The history game

[William]

As most of us are at school I thought this game might be cool. I saw this on another board.

In this game, you have to describe an historical event, or person, (no movies, or movie actors, or sports personalities - it has to be genuinely historical) in 35 words, or less, and the person who guesses it correctly, gets the next turn.

Can I start?

This battle occurred in late 19th century Africa. 150 Soldiers defeated an attacking Zulu force of 4,000. It resulted in the greatest number of Victoria Crosses awarded in any battle.

[William]

I guess nobody's intrested. Oh well!

[Paul_UK]

It's an interesting idea, but maybe a bit too intellectual for some of us? Or maybe it's too close to school work for people to think about in their spare time?

It's a long time since i did history at school and have forgotten most of it, so have absolutely no idea. :(

[suburbs_of_sodom]

I actually love history, and it's a good idea for a fun ongoing thread, but I have no idea what that could be...my school had to cramp colonialism into about a month so we really just kind of focused on India and Africa as a whole...

[Merc]

The Battle of Rorke's Drift?

[William]

The Battle of Rorke's Drift?

Yay, she's right! Good on yer! It's your turn now.:icon_smil

[Proud1p4]

Yeah Willie, i was looking at this thread, but when i tried to be smart for a sec for some reason all i can think about is shopping lol. Maybe when school starts ill dust off my brain but not before. It's happy vegging out and i intend to keep it that way.

[step49x]

Yah, maybe if the history events were a little easier, you could get more of us to play. I'm not a huge history buff [or major, as i'm in college], so I'm kind of limited on what I know...

[Merc]

Er... I really have no ideas... someone else want to take a stab at a description? :icon_redf

[William]

Er... I really have no ideas... someone else want to take a stab at a description? :icon_redf

OK, but if ppl find even that easy question about Rorke's Drift too hard ... I dunno. :confused:

Here's a really, really easy one.

What was the name of the war in which the USA tried to invade Canada and failed three times?

[suburbs_of_sodom]

ummm...was it the war of 1812?

I'm probably completely off, but I'm not in school yet so I haven't done history in 3 months...

[William]

ummm...was it the war of 1812?

I'm probably completely off, but I'm not in school yet so I haven't done history in 3 months...

Hey, ur right! Great, it's ur turn now. :icon_smil

[suburbs_of_sodom]

YAY!! That makes me happy :icon_bigg.

Ok, here's a fairly easy one. In 1620, a group of British set sail from Holland, heading for Jamestown, Virginia, but found themselves about 300 miles off.

[William]

YAY!! That makes me happy :icon_bigg.

Ok, here's a fairly easy one. In 1620, a group of British set sail from Holland, heading for Jamestown, Virginia, but found themselves about 300 miles off.

But wot's the question? :icon_smil

[suburbs_of_sodom]

Just the event :).

[joeyconnick]

YAY!! That makes me happy :icon_bigg.

Ok, here's a fairly easy one. In 1620, a group of British set sail from Holland, heading for Jamestown, Virginia, but found themselves about 300 miles off.Total random guess: landing at Plymouth Rock?

[suburbs_of_sodom]

Total random guess: landing at Plymouth Rock?

Yes, exactly! Now it's your turn.

[William]

Yes, exactly! Now it's your turn.

Joey is right, but your clue was totally wrong. :eek:

Ok, here's a fairly easy one. In 1620, a group of British set sail from Holland, heading for Jamestown, Virginia, but found themselves about 300 miles off.

The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth which is a UK port on the 6th of September, 1620. :icon_smil

[suburbs_of_sodom]

Ok, well then I guess I have a pretty crappy history teacher...the way she taught it made it sound like they left directly from holland without stopping in England.

But my clue wasn't totally off the mark, since the Puritans probably didn't make a very long stay in England, seeing as how the reason they went to Holland in the frist place was to flee religious persecution in England. It was a perfect plan...except they didn't quite take into account the fact that there might actually be Dutch people there.

[William]

Ok, well then I guess I have a pretty crappy history teacher...the way she taught it made it sound like they left directly from holland without stopping in England.

But my clue wasn't totally off the mark, since the Puritans probably didn't make a very long stay in England, seeing as how the reason they went to Holland in the frist place was to flee religious persecution in England. It was a perfect plan...except they didn't quite take into account the fact that there might actually be Dutch people there.

