Featured Quizzes
User Quizzes
Create Quiz
Data and Charts
Badges and Games
About JetPunk
JetPunk Shop
Dark Mode
History True or False #2
Try to guess whether these historical statements are true or false.
Rate:
Featured Quiz
Last updated: March 1, 2020
You have not attempted this quiz yet.
More quiz info >>
| First submitted | March 1, 2020 |
| Times taken | 34,437 |
| Average score | 72.2% |
| Rating | 4.23 |
4:00
The quiz is paused. You have remaining.
Scoring
You scored / = %
This beats or equals
% of test takers
also scored 100%
The average score is
Your high score is
Your fastest time is
Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...
1.
A modern English-speaking person can more or less understand Old English
True
✓
False
✓
2.
India was never colonized by a European power
True
✓
False
✓
3.
The Soviet Union was the first country to launch a satellite into orbit
True
✓
False
✓
Sputnik 1 was launched in 1957, and orbited the planet for about three months
4.
Henry Ford invented the automobile
True
✓
False
✓
Henry Ford invented neither the automobile or the assembly line. But he did make mass-produced cars a reality.
5.
Russia has never been led by a woman
True
✓
False
✓
Four women ruled over tsarist Russia, the most famous being Catherine the Great.
6.
Despite his reputation as a general, Napoleon actually lost more battles than he won
True
✓
False
✓
Napoleon was a brilliant commander who won the vast majority of his battles
7.
Julius Caesar's given name (praenomen) wasn't really Julius
True
✓
False
✓
His first name was Gaius. Julius was his family name. Caesar was an inherited nickname, originally bestowed on one of his ancestors.
8.
At one time, most of the Iberian peninsula was ruled by Muslims
True
✓
False
✓
9.
The Battle of Marathon took place in ancient Greece
True
✓
False
✓
10.
The Incans were a matriarchal society, with nearly all the important political decisions being made by women
True
✓
False
✓
Most anthropologists hold that there are no known societies which are unambiguously matriarchal.
11.
As a young man, Adolf Hitler wanted to be an artist
True
✓
False
✓
12.
More people died in WWII than in WWI
True
✓
False
✓
13.
Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican to be elected President of the United States
True
✓
False
✓
14.
Cape Town was originally founded by the French
True
✓
False
✓
It was founded by the Dutch in 1652
15.
In Europe, in the Middle Ages, the majority of people worked on farms
True
✓
False
✓
16.
Mead is a beverage made from fermented grains such as barley or rye
True
✓
False
✓
Mead is made using fermented honey
17.
Emperors in imperial China typically had many concubines
True
✓
False
✓
18.
Che Guevara was a pacifist
True
✓
False
✓
New and Popular
Save Your Progress
History True or False
Quiz series by Quizmaster
Copyright H Brothers Inc, 2008–2024
Contact Us | Go To Top | View Mobile Site
Aside from that, are you going to deny there's a negative portrayal in the anglosphere of the French as cowards or useless in a war, who constantly get defeated? Would you say that myth does not apply when talking about one of the most famous French generals in history?
Generally speaking the british generally though quite highly of the french during the early modern and modern periods either as a powerful but respectable enemy or as a major ally.
As for why waterloo is more remembered than any of Napoleons other battles when most other generals are remembered for thier greatest victories.
One: many great generals are often remembered by thier biggest defeats, Romel and elAlamaine, Cornwallis and Yorktown, Xerxes and Darius and Marathon and Salamis, Leonidus and Themopoli, Richard I and the 3rd crusade.
Two most of the Napoleonic wars tend not to be taught at schools only the pivotal battles of trafalga and waterloo get any real focus which is farly common with History general knowledge, think of how many battles you would have studied for the hundred years war, usually just crecy and agincourt, mayby the siege of orleans
As for the battles you mentioned, the persian ones are taught in the west from a greek perspective, so there's an inevitable bias there. That cuts your list to half. More a case of exceptions than the rule.
The fact that Nelson achieved victory with fewer ships than the enemy meant that the British Navy retained naval supremacy throughout the 18th century and everything else, good and bad, which followed.
If Wellington had lost at Waterloo, Napoleon would certainly have marched in Belgium, so no more waffles and we would have a differently named waterproof boot.
So really, it's the magnitude and consequence of the loss that retains the greatest after-image. That and history being written by the victors.
For example, think of all those questions about European cities being at the same latitude of (surprising) American cities. The interesting fact is how far north those cities are, so asking a question where the answer is "Yes, just as you'd expect, warm Rome is further south than cold Minneapolis" is just not an interesting trivia question. Surprising someone with a counterintuitive answer is the point of questions like that.
So it's a clever question, because it runs counter to this meta-gaming of wondering why you're asking if one of the greatest generals in history lost more battles--because it's an interesting fact if true, and a boring fact if untrue.
Old English is a lot more different from modern English than Middle English is, but not incomprehensible imo. English is not even my language but I can decypher most of old texts (or at least after I have seen it written phonetically). I have an interest for it though, that helps. I love seeing the connection of words through different languages and see each word as a puzzle
Especially when the question is phrased "more or less". Personally I would be tempted to say yes. Now if it was phrased "perfectly completely easily"
This is a line of king Ælfred's version of Boethius "consoliatione philosophiae". I came across it while roaming around just now, falling deeper and deeper into the subject as one does (for some it is catvideo's though..) I found it rather fitting ;).
It means loosely translated; "You understand well enough what I am saying to you".More literal "You well enough understand what I speak to you"
And verbatim " You enough well understand what I you to speak"
Given that Old English has zero native speakers, people are probably going to be encountering it written down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH-_GwoO4xI
Old English is almost perfectly incomprehensible to the modern English speaker, although you might be able to pick out a word or two once in awhile.
I appreciate the distinctions may be well known to linguists or those who study the changing nature of languages, but to pleb like me .........
What Ford did do was improve the processes for making automobiles to such a huge degree that they became affordable to the average American. Between 1909 and 1925 the inflation-adjusted cost of the Model T fell by more than 80%. By 1929, the vast majority of American families owned a car, and 79% of the world's automobiles were located in the United States.
source
https://www.space.com/v2-rocket