Why not? We've got.. Kublai Khan who lived in the 13th century. Francis Xavier who did missionary work in the 16th century. A Chinese city that was first a capital in 221 BC. An emperor from the 5th century BC. An instrument invented in the 9th century. A Brazilian city founded in 800. The treaty ports were established in the 1840s. The ancient Greek concept is, well, ancient. Lasers were developed in the 1950s. Muslim Turks first moved into China hundreds of years ago. ... the oldest thing on here dates back 75 million years ago and the newest is from 2001.
I'm not saying there's no history in this quiz but I'm saying that too many of the questions don't fit the history category well enough.
Of course everything can be looked at from a historical point of view but this way you could turn the periodic table or the countries of the world quizzes into history ones!
Whatever you call it, it's a great quiz! But I agree that probably "General Knowledge by Letter X" would be more accurate here; "history" is a bit a stretch for a few of these questions.
Well, scambigol is correct. X is a little hard to work with. Which is, I'm sure, why others passed over the letter. But I tried. :P
There were of course many answers that I could have put in here but chose not to. In those cases it was either because a) they really had nothing to do with history at all. Mostly computer terminology or contemporary product names. or b) they were historical but just incredibly obscure.
In my quizzes defense, though... look at, for example, History by Letter - Y. You've got amongst the answers: the Yucatan peninsula, the Yellow River, Yankee, Yalta, Yule, Yiddish, Yom Kippur, Yodeling, and Yukon. All of those could just as easily be answers to questions that had nothing to do with history. I don't think my quiz is stretching any more than some of the ones that have been on the front page already.
And look at "Q"... they only managed to squeeze out 17 questions for that not even the usual 20, and still resorted to questions about politics, literature, mythology, science, and religion. I'm feeling better about how this quiz turned out more and more, the more I think about it. Why didn't you guys complain about those other quizzes not being historical? They're exactly the same... is it just because of the XBox question? Video games aren't illustrious enough a pursuit to appear on a history quiz? and that got you looking at and scrutinizing all the other questions, too?
no please, the xueta question is imho one of the most history related ones in this quiz, even if quite obscure (i did not knew that but that's why i particularly appreciated this quiz).
besides Xenophon, which i warmly suggest featuring, another question with X could be Xanthos (or Xanthus): one of Achilles' horses (where Achilles is as historical a charachter as Xenu, if not more).
Only downside i see is that the quiz could be too much greek-centric with these two.
Of course everything can be looked at from a historical point of view but this way you could turn the periodic table or the countries of the world quizzes into history ones!
There were of course many answers that I could have put in here but chose not to. In those cases it was either because a) they really had nothing to do with history at all. Mostly computer terminology or contemporary product names. or b) they were historical but just incredibly obscure.
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besides Xenophon, which i warmly suggest featuring, another question with X could be Xanthos (or Xanthus): one of Achilles' horses (where Achilles is as historical a charachter as Xenu, if not more).
Only downside i see is that the quiz could be too much greek-centric with these two.