LOL! Your history teacher is even more crappy than you think. Most of the pilgrims aboard the Mayflower were English who had never set foot in Holland. You may be confusing them with the bulk of the Scrooby Separatists who settled in Holland. :icon_smil

On 6 September 1620 the Mayflower set sail for America with 102 passengers. Of those, only about 40 were from the separatist community in Holland.

http://brownellfamily.rootsweb.com/Pilgrims1.html

[suburbs_of_sodom]

LOL! Your history teacher is even more crappy than you think. Most of the pilgrims aboard the Mayflower were English who had never set foot in Holland. You may be confusing them with the bulk of the Scrooby Separatists who settled in Holland. :icon_smil

Yeah, but the passengers who were really important were the Puritans, since the colony of Plymouth (and later Massachusetts once Massachusetts Bay joined with them) was run by Puritans and very intolerant of other religions, and even other Christian protestant denominations. Which is somewhat ironic seeing as how Massachusetts is one of the most liberal states today and the only one to allow full gay marriage...i guess all the fugitives and societal rejects finally took over :icon_bigg.

[William]

Yeah, but the passengers who were really important were the Puritans, since the colony of Plymouth (and later Massachusetts once Massachusetts Bay joined with them) was run by Puritans and very intolerant of other religions, and even other Christian protestant denominations. Which is somewhat ironic seeing as how Massachusetts is one of the most liberal states today and the only one to allow full gay marriage...i guess all the fugitives and societal rejects finally took over :icon_bigg.

Well you are right about the Puritans being the most important group, but (and I'm ashamed to say it) most of them came from England. They were complete nutters and hated by the other Protestants, who couldn't wait to see their arses disappear over the horizen. They weren't so much escaping religious intolerance as promoting it. :lol:

[joeyconnick]

Joey is right, but your clue was totally wrong. :eek:Isn't it amazing how that can be?

*grin*

I'm not actually this pompous in real life...

Okay, guess it's me:

The Canadian government branded as enemy combatants and interned [which group of people, most of whom had been Canadians for 2 or 3 generations] living in [what Canadian province] during WWII, taking possession of all their property and fishing fleets.

Bonus question: what unlikely Act did which Canadian Prime Minister invoke during the FLQ crisis in the 1970s?

Super-bonus question: what year did the same Canadian Prime Minister (then Justice Minister) decriminalise homosexuality in Canada and why is that date significant in light of American accounts of the history of the gay rights movement?

[William]

Isn't it amazing how that can be?

*grin*

I'm not actually this pompous in real life...

Okay, guess it's me:

The Canadian government branded as enemy combatants and interned [which group of people, most of whom had been Canadians for 2 or 3 generations] living in [what Canadian province] during WWII, taking possession of all their property and fishing fleets.

Bonus question: what unlikely Act did which Canadian Prime Minister invoke during the FLQ crisis in the 1970s?

Super-bonus question: what year did the same Canadian Prime Minister (then Justice Minister) decriminalise homosexuality in Canada and why is that date significant in light of American accounts of the history of the gay rights movement?

35 words or less ... ? This ain't a TV quiz show! :lol:

[Flash]

1. The Japanese in British Columbia
2. The War Measures Act
3. 1985

Do I pass the test, LOL?

[joeyconnick]

1. The Japanese in British Columbia
2. The War Measures Act
3. 1985

Do I pass the test, LOL?Just about but not quite. Your answer to 3 is incorrect.

Oh yeah... and you didn't mention who invoked the War Measures Act during the FLQ crisis.

But much better than anyone else so far. :)

[TriBi]

Well...

Going on logic - and the clues you have given...

I didn't think that homosexuality was decriminalised that early in Canada...

But your "why is that date significant in light of American accounts of the history of the gay rights movement?" immediately made me think "Stonewall"...which was 1969.

...and, sure enough, when I used Google to check...that was the year.:icon_bigg

I'm not claiming any prizes tho'...(anyhow I'm lousy at history)...let Flash have that honour!

[Flash]

The War Measures Act was invoked by Pierre Elliott Trudeau. And I am sorry I was wrong about the date... I should have known that one, LOL. Thanks to my buddy TriBi for passing the next question on to me...

My question is: What famous historical figure said "Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."?

[William]

The War Measures Act was invoked by Pierre Elliott Trudeau. And I am sorry I was wrong about the date... I should have known that one, LOL. Thanks to my buddy TriBi for passing the next question on to me...

My question is: What famous historical figure said "Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."?

It was Thomas Edison, but he said "Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration." :icon_smil

[Flash]

OMG, I've been upstaged by a thirteen year old! :lol: Willie, you are absolutely right and I should have checked my quote before I posted it... but the good news is that you just showed us all that you young guys DO have things you can teach us older dudes, LOL! The torch is passed to Master Willie for the next question...
(*hug*)

[William]

OMG, I've been upstaged by a thirteen year old! :lol: Willie, you are absolutely right and I should have checked my quote before I posted it... but the good news is that you just showed us all that you young guys DO have things you can teach us older dudes, LOL! The torch is passed to Master Willie for the next question...
(*hug*)

LOL, thanks! No I just got lucky, coz that is the favourite quote of one of my teachers, and he's always spouting it. :icon_bigg

OK, there's a small trick to this question so be careful -

Name the last battle of the Civil War.

