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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2016 6:04:18 GMT
Well, I'm fascinated, Menantol; I love history and I love alternative history too! Personally I'd love to have seen Harold win but that's the way the cookie crumbles. The historic things I often find of interest are those which provide the little things of day to day life as opposed to the grand scheme of the great events. One historian I like is Leslie Alcock Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, and one of the leading archaeologists of Early Mediaeval Britain. In one of his works he is discussing pottery as a way to identify and date peoples and there he mentions, ‘grass marked pottery’ which is pottery that was set on a surface of chopped grass to dry prior to firing with the grass used so the pottery would not stick to the underlying surface. Some of the grass stuck to the pottery and during the firing the grass would burn off leaving a pattern of grass impressions, hence the name. It is these things which give a long dead people some color of which helps them come alive in our minds so that they are not just a misty image.
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Post by adam56 on Aug 12, 2016 11:41:39 GMT
I m not getting anything about the quiz, can anybody help me out ?
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Post by mikemarshall on Aug 15, 2016 22:03:35 GMT
Go back to the first page of the quiz and the questions are there.
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Post by Scottish Lassie on Dec 18, 2018 7:41:03 GMT
Come on, please, let's have some of you having a go at my quiz! I could only remember three. Micklwaite is Michael Caine The old groaner was Bing Crosby. I think the last Chancellor was Hitler.I wish I had a better memory. A great quiz game by the way.
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Post by Scottish Lassie on Dec 18, 2018 7:49:19 GMT
Fascinating discussion Menantol. I love history and the lessons to be learned from it. I also find it interesting to see how history gets distorted for the benefit of one group or another. For example, reading the history of Napoleon and his era is so different when the source is a French author vs. an English author. Like Hitler, and ISIL today, Napoleon overreached, made too many enemies, and that cost him everything in the long run. Abraham Lincoln's history has been distorted by the civil rights movement. They want to see him first and foremost as the President who freed the slaves. Though late in the war he did come around to the view that slaves should be freed, that wasn't his view during most of his Presidency. He once said he'd be happy with no slaves, some slaves, or slavery as it existed before the war if only the war could be ended and the Union preserved. Lincoln's real problem with slavery was economics. He was a staunch capitalist who wanted the economy to grow based on individual opportunity and wages. If everyone got paid for their work, they would then spend those wages creating significant economic activity and raising society. Since slaves didn't get paid, it was only their owners spending money and that limited the economy. Lincoln was a strong Republican back then and he would still be a Republican were he alive today. Wasn't Abraham Lincoln known as Honest Abe before he became President? I always remember the story of him walking miles to return a few coins that he had overcharged a shopper in his grocery shop.
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Post by Scottish Lassie on Jan 6, 2019 5:11:32 GMT
Hi Gibby Thanks for being brave and trying my quiz. I thought it was quite easy (mostly) and all I'll say at this stage is you've got most of the ones you answered right! I think it is great quiz. I would have known most of them when I was younger, but my memory is too bad now., but I will always give it a try when I'm on your forum.
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Post by Big Lin on Jan 7, 2019 0:58:53 GMT
I posted this quiz ages ago: if anyone wants to try to fill in the answers feel free!
At the moment Gibby is winning because she's got the most right answers!
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Post by andie on Jan 21, 2019 16:56:53 GMT
a) Real name/ pseudonymn: The person I've given is better known by their pseudonymn than their real name. Match the real name with the pseudonym. Terence Nelhams -Adam Faith Maurice Micklewhite -Michael Caine Marion Montgomery-jazz or writer but not John Wayne (Marion Morrison) Walker Smith-Sugar Ray Robinson Douglas McPherson - b) Nicknames: who are: The Old Groaner -Bing Crosby Old Hickory - Andrew Jackson Old Tippacanoe -William Henry Harrison The Grand Old Man -Archibald Henderson The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street -Bank of England nickname c) Odd Man Out: Victor Hugo Charles Dickens Mark Twain T S Eliot - guessing he is the odd man out because he was a poet. The rest were writers. Miguel Cervantes d) History: Who was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England? -King Harold II Who was the last Chancellor of the Third Reich? -Joseph Goebbels Who was the first Christian Roman Emperor? -Constantine Who was 'the sick man of Europe?' -not a man but the Ottaman Empire in its last days Why was Sam Houston imprisoned when the American Civil War began? -I do not think he was but I have been wrong plenty of times. I do not know if this is too late but I thought I would give it a whack.
