Actually, Napoleon the pig from Animal Farm. Seriously though, I had it as Napoleon Bonaparte but I try to keep the clues to one line and I figured it wasn't necessary. His Wiki page is simply "Napoleon".
Thank you guys for the encouragement, and thank you overtired for making such a great quiz! I was worried that my original quiz was a little too difficult for the front page but I’m glad to see that someone else was able to make it better.
Me too, I had no idea they lasted until so recently. So I just read (some of) the wiki page(s) on Woolly mammoths. Lookee what it says here:
The last known population remained on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until 4,000 years ago, well into the start of human civilization and concurrent with the construction of the Great Pyramid of ancient Egypt.
I just read a more recent study about it today and you can scrap the island and take a 100 years off the number. The melting north ("permafrost") reveals more as we speak.
I have heard reports of elderly Alaska Natives some decades back watching African wildlife shows on TV. They did not have much to say but when elephants came on the screen, they had a word for them. Could be the fossils they found from time to time or could be they were around much more recently than generally believed.
Each year I show my students a video at the start of the year that has one of the facts being that Cleopatra was alive closer to the moon landings than to the construction of the pyramids. A second fact is that the wooly mammoths were alive when the pyramids were built. It is fun to see the look of shock on all of the faces when I show that.
You could say that about anyone only known from stories. I think Jesus existed, just not in the grand scheme of the bible. I'm sure we all know how word-of-mouth changes after being retold several times.
Tacitus does mention a man who appears to match the description - a man named Christus who gave his name to the religion and was persecuted under the Romans - but there's not a lot about him and the name 'Jesus' isn't mentioned. Though I guess that's nitpicking.
He’s mentioned by name by Josephus, and while some manuscripts have medieval editions which flatter Jesus, other manuscripts don’t include this, so it’s highly likely the original body mentioning Jesus wasn’t a forgery.
The Mao question is a bit unclear. Mao was alive when the Industrial Revolution was finally hitting China. Maybe rephrase it as the “Western Industrial Revolution”
When people use the term "Industrial Revolution," they are usually referring to the one that occurred in Europe in the 1800s. I think that clue is fine as is.
Have you met him to know he's still alive now? Cause it certainly hasn't made the news.
Otherwise, if you're going by the myth of the bible, he ascended to heaven. Unless you think he's alive up there, which causes all kinds of theological-metaphysical problems.
Technically, theologically Jesus is alive but in Heaven above, having been bodily assumed into Heaven. But for the purposes of the quiz, I suppose we can simplify life to mean “roaming the earth”, which he wasn’t doing when Vesuvius erupted. Still seems insulting to use BCE and CE when the entire system is based on his birth, even if it was improperly calculated at the time.
No faith required. There's no doubt whatsoever, no matter whose calculations you use, that Jesus of Nazareth would have been dead by 79 CE. Unless you mean believing Jesus existed at all requires faith, in which case it takes just as much faith to believe in Julius Caesar.
It’s more so that technically because of you’re Christian, Jesus rose from the dead, so he wouldn’t have been “dead”, just bodily assumed into Heaven. But for the purposes of the quiz, I guess it was just easier to say than “was Jesus roaming the earth when Vesuvius erupted”.
May need to add the qualifier that we're talking about the FIRST Industrial Revolution here. By most definitions the second had also ended by the 1890s, but that is somewhat more debatable, while Mao cértainly wasn't alive during the first.
I would change question 13 though, the industrial revolution isn't really something that can be dated as specifically as this quiz assumes. And you could even say that Mao's lifetime and an industrial revolution do overlap, if we're looking at China specifically.
Point is, it's too contested and ambiguous a concept to be included in a quiz about historical dates imo.
About Mao and the industrial revolution, you used the dates for the UK but it spread later to the rest of the world. Mao notably forcefully industrialised China (with varying results...) and before that was alive during the early 20th century when the tech spread to China.
Better precise "the industrial revolution in the UK".
The last known population remained on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until 4,000 years ago, well into the start of human civilization and concurrent with the construction of the Great Pyramid of ancient Egypt.
Otherwise, if you're going by the myth of the bible, he ascended to heaven. Unless you think he's alive up there, which causes all kinds of theological-metaphysical problems.
I would change question 13 though, the industrial revolution isn't really something that can be dated as specifically as this quiz assumes. And you could even say that Mao's lifetime and an industrial revolution do overlap, if we're looking at China specifically.
Point is, it's too contested and ambiguous a concept to be included in a quiz about historical dates imo.
Better precise "the industrial revolution in the UK".