[TriBi]

errr...which "civil war"?

Presuming you mean the American Civil War, it was the battle of Palmito Ranch - which took place more than a month after Gen. Robert E Lee surrendered.

(I know bugger all about history, but I DO know how to use Google!)
http://www.qsl.net/w5www/palmito.html

[William]

errr...which "civil war"?

Presuming you mean the American Civil War, it was the battle of Palmito Ranch - which took place more than a month after Gen. Robert E Lee surrendered.

(I know bugger all about history, but I DO know how to use Google!)
http://www.qsl.net/w5www/palmito.html

Oh sorry, no, I meant the English Civil War. (That was the trick, coz everyone just assumes the Civil War means the American Civil War. :icon_bigg)

[suburbs_of_sodom]

Oh...we were just doing the English civil war...ugh, we didn't go over any of the battles though, seeing as how the course is called AP United States History...that's really tricky...

[Flash]

This is a long shot (no pun intended... :lol: ) but I think it was the battle of Worcester in 1651.

[William]

This is a long shot (no pun intended... :lol: ) but I think it was the battle of Worcester in 1651.

Yep. Nice one - it's your turn. :icon_bigg

[Flash]

Which two members of the family of Tsar Nicholas ll have not been found and identified by DNA testing?

[joeyconnick]

Which two members of the family of Tsar Nicholas ll have not been found and identified by DNA testing?Well one will be Anastasia, I assume.

[William]

The Princess Anastasia and the Prince Alexei?

[Flash]

You are both wrong about the Grand Duchess Anastasia; she was identified and buried with her family. However, Willie is correct about the Tsarevich Alexei, who has so far not been identified... now anyone want to try again for the other member of the Imperial family not found yet?

[William]

You are both wrong about the Grand Duchess Anastasia; she was identified and buried with her family. However, Willie is correct about the Tsarevich Alexei, who has so far not been identified... now anyone want to try again for the other member of the Imperial family not found yet?

Well, I'm not sure there is another unidentified skeleton. One of the remains has been identified to 98.5% certainty as those of Czar Nicholas II, and all the others to 100% certaintly by DNA testing. I didn't know they had found Anastasia.

But no one got it right so it's ur turn again. :icon_smil

[Flash]

Willie, you are right about the remains found being fully identified by DNA, however, there were no remains found for the Tsarevitch Alexei and the Grand Duchess Maria. The Grand Duchess Anastasia was positively identified. Now, as for the next question...

What European monarch is sometimes referred to as the "Fairy Tale King", and committed suicide by drowning?

[Paul_UK]

Ludwig II of Bavaria

OK, I cheated by typing "fairy tale king" drowning into Google and finding this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_II_of_Bavaria

Assuming I'm right, I'll let Willie set the next question as my history knowledge is virtually zero and I am gonna be away for the next week or two.

[Flash]

Hehehe... Paul, ya big cheat! :lol: Yes, you're right, it was Ludwig II of Bavaria. Okay, Willie... set the next question, and let's get some more of you interested in keeping this thread alive.

[William]

Hehehe... Paul, ya big cheat! :lol: Yes, you're right, it was Ludwig II of Bavaria. Okay, Willie... set the next question, and let's get some more of you interested in keeping this thread alive.

OK, (thanks Paul)!

What was the name of the famous tactic that Admiral Lord Nelson used in winning the Battle of Trafalgar?

[Bryan90]

There is a name to it?! He just sent his vessels straight into the enemy's fleet right?

[William]

There is a name to it?! He just sent his vessels straight into the enemy's fleet right?

No he did something very unusual for the time, and there is a name for it. Hint: it includes the word 'crossing'... :icon_smil

[Miaplacidus]

Well, finally, eight months after the last post... I answer.

The technique was "Crossing the T"

[Miaplacidus]

He was born in 1638 and died in 1715. His mother was Anne of Austria and there's a famous painting of him by Hyacinte Rigaud.

[24601]

King Louis XIV, the Sun King.

[crimsonarcher]

interesting...

[Miaplacidus]

He was born in 1878 and died in 1953, his childhood nickname was Soso, he was relatively short (5' 6") but wanted to be taller, and he called himself a man of steel.

[24601]

Who else but Joseph Stalin? Man of steel gives it away.

[24601]

I'm pretty sure I'm right, so...

A disciple of the philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this "incorruptible" man died of the same terror he had wrought in Paris, 1794.

[Miaplacidus]

Right!

[Miaplacidus]

Maximilien de Robespierre?

[24601]

Yup. I think we're the only ones playing this game, haha... No wonder it died.