I have been getting quite a workout on Trivia on another forum.
Doing it so my brain does not turn into oatmeal any sooner than need be.
Good quiz.
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Post by Big Lin on Jan 21, 2019 22:19:54 GMT
a) Real name/ pseudonymn: The person I've given is better known by their pseudonymn than their real name. Match the real name with the pseudonym. Terence Nelhams -Adam Faith Maurice Micklewhite -Michael Caine Marion Montgomery-jazz or writer but not John Wayne (Marion Morrison) Walker Smith-Sugar Ray Robinson Douglas McPherson - b) Nicknames: who are: The Old Groaner -Bing Crosby Old Hickory - Andrew Jackson Old Tippacanoe -William Henry Harrison The Grand Old Man -Archibald Henderson The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street -Bank of England nickname c) Odd Man Out: Victor Hugo Charles Dickens Mark Twain T S Eliot - guessing he is the odd man out because he was a poet. The rest were writers. Miguel Cervantes d) History: Who was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England? -King Harold II Who was the last Chancellor of the Third Reich? -Joseph Goebbels Who was the first Christian Roman Emperor? -Constantine Who was 'the sick man of Europe?' -not a man but the Ottaman Empire in its last days Why was Sam Houston imprisoned when the American Civil War began? -I do not think he was but I have been wrong plenty of times. I do not know if this is too late but I thought I would give it a whack.
I have been getting quite a workout on Trivia on another forum.
Doing it so my brain does not turn into oatmeal any sooner than need be.
Good quiz. You've done quite well, Andie; Of the ones you've answered you've got four wrong! But thanks for giving it a go1 BTW, I need to admit a mistake on my part; Sam Houston was imprisoned BEFORE the Civil War began but he was forced to resign as Governor of Texas when it started.
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Post by andie on Jan 22, 2019 15:56:06 GMT
Thank you. And it was easy not to be tempted to look at the other answers because they were on the previous page. Do not worry about your mistake. We all make them. No offense...but I have to disagree that it was quite easy. But then I have not been in school for a long time. College is a long time ago. High school even longer. And getting longer every day. I will be interested to see all the correct answers when you are ready.
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Post by Big Lin on Jan 24, 2019 14:07:25 GMT
Maybe I should start posting the ones that have been answered correctly.
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Post by Big Lin on Jan 24, 2019 14:12:05 GMT
a) Real name/ pseudonymn:
The person I've given is better known by their pseudonymn than their real name. Match the real name with the pseudonym.
Terence Nelhams - Adam Faith
Maurice Micklewhite - Michael Caine
Marion Montgomery (my apologies, I meant Marion Morrison) - John Wayne
Walker Smith - Sugar Ray Robinson
Douglas McPherson
b) Nicknames:
who are:
The Old Groaner - Bing Crosby
Old Hickory - Andrew Jackson
Old Tippacanoe - William Henry Harrison
The Grand Old Man - William Ewart Gladstone
The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street - The Bank of England
c) Odd Man Out:
Victor Hugo
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
T S Eliot
Miguel Cervantes
d) History:
Who was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England?
Who was the last Chancellor of the Third Reich? - Joseph Goebbels (yes, he was briefly after Hitler's suicide!)
Who was the first Christian Roman Emperor?
Who was 'the sick man of Europe?' - The Ottoman Empire (Turkey is also an acceptable answer)
Why was Sam Houston imprisoned when the American Civil War began? (again, my apologies; Houston was imprisoned earlier in his career but why did he have to resign as Governor of Texas and stay more or less under house arrest?)
