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History General Knowledge #10

Can you answer these random history questions?
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First submittedJanuary 9, 2015
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Which English King fought in the Crusades and battled against Saladin?
Richard the Lionheart
What creature was often used for the medical treatment of bloodletting?
Leeches
What plant, imported from the New World, changed the face of Italian cooking?
Tomato
What notorious leader had a similar style mustache to Charlie Chaplin?
Adolf Hitler
What country was known as the CCCP in its own language?
USSR
What composer died while composing a requiem in 1791?
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
What fur-trading company, founded in 1670, once owned about 1/3rd of Canada's land?
Hudson's Bay
Company
What was the de-facto state religion of the Achaemenid Persian empire?
hint: starts with Z
Zoroastrianism
What type of craft was the Hindenburg?
Zeppelin
Who famously wore a pink Chanel suit and matching pillbox hat on a fateful day in 1963?
Jackie Kennedy
What African country did Italy invade in 1935?
Ethiopia
What was discovered at Sutter's Mill in California in 1848?
Gold
Who was killed in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914?
Franz Ferdinand
What German kingdom was ruled by Ludwig II, builder of the famous
Neuschwanstein castle?
Bavaria
What modern-day country was at one time personally owned (and abused) by
King Leopold of Belgium?
D .R. Congo
What Maoist economic program resulted in a famine that killed at least 20 million people?
Great Leap
Forward
What city did the Nazis besiege for 872 days but never capture?
Leningrad
What group, established after WWI, was a failed predecessor to the United Nations?
League of Nations
What facial hair style was made famous by American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside?
Sideburns
What industrialist became the world's first dollar billionaire - thanks to his
monopoly on the U.S. oil industry?
John D. Rockefeller
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36 Comments
steb26
+4
Level 54
Apr 24, 2015
Can you include mutton chops as an answer for facial hair? It's describing a similar thing I feel.
ayjayh
+1
Level 67
Feb 6, 2016
Agreed. That was my first try as well.
Quizmaster
+13
Level ∞
Feb 21, 2017
Mutton chop will work now, but I feel like the correct answer is obvious. Burnside. Sideburns. :)
dunkinggandalf2
+12
Level 69
Apr 23, 2021
What about Welsh general Gareth Chopmutton?
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Jun 4, 2023
Belgian general Hercule Patchsoul.
mpmusic
+2
Level 57
Sep 3, 2015
Burnsides had mutton chops. He made the style popular and in the late 1870s, people started calling them "burnsides." It wasn't until after his death that the whiskers were known as "sideburns."
ponnuki
+15
Level 58
Sep 4, 2015
The USSR was not called CCCP in Russian. The Cyrillic letters *look* that way to our eyes, but the correct name would be SSSR.
Thorvald
+1
Level 71
Sep 10, 2015
Second that
Djilas
+1
Level 83
Apr 10, 2017
If it's written in Russian, it's CCCP, nothing wrong with the description.
eibi
+4
Level 80
Jan 17, 2018
The CCCP part of the question is totally fine, but it should be just "CCCP" and not "the CCCP" since there is no article - definitely no definite one - in Russian, and even if there were one, it wouldn't be "the" since Russian has neither the "th" nor the "h" sound.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Jan 18, 2018
The cyrillic letters look similar to roman letters but ponnuki is correct.
mrputter
+3
Level 83
Mar 26, 2023
So here's the thing.

If we want to be entirely, technically, correct, we could be asking what country was known as СССР in Russian.

Note that I wrote "СССР" in the previous paragraph, not "CCCP". Can you see the difference? Change the webpage encoding in your browser to something that doesn't support unicode (e.g.: ANSI). Now can you see the difference?

Without people jumping through stupid hoops like the above (which there is absolutely no reason for them to do), there's no way for them to know which of the two the Quizmaster originally put into the quiz. Yes, it's technically incorrect to use the Latin characters C (cee) and P (pee) instead of the Cyrillic characters С (эсс) and Р (эрь) there, but really? Really???

McLerristarr
+1
Level 62
Sep 4, 2015
Can you accept "zepplin"? I always forget that there's another E in there.
sperky117
+1
Level 47
Sep 4, 2015
How about muttonchops for Ambrose Burnside?
brandybuck96
+3
Level 83
Oct 28, 2015
Is sideburns not the most obvious answer... considering his name??
OneMoreDown
+1
Level 49
Sep 7, 2015
Todd: "... Mutton chops or goatee?"

Guard: "Uhhhh, mutton chops my lord?"

Todd: "No, shoot yourself in the head".

dragonlife
+1
Level 37
Feb 21, 2018
Dirgible should be allowed for the Hindenburg question.
Kalleanon
+3
Level 66
Apr 30, 2021
No, it shouldn't. Dirigible, on the other hand, could be.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Jun 4, 2023
In fact, dirigible is allowed as is airship and blimp.
cornflakesfu
+8
Level 87
Jun 5, 2018
I always wonder what Italian cuisine was like before the tomato. Seems hard to imagine today.
Algernon
+2
Level 73
Jun 7, 2018
"Hudson" is not acceptable? Not even "Hudson bay company"! Really?
kalbahamut
+4
Level 81
Aug 28, 2019
Hudson Bay works.
YantheMan
+1
Level 66
Apr 28, 2021
I can't imagine why just "Hudson" should work
luceah11
+2
Level 27
Apr 23, 2021
Seeing as 'Leningrad' is an option for St Petersburg, 'Abyssinia' should be an option for Ethiopia
evilcheeser
+1
Level 74
Mar 14, 2022
wat
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jun 4, 2023
Abyssinia would have worked if you tried it.
Hdny42
+4
Level 64
Apr 23, 2021
Michael Jordan should be acceptable for the Chaplin mustache one.
Caro101
+1
Level 37
Apr 23, 2021
When you can't spell Zoroastrianism...
AnnikaKim
+1
Level 64
Jun 24, 2021
I hear you. I knew it was about Zoroaster but had no clear idea what the religion was called.
HueMann
+1
Level 53
May 30, 2024
i'd always known him as zarathustra...
GrammarBeane1
+1
Level 83
Apr 23, 2021
Ah, Rockefeller. Every time I think about him I think about 9th grade history class, where we watched "The Men Who Built America" and all male-attracted students were like "dang Rockefeller is so hot"
itsblaze
+2
Level 38
Apr 25, 2021
I only got the Ethiopia one because in my head I was quoting the "entire history of the world, i guess" video where he says "They never got Ethiopia" and i figured id give it a shot
Jango
+3
Level 64
Sep 6, 2021
Less obvious, but I think potato should also be allowed for the Italian cuisine question. Without it we would gnot have gnocchi
nikolai09
+1
Level 25
Feb 23, 2023
Can you accept Zarathustraism for the Zoro-whatever, since that's the actual name of the demagogue. Never heard this weird anglicization before.
mrputter
+3
Level 83
Mar 26, 2023
"Zarathustra" is one (arguably original) name for the deity, yes. However "Zoroastrianism" is the correct term for the religion, at least in English.

There is no such word in English as "Zarathustraism." Or "Zarathustrianism." Or anything of the sort.

There may be in other languages but this quiz isn't in those languages.

vittoriao
+1
Level 65
Apr 11, 2024
This quiz could take The Archduke of Austria for this answer that is how it is taught in school no one remembers his name... if you have time or even want to add this as a correct response thank you

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Heir presumptive

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary

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