History Quiz!

cfc.forever

Lets get the ball rolling, the exams tomorrow we really need to get ourselves on form

What were the blackshirts

DublinArnie

Followers of Mussolini.

What year was the Treaty of Augsburg?

chester3455

1555.

What year was ireland declared a republic??

cfc.forever

Easter Monday 18th April 1949

What was Ogham?

Wiefi

Ancient Irish Writing style

What's a cloister?

examstress

Wiefi wrote: »

Ancient Irish Writing style

What's a cloister?

A place where novives were tought...?

examstress

Name a group of people within Ermany who were persecuted by the nazis (excluding jews)

cfc.forever

A court yard where novices were taught and were monks liked to relax and gypsy's

What was the abbot in a monastery?

Wiefi

The head of the monastery

What's sfumato?

examstress

Wiefi wrote: »

The head of the monastery

What's sfumato?

Smokiness in paintings

examstress

What type of goods were produced in textile mills?

Lost In Confusion

Wiefi wrote: »

The head of the monastery

What's sfumato?

it's smokiness used in renaissance art to make the picture more mysterious

Who were the Gestapo and where did they exist?

cfc.forever

The technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms.

What is one of the earliest books by early irish christian monks and what language is it in?

The Gestapo was the feared secret police and they existed in germany ^

examstress

Lost In Confusion wrote: »

it's smokiness used in renaissance art to make the picture more mysterious

Who were the Gestapo and where did they exist?

Where they some sort of secret police ??:/

DublinArnie

Lost In Confusion wrote: »

it's smokiness used in renaissance art to make the picture more mysterious

Who were the Gestapo and where did they exist?

Secret police that worked for Hitler in Germany.

What was the OPRA?

examstress

Name 3 consequences of the 1798 reb ?

DUBLINHITMAN97

The Gestapo where Hitlers secret police and existed during the 1930s and 1940s.

When Was Columbus Born?

examstress

Define prehistory

examstress

Mention 2 reasons why the british began a policy of plantation in Irelandd

MmmPancakes

DublinArnie wrote: »

Secret police that worked for Hitler in Germany.

What was the OPRA?

Do you mean OVRA?

Wiefi

Bitter divisions between Catholics and Protestants, act on union passing and Wolfe tone known as father of republicanism.

What was bloody Sunday?

examstress

What was the Lateran treaty

Lost In Confusion

examstress wrote: »

Define prehistory

time before writing was invented.

What is the solemn league and covenant

cfc.forever

Everyones just shouting questions, answer the peoples questions first. Pre-history is the time before there was written records

The solemn league and covenant was a treaty :l

Lost In Confusion

examstress wrote: »

What was the Lateran treaty

treaty between Mussolini and the pope.

What sparked off the renaissance?

examstress

Sorry Im just typing out q's from my mock:/

LawdyLad

Book of Kells - written in Latin.

The Gestapo was Hitler's secret police force and they existed in Germany :P

Wiefi

Solemn league and covenant was a document signed that declared that unionists were willing to use violence against home rule(?)

What was the reign of terror?

Lost In Confusion

Wiefi wrote: »

Bitter divisions between Catholics and Protestants, act on union passing and Wolfe tone known as father of republicanism.

What was bloody Sunday?

Worst day of the war of Independence. Michael Collins sent a squad and they killed 12 assassins later that day the British fired into croagh park. The loss of lives made the event known as bloody Sunday.

Name a leader and a plantation they ordered in Ireland.

cfc.forever

What sparked off the renaissance, is what you mean what started it if so people were inspired by romain ruins and people wanted art to be more realistic and artists wanted to see inside the body to make there paintings more realistic.

Name three leaders in the 1916 rising

Plantation Laois/Offaly Mary

LawdyLad

Ulster Plantation - King James 1

DublinArnie

cfc.forever wrote: »

Everyones just shouting questions, answer the peoples questions first. Pre-history is the time before there was written records

The solemn league and covenant was a treaty :l

It's a petition, not treaty.

cfc.forever

Thanks for answering my question -sarcasim- luls

Name three crisis in the cold war.

LawdyLad

Berlin Blockade. Cuban Missile Crisis. Korean War

Lost In Confusion

cfc.forever wrote: »

What sparked off the renaissance, is what you mean what started it if so people were inspired by romain ruins and people wanted art to be more realistic and artists wanted to see inside the body to make there paintings more realistic.

Name three leaders in the 1916 rising

Plantation Laois/Offaly Mary

Sean MacDiarmada Patrick Pearse and James Conolly

Name the two unionist leaders who opposed home rule?

DUBLINHITMAN97

cfc.forever wrote: »

Thanks for answering my question -sarcasim- luls

Name three crisis in the cold war.

The Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean Civil War
The Berlin Crisis

Who wrote the 95 theses?

cfc.forever

Ian Paisley and Robinson, from the top of my head :O

Martin luther wrote the 95 theses.

What was the Act of Union?

examstress

DUBLINHITMAN97 wrote: »

The Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean Civil War
The Berlin Crisis

Who wrote the 95 theses?

Luther

MmmPancakes

DUBLINHITMAN97 wrote: »

The Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean Civil War
The Berlin Crisis

Who wrote the 95 theses?

Luther

What is the enabling law

LawdyLad

Martin Luther wrote the 95 theses

What were the Jesuits during the Counter Reformation?

Lost In Confusion

DUBLINHITMAN97 wrote: »

The Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean Civil War
The Berlin Crisis

Who wrote the 95 theses?

Martin Luther

Can you guys ask harder and more detailed questions?

What is the emblem of the USSR?

examstress

Souterrain define

DUBLINHITMAN97

Lost In Confusion wrote: »

Sean MacDiarmada Patrick Pearse and James Conolly

Name the two unionist leaders who opposed home rule?

Edward Carson
James Craig

Lost In Confusion

LawdyLad wrote: »

Martin Luther wrote the 95 theses

What were the Jesuits during the Counter Reformation?

They were known also as the Society of Jesuits, a group set up by Ignatius Loyola to try and combat the spread of the protestant religion.

examstress

Lost In Confusion wrote: »

Martin Luther

Can you guys ask harder and more detailed questions?

What is the emblem of the USSR?

I couls draw it lol ha,mer and sickle

cfc.forever

Don't mention the Act of Union so, who was Christopher Columbus inspired by?

Where did Marin Luther go to university?

What did he orignally study but changed his mind?

Gl.

Lost In Confusion

What were the Nuremberg laws?

LawdyLad

Luther was originally a lawyer but later became an Augustinian monk

LawdyLad

What was Kristallnacht?

DUBLINHITMAN97

MmmPancakes wrote: »

Luther

What is the enabling law

This allowed Hitler to pass any law he wanted without it being approved by the government.

What year and place was Columbus Born?

LawdyLad

Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451