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Total Quiz XIV
Archived questions and answers to AE's history contest
 Category: Total Quiz Archive: Recent Questions
Total Quiz XIV was held on January 25, 2007 using the same 20-question model in the previous quiz. Questions were more challenging than those of the previous edition and a new style in which the writer of the question is hidden from contestants was introduced. Total Quiz XIV was also the last quiz to be run by long-time moderator Imperator Invictus, thus marking the end of a phrase in the development of the quiz and the beginning of another. -- Summary -- Quiz moderators: Imperator Invictus, Poirot, Northman Winner: Decebal Total Quiz questions viewing options: Click here to hide answers Total Quiz XIV
Answer: Monetzuma II
Answer: Woodrow Wilson
Answer: Caligula
Answer: The Canon of Medicine (Arabic: "qanun fil tibb")
Answer: Barcelona, whose name is derived from the Carthaginian Barca family, from which Hannibal Barca originated.
Answer: Sargon (Sharrukin: "True King") of Assyria; also known as Sargon II (to distinguish from Sargon of Akkad). Sargon captured Samaria and deported its people, giving rise to the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
Answer: Charlie Chaplin, who portrayed "The Tramp" and Adolf Hitler, the Tramp of Vienna. Chaplin and Hitler were both born in 1889 and had amazing physical resemblance, to an extent. One tramp (Chaplin) enlightened the masses with comedy, while the other (Hitler) poisoned the masses with hatred. One tramp (Chaplin) embraced leftist ideas, while the other (Hitler) embraced fascist ideology. Chaplin portrayed a dictator based on Hitler in his groundbreaking 1940 film "The Great Dictator," which, if rumors are true, Hitler is known to have seen.
Answer: Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, whose name became forever linked with the guillotine. Ironically, Guillotin opposed the death penalty and only suggested a mechanical execution device to ease the pain of a death sentence.
Answer: Great Zimbabwe, built by the Bantu people who are believed to have migrated from central Africa. The city and its kingdom has been associated with "Solomon's Mines."
Answer: Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) and Karl May (1842 - 1912)
Answer: Lady Emma Hamilton. Emma Hamilton was born poor, but became the mistress of many men in high places. She married William Hamilton, more than 30 years her senior, but was most famous for her affair with Lord Nelson, hero of the Napoleonic Wars. Emma fell into debt after Nelson's death and died a poor woman.
Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky, 19th Century Russian author of famous literary works such as Crime and Punishment, The Possessed, and The Brothers Karamazov. Following the revolutions of 1848, Dostoevsky attended socialist meetings and was captured by agents of Czar Nicholas I. Nicholas wanted to teach the radicals a lesson, so he staged a mock execution, only to send the men to Siberian exile at the last minute. The near death moment proved crucial to Dostoevsky, who realized that he experienced a rebirth. He devoted much of his later life to writing, and rejected his earlier socialist tendencies in favor of more traditional, orthodox religious values. Much of his transformation is reflected in his literary works.
Answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes. Both father and son were born around Boston and educated at Harvard. A physcian turned poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was known for his poem "Old Ironsides," which aroused public sympathy and helped save the U.S.S. Constitution from being turned into scrap. An American Civil War veteran turned lawyer and judge, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. served for almost 30 years as justice in the U.S. Supreme Court, and was known for his pithy opinions and concise explanations of judicial processes. Today, many believe that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invented the name Sherlock Holmes upon a reference to the name Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Answer: I am Bohuslav of Svamberk, who attacked Jan Zizka at Nekmer, which is the battle at which Zizka first used his war-wagon tactic. I joined the Hussites after Zizka took me prisoner in 1422, and briefly became the general commander of the Taborites after Zizka died.
Answer: I am Pirooz, son of Yazdgerd III, the last Sassanid King of Kings. Upon the Arab invasion, the Sassanid Empire, already weakened by civil war, quickly crumbled, and Yazdgerd III was killed during flight from the Arabs. According to some sources, Yazdgerd III's daughter Shahrbanu was married to Husayn ibn Ali, considered the Third Shiia Imam, and gave birth to Ali ibn Husayn, the fourth Shia Imam. According to certain sources, Pirooz escaped to Tang China, where he became a general and was sent strategically to the Tang Empire border in Central Asia. With approval from the Tang Empire, Pirooz and his son Narsieh would spend most of their lives stationed in Central Asia, trying to restore Sassanid Empire from the Arabs.
Answer: Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople who gave rise to Nestroian Christianity, characterized by the belief that Jesus had both a human and divine persona. While it was declared heresy in the 430s AD, Nestroianism flourished east of the of the Roman domains, penetrating all the way to Mongolia and China.
Answer: Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim. Also, or rather mostly, known as Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist, physician etc. The motto in question is "One for all, all for one", made famous from the novels about the Three Musketeers, but also the unofficial motto of the Swiss confederacy.
Answer: Jayavarman VII of the Khmer Empire.
Answer: Yelu Dashi (Gur Khan in non-Chinese sources), founder of the Kara-Khitai Empire. He was a member of the Liao Dynasty of Northern China, which was being conquered by the Jurchen, allied with the Song Dynasty, who eventually replaced the Liao with the Jin Dynasty. Yelu Dashi defeated a huge Song Army but poor military conduct of the Liao Emperor caused Dashi to abandon the Liao and establish a new kingdom in Central Asia (1124). He defeated the Sultan Sanjar of the Great Seljuk Empire, which soon collapsed afterward. The Mongols destroyed the Kara-Khitai a century after its founding. The Liao Dynasty was replaced by the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, also conquered by the Mongols. A good source about the Khitan Empires: History of Chinese Society Liao (907-1125), by Karl A. Wittfogel; Feng Chia-Sheng
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1949
Answer: I am Xie An (A.D. 320-385), prime minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (A.D. 317-420). Xie An came out from his hermit life to serve the Jin Empire (divided by historians into the Western Jin Dynasty from A.D. 365 to A.D. 316 and the Eastern Jin Dynasty from A.D. 317 to A.D. 420), which had halved from its original size by the time of Xie An’s birth. With the help of another minister, Xie An prevented Huan Wen, an ambitious and powerful general of the Jin Empire, from usurping the throne. At the Battle of River Fei in the year A.D. 383, troops commanded by his brother Xie Shi and his nephew Xie Xuan defeated a much larger invasion force of the upstart Former Qin Dynasty under its emperor Fu Jian. The Former Qin Dynasty began disintergrating soon afterwards, while the Jin Empire survived for a couple more decades. The clan of Xie ranked alongside the clan of Wang as one of the most prestigious clans in the Jin and Southern Dynasties period. Question Authors: (user who contributed the question) 1. poirot; 2. Imperator Invictus; 3. poirot; 4. Imperator Invictus; 5. poirot; 6. Imperator Invictus; 7. poirot; 8. poirot; 9. Imperator Invictus; 10. ulrich von hutten ; 11. poirot; 12. poirot; 13. poirot; 14. Timotheus; 15. poirot; 16. Imperator Invictus; 17. Styrbiorn; 18. Decebal; 19. Imperator Invictus; 20. poirot; Original Quiz Thread: The quiz thread on the forum can be viewed at: http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=17362&FID=58&PR=3 |