Total Quiz XIV

I think Decebal means the Eastern Jin Dynasty - he has been reading a lot in this area.

Good job everyone, participants and moderators! That was a much harder quiz than the previous one; last time I got 14 right, this time I'd be happy if I could reach double digits.

I want to thank the person who scored my first submission and counted my answer to question 6 as correct! You have to give it to me, I was very close
Q 1-4: easy as usually
Q5: I answered Paris (from the Parisii tribe), which apparently is not close enough, but I couldn't come closer. Initially I was looking for China and India...
Q7: Sometimes, in order to answer a question, you just have to read the clues and let your imagination free to see the broader picture. I should get this one.
Q8: For some reason guillotine is the first thing that came to my mind.
Q9: I was looking at Africa but not so south.
Q10: Relatively easy, Marx and Engels were my first candidates, finding the writer took me just a few minutes given the more-than-enough clues.
Q 11-14: Too hard for me...
Q15: Actually I found the answer to this one, but sth went wrong with the submission. What to say, it was around 4 a.m.
Q16: IMO it was much easier than #16 suggests. Then again I learned about heretics such as Nestorius and Arius at school.
Q 17-20: The joy of the moderators lol

Wow that was my first TQ I decieded to enter and it was much harder than I thought....guess I shouldn't attempt it late at night next time. lol

I't appears I wasn't the only one to think about the Gokturks for question 19 (great minds think alike) and I even looked up the founder of the Seljuk empire!
as for question 11............I spent hours looking up every cortesan from the 19th century and all I managed to learn was that Edward VII of england and Louis XV of France were sleeping with half the country!

Thank you fine sir

I have reached an important part in my search for the answer; after reading through most of the ever existed English writers, I believe I can narrow the search down. Those who are yet searching however don't let yourself be distracted, I might be wrong...

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"

Great disappointment among the Icelandic supporters of Ulrich von Hutten.

Edited by ulrich von hutten - 28-Jan-2007 at 06:15

Updated - no changes

As soon as they officially close it I will give you a push in the right direction and it will take less than 5min for you to find the answer

Dared try 17,