Total Quiz X, parte 3

Answers posted on previous side, if you missed that.

Originally posted by Serge L Originally posted by Styrbiorn Yes, thanks, I laughed - Schadenfreude you know. � Here we say "common evil, half a joy"

Weird, that reminded me of something I used to eat as a kid. Can't remember what though, only the taste




Everybody who has answered Q13 are in the right region (Dawn, Serge, your first round 2 answers at least). Only sahaliyan has been spot on though.



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I find all these question to be particularly nice. Most of them are focused on very little known, and yet interesting facts. Let me add some comments:

Originally posted by Styrbiorn Serge provided another link: http://www.i18nguy.com/driver-side.html

Have a look at it: it gives a lot of interesting information. For instance: why on Earth some countries drive on the right and some on the left side?

And today, where do they drive on left and where on right?

There is even at least one country split in one left drive and one right drive region!

Q2: I can be considered a great guerilla leader. I was married twice and left my infant son to inheiret my titles. I lost many a battle but finally one a big one to win my country independence. I did not die in battle ,some conteperaries say I died of �unclean ailments� be that as it may, most of my body was buried in one place but part went elsewhere or so tradition says. Who am I? (by: Dawn) A2: Robert I of Scotland - the Bruce. Those who answered completely: Komnenos, Mixcoatl,sahaliyan, Serge L, Slickmeister, TJK

The great battle obviously was that of Bannockburn. See:

http://members.aol.com/Skyelander/menu4.html

 

As to the part of Robert's body that, according to the legend was buried separately, it was his heart:

http://www.rampantscotland.com/know/blknow_heart.htm

Q3: After whom was Benito Mussolini named? (by: Mixcoatl) A3: Mexican revolutionary Benito Ju�rez Those who answered completely: cavalry4ever, Dawn, demon, Gubuk Janggon, Hellinas, Janus Rook, Komnenos, Paul, sahaliyan, Serge L, TJK

Mussolini's father was a Ju�rez' admirer. 

Q8: This little thing which most people in the developed part has seen was invented by Medieval monks to make their tasks more efficient and too shorten them. It goes under many names in different countries, though many collectively refer to either end of different animal's bodies. What is this thing? (by: styrbiorn) A8: The @ symbol. Known in different countries as (elephant's)trunk-a, cat's tail, pig's tail etc, this little sign was invented by monks to shorten the very long word "at".

I did not know and would have never guessed.

Let's just say he in Italy we call it "chiocciola", i.e. "slug". Another animal again. I supose it's like with Rorschach's spots, each one sees different things in that funny sign.

Q9: A women who lived during the Plague, and was married four times. The first was a forced marriage while she was very young, and this marriage would eventually cause her death. She held a very impressive title, perhaps the most holy of wordly titles. She was of a French family, but lived her whole life in another country, and her husbands were from three others. Who was she? (by: styrbiorn) A9: Jeanne d'Anjou, Queen Regnant of Naples, Sicily and Sardinia, Queen of Jerusalem, etc, etc. She was involved in the murder of her first, very hated, Hungarian husband. Forty years later the relatives to the murdered husband avenged him, killed Jeanne and seized her lands, all on the pope's approval.

I think that, for completeness of information, we should add that her four, multi-national husbands had been:

1) the a/m prince Andrew, brother of Luis I king of Hungary

2) Luis of Taranto, who allegedly helped her to have her  previous husband murdered.

3) at Luis' death, she married Jacob III D'Aragona-Maiorca

4) at Jacob's death, her last husband was Otto von Brunswick

A13: Anders Celsius, inventor of the Celsius/centigrade scale and adherent thermometre. The place was the Sirius star. Maybe I was a little dirty here - "Anglo" should really have been American, but since the Commonwealth nations switched rather recently I let it pass.

This too I never would have guessed right.

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I think that, for completeness of information, we should add that her four, multi-national husbands had been:

I was seaching for a link with some info on her - that's when the browser crashed. Anyway, let's also add that Dumas wrote about her in "Joan of Naples". Here's a Wiki link.

