History Quiz!

DadaKopf · 31-05-2003 4:43pm

Or Shostakovich.

Éomer of Rohan · 31-05-2003 8:57pm

It was Shostakovich - he called it "A Soviets Artists Reply to Just Criticism" or something to that effect - all because Pravda took the piss out of his opera, the Lady MacBeth of Mtensk.

Zachary Taylor · 01-06-2003 12:27pm

That's right. Lady MacBeth of Mtensk was thought too western ("coarseness and vulgarity...dissonance, discord and un-democratic tendencies"), and the story involved an illicit affair so Shostakovich arrested and questioned but fortunately for him (and us all) his interrogator was executed one weekend during his questioning so Shostakovich never saw Siberia, but he was made a "non-person" for a few years until he wrote his Fifth Symphony as an apology. An extremely entertaining apology. Your question DadaKopf.

DadaKopf · 01-06-2003 7:02pm

Ok...

What Briton invented the photographic 'fixing' method of printing, which became the staple method the world over, overtaking the earlier dageurreotype?

Éomer of Rohan · 01-06-2003 11:14pm

William Talbot? I think so anyway - shows what A level Chemistry can do LOL.

DadaKopf · 02-06-2003 1:22am

Well yeah, William Henry Fox Talbot.

Éomer of Rohan · 02-06-2003 3:33pm

Good good. My question then......hmmmm.....I will be back in about an hour - I want to think of a good one.

Éomer of Rohan · 06-06-2003 12:31pm

Well, that was some hour!

I haven't really given much thought to this but since we were on a musical chain,

What famous people share the terminally significant date of March 5th 1953?

PHB · 09-06-2003 9:43pm

Stalin and someome else?

Mark · 09-06-2003 10:28pm

Stalin was a day or two earlier than that afaik?

Anyweh, no idea to the question, gis a hint then!

Éomer of Rohan · 09-06-2003 11:31pm

One was Stalin and the other was a famous Russian also but for different and better reasons - think Shakespeare.

Manach · 10-06-2003 9:20am

I'm guessing Prokoviev the composer, it's his 50th something anniversery this year.

Éomer of Rohan · 10-06-2003 10:56am

Yes both Stalin and Prokofiev died on the 5th March 1953.

You're up Manach.

Manach · 10-06-2003 11:24am

Fairly simple one.
What is the name of the Greek muse of History.

Gorgeous George · 10-06-2003 1:24pm

Clio

Éomer of Rohan · 10-06-2003 1:33pm

Good guess troll boy

Gorgeous George · 11-06-2003 1:58am

How about Kleio.:cool:

PHB · 12-06-2003 4:09pm

Ok, I'm thinking this questions are getting a little odd

So new rule :

If the question isn't anwsered in 24 hrs you post the anwser then post another question

- Dave

Éomer of Rohan · 12-06-2003 6:16pm

Well technically that makes it troll boy's go but he hasn't posted in a while so I will post a question to get us restarted...I'm sure no one minds.:D

What city was the first capital of Greece - when not dependent on an outside state? Hint, it is NOT Athens.

Gorgeous George · 13-06-2003 3:39am

Be my guest horseman. My guess is Piraeus.

Éomer of Rohan · 13-06-2003 9:24pm

Nope.:D

PHB · 16-06-2003 3:44pm

So the anwser is?

Zachary Taylor · 16-06-2003 6:58pm

Delphi?

Manach · 18-06-2003 9:12am

Byzantine?

PHB · 19-06-2003 2:27pm

Ok new question :

What was the name of the cultural movemnet in Weimar Germany which mixed art and architecture?

Hairy Homer · 19-06-2003 5:43pm

Bauhaus

Éomer of Rohan · 19-06-2003 8:03pm

Nafplion / Nasplion was the answer to mine, sorry about the wait.

Mark · 20-06-2003 1:52pm

Right I'll shtick in a question to keep the flow going:

What weapon provided a link between Constantine the Great and Emperor Charlemange?

DapperGent · 20-06-2003 1:58pm

I think I remember reading something about this.

Was it some kind of spear that was allegedly used to stab christ on the cross and was originally possesed by a roman centurion?

I can't for the life of me remember it's name.

Mark · 20-06-2003 4:06pm

The Spear of Christ will do Dappination

. Was on tv the other day, thought Id feck it in.

Yer question

DapperGent · 20-06-2003 4:27pm

Whoop-de-do! I'm smrt. S-M-R-T.

Which American port was totally destroyed by a hurricane in September 1900?

bringitdown · 20-06-2003 4:31pm

Galveston, Tx.

Damn discovery channel... shouldn't know this.

DapperGent · 23-06-2003 12:28am

Correct. Your question.

Incidentally there is a great book on that event Isaac's Storm: The Drowning of Galveston, even if you're not interested in Meteoroloy it's a brilliant book, the reconstruction of events is masterful and it reads more like a thriller than a history book.

Two thumbs up from Dapper.

bringitdown · 23-06-2003 9:58am

Prolly been asked before .... and an easy one:

What was the last country to declare war on Germany in WWI?

FirA_Serjio · 24-06-2003 9:12pm

is it USA???

DadaKopf · 24-06-2003 9:27pm

mnh. Italy. Hehehe.

bringitdown · 25-06-2003 9:24am

Both the USA and Italy are wrong.... keyword - 'declare'!

PHB · 25-06-2003 8:31pm

Please give the anwser

bringitdown · 26-06-2003 9:46am

- Okay kinda to the point round here, anyhew:

Honduras declared war on Germany .... July 19, 1918, the last nation to do so.

Someone else have a go!

Zachary Taylor · 26-06-2003 1:26pm

This is something that was bothering me for a few days because I couldn't remember the answer but I have it now.

The Dillon Family (John Blake - United Irishman, John - Irish Party MP, James - Cumann na nGaedheal TD and Minister for Agriculture in, I think, the first Inter-Party Government) all ran a family business, now closed, in Ballaghadereen, Co. Roscommon, a famous shop. The shop was named after one of their wives.

What was the name of the shop?

Éomer of Rohan · 26-06-2003 10:23pm

OK, what famous poet first brought vampirism into the eye of the greater Western public?

Mark · 26-06-2003 10:27pm

Calm down Éomer, Zacharys question is currently in play.

Éomer of Rohan · 26-06-2003 10:34pm

o.O whoops - clicked on that v.bulletin link to the earlier offer of a free go a little late then - sorry chaps!

PHB · 29-06-2003 5:14pm

Lash up the anwser there james

Zachary Taylor · 30-06-2003 4:00pm

The answer is "Monica Duff's". That was probably too specific.

I suppose the vampire question is in play now. Is Bram Stoker too obvious? I don't think he was a poet.

PHB · 06-07-2003 12:23pm

Please give the anwser!!

Another Question to get the ball rolling,

Which of Hitlers "sidekick" killed his own children, and then himself, just befire the russians stormed the bunker?

richindub2 · 06-07-2003 12:51pm

goebels, easy :P

Éomer of Rohan · 06-07-2003 7:49pm

Did he kill Magda too or did she take the suicide pills that was the Fuhrers 'gift' to the pair?

Éomer of Rohan · 06-07-2003 7:50pm

The answer to my earlier question was Lord Byron by the way

loismustdie · 23-07-2003 9:45am

next question?

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