BH quiz #26
This set is entirely from a book called History Timelines that I bought in Borders for £5.99. It’s a bit simple and some of these facts look a bit dodgy, but meh and double meh. I’ve got to get a bloody 5.31am train tomorrow to New Brighton (up Liverpool way). (PS there will be no post on tomorrow … I’m megaquiz-busy, as you might have gathered, too busy to shorn this indie bob I'm developing, and will have to go right now, this very minute, this second, to my laptop to make adjustments to the most awesome pop culture questions every written in the history of the 2005-6 seasons ... if there is such a season.)
1 Which French cyclist and journalist organised the first Tour de France in 1903?
2 1901’s Platt Amendment laid down conditions for the reduction of which country’s independence?
3 What 1547 battle was the last fought between the Scottish and English royal armies?
4 What war broke out in Japan in 1467 (ending in 1477) between two rival clans because of a succession dispute?
5 The Aztecs settled on a marshy island in which lake in Mexico in about 1325 and founded the city of Tenochtitlan?
6 Osman I established which Islamic town in 1290 from which grew the Ottoman Empire?
7 The Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad replaced which Damascenes in AD750 and gained control of the Islamic Empire for the next 350 years?
8 The Arabs defeated the Byzantines at which 636AD battle and then captured Jerusalem and destroyed the wooden cross on which Jesus Christ had been crucified?
9 What Toltec city was founded in Hidalgo, Mexico, in about 700AD, one of its major features being a plaza bordered by a five-stepped pyramid?
10 Which Greek philosopher founded a school in c.386BC called Ho Kepas in Athens, the first institution to admit women?
11 The Macedonians generals of Alexander the Great fought which 301BC battle to gain control of his empire and divided it after a stalemate?
12 Which King of Egypt founded the Library of Alexandria at the beginning of the 3rd century BC?
13 Which king of Rome (c.616-579BC) is said to have created the marketplace later known as the Roman Forum?
14 What bird, considered sacred to Mars, brought the infant Romulus and Remus?
15 In Indian society, what word describes the warrior caste, second only to the brahmins?
16 Robert Clive defeated Siraj ud-Daula at the 1757 Battle of Plassey. What was ud-Daula’s title?
17 The island of Tahiti was discovered by which English explorer in 1767?
18 Which member of that explorer’s expedition discovered the island of Pitcairn?
19 Established by Siberian fur traders GI Shelikov and Ivan Golikov, on what island was the first Russian settlement in America founded in 1784?
20 The last descendant of Genghis Khan, which ruler of the Crimea was defeated by Catherine the Great in 1783 causing his lands to be swallowed up by the Russian Empire?
Answers to BH #25
1. Blood transfusion 2. Pea 3. Continuo 4. Merritt Island 5. Pierre Laplace 6. Maureen Connolly 7. Seebeck effect 8. Dusty Hare 9. Manchester Velodrome 10. Johnson & Johnson 11. Dr Seuss 12. Metis 13. Lisa 14. You're My World 15. Pentland Firth 16. Yuan Shikai 17. Jacky Gillott 18. Elytron 19. 'Ndrangheta 20. Mellotron (first sampler)
1 Which French cyclist and journalist organised the first Tour de France in 1903?
2 1901’s Platt Amendment laid down conditions for the reduction of which country’s independence?
3 What 1547 battle was the last fought between the Scottish and English royal armies?
4 What war broke out in Japan in 1467 (ending in 1477) between two rival clans because of a succession dispute?
5 The Aztecs settled on a marshy island in which lake in Mexico in about 1325 and founded the city of Tenochtitlan?
6 Osman I established which Islamic town in 1290 from which grew the Ottoman Empire?
7 The Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad replaced which Damascenes in AD750 and gained control of the Islamic Empire for the next 350 years?
8 The Arabs defeated the Byzantines at which 636AD battle and then captured Jerusalem and destroyed the wooden cross on which Jesus Christ had been crucified?
9 What Toltec city was founded in Hidalgo, Mexico, in about 700AD, one of its major features being a plaza bordered by a five-stepped pyramid?
10 Which Greek philosopher founded a school in c.386BC called Ho Kepas in Athens, the first institution to admit women?
11 The Macedonians generals of Alexander the Great fought which 301BC battle to gain control of his empire and divided it after a stalemate?
12 Which King of Egypt founded the Library of Alexandria at the beginning of the 3rd century BC?
13 Which king of Rome (c.616-579BC) is said to have created the marketplace later known as the Roman Forum?
14 What bird, considered sacred to Mars, brought the infant Romulus and Remus?
15 In Indian society, what word describes the warrior caste, second only to the brahmins?
16 Robert Clive defeated Siraj ud-Daula at the 1757 Battle of Plassey. What was ud-Daula’s title?
17 The island of Tahiti was discovered by which English explorer in 1767?
18 Which member of that explorer’s expedition discovered the island of Pitcairn?
19 Established by Siberian fur traders GI Shelikov and Ivan Golikov, on what island was the first Russian settlement in America founded in 1784?
20 The last descendant of Genghis Khan, which ruler of the Crimea was defeated by Catherine the Great in 1783 causing his lands to be swallowed up by the Russian Empire?
Answers to BH #25
1. Blood transfusion 2. Pea 3. Continuo 4. Merritt Island 5. Pierre Laplace 6. Maureen Connolly 7. Seebeck effect 8. Dusty Hare 9. Manchester Velodrome 10. Johnson & Johnson 11. Dr Seuss 12. Metis 13. Lisa 14. You're My World 15. Pentland Firth 16. Yuan Shikai 17. Jacky Gillott 18. Elytron 19. 'Ndrangheta 20. Mellotron (first sampler)
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