ______.”

  2. Before Henry VIII took the prefix “Your Majesty,” English monarchs were typically called “______ ______.”

  3. These pair of twin-brother freedom fighters were later honored on Vietnamese postage stamps.

  4. What inverted nickname did Great Britain’s then-prime minister earn from [Gen. George “Chinese”] Gordon’s death?

  5. This white elephant of a ship, underpowered and too big for its time, flopped as a passenger ship but was eventually used to lay the first trans-Atlantic cable. (Previous wrong guesses: the Great Northern or the Great Western).

Who most notably said it? Bonus points for context.
270. “Everyone likes flattery, and when dealing with royalty, you must lay it on with a trowel.”
273. “Who is this man who is neither one thing nor the other?”

  1. Warships from this country visited U.S. ports during the Civil War.

  2. This German commerce raider did the most damage and had the most remarkable voyage during WWI.

  3. A Scottish parliamentarian recently caused a stir in referring to the British Union Flag (or Union Jack) as “the ________'s ________.”

  4. A military aide to the British sovereign is called what?

Who said it? Bonus points for context.
345. “It seems to me to be quite effectively concealed.”
347. “Two nations… the rich and the poor.”

  1. He was the first Governor-General of Canada.

  2. This new type of hat was introduced during the Crimean War.

  3. This nation experimented in the 19th C., unsuccessfully, with circular gunboats.

  4. Emperor Hirohito intervened in the deliberations of this body to bring about the Japanese surrender in 1945.

  5. The big guns of this fortified British-held city were pointing the wrong way when an enemy attacked during WWII.

  6. He was Hitler’s personal photographer.

  7. What was Albert Speer’s first paid task for Hitler?

  8. Churchill decided to mark the [House of] Commons’s being damaged during the Blitz in what way?

Who said it? Bonus points for context.
462. “How can anyone hope to rule a nation with over 400 kinds of cheese?”

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  1. Great Eastern (dammit I still think it’s some kind of direction for that name.)

  2. CSA? (Though that causes all sorts of problems. Not simply the belligerent status, but that per US doctrine the CSA was not a country.)

  3. Russia. I’ve seen a picture of one of those gunboats. They are reported to have been incredibly poorly seaworthy. And spun when the guns were fired. :eek:

  4. Singapore

  5. I think this is Charles DeGalle, but I can’t give a specific instance for when he said it.

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All correct except 278. DeGaulle said it in the early 1950s, IIRC.

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  1. China
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Close but no cigar.

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  1. Korea

  2. Never?

  3. Cinque Ports

  4. Alex Salmond?

  5. The Imperial Diet

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My father commented to me once, that DeGaulle deserved to be president of the New French Republic. They were the only people obstreperous enough to punish him for his own ostreperousness. :wink:

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Odd, but I thought 397 – Singapore – had been answered correctly before. That’s one I definitely know, and I thought someone beat me to it. Not going back through all the pages to check, though!

106. Long before the American Civil War, crude ironclad warships were first used by what Asian nation?
Japan?

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I got #397 several pages ago.

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365 The Balaclava

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Side note: An excellent fiction novel about that time, about life in Singapore on the verge of its fall to the Japanese, is JG Farrell’s The Singapore Grip.

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  1. Yup
  2. True, alas
  3. Righto!
  4. I’m not looking for the guy’s name, but what he said.
  5. Nope.

Sorry that I’d missed your correct Singapore answer(s), silenus and Siam Sam.

Tapioca Dextrin is correct as to the Balaclava.

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Re question 210 - I thought the title was Lord Warden (not Lord Admiral) of the Cinque Ports.

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  1. Your Grace.

It was actually Richard II, not Henry VIII, who switched to “Your Majesty”.