History Quiz!

Mark · 22-04-2003 12:04pm #1

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 questions. Sure you may know how Eisenhower brushed his hair on a Wednesday morning when he had a craving for eggs, but does anyone else? Dont go overboard
Each correct answer is awarded one point.
Only the first person with the correct answer gets the point. (me snips loophole)
Have fun!
NO GOOGLING!

/edit for last rule
/another edit for the One Guess Rule- Tisnt feasible

Ill start easy:

Austria vs Prussia, 1866. Who won?

PHB · 22-04-2003 1:13pm

Prussia.

Keeping on that theme :

What was the name of the famous speech which Bismark made when he became the PM?

Mark · 22-04-2003 1:46pm

Blood and Iron?

PHB · 22-04-2003 1:53pm

Indeed 'tis

Bismark Rocked, at age 23 he sent a letter to his dad saying "My ambition strives me to comand rather than to obey"

Mark · 22-04-2003 1:55pm

Woot!

Moving away from Bismarck:

Alexander the Great died where?

Corega · 22-04-2003 1:57pm

In what year was Prussia victorious over France?

PHB · 22-04-2003 2:05pm

Alexander : Babylon w/ typhoid fevour

Franco Prussian War : Ended Jan 1871 in order to save paris

Which Islands were promised to Italy by the Treaty of London which they did not recieve after the war?

Hint : Theres 101 of them in a film

Corega · 22-04-2003 2:13pm

Malta could be one of them...

Can't really think atm, still getting over that piss I had.

Bard · 22-04-2003 2:16pm

Originally posted by PHB
Which Islands were promised to Italy by the Treaty of London which they did not recieve after the war?

The Adriatic Islands.

How old was Adolf Hitler when he died?

Corega · 22-04-2003 2:23pm

Originally posted by Bard
How old was Adolf Hitler when he died?

56

What was the name of the most common rifle used by the Nazi's during WW2?

Manufacturers name and type.

Piss easy.

Hairy Homer · 22-04-2003 2:25pm

Originally posted by PHB

Which Islands were promised to Italy by the Treaty of London which they did not recieve after the war?

Hint : Theres 101 of them in a film

Ooh what a giveaway. Must be the Dalmations. Arf. Arf.

What's the surname of the only grandfather and grandson to have been presidents of the USA?

Hairy Homer · 22-04-2003 2:27pm

Originally posted by Corega
56

What was the name of the most common rifle used by the Nazi's during WW2?

Manufacturers name and type.

Piss easy.

Mauser.

Here's a thought? Surely the original questioner should mark the answers as correct or not. This could get messy

Mark · 22-04-2003 2:29pm

Yes Homer thats sort of the point here.

What's the surname of the only grandfather and grandson to have been presidents of the USA?

Thats your question, so mark wheter its right or not when someone replies

Hairy Homer · 22-04-2003 2:31pm

Originally posted by Bard
The Adriatic Islands.

How old was Adolf Hitler when he died?

He had just turned 56

Mark · 22-04-2003 2:34pm

Corega has already stated that, could everyone please read over the topic before replying, partically the rules. Please?

Hairy Homer · 22-04-2003 2:36pm

Originally posted by Mark
Corega has already stated that, could everyone please read over the topic before replying, partically the rules. Please?

Doh! Sorry. Hadn't come up on my screen before I posted mine.

Mark · 22-04-2003 2:41pm

Fair enough

In response to the current question:

What's the surname of the only grandfather and grandson to have been presidents of the USA?

Harrison? Im going on memory here so spelling may be incorrect

Hairy Homer · 22-04-2003 3:06pm

Originally posted by Mark
Fair enough

In response to the current question:

What's the surname of the only grandfather and grandson to have been presidents of the USA?

Harrison? Im going on memory here so spelling may be incorrect

Correct. William and Benjamin. Your question?

Corega · 22-04-2003 3:14pm

Mauser is the correct manufacturers name but...the name of the rifle was...

Mark · 22-04-2003 3:18pm

Hmm have a go at this one so:

Name 5 Tsars of Russia in the last 200 years

Hairy Homer · 22-04-2003 4:32pm

Originally posted by Mark
Hmm have a go at this one so:

Name 5 Tsars of Russia in the last 200 years

Two called Nicholas
Three called Alexander?

PHB · 22-04-2003 4:39pm

Pavel [I think]
Alex 1
Nicholas I
Alex II
Alex III
Nicholas II

Mark · 22-04-2003 6:06pm

Hairy Homer answered correctly and first.

Your question Homer

Hairy Homer · 22-04-2003 6:34pm

Ok. Maybe a little anoraky but here goes. Think about it. It's doable.

Lord Lucan, who disappeared in 1974 at the age of 40 suspected of murdering his children's nanny, was the great-great-great-great-great-great-great
-great-nephew of which Irish military hero?

That's eight greats. Work it out.

(PS. I didn't Google it. I'd bookmarked the relevant site years ago)

Mark · 22-04-2003 8:32pm

A total guess because I have no idea of even how far back eight greats is.

Patrick Sarsfield?

Hairy Homer · 23-04-2003 11:10am

Originally posted by Mark
A total guess because I have no idea of even how far back eight greats is.

Patrick Sarsfield?

Damn, you're good. :-)

Correct again

Mark · 23-04-2003 11:21am

Woo! Viva la fluke!

Hmmm ok try this 'un:

Name the (overall) Admiral of the German Navy during World War 1

Hairy Homer · 23-04-2003 12:24pm

German Admiral:

Was it Scheer?

Mark · 23-04-2003 12:27pm

Not the one Im looking for

Hint: He was appointed by Kaiser William II to head the Naval Race on Germanys part.

Also had a funky beard

PHB · 23-04-2003 2:13pm

Admiral Speer
[edit] probably should have read the question

Question if i'm right :
On the naval subject, what was the percentage agreed between Hitler and Chamberlin in the Anglo-German Naval Agreement which limited the amount of german ships to a proportion of the British

Mark · 23-04-2003 2:27pm

Originally posted by PHB
Admiral Speer
[edit] probably should have read the question

Question if i'm right :
On the naval subject, what was the percentage agreed between Hitler and Chamberlin in the Anglo-German Naval Agreement which limited the amount of german ships to a proportion of the British

Incorrect

Hint: First name Alfred

As for the question anyway- 35%?

PHB · 23-04-2003 2:34pm

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

Mark · 23-04-2003 2:38pm

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.

PHB · 23-04-2003 2:40pm

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?

Mark · 23-04-2003 2:52pm

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

PHB · 23-04-2003 3:01pm

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

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

Mark · 23-04-2003 3:49pm

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

Hairy Homer · 23-04-2003 3:55pm

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?

Mark · 23-04-2003 4:04pm

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

DadaKopf · 23-04-2003 6:09pm

Jean Moulin.

Mark · 23-04-2003 6:13pm

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

DadaKopf · 23-04-2003 6:30pm

Alright, gimmie a few minutes.

DadaKopf · 23-04-2003 6:35pm

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

CCCP^ · 23-04-2003 11:54pm

Aristotle? *Crosses fingers*

Mark · 24-04-2003 11:48am

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

Your question old bean

Hairy Homer · 24-04-2003 4:35pm

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?

DadaKopf · 24-04-2003 5:17pm

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

PHB · 24-04-2003 10:32pm

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

DadaKopf · 25-04-2003 12:02am

Yeah, but the question went to CCCP

.

Hairy Homer · 25-04-2003 11:22am

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.

Corega · 25-04-2003 11:52am

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.

History Quiz!

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