World History trivia quiz

[5_time_champ]

88. This top Nazi flew to the UK on a harebrained peace mission.
    That would be Rudolf Hess

89. This French finance minister was a key supporter of the American Revolution.
    Colbert ? or am I 100 years too early

90. After capturing it, what did the North Vietnamese rename Saigon?
    Ho Chi Minh City

[5_time_champ]

AKA [I think everything is spelled close enough to be correct]
92 Ras Tasfari
93 Temijen
94 Timbur the Lame
95 Marie Francois Arouet
96 George Gordon

[Alive_At_Both_Ends]

@Alessan

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

Goebbels committed suicide in Hitler’s bunker. The correct answer is Rudolf Hess, who ended up in Spandau prison in Berlin.

[Alive_At_Both_Ends]

@bmoak

90. Roald Asmussen?

Roald Amundsen.

[silenus]

@5 time champ

AKA [I think everything is spelled close enough to be correct]
92 Ras Tasfari
93 Temijen
94 Timbur the Lame
95 Marie Francois Arouet
96 George Gordon

92. Helie Selassie
93. Ghengis Khan
95. Voltaire
97. Jacques Necker

[Panurge]

94. Tamerlane

[OtakuLoki]

@Elendil's Heir

71. Then I’d say no, the Royal Mail is entirely carried by train, truck or airplane nowadays.

71. Incorrect, again. This is a huge corner case, though. There is one ship, RMS St. Helena, which is the only regular, scheduled link between the outside world and the Island of St. Helena. I will admit, however, that she is going to be retired in a few short years, when the airstrip on the island is finished.

[silenus]

@Really Not All That Bright

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.

Jeez, make me break out my reference books, why don’t you?

Publio Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus. Happy?
Oh, and 96. Lord Byron.

[Governor_Quinn]

84. Orde Wingate.

85. The Duke of London.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Correct about the Duke of London, Rudolf Hess, Roald Amundsen, and Ho Chi Minh City. Incorrect about the French finance minister. A hint: a town in Vermont is named after him.

silenus, you’re just joking about looking in reference books, right? :dubious:

96. “Chinese”

[silenus]

If this were a school day, “maybe.” All my reference books are in my classroom, I’m afraid.

[Siam_Sam]

@Elendil's Heir

Incorrect about the French finance minister. A hint: a town in Vermont is named after him.

89. Montpelier?

[5_time_champ]

AKA: 92-96 are all correctly answered

[Darryl_Lict]

1. Ferdinand Porsche’s kid. Junior? Fred? Frank?

New question:

97. Who was the curiously named military leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. Every damn main boulevard in every podunk town in Chile seems to be named after the guy.

[silenus]

@Darryl Lict

97. Who was the curiously named military leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. Every damn main boulevard in every podunk town in Chile seems to be named after the guy.

That has to be Bernardo O’Higgins.

[silenus]

98. This Italian born French Queen is credited with introducing the fork to common tablesettings.

99. What was the name given to Bismarck’s “war” against the Catholic Church’s influence in Germany?

100. The “Final Solution” to the Jewish Problem was decided at what conference?

[Siam_Sam]

@silenus

98. This Italian born French Queen is credited with introducing the fork to common tablesettings.

98. Catherine de Medicis, wife of I think it was Henry II.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Siam Sam

89. Montpelier?

No.

100. The Wannsee Conference.

[Siam_Sam]

@Elendil's Heir

No.

100. The Wannsee Conference.

Burlington?

[Darryl_Lict]

@silenus

That has to be Bernardo O’Higgins.

You are correct, of course.