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History Quiz!

Mark · 2003-04-22 11:04:51

In order to try and liven the place up a bit I propose a quiz! Rules are simple, I ask a question- Whoever gets it right asks a question, who gets that right asks a question and so on and so forth! As for Rules: * No Muppetry (Tbh I dont expect any but it has to go down) * Please dont spam. * Lets not go for impossible…

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#502 20-01-2004 8:40pm

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It was one of many distinctPersian empires.

the Persians re-asserted themselves. By the 19th Century,

ROFL
My point exactly ~ 19 centuries of history and several distinct empires from that region fitting into a full stop. Especially considering the whole invaders from the Asian Steeps changing whole populations and the Islamic thing changing religeon, culture, traditions, customs and languages completely. Few would argue that the Iran of today is quite different from the Persia of the Shah and that ain't exactly aincent history.....

Suppose you're right - Manach your question..
(probably be something like the number of grapes Claudius used to eat before going to bed during the summer :rolleyes: )

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#503 21-01-2004 12:28am

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Thanks. I think.
After seeing the "Last Samurai", I'll try an Oriental question.
In 1741, the castle of Kira Yoshinaka, was attacked by how many ex-samurai/ronin, vowing to avenge their master's disgrace?.

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#504 21-01-2004 1:57am

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40 ?

[edit] Dang wrong - BTW: your date is wrong - any film with Jean Reno being nasty is worth watching.

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#505 21-01-2004 10:14am

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My mistake it was 1702.

40 is not quite the right number, but close.

BTW I though Jean Reno played a fairly good guy in "Ronin"? and how could they make Sean Bean/Sharpe a coward ?

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#506 21-01-2004 12:15pm

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Originally posted by Manach
BTW I though Jean Reno played a fairly good guy in "Ronin"? and how could they make Sean Bean/Sharpe a coward ?

Killing people for money does not make you a "good guy" especially when a lot of civilians get killed too.
Always good to see an Actor doing different roles - squaddie.

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#507 22-01-2004 11:30pm

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Well, its past the 24 hour deadline, the answer is
47. The incident being commerated by numerous films and plays.

So, If the Capt'n or anyone else wishes to post a question, fire away.

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#508 22-01-2004 11:44pm

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When was the Irish synod of bishops ?

(The one where they planned the diocesan organization of the Irish Church to supersede the monastic system)

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#509 03-02-2004 12:41am

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can we have a new question?

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#510 03-02-2004 12:52am

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1111 - one of the few dates I can remember..

Which ruler captured ~15,000 prisoners and had an eye taken out of one of every hundred of them before he had the rest blinded and sent them all back home ?

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#511 04-02-2004 2:32am

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Can we try and keep the questions a little easier, while I happen to know for example the date of the Synod because I do history in college, most people wouldn't

Stuff a bit more general would be nice

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#512 04-02-2004 10:50am

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Re: Prisoners - Basil the Bulgar Slayer of Byzantine,
I vaguely remember him from a National Geographic book and I sort of admired his command style

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#513 05-02-2004 2:09am

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PHB - Actually that date did came from my Nation School history book and it truly is one of the easiest dates to remember !

Manach - Bingo - Your question.

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#514 06-02-2004 12:27am

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"To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate terms of peace in the White House" - who spoke these words?

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#515 06-02-2004 2:05am

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Well it wern't Admiral Yamamoto and I don't think it was the Canadians 'cos they actually did go to the white house, and burned it down (1812?) so I'll say Benedict Arnold

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#516 06-02-2004 10:07am

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Actually wasn't indeed Admiral Yamamoto the answer I was looking for.
Your question.

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#517 06-02-2004 11:35pm

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LOL - definitely subliminal

BTW it was the Safavid empire (~ Iran)

By what name was Mustafa Kemal ,president of Turkey from 1923-38 better know as.

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#518 06-02-2004 11:39pm

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Attaturk (sp?).

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#519 07-02-2004 12:24am

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Attaboy (Ataturk - umlaut on the u)

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#520 08-03-2004 1:34pm

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sorry to butt in but is googling allowed in these quizes

or do you know that much about history (me impressed!)

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#521 08-03-2004 11:06pm

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Not for the first 24 hours ...

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#522 19-03-2004 8:23pm

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sorry to butt in but is googling allowed in these quizes

/me gargles with rage

The last point:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=92298

I take a rather dim view of googling you see.

