World History trivia quiz

The Game Room
81
  1. The Crown Jewels?
82

  1. Wartburg Castle is correct

  2. Name two famous and influential books published in 1776. Yes, one is Smith’s On the Wealth of Nations; the other is Volume One of Gibbon Decline & Fall.

  3. A 16th Century earthquake devastated Lisbon

  4. Easter is not the Holyday on which the earthquake happened.

  5. Henry VIII was awarded Defender of the Faith from the Pope
    39 Not San Marino, eh

83

Not so far as I know. Certainly it’s not the Republic I was thinking of.

84

  1. Which French Emperor invaded Mexico?
    Maximiilian

  2. Who led the translation of the Rosetta Stone?

85

A little quick Googling has left me with egg on my face. San Marino was and remains known as The Most Serene Republic. The Republic I was thinking of for #39 is a former Republic.

86

Venice by any chance?

87

Yes, that’s it.
52. What happened to end The Most Serene Republic of Venice?

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  1. The last doge of Venice was deposed by Napoleon.

52 Who was the last doge?

89

That one I can’t tell you. :wink:

90
  1. What 4 Latin American countries were involved in the War of the Triple Alliance?
91

In South America about the time of the American Civil War or just after. Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay on one side and Paraguay on the other. About control of the River Platte. The British were somehow involved. Damn near extinguished Paraguay, which was the principal instigator. That from a vague memory of a survey of modern Europe (post 1500) course taken 45 years ago.

I think it’s the Easter Uprising.

92

Good Friday?

93

Nope

94

Um… no Googling, right?

  1. Voltaire
  2. Monaco

Silenus, as to question 13, you’re close: it’s Vaudreuil, who was an ancestor of mine. He and Montcalm constantly quarreled, largely because Montcalm thought he was a corrupt meddler, and disagreed with the governor’s belief that better and broader military use should be made of New France’s Indian allies.

  1. Winston Churchill said that the Iron Curtain ran between what two Eastern European cities?
  2. Before the British Royal Family was called the House of Windsor, it was the House of ____ _____ _____.
  3. What genocidal Communist regime ruled Cambodia during the last half of the 1970s?
  4. The regime renamed Cambodia what?
  5. This was their most notorious prison.
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55 From Trieste in the South to Stechin(??) in the North
56 Saxe Coburg Gotha

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  1. Yes; it’s Stettin
  2. Correct.
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  1. Khmer Rouge
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I only Googled after I’d realized I had no idea where, nor what, the Republic of San Marino might be. The Googling didn’t affect the question I’d asked (If you look at the original question the confusion was possible because “was” in English can indicate the perfect tense as well as the imperfect tense.) nor my intended answer. Just done in response to a growing dread that my question may not have been properly designed to yield only one answer.

I’d had the impression that in cases where the questioner had reason to doubt the accuracy of the intended answer Googling had been allowed, grudgingly, in the US History thread.

  1. The Khmer Rouge
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  1. The regime renamed Cambodia what?
    Kampuchea
100

Saw this too late to answer #57 and #58, but:

  1. Tuol Sleng. It began life as a high school and was turned into a prison and torture center by the Khmer Rouge. I can tell you the mundane setting in a typical residential neighborhood makes it a bit eerie (that is, even more so).