Trivial Pursuit, history edition?

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I think we should have informal ideas of how many questions we want from each period.
 
You are the history major, any opinion?  Say there are 4800 questions, would you have half or more come from the 568 A.D. time frame on? 
 
Oi, I'm a history student too! :P

I'd suggest we just get going with drafts for questions. We will obviously see a tendency soon.
 
wasted155 said:
You are the history major, any opinion?  Say there are 4800 questions, would you have half or more come from the 568 A.D. time frame on? 
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I'd say it'd be hard to have more than a quarter from prehistory and ancient history.  But Perun's major (if I recall correctly) focusses far more ancient than mine does - which is more modern than anything.
Perun said:
Oi, I'm a history student too! :P

I'd suggest we just get going with drafts for questions. We will obviously see a tendency soon.
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I'm sitting next to a book called "100 Speeches That Changed History".  Guess which category I am starting with.
 
My ex-major was Prehistory and general history.

Now, it's shifted slightly...
 
Sorry, Perun, I should have known!  ( I have read some of your Random Trivia questions.)  :blush:
 
LooseCannon said:
I'd say it'd be hard to have more than a quarter from prehistory and ancient history.  But Perun's major (if I recall correctly) focusses far more ancient than mine does - which is more modern than anything.
I'm sitting next to a book called "100 Speeches That Changed History".  Guess which category I am starting with.
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I am guessing you are really enjoying the Famous Quotes catagory.  Course, from looking back, I could answer "Churchill" to most and be right.  ;)

Perun said:
No worries, mate ;)
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Thanks!  -- so what is your major now?  Is it for a graduate degree?
 
I am currently studying Iranistics which more or less evenly splits between linguistic, cultural and historical studies of Iran, although my personal interest is primarily the history. I'm studying for a B.A. degree, and afterwards will go for M.A. in Peace And Conflict Studies.

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Here's a sample question I just came up with:


What is the first 'cultural epoch' in human history commonly called?

Oldowan, named after the discovery site of the earliest known tools, the Olduvai Gorge in East Africa.
 
That is very cool and very over my head.  I often wish I had taken more classes in history-- it can be far more interesting than international marketing plans.
 
I particularly enjoy the reactions of the people whom I tell what I study. There's three types:

-They know what I'm talking about and think it's cool.
-They know what I'm talking about and ask me if I already blew up something.
-They have no fucking clue what I'm talking about.
 
Ha!  I can understand the basis of what you are doing, even if I know little to anything about the subject matter.  It makes sense that to understand a peoples history and culture, you would need to understand the language.  Or, any one of the three for the other two. Hm.

Did someone really ask you that about blowing up?
 
wasted155 said:
Did someone really ask you that about blowing up?
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That's the second-most frequent question after "what the hell is that?". And I'm not even kidding.
 
1. Who said, "Alea iacta est. (The die is cast.)"?
- Julius Caesar
2. According to Shakespeare, who facetiously stated that, "Brutus is an honourable man"?
- Mark Antony
3. Who said, "It is time now to depart - for me to die, for you to live.  But which of us is going to a better state is unknown to everyone but God."
- Socrates
4. Who said, "At the centre of nonviolence stands the principle of love"?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
5. Who said, "The state has no business in the bedroom of the nation"?
- Pierre Elliot Trudeau
6. Who said, "Space is there, and we're going to climb it"?
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
7. What was the first sentence Neil Armstrong said from the surface of the moon?
- "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
 
Perun said:
That's the second-most frequent question after "what the hell is that?". And I'm not even kidding.
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That is mind blowing.  People are funny.

@ LC... I would have gotten 3 of them-- I couldn't even touch Perun's question.
 
1, 3, & 7.
Tho, I was guessing on #1.

Who said the phrase "Peccavi" , meanning "I have sinned."

Sir Charles Napier, after the conquest of Sind.
 
LooseCannon said:
7. What was the first sentence Neil Armstrong said from the surface of the moon?
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Beat ya, Buzz! :P


Seriously, though, I got nos 1, 2, 4 and 7. I knew nos 5 and 6, but didn't know who said them.

I'll try to tackle the "locations" category:



1. What is the name of the short-lived capital of the Mughal Empire that was abandoned only 14 years after its founding due to difficult water supply?

Fatehpur Sikri

2. Where are the remains of St James reputedly buried?

Santiago de Compostela

3. The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán was situated on an island in the centre of which -now completely vanished- lake?

Lake Texcoco

4. What historical rank did the modern cities Trier (Germany), Milan (Italy), Sremska Mitrovica (Serbia) and İzmit (Turkey) share?

They were the four capitals of the Roman Empire during the tetrarchy (293-313), Augusta Treveorum, Mediolanum, Sirmium and Nicomedia.

5. Where were the ancient kingdoms of Iberia and Albania located?

The Caucasus

6. Where did the first documented Viking raid take place?

Lindisfarne, an island off the coast of Northumberland.

7. What modern-day southern African country takes its name from an ancient city in its territory?

Zimbabwe
 
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