Second in command of the British navy and known as "El Dragón" by many Spanish speaking peoples, this man won his knighthood for his crimes and died of dysentery in 1596.

[Negasta]

Sir Francis Drake

This republic was twice annexed by the British. First in 1877 and then given independence in 1881 and then annexed for a second time in 1902.

[davo-man]

South African Republic?....im pretty sure thats right but im terrible at history...

Began on Black Tuesday, Oct 29 1929 and affected pretty much the entire world. Began in America

[Negasta]

The Great Depression

South African Republic?...

Correct, it was the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR)/South African Republic

Q: This event took place in Germany at the end of June 1934, during which many prominent figures in the ruling party were murdered.

[Miaplacidus]

The Night of the Long Knives, when at least eighty-five people, mostly members of the Sturm Abteilung (SA), including its leader Ernst Roehm (who by the way was gay), were killed by members of the SS (Schutzstaffel) on Hitler's orders.

[Miaplacidus]

I'm pretty sure it's right so I'll ask the following question.

Just one phrase:
Carthago delenda est. (Carthage must be destroyed)

That should be enough.

[24601]

I know you're talking about the Punic Wars... probably the third.

I didn't think the line was exactly like that, though... but I'm pretty sure Cato said something like that.

So I'll guess Marcus Porcius Cato, although that might be wrong.

Edit: I googled it and know I'm right now. But I don't have a next question, so someone else post one.

[Negasta]

Q: The most powerful weapon ever created (name, time and place of deployment)

[Rette]

Hmm, it was a Russian H-bomb, if I'm not mistaken? late 50s or early 60s? I can't think of any of the details though! Damn!

[Miaplacidus]

Tsar Bomba, an H-bomb tested on October 30th, 1961 in Novaya Zemlya, then USSR.

Here are some photos I found on the net:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Tsarbomb.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/TB0063.jpg

Ryan: Yes, it was Cato.

[Double Dubya]

^^ Holy $hit

[Miaplacidus]

Probably the most skilled liar ever, she tricked a cardinal on buying a diamond necklace for Queen Marie Antoinette of France - but she didn't even know the Queen, and of course, she stole the necklace.

[Jerr]

Tsar Bomba, an H-bomb tested on October 30th, 1961 in Novaya Zemlya, then USSR.

Russia=<3

[Double Dubya]

Probably the most skilled liar ever, she tricked a cardinal on buying a diamond necklace for Queen Marie Antoinette of France - but she didn't even know the Queen, and of course, she stole the necklace.

Jeanne de Saint-Rémy de Valois

[Double Dubya]

He was born, a Count, at Dresden to the wealthiest family in Germany at the time. He was a German religious and social reformer and bishop of the Moravian Church. In 1736 he was banished from Saxony, but later the government begged him to come back, he made Village of Hernhut at his estate. In America ee was known for his work in Salem, and relation to the Quakers.


He is also nine times my grandfather:king:

[Miaplacidus]

Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf.

[Miaplacidus]

"My authority comes from you, and it ceases before your sovereign presence"

[davo-man]

José Gervasio Artigas

How appropriate for you fred..hehe

"was a poet and calligrapher. Born on the day after Christmas. Authored a famous little red book"

[24601]

Mao Zedong

Facing starvation in a land not their own, many men died trying to fight their way out via the western causeway called Tlacopan, in this bloody night.

This might be too vague.

[davo-man]

you are.....CORRECT

[Miaplacidus]

Mao Zedong

Facing starvation in a land not their own, many men died trying to fight their way out via the western causeway called Tlacopan, in this bloody night.

This might be too vague.

The Spanish army commanded by Hernan Cortes. La Noche Triste.

[Miaplacidus]

He found Rome brick and left it marble.

[Miaplacidus]

It seems that you need more clues.

He won the Battle of Actium.

[Rette]

Caesar Augustus, then?

[Miaplacidus]

Right!

[Rette]

I think we need something a little more contemporary this time.

This festival was the event where Bob Dylan first went electric (known as the "Electric Dylan Controversy")

[Miaplacidus]

The Newport Folk Festival, July 25th, 1965.

[Miaplacidus]

An American who used an office named after a geometric shape, had trouble with a well-known newspaper, and signed a treaty "named after a condiment". A Russian with a monobrow who liked Cuban cigars and fine suits also signed that treaty.

[Miaplacidus]

He resigned because of what a man who shared his nickname with a sexual practice said, and he was replaced in office by a man who shares his surname with a car. He shared his name with a character from The Simpsons who wears glasses.

[Rette]

Oh, of course! It's Nixon!

This 1951 film is the only film for which Humphrey Bogart won an Academy award. (He won the award for Best Actor)

[Miaplacidus]

The African Queen.

[Miaplacidus]

She's an actress born in England. She married the same guy, also an actor, twice.