Impossible History Trivia: Mixed World History | 10 Questions

Answer: 't Serclaes

Yes indeed. General Tilly was born in 1559 in Brabant, and fought in the Army of Flanders, later commanding the Catholic League. He occupied Upper Austria, crushed the Bohemian Revolt, and was victorious against Denmark and Sweden. What a guy!

Answer: By God, sir, so you have.

This was the Iron Duke's iron, not to say callous response to his aide's misfortune at Waterloo.

Answer: 1386

Grand Duke Jogaila, the country's last pagan ruler, was baptised in 1386, thus completing the conversion of Europe outside the Balkans.

Answer: Henri II

Henry VIII's major rival and competitor, Francois or Francis II of France (displaying the talent for obsessive literalism in names for which the French are famed), died a few short weeks after the overweight Anglo-Welshman. He was succeeded by Henri II.

Answer: Herbert

born in Berlin on 28th December 1849, Prince Herbert von Bismarck married Marguerite Gfn Hoyos in Vienna in 1892 and snuffed it in Friedrichsruh on 18th September 1904. By the way, the other choices were his first, second and third names.

Answer: 12 July 1944

Roosevelt served as Governor of Puerto Rico from 1929 to 1932 and governor general of the Philippines in 1932 and 1933, both appointed posts. He won the Medal of Hono(u)r for his actions on D-Day (June 6, 1944), when he led troops ashore at Utah Beach, in France.

He died of a heart attack in France on July 12. He was known as the Party Mushroom, because he was such a fun-gi. (The last part was a lie).

Answer: Kawara

Emperor of Ethiopia and originally named Kasa or Lij Kasa, he was a commoner and a bold and clever warrior. He seized control of his native province, Kawara (in NW Ethiopia), in 1842 and steadily fought his way to the throne. At first he attempted to abolish slavery and to encourage trade.

In his last years, however, he became unrestrainedly cruel. In 1868, embroiled in a dispute with Great Britain over his imprisonment of British subjects, he committed suicide after being defeated near Magdala by a British rescue force under Robert C. Napier. So there.

Answer: Marcello Caetano

After studying at the Univ. of Coimbra, he became professor of political economy there. Profoundly religious, Salazar was the leader of a political group committed to putting into action the social principles expressed in the encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII.

After the military coup of 1926 Salazar was briefly minister of finance, and in 1928 he was recalled to office by Gen. A. de F Carmona. Given the full financial control that he demanded, he put Portuguese finances on a stable footing for the first time in the C20.

As premier after 1932, Salazar was generally considered a dictator. Political opposition was effectively suppressed. Salazar supported the Nationalists during the Spanish civil war but he maintained relations with Portugal's traditional ally, Britain.

In his final years he devoted considerable resources to the attempt to suppress revolts in Portugal's African colonies. In 1968, Salazar suffered a severe stroke.

Answer: Samsu-iluna

In the reign of Samsu-iluna, the Kassites first invaded the country. Although Samsu-iluna succeeded in beating them off, the Kassites continued to infiltrate Babylonia in the centuries that followed. Samsu-iluna suffered another serious setback when a rebel leader, Iluma-ilum, founded a dynasty in the southern Babylonian district, bordering on the Persian Gulf, commonly known as the Sea-land. Which was nice.

Answer: True

Born about 688; died at Quierzy on the Oise, 21 October, 741. He was the natural son of Pepin of Herstal. He proclaimed the Merovingian Clotaire IV King of Austrasia, reserving for himself the title of Mayor of the Palace. In 725 and 728 Charles went into Bavaria, where the Agilolfing dukes had gradually rendered themselves independent, and re-established Frankish suzerainty.

He also brought thence the Princess Suanehilde, who seems to have become his mistress. He died after having divided the Frankish Empire, as a patrimony between his two sons, Carloman and Pepin.

His other son, by Sonnechilde (or Suanehilde) was named Griffon, and was defeated by his half-brothers in his attempt to rule.