I'm generally sad when we conflate Lenin with Stalin. I'm particularly sad when we attribute collectivization (and its aftermath) to someone who had been dead for four years.
This is Jetpunk! No use for displaying any understanding of history, science or the arts that can't be distilled down into a single snappy trivia question!
But for real, there's a reason Geography and Pop Culture tend to do so well on sites like these.
Actually, he wrote "Materialism and Empirio-criticism" while in London, so... there's an argument to be made. Also cracker of a book. Real page turned. Couldn't put it down. I definitely did not just Google this info.
This may be a bit nit-picky, but can it really be said that World War I started with the assassination? I mean, it was an important event in triggering the war, but it didn't really start until Austria-Hungary began to bomb Belgrade after Serbia rejected its ultimatum.
All answers to the start of World War 1 are wrong. I guess "a simple misunderstanding" still comes the closest to the real story. Please specify the question to something like "which event is considered as a cause for World War 1".
As well you should. The assassination and the outdated alliances associated with it were the excuses that the failing powers of Europe used to justify the resulting conflict that they hoped would restore their power and/or increase their territory. IMO one of the most indefensible and stupid wars ever and only resulted in an even greater conflict.
The invasion failed because of the Russian tactics and the fact that Napoleon kept pushing until he reached Moscow, deep into Russian territory on the eve of the Russian winter, stretching his supply lines thin. The Russians continually retreated through the whole invasion, burning everything as they did so that there was nothing for Napoleon's army to eat. When they arrived in Moscow they found it burned, as well. He was faced with the option to turn around, or stay in Moscow where his entire army would surely starve or freeze to death. The famous Minard Map, sometimes called the best statistical graph ever drawn, vividly depicts just want a catastrophe this was for Napoleon's Grand Armee.
Many historians consider this to be one of his most severe miscalculations. He likely would have been far more successful in his invasion of the Soviet Union if he hadn't let his hubris get in the way and he had instead waited patiently for 110 years for it to be founded. After all, the first rule of warfare is: one cannot successfully invade that which does not yet exist.
He captured Moscow, but due to the scorched earth tactic that the Russians implemented, his army had to retreat all the way back to friendly territory to resupply
I have never heard the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand called Francis before, always Franz. Can you point to a source which has Francis and not Franz? The first 10 online sources that I looked up all had Franz.
because one italian Guy called him Francis....this is your source? I think you should change it to Franz! No one in Austria goes by the name Francis at this time.
Franz and Francis were both used pretty frequently back in the day. I believe Franz is more of a nickname than a legal name, but I’ve never seen his birth certificate.
Actually the Byzantine Empire has a confusing name, since the city wasn't called Byzantium then anymore... I tried to reason this question and I was wrong because of this. Let's do better next time. :)
The fact that the Byzantine Empire's name is confusing doesn't negate the fact that that's what it's called. And so, the question is correctly made. Or is the "let's do better" comment directed at yourself?
Fun fact. The empire actually was never called "Byzantine" at the time of it's existence. It was always just "Roman empire," at best "Eastern Roman empire." The name "Byzantine empire" came to being only after the fall of Constantinople, when the Germanic states of the HRE wanted to set themselves up as the "true successor" to the Roman empire, so they wanted to alienate the Byzantines from Romans.
I'd say for the purposes of this quiz, Byzantine is absolutely the correct term to use, since it is the standard name in English. Nonetheless, it is an anachronism, as FolgoreCZ says, first having been used in 1557 (the Empire fell in 1453). The people of the Empire called it the Roman Empire (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων), or simply Romania (Ῥωμανία). Westerners called it the Greek Empire (Imperium Graecorum), while Turks called it Rûm - recognising it as the direct continuation of the Roman Empire, unlike the Westerners who sought to denigrate its status in favour of the Holy Roman Empire (based, at least in part, on the fraudulent Donation of Constantine).
Technically, annulling a marriage means it essentially didn't happen, so Henry VII was only married 3 or 4 times (depending on whether you believe Henry or the Pope).
The show Quite Interesting did a whole thing on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvdXBmLmqZ4
And I wish I had never seen it because then I would've got the question right. :(
So, is an annullment then a powerful magic spell that alters the past? If not, then the events still happened, wether they "count" or not; if yes, then you're not talking about history but fantasy, which is irrelevant to the topic.
While this is an interesting fact by QI standards, I think it is a bit silly to say that Henry VIII was never married to Catherine of Aragon (or Anne Boleyn or Anne of Cleves, but slightly less so in those cases). They were married for upwards of 20 years, and Catherine of Aragon acted as the Queen of England for the duration of that time. Henry created his own religion for the sole purpose that he could have the marriage annulled. That feels like cheating to me. If as Henry claimed he could never have married Catherine because she was his ex-sister-in-law, then that really raises the question of why he claimed she was his wife for 20 years.
Rtabram: If a marriage didn't take place, it couldn't have been annulled. So, if Henry married them, then he was married; whatever he did afterward is another matter entirely.
It's supposedly like being exonerated from a crime you were previously convicted of; it literally means that event didn't officially happen. That said, I agree with TWM03.
Just noticed this. Since when has Franz Ferdinand been known as "Francis" - Do you do this just to generate comments? - Do you somehow get extra perks or something based on the number of comments your quiz receives?
Look in one of the comments before you. Someone else asked the same question. The only source for that seems to be an articel by some italian guy. I do not understand that either. His name was Franz and not Francis.
Isn't Wilde being Irish quite debateble, given Ireland only gained independance several years after his death? For constincy with these kind of quizes one should asume the geo-political countries and not the self-identifying ones. So then Wilde is British during his lifetime. I guessed his question wrong because i considered him (geo-political) British because of the time and place he existed in.
The question says English, not British - 2 very different things in that part of the world! Next time your in Wales or Scotland, try asking the locals if they consider themselves Welsh, Scottish or British....
Dang it, just got the first man in orbit one wrong.
I knew the right answer but have just been watching Jeff Bezos postpone his launch of New Glenn with a piece about John Glenn (who the rocket was named after), which made me second guess whether earlier launches had been to space without entering orbit.
If I had just taken the quiz before I watched the news, smh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921%E2%80%931922
But for real, there's a reason Geography and Pop Culture tend to do so well on sites like these.
The show Quite Interesting did a whole thing on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvdXBmLmqZ4
And I wish I had never seen it because then I would've got the question right. :(
1. divorced
2. beheaded
3. died
4. divorced
5. beheaded
6. survived
I knew the right answer but have just been watching Jeff Bezos postpone his launch of New Glenn with a piece about John Glenn (who the rocket was named after), which made me second guess whether earlier launches had been to space without entering orbit.
If I had just taken the quiz before I watched the news, smh.