History Quiz!

Manach · 13-10-2003 5:36pm

I'd guess Dorian, by use of 5th column tactics

sci0x · 13-10-2003 8:25pm

Correct!!

Manach · 14-10-2003 7:12pm

In 1739, The English declared war on Spain due their alleged mistreatment of a certain part of a Mr. Robert Jenkins' anatomy.
Q: What was it?

sci0x · 14-10-2003 8:19pm

His ear

Manach · 15-10-2003 9:01am

Correct - your Q...

sci0x · 15-10-2003 9:14pm

What woman founded the Tenri sect.

Manach · 21-10-2003 8:58am

A tenriryo sect was founded by a Japanese women named Miki or Mikao. <Don't leave home without your portable Penguin's Dictionary of Relgion

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sci0x · 21-10-2003 10:59pm

Yep!

Manach · 26-10-2003 1:56pm

In 1937, the World's first full length cartoon film was created, it's name?

Éomer of Rohan · 26-10-2003 4:19pm

Was it Popeye?

Manach · 27-10-2003 8:11pm

Nope Doc.

Éomer of Rohan · 27-10-2003 10:55pm

Methinks a day is truly up - you fancy telling us the answer manach?

Capt'n Midnight · 27-10-2003 11:05pm

It was Snow White and the seven Dwarfs.

Q. name them ! (only joking)

During the Siege of Syracuse when Greeks / Romans and Phonecians(or was it Carthinginians) had a balance of power in the Med, who let the Romans in the back door and thus allowed the Romans to become the dominant power ?

Éomer of Rohan · 28-10-2003 8:02pm

The Carthaginians since Phoenicia is a region in the Levant, below Cilicia and above Egypt.

As for the answer, haven't a clue!

sci0x · 28-10-2003 8:06pm

It was the Carthaginians not the Phonecians.

Hiero II?

spanner · 29-10-2003 3:50pm

Originally posted by Manach
My question:
in 49BC, Caesar is said to have crossed what river to invade Italy?

the po

in what year did hugh mac neill surrender to king james

spanner · 29-10-2003 3:53pm

Originally posted by Hairy Homer
Being presumptuous here, but then I know I was right for the last one. \

Question: Abyssinia was one of only two African countries that were ruled independently of a European imperial power in the year 1900.

Name the other one.

south africa or the transvall

Capt'n Midnight · 29-10-2003 4:42pm

Sierra Leon (SP) - setup by the USA for free slaves, hence capital is ######
[edit]Just as well I didn't go Geography in the Leaving Cert.
Liberia (Monrovia) is the next country to Sierra Leone (Freetown)
[/edit]

Always thought that JC crossed the rubicon...

Can't find the name of the Traitor who let the Romans into Syracuse in 211 BC - it's in a book at home

Hiero was the King so it wern't him

What was the name of the Chinese sailor who led a huge fleet westwards to India and Africa around the time Chris C was discovering America... ?

Éomer of Rohan · 29-10-2003 7:40pm

Admiral Chengo Ho of the Chinese Imperial Fleet led a massive navy to the East coast of Africa.

And Julius Caesar did cross the Rubicon but since he left from Transpadanian Gaul, I assume he also crossed the Po...?

By the way, am I missing something or where the hell did Spanner come from?

sci0x · 29-10-2003 8:12pm

Originally posted by Éomer of Rohan
By the way, am I missing something or where the hell did Spanner come from?

Exactly what I was wondering!!

Victor · 29-10-2003 9:38pm

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
Sierra Leon (SP) - setup by the USA for free slaves, hence capital is libertyville

Not Liberia?

Capt'n Midnight · 30-10-2003 12:34am

By the way, am I missing something or where the hell did Spanner come from?

I hope you aren't asking me - my geography aint the May West. (edited the prev post)

Éomer of Rohan · 30-10-2003 11:29am

Capt'n am I right or wrong about Chinese Admiral Cheng Ho?

Capt'n Midnight · 30-10-2003 11:56am

tis him ..

Éomer of Rohan · 30-10-2003 10:27pm

MWAAAHHAAAAHAAAAHAAAA [/manic laugh]

Sorry, it's near Halloween and it's finally my turn again....

From where - geographical location will do - did Themistokles of Athens gain the resources necessary to build a hundred triremes to fight a war with Aegina (and subsequently with Persia) prior to 480 BC?

