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History Quiz!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    offs it was Alfred Von Tirpite, I edited out cause I didnt think he had a beard :)

    yep 35% of the tonnage of the British fleet


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    Originally posted by PHB
    offs it was Alfred Von Tirpite, I edited out cause I didnt think he had a beard :)

    yep 35% of the tonnage of the British fleet

    Correct and Ill assume youre about to edit it to rename him Tirpitz! :)

    Your question you sexy beast you.


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    I can see this turning into a two person tennis game so I'll give you a hard one :)

    I thought it was your question but

    What was the name of the female leader of the Spartacist rising in 1919 in germany?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    Originally posted by PHB
    I can see this turning into a two person tennis game so I'll give you a hard one :)

    I thought it was your question but

    What was the name of the female leader of the Spartacist rising in 1919 in germany?

    Oherr! A tricky one indeed! Something Luxembourg..? Feck! The first name I have no clue of


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    Ah you'll never get the first name, its Rosa Luxemburg :)

    Your question but I aint anwsering it to stop this tennis match :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    Hehe fair enough.

    Ok. Try this bad babeh:cool: :

    Klaus Barbie , known as the Butcher of Lyons, was assigned in France (well duh) in November 1942. His task was to 'penetrate and destroy the resistance in Lyon'. The question is however:

    Barbie gained true notoriety due to the torture of which high ranking French resistance leader?

    Just the second name will do.

    Following PHB's lead, Im not going to try to answer the next question asked :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Well. I could say I'm deliberately not answering that one, but the truth is I don't know the answer anyway.

    How long do you wait before deciding nobody knows the answer and providing the correct one?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    Lets give it a few hours and see what happens, I dont want to slap on a limitation just yet


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    Jean Moulin.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    Correct Dada.

    If anyones interested in just how he got such notoriety from one person, have a gander below:
    Klaus Barbie owed his postwar notoriety primarily to one of his 'cases', the arrest and torture unto death of Jean Moulin, one of the highest ranking member of the French Resistance.

    Jean Moulin was mercilessly tortured by Klaus Barbie and his men. Hot needles where shoved under his fingernails. His fingers were forced through the narrow space between the hinges of a door and a wall and then the door was repeatedly slammed until the knuckles broke.

    Screw-levered handcuffs were placed on Moulin and tightened until they bit through his flesh and broke through the bones of his wrists. He would not talk. He was whipped. He was beaten until his face was an unrecognizable pulp. A fellow prisoner, Christian Pineau, later described the resistance leader as "unconscious, his eyes dug in as though they had been punched through his head. An ugly blue wound scarred his temple. A mute rattle came out of his swollen lips."

    Jean Moulin remained in this coma when he was shown to other resistance leaders who were being interrogated at Gestapo headquarters. Barbie had ordered Moulin put on display in an office. His unconscious form sprawled on a chaise lounge. His face was yellow, his breathing heavy, his head swathed in bandages. It was the last time Moulin was seen alive.

    Your question DadaKopf


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    Alright, gimmie a few minutes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    Who was Alexander the Great's reknowned teacher? (easy question but I couldn't think of anything else).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭CCCP^


    Aristotle? *Crosses fingers*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    Not my place to reply, but in order to speed things up, thats correct CCCP.

    Your question old bean


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    OK On the grounds that I would have known Rosa Luxemburg's full name (her male buddy was Karl Liebknecht, right?) and given that it's a little slow I'll nip in and post one. Flash the yellow card if you think it presumptuous.



    Following on from the mention of Admiral Scheer, who was the Irish naval captain who won a posthumous Victoria Cross in 1940 for attacking the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer with his ship the Jervis Bay, which was basically a converted cruise liner with an old gun stuck on top, thereby allowing the convoy he was escorting to escape although his own ship was blown out of the water in the process?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    Sorry folks, yeah it was Aristotle. Go ahead CCCP.


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    Since noone seems to know I think the anwser is Captain Fegen or Fagen :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    Yeah, but the question went to CCCP :).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Originally posted by PHB
    Since noone seems to know I think the anwser is Captain Fegen or Fagen :)

    Correct. Seen his name given variously as Fegan or Fogarty-Fegan.


  • Registered Users Posts: 857 ✭✭✭Corega


    Don't think CCCP is going to reply and he ain't on irc........I might as well have a jab:


    During the Dreyfus affair a famous article appeared in the French literary newspaper L'Aurore on Thursday the 13th of January 1898.
    The name of the article and the writer.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    Ok lets say 5 hours before the guv asks his question or its an open one.

    Answer is 'J'Accuse' written by Emile Zola


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Well go on then. You're right. You know you're right. I know you're right. Don't make us wait five hours for a question. :-)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    Ok so.

    In 1810 Russia directly went against Napoleans demands , precipitating the war in 1812. Russia refused to do what?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Hmm good one. Long time since I did history O-level. And I'm buggered if I'm going to read through War & Peace to rediscover it.

    Was it that they refused to participate in a trade embargo with Britain?

    The phrase Continental System rings a muffled bell.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    The man knows his stuff!

    Thats indeed correct, Napoleon had forcibly imposed the Continental System on mainland Europe to counter the British trade blockade (rhyming is fun) and Russia, in their typical fashion:), ended up telling him to bugger off.
    Napoleon was slightly miffed, and we ended up with the Russian invasion in 1812 and the destruction of the Grand Armée.

    Your question Homer


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    It doesn't seem there is any question from Hairy Homer so far so Ill pop the question :)

    [ Lets get a little Irish history ]

    What was the first name of Padraig Pearse's brother who was executed?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    Hehe that always stuck in my head because I always felt for the poor guv :) (basically executed because he was P.P's brother).

    William Pearse, and my question:

    The modern game of snooker was invented by a Colonel in 1875 in India. This Colonel shared his name with which 20th century British Prime Minister?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain (no relation to the World War II Prime Minister).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    That is indeed correct. 2 hours before it becomes an open question if you dont put one up Dada.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    Ok, oddly phrased question:

    What famous rock band invented a revolutionary farming contraption in 1701?


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