- Rotating Quiz #206: 2016 - 3 Updates
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jan 06 04:45AM This is Rotating Quiz 206. Entries must be posted by Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 at 11 PM (Eastern Standard Time). Usual rules: no looking anything up, no discussion, etc. The winner gets to create the next RQ. Please post your answers to all questions in a single followup in the newsgroup, quoting the questions and placing your answer below each one. Only one answer is allowed per question. In case of a tie, the first tiebreaker will be whoever scored on the hardest questions (defined post-facto as the ones which the fewest people got right). Second tiebreaker will be posting order. 1. 1916 saw two World War I "battles" which were particularly long and destructive: Somme and Verdun. One of the Somme offensives, the Battle of Flers-Courcelette (September 15-22) saw the first use of what in the war? 2. 1916 was a very eventful year, and apparently nothing of major interest happened in 1116, so... in March Pancho Villa led a raid into New Mexico. The US retaliated by invading Mexico with several cavalry regiments under whose command? 3. In February of 1816 the Teatro Argentina saw the debut of this opera buffa by Gioachino Rossini. It was based on a play by Pierre Beaumarchais. 4. In 1716 Edward Wortley Montagu was appointed as the United Kingdom's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and naturally his wife Mary went with him. She would later publish a collection (well-known at the time) of her letters from Turkey and promulgate what medical procedure that she observed there? While the practice was effective, it was controversial in the UK so she did not have much success, and it fell entirely out of favor later in the century when a safer version became widely known. 5. 1616 was a good year for this English author: he had a play and two masques performed, he became the first English playwright to have his plays published in a folio edition, and King James I awarded him a pension which effectively made him England's first poet laureate, although the first official poet laureate was appointed some years later. 6. 1516 saw the publication of the first version of this epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto. It uses characters from the Song of Roland but is considerably more fantastical. It influenced Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Shakespeare used a plot from it in Much Ado About Nothing. There are numerous other works of literature which were influenced by it or which refer to it. There have also been a number of operas based on it. 7. 1416 probably saw the birth of Jacquetta of Luxembourg, known as the Duchess of Bedford from her first marriage to one of Henry IV of England's sons. However, it was her second marriage that made her and her family important. With her second husband, Richard <answer 6> she had fourteen children including Elizabeth <answer 6>, who married Edward IV, and Anthony <answer 6>, a prominent nobleman who wrote what was possibly the first book printed in England. 8. In 1316 Marjorie Bruce, the oldest daughter of Robert the Bruce, died due to a fall from a horse. She was pregnant and her son survived, eventually becoming the first king of which royal house? 9. In 1216 Pope Honorius III gave the initial approval to the Order of Preachers. What is the order more commonly known as? 10. In 1016 AEthelred the Unready died leaving his son Edmund II "Ironside" as king of England. It also left him fighting the son of the former king Sweyn Forkbeard; the two fought five battles which ended with Edmund in control only of Wessex. Edmund died in November and <answer 10> became king of all England (later he also became king of Denmark and Norway). -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jan 05 11:39PM -0600 Dan Blum: > destructive: Somme and Verdun. One of the Somme offensives, the Battle > of Flers-Courcelette (September 15-22) saw the first use of what in > the war? Thanks. Er, I mean tanks. (Genuine typo!) > interest happened in 1116, so... in March Pancho Villa led a raid into > New Mexico. The US retaliated by invading Mexico with several cavalry > regiments under whose command? Pershing? > 3. In February of 1816 the Teatro Argentina saw the debut of this > opera buffa by Gioachino Rossini. It was based on a play by Pierre > Beaumarchais. "William Tell"? > it was controversial in the UK so she did not have much success, and > it fell entirely out of favor later in the century when a safer > version became widely known. Inoculation? > pension which effectively made him England's first poet laureate, > although the first official poet laureate was appointed some years > later. Marlowe? > had fourteen children including Elizabeth <answer 6>, who married > Edward IV, and Anthony <answer 6>, a prominent nobleman who wrote what > was possibly the first book printed in England. Tudor? I suspect there is an off-by-one error here, by the way. Or possibly off-by-100. :-) I don't even have a crude guess at answer 6. > 8. In 1316 Marjorie Bruce, the oldest daughter of Robert the Bruce, > died due to a fall from a horse. She was pregnant and her son > survived, eventually becoming the first king of which royal house? Stuart? > 9. In 1216 Pope Honorius III gave the initial approval to the Order of > Preachers. What is the order more commonly known as? Jesuits? > ended with Edmund in control only of Wessex. Edmund died in November > and <answer 10> became king of all England (later he also became king > of Denmark and Norway). Alfred? I'm glad this stopped at question 10. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "I don't know about your brain, msb@vex.net | but mine is really bossy." -- Laurie Anderson My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Marc Dashevsky <usenet@MarcDashevsky.com>: Jan 06 01:04AM -0600 In article <n6i64k$j3s$1@reader1.panix.com>, tool@panix.com says... > destructive: Somme and Verdun. One of the Somme offensives, the Battle > of Flers-Courcelette (September 15-22) saw the first use of what in > the war? poison gas -- Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address. |
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