Famous Lasts #1

Even in Spanish, that means "He you," which doesn't make much sense. The Spanish translation would by "Y tu, Brute?"

For more on this subject see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8

Did the quiz used to say his name was Brut?

So few people? Probably because nobody bought one, which is the reason why it was Sega's last console.

I new it was dream-something, tried dreamcube though I knew that wasnt it haha, but try stuff while thinking. I also thought something else starting dream- forget already (surely not dreamworks, or dreamtheathre..), but since I wasn't sure, I thought it would be best to move on first.

It's 20%. I was wondering how so many people got it. I knew it was related to video games but not even sure what a console was, let alone that they had names.

I tried Nikolai too but eventually got Nicholas. Gorbachev was harder. I started with Gorbatsov and tried all the possible spellings I could think of, but not the right one.

I agree completely. Mardi Gras is how it is known to most people.

I was surprised so few got it.

Really? Was that necessary? Besides, we call it Mardi Gras, which is FRENCH for Fat Tuesday. We don't typically call it Fat Tuesday. But the name is not totally inappropriate since it is the feast before the fast. Why do you have to turn this into a hateful thing??? *shakes my head*

Furthermore, after doing some reading, I see that in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, Shrove Tuesday is also commonly known as "Pancake Day" or "Pancake Tuesday" due to the tradition of eating pancakes on the day. Yet I won't reduce myself to your level and call anyone obese.

Technically, yes...but Edgar was elected shortly after the Battle of Hastings, which is considered the time at which William the Conqueror took control of England.

If we don't include Edgar Ætheling, then Edward the Confessor would be the last Saxon king. Harold II, although he was the Earl of Wessex (Wessex being short for West Saxons) was not from the House of Wessex. Harold was from the House of Godwin, and was only related to Edward by Edward's marriage to Harold's sister, Edith. (though Harold's ancestry is unclear beyond his grandfather, some historians say Æthelred I, a brother of Alfred the Great, (Alfred being Edward's ancestor) was an ancestor to Harold, although this is very unlikely.)

I second that

Yeah but nobody really counts Cursed Child anyway.

The belief in its existence was quite firm, but nobody actually went there and the maps are pure speculation.

History of Antarctica

I read through 1421: The Year China Discovered America, by Gavin Menzies. It was quite the entertaining yarn, and, included among its many outlandish claims, was the one that Chinese sailors actually made it to Antarctica around the same time that he proposes they landed in the New World, shortly before the Chinese, fearing they had lost the mandate of heaven, burned all evidence of these expeditions.

but, entertaining as the book was, it is almost universally regarded as complete bunk by serious historians.

no it was urghh

Yeah, we are getting one less quiz per day now! I feel the loss… maybe we can have an extra quiz featured daily from some of the top user quiz makers. Like a super spotlight for the top 30 or so quiz makers.

Indeed, the quiz is wrong - drummers are the first gift on the 12th day, not the last.

This came up in a pub quiz I did once, the quizmaster gave his answer as "Apocalypse" which not one attendee had ever heard of, including me. Meanwhile the quizmaster had never heard of either Revelation or Revelations!