World History trivia quiz

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  1. Archimedes

  2. Napoleon

  3. Henri something or other. I think the second.

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  1. Julius Caesar?
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  1. Henry of Navarre (Henry IV)
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Correct.

  1. Cataline?
  2. Royal Mail Steamship or, more recently, Ship
  3. Yes, RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 and Queen Mary 2
  4. The warship hit the ocean bottom vertically and is still standing almost straight up.
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  1. Yes.
  2. Actually, those were the ships I was trying to exclude - they’ve the title, but they’re not working any regular run, or really expected to deliver the Royal Mail.
  3. Yes.
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  1. Correct, I used that line a couple weeks ago. Someone at work wondered how I lifted a heavy generator into the back of a truck. Though I used an inclined plane, rather than a fulcrum.

  2. Correct, generally attributed to Napoleon, though one would expect that Og the Caveman would have said that the first time he went off to war.

  3. Correct, the French crown devolved upon the Protestant Henri of Navarre. He became Catholic and Henri IV.

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Here are some of mine. All of them have some connction to both Jewish and British history:

  1. Which ruler exiled the Jews from England?
    81 Which ruler allowed them to return?
  2. What was the name of the knight who founded the first neighborhoods in Jerusalem to lie outside the city walls?
  3. Which general conquered Jerusalem in WW1?
  4. Which British WW2 general, famed for his actions in Indochina, is also an Israeli national hero?

Here’s a French one:
85. What Israeli city managed to withstand a two-month seige by Napoleon Bonaparte?

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80 Edward I
81 Oliver Cromwell

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Correct and correct.

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Cromwell was a bit of a guess, but I figured you wouldn’t have used the word ruler without a reason :slight_smile:

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I have racked my brain’s on this one and just cannot remember. In hopes that it will jog someone else’s memory, I can tell you that it was a German name and that they changed it during World War I, because they felt it unseemly to have that name at that time. But I cannot remember what it was. Saxe-something??? Saxe-Colburg?

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pssst post #95 :slight_smile:

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Whoops! :o I seem to have missed that one. Post #101 still guessing threw me. And the sun was in my eyes. But I was partially correct!

Thankee. :slight_smile:

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Wasn’t he assasinated by a priest or some sort of felonious monk?

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Yes, but I need his first name too. There were two Roman generals of note named Scipio - Africanus, the famous one we’re looking for, and a less well known fellow who led a legion in Britain.

Good guess, but no.

No; yes, but see above; No.

Correct.

Also a good guess, but no.

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Henry IV was also an interesting main character, in his pre-king days, in Dumas’ La Reine Margot, the story of which centers on the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.

Thought of one of my own:

  1. This 19th-century French explorer, while trying to find a riverine back entrance into China, “discovered” Angkor Wat in Cambodia. (“Discovered” it despite it being a prosperous monastery tended by 1000 herditary slaves at the time. In all fairness, though, he himself did not say he discovered it, but rather the credit was forced onto him posthumously.)
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  1. Then I’d say no, the Royal Mail is entirely carried by train, truck or airplane nowadays.

  2. Winston Churchill was offered, but declined, this title of nobility after WW2.

  3. This top Nazi flew to the UK on a harebrained peace mission.

  4. This French finance minister was a key supporter of the American Revolution.

  5. He was the first to reach the South Pole.

  6. After capturing it, what did the North Vietnamese rename Saigon?

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  1. The Duke of Marlborough? Just guessing here.

  2. Goebbels. He ended up in the Tower of London.

  3. Ho Chi Min City.

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  1. Heinrich Himmler
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  1. Roald Asmussen?