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Serge, true, but the way it is phrased gives you a hint on the time frame.

me too

Remaining answers

Q7: I was born in a house with a name that sounds like a singer, I died in a field that sounds like it�s biblical. Almost my whole life was spent in war pursuits and for this I got a statue that was damged by another war. Who am I ?(by: Dawn)

A7: Major General James Wolfe -born 1727 in Macartney House, Kent, died 1759 on The Plains of Abraham, Quebec, Canada
Additional info added by Dawn:http://greenwichpast.com/vip/folk/wolfe.htm http://www.plpsd.mb.ca/amhs/history/wolfe.html and a cool picture http://www.canadianheritage.org/reproductions/10154.htm personal note: In 1998 I went to the plains of Abraham which is now a lovely park in the old part of Qubec city which is just ajcent to the citidal(the oldest operating base in north america at least thats what they told us.) .There are markers where he (as well as Montcalm )was shot.

Those who answered completely: cavalry4ever, Komnenos




Q12: Considering their name one might suspect these people had similar habits as modern day hippies, but their name, which was given by the people of the greatest native empire of the area, had probably more to do with their unusually pale looks and place of living. Little remains of their civilization today, as they were not only conquered by the mentioned conquerors, but later even these were overtaken by people from over the seas. (by: styr)

A12: The Chachapoya,the Cloud People, and old culture with impressive cities high up in the Andes, that eventually was conquered by the Incas. Nowadays only ruins remains as well as artifacts and mummies, which sadly are very desired and exposed to art thieves.

Those who answered completely: Dawn, Komnenos, Mixcoatl, sahaliyan

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in response to my being a google-machine, i totally lucked out when i googled for cloud and quechua.  i mean, we're in the andes here so clouds are a reasonable guess for a relevant meteorogical phenomenon, and, well, i don't really know any other languages from the area.  the very first link gave the answer away :-)

hats off to everyone who played.  you guys all rock, despite royally screwing my medical studies this weekend.

Originally posted by sahaliyan in response to my being a google-machine, i totally lucked out when i googled for cloud and quechua.� i mean, we're in the andes here so clouds are a reasonable guess for a relevant meteorogical phenomenon, and, well, i don't really know any other languages from the area.� the very first link gave the answer away :-)

Very efficient indeed.

Originally posted by Serge L Cloud people!

Well, had I realized the silly hippie pun didn't work in English and figured out another, you would've found it out.


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Can't remember the number, but I liked the question about Joanna d'Anjou, the hint "the most holy of all worldly titles", wasn't too obscure, but challenging enough, and there were a couple of possible contenders with similar profiles.

Originally posted by Dawn serge,serge, serge how is it that you guys always forget I'm Canadaian and can not resist at least one question based there.

Oh, that I guessed very soon.  I even complained with Styr that the hint did not give so much aditional information!

However I suspected that person did not spend his entire life in Canada: the statue should be in another country, since I cannot remember any major war with bombing happened in your country (lucky gals and guys!), and the hint confirmed this suspicion. It was a difficult question, congratulations!

Originally posted by Styrbiorn Well, had I realized the silly hippie pun didn't work in English and figured out another, you would've found it out.

Indeed, that pun confonded me a little. What is the cloud about, in Swedish? maybe a reference for the use of marijuana?

I too thought about drugs; however, one Italian slang term for drug (in particular, cocaine, which is consistent with the South American location) is neve = snow, which apparently was confirmed by pale faces and high mountains references.

I also explored other possible relations with the hippie concept: long hair, flowers, etc. Of course, to no avail.

However, I would not say it was a bad question, Styr: on the contrary, it was quiite correctly formulated, and the possible misleads can be considered a pro. Did they not put misleading answers in test quizzes?

 

As to the best question, it's a difficult choice. I really enjoyed this TQ. Finally, I chose those question that  alowed me to find something I did not knew and I am rather interested into, either by researching, or just by  . . . waiting the official answers. They are:

The drive change question by Dawn (again, it's very iteresting the site I found - I never suspected ancient Romans drove on the left as modern English people!),

the origin of the @ sign and the Celsius ante litteram Sci-fi writer (I really did not know, even though I am a sci-fi fan!) ones, both by Styrbiorn.

  

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