Capt'n Midnight · 02-11-2003 1:51am

The Ceders of Lebanon ?

Éomer of Rohan · 02-11-2003 11:36am

No, it was from the silver mines at Laurion, in southern Attica.
The wood for the triremes so far as I am aware was brought from Macedon / Methone / Thrace.

Anyway, let's try a different tack...

What rather loose female informed Cicero of the Catilinarian Conspiracy in his year as Consul in 63BC?

Manach · 02-11-2003 6:18pm

Clodia ?

Éomer of Rohan · 03-11-2003 12:49am

Nope.

sci0x · 03-11-2003 12:55am

Aurelia?

Éomer of Rohan · 03-11-2003 1:03am

Nope but who was she?

spanner · 04-11-2003 11:33am

By the way, am I missing something or where the hell did Spanner come from? [/B][/QUOTE]

hopefully from my mother,, haha alright ill stop been a smart bastard.
just looking at your quizz it seems very hard

spanner · 04-11-2003 11:35am

name all the buildings on the acropolis in athens.

Éomer of Rohan · 04-11-2003 11:40am

Spanner, kindly follow the rules on the board.

One person asks questions. If and when you get the answer, you can ask a question.

The answer to mine was Fulvia.

The answer to yours is no.

For what unconstitutional action during his term of consulship in 59BC did the conservative members of the senate wish to recall Caesar from Gaul and have him tried?

sci0x · 04-11-2003 10:01pm

An agrarian bill authorizing the purchase of land for Pompey’s veterans
was passed in January of 59 BC at a disorderly public assembly which
Caesar’s fellow consul Calpurnius Bibulus, was thrown from the
platform and his consular insignia were broken.

Éomer of Rohan · 04-11-2003 10:43pm

Ignoring Bibulus veto was the charge but your answer will do Sci0x

Your question.

sci0x · 05-11-2003 12:29am

In 300 BCE, Seleucus I Nicator, ruler of the vast Eastern parts of Alexander's Empire founded what city as his capital.

Éomer of Rohan · 05-11-2003 12:40am

Oh it wouldn't be Seleucia would it? I know there is a city with that name and it existed around the same time but I have no idea when it was built or who by.

sci0x · 05-11-2003 12:55am

Nope wasnt Seleucia.

Éomer of Rohan · 05-11-2003 1:05am

There were four main centres of Seleucid power as I remember. Galatia in the West, Seleucia in the East and Damascus and Antioch in the middle. Of these, if any, it would have then to be Antioch if not Seleucia since Galatia is far to close the Antigonid territories and Damascus I know far predated the period.

So, Antioch.

sci0x · 05-11-2003 8:59pm

Yep

, your question

Éomer of Rohan · 05-11-2003 10:45pm

Woohooo - how's that for sheer fluke!? An interesting fact to know at any rate.

What historian recorded the first voyage around all of Africa and back into the mouth of the mediterranean?

sci0x · 06-11-2003 12:00am

Herodotus?

Éomer of Rohan · 06-11-2003 12:06am

Excellent, well done - over to you!

sci0x · 06-11-2003 12:44am

On the evening of 26 July 1909, a newly built passenger liner left Durban bound for Cape Town. What was the liners name and what date was she expected to arrive.

Éomer of Rohan · 06-11-2003 12:52am

The Waratah - I remember this from my Greatest Mysteries of the Sea big book.

Don't ask me what date she was expected to arrive I haven't a clue - IF it is the same ship that is.

sci0x · 06-11-2003 10:09pm

Yep it was and she was expected to arrive on Thursday 29 July 1909. Anyway i'll give it to you, your question

Éomer of Rohan · 06-11-2003 10:17pm

Woohoo, on a roll here!

Errr, now for a question....

Who led the first revolt of a Latin state from European colonial control and what was the state?

sci0x · 07-11-2003 12:51am

Ohh i'm not well up on this but was it the Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint L'Ouverture?

Éomer of Rohan · 07-11-2003 12:53am

Full marks, top of the class and all that jazz!

Who says video games can't teach us anything lol?

Well done, your go. It is getting to be rather a two man show on the history forum eh Sci0x?

Manach seems to be taking a break and so much for our mods lol!

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