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#523 19-03-2004 11:47pm

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Opens a history book on a random page..

Well people argue about when the second world war started - If looked at as part two of a European Civil war, then both Germany and Italy had invaded other countries in the same month the Spanish Civil war ended and Italy, Germany and Russia all had involvement in that too.

While some could argue that more resolve by the internatinal community in that civil war could have hemmed in the ambitions of the dicatators there was an earlier event where this could have been done.

Shortly before the Spanish Civil war ineffectual sanctions (no oil or coal banned etc.) were applied to one of these powers by the league of nations because of a fairly one sided incursion. They did not work and a ruler had to go into exile in Britain - who was he ?

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#524 21-03-2004 8:53pm

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King Zog of Albania?

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#525 21-03-2004 10:00pm

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No that one was a little later on
Zog was a nice bloke by all accounts - legend has it he used to drink out of a skull of a virgin who killed herself etc.
[edit] Right european power though.

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#526 22-03-2004 1:36pm

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Halie Salasie ?

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#527 22-03-2004 7:23pm

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That's him - and the final stage of the carve up of Africia between the Europeans

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#528 23-03-2004 6:07pm

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My question is :
Who was the last English King to die in battle and name the battlefield?

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#529 25-03-2004 6:00pm

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Richard the III at Bosworth

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#530 25-03-2004 6:06pm

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Exactly, your question...

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#531 05-04-2004 10:31am

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Sorry about delay. Racking my brains to think of something.

OK Here goes:

To the nearest cent, what is the value in euro currency of the old Irish Half Crown, in circulation until 1971?

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#532 05-04-2004 10:34am

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Originally posted by Hairy Homer
To the nearest cent, what is the value in euro currency of the old Irish Half Crown, in circulation until 1971?

€0.16

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#533 05-04-2004 4:19pm

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Cha Chingg!!!

Correct.

Your question?

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#534 27-04-2004 7:44pm

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dont suppose anyone wants to start this up again????

anyway if anyone does heres a french history question:

name the girl arrested outside the lodgings of Robespierre and found to have a dagger?

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#535 28-04-2004 8:26pm

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eh is it gravier?

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#536 29-04-2004 12:25am

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nope.....heres a big clue..........."vroom vroom beep beep"

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#537 29-04-2004 3:50pm

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Hmm... Charlotte Corday?

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#538 29-04-2004 10:35pm

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nope.......do ya give up?

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#539 30-04-2004 4:16pm

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cecile renault.

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#540 30-04-2004 4:16pm

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cecile renault.

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#541 30-04-2004 7:01pm

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Tough one... I tried good ol' google ( after taking my guess, I can never resist the impulse of finding out something I don't know), and I couldn't find anything without the actual name ... next question? (I have promised myself a good reward the day someone asks a question I can actually answer.... )

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#542 01-05-2004 4:45pm

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ok let me see..........alright heres a dead easy one.

what date in 1871 was the paris commune established?

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#543 01-05-2004 7:39pm

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May 1st being the guess that's far too obvious to be right ....?

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#544 02-05-2004 3:08pm

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nope it was the 18th of march after Thiers ordered the seizure of the canons at Montemarte.

ok heres a new one:

Name the european adviser to the Continental Army in the War of Independence in America?

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#545 02-05-2004 8:02pm

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LaFayette?

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#546 02-05-2004 8:57pm

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nope he was a pal of jeffersons. the answer im looking for is.....Von Steuben.

ok heres a really really simple one.......

when did the war of independence end?

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#547 02-05-2004 9:29pm

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6th(?) December 1921

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#548 02-05-2004 11:08pm

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oh sorry i should've been more clear.......i was staying along the American Revolution line.

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#549 03-05-2004 1:03pm

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Close enough to knowing.... well, at least as a clue for someone else, I know that the definite English defeat came at Yorktown some time (snif) in 1781, and that the Treaty of Paris granting formal independence came in September (?) 1783....

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#550 03-05-2004 1:49pm

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yup...your go.

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#551 03-05-2004 2:53pm

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YAYY I can't believe it!! This deserves a large portion of chocolate cake at least... Well, it seems that silly paper I had to write last month wasn't that silly after all....

OK, let's see... I will take shameful advantage of my turn and lead the contest to my own Spanish camp... on what day did Spanish dictator Francisco Franco die?

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