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Historic Kaleidoscope Trivia Quiz

In June 1815 Copenhagen went to Brussels. Do you know what for? If not, you better take this quiz. - It's about a whole batch of funny, strange, surprising and exciting historical facts.

A multiple-choice quiz by flem-ish. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
flem-ish

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
39,421

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. The Celtic tribes in Scotland were called Picti or Painted People by the Romans. Do you also know what colour they painted themselves? Hint

Red

Chalky White

Green

Blue

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Question 2 of 10

2. The Chinese called their own Empire the Middle Kingdom. What did they mean by that? Hint

Kingdom right in the middle of barbarians in all wind directions

Kingdom on its' way to Paradise on Earth

Kingdom in between the Golden Age and an Age of Decay

Kingdom of the Golden Mean in All Things

3. We are used to linking priests and church officals with the wearing of black. In the Middle Ages they didn't do so. They wore coloured dress like everybody else, though the colours may have been slightly mitigated. It was the mendicant orders that 'invented' colourless priest's uniforms. As their names sometimes betrays. Which of these four names of mendicant friars does not refer to the same group as the three others do? Hint

Dominicans

Friars Preachers

Blackfriars

Greyfriars

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Question 4 of 10

4. On January the 8th 1815, a bloody and superfluous victory was won by an American general in a war for which the peace treaty had already been signed two weeks earlier. The general was called Jackson. Where was the battle ? Hint

Pensacola

Topeka

Horseshoebend, Alabama

New Orleans

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Question 5 of 10

5. Of which Russian ruler was it said that he or she tried to make Germans or Englishmen of his subjects rather than Russians? Hint

Lenin

Peter the Great

Gorbatchov

Catherine the Great

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Question 6 of 10

6. For precise measurements of small weights we use the term 'troy'. What is its historic origin? Hint

Unit of weight current in the antique town of Troy

Unit of weight current in the medieval town of Troyes in France

Weight invented by Heinrich Schliemann for fine measurements when excavating Troy

The word is linked to the idea of 'three' and is related to the Russian troika

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Question 7 of 10

7. The Biblical Story of Noah and the Flood is not a unique story historically. There is another story about survivors of a flood in another civilization. Which one? Hint

Assyrian

Hittites

Sumerian

Babylonian

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Question 8 of 10

8. France is usually very proud of their 'fashion-designers'. Yet some of their great designers were actually born 'in the wrong country'. One of them was Pierre Cardin who was born outside France, where ? Hint

Oran, Algeria

Casablanca, Morocco

Liege, Belgium

Venice, Italy

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Question 9 of 10

9. When Columbus 'discovered' America he was actually in the service of a King that was not his own King. Born in Genoa, he first had offered his services to the Portuguese King, but had finally found more support at the Spanish court. Who was the other explorer who did exactly the same thing? Hint

Bartholomeo Diaz

Vasco da Gama

Hernando de Soto

Ferdinand Magellan

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Question 10 of 10

10. And well yes in June 1815, Copenhagen went to Brussels to take part in the Battle of Waterloo. But who or what was Copenhagen ? Hint

Wellington's Danish cook

Napoleon's best gunsmith

The Duke of Wellington's horse

Napoleon's most experienced orderly

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. The Celtic tribes in Scotland were called Picti or Painted People by the Romans. Do you also know what colour they painted themselves?

Answer: Blue

2. The Chinese called their own Empire the Middle Kingdom. What did they mean by that?

Answer: Kingdom right in the middle of barbarians in all wind directions

Europeans were the worst barbarians in their opinion.

Answer: Greyfriars

The Greyfriars were Franciscans. - Friars Preachers and Blackfriars were alternative names in England for Dominicans.-In France another name for the Dominicans was :'Jacobins.'

Answer: New Orleans

At Pensacola, the British had moved on already before the USA troops arrived. - Topeka and Horseshoebend are different names for same campaign in 1813-14 against the Creeks.

5. Of which Russian ruler was it said that he or she tried to make Germans or Englishmen of his subjects rather than Russians?

Answer: Peter the Great

It was Jean Jacques Rousseau who said this about Peter the Great.

6. For precise measurements of small weights we use the term 'troy'. What is its historic origin?

Answer: Unit of weight current in the medieval town of Troyes in France

7. The Biblical Story of Noah and the Flood is not a unique story historically. There is another story about survivors of a flood in another civilization. Which one?

Answer: Sumerian

It's called the 'Gilgamesh' epic.

Answer: Venice, Italy

Cardin was born in 1922. He designed the film costumes for Cocteau's 'Beauty and the Beast' in 1946. Later he even worked for the People's Republic of China. - Another 'French' designer not born in France was Yves Saint Laurent born at Oran , Algeria.

Answer: Ferdinand Magellan

Hernando de Soto(1500 - 1542), was a Spanish explorer who served under Pisarro in Peru. He was made Governor of Cuba by the Emperor Charles V, he also explored Florida. He died near the banks of the Mississippi. Bartholomeo Diaz was the first European to round the Cape of Good Hope in 1488.

He himself, more realistically, called it Cabo Tormentoso. In his opinion it was a Cape of Storms. Ferdinand Magellan.(1480-1520), was a Portuguese navigator. He fell in disgrace with the Portuguese King. He then offered his services to the King of Spain.

He sailed around Patagonia and, entered what's now called the Straits of Magellan. He then sailed on across the Pacific and got killed while getting involved in a fight between natives in the Philippines.

The remaining crew returned to Spain on Sept. 6, 1522, thus completing the first ever voyage around the world. Vasco da Gama (1469-1524), was the first European to journey by sea to India. His voyage started in 1497 with 4 vessels. He reached the Cape of Good Hope, and differently than Diaz, he sailed on across the Indian Ocean to Calcutta.

His sea journey became the subject of the Portuguese national epic 'Os Lusiadas', by Luis Camoes.

10. And well yes in June 1815, Copenhagen went to Brussels to take part in the Battle of Waterloo. But who or what was Copenhagen ?

Answer: The Duke of Wellington's horse

Source: Author flem-ish

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