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Post by andie on Jan 25, 2019 3:26:22 GMT
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Post by Big Lin on Jan 25, 2019 13:31:29 GMT
Anyone care to have a go at the remaining questions?
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Post by donna on Jan 28, 2019 16:58:35 GMT
I know some:
Douglas Macpherson - Suggs
Last Anglo-Saxon king - Edgar Atheling
First Christian Roman Emperor - Philip the Arabian
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Post by donna on Jan 28, 2019 17:01:16 GMT
A wild guess on the Odd Man Out - Mark Twain, Hugo, Dickens, Cervantes and Eliot all wrote poetry (though the first three also wrote and are better known for their novels) while I don't think Twain did. Or it could be because Twain is the only one writing under a pen name while the others used their real names. Or it could be Eliot because all the others wrote fiction! Maybe ONE of my guesses might be right!
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Post by andie on Feb 2, 2019 5:50:22 GMT
Hey... Just curious but did mikemarshall take this quiz? Since I have "known" him, I have been most impressed by both his intelligence and his education. (As well as other things) My strong feeling is he would do extremely well on this quiz. So Michael...if you read this and have not done the quiz, could you maybe consider taking it before it is closed out ? Or...if you have privately, would you be willing to share how you did after it is closed out ? Andie xx
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Post by andie on Feb 2, 2019 6:02:01 GMT
Addendum to the Quiz.
a)
John Wayne is the real name of Marion Morrison. I did mention Wayne in my original answer.
b)
Archibald Henderson
"https://www.google.com/search?q=archibald+henderson+marine+corps&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS731US731&oq=ar&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i60l3j69i57j35i39.2194j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8"
"Archibald Henderson was the longest-serving Commandant of the Marine Corps, serving from 1820 to 1859. His name is learned by all recruits at Marine recruit training as the "Grand old man of the Marine Corps," serving in the United States Marine Corps for 53 years.
c)
Victor Hugo/ Jean Valjean is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables
Charles Dickens /After Dickens was revealed to be "The Inimitable Boz," he dropped the "Boz" but continued to be known as "The Inimitable."
Mark Twain /Samuel Langhorne Clemens, pen name or pseudonym
T S Eliot /father of modern poetry among other things. Eliot won Nobel Prize in literature
Miguel Cervantes /Cervantes himself states that he wrote Don Quixote in order to undermine the influence of those "vain and empty books of chivalry" as well as to provide some merry, original, and sometimes prudent material for his readers' entertainment...
4 of the 5 writers wrote of themes of Human Rights. T S Eliot... who has no known pen name... wrote of other themes.
Also only T S Eliot won a Nobel Prize. He won the Nobel Prize in literature. Another Odd Man Out fact.
d)
I can find no reference to Sam Houston ever being imprisoned. I would love to know when he was and hopefully have a link for that.
He had to resign as Governor of Texas because he despite his pro-slavery views, he believed in preserving the Union. He became governor in 1859, but was removed from office after the secession of Texas in 1861.
So...for whatever it is worth...I went back to this quiz to dig deeper for my own edification.
The Odd Man Out Section had obviously flummoxed me the most.
Maybe this time I have looked at it the correct way. At least I tried.
Andie xx
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Post by Big Lin on Feb 3, 2019 0:00:21 GMT
Hey... Just curious but did mikemarshall take this quiz? Since I have "known" him, I have been most impressed by both his intelligence and his education. (As well as other things) My strong feeling is he would do extremely well on this quiz. So Michael...if you read this and have not done the quiz, could you maybe consider taking it before it is closed out ? Or...if you have privately, would you be willing to share how you did after it is closed out ? Andie xx As he's my husband, Andie, it wouldn't have been fair for him to take my quiz because he'd know all the answers!
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Post by Big Lin on Feb 3, 2019 0:19:27 GMT
I've never heard of Archibald Henderson but Gladstone was known as the Grand Old Man for many years - largely because of his very long Parliamentary career (1832-1898). I've already apologised for putting Marion Montgomery instead of Marion Morrison which of course was John Wayne's real name!
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