| Calvin <334152@gmail.com>: Jun 09 05:05PM -0700 On Saturday, June 8, 2019 at 12:50:56 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote: > ** Game 1, Round 9 - History - The Middle Ages > 1. What international event was started by Pope Urban II's sermon > at the council of Clermont in 1095? Crusade > Gregory XI from Avignon to Rome in 1377, and was ended by the > Council of Constantine and the resignation of Pope Gregory XII > in 1415? Two concurrent popes? > scandalously flaunted his male lover Piers Gaveston in his court. > After political wrangling he abdicated in 1327 and soon murdered. > Which king? (Number required if applicable.) Richard II > Edward III passed a law in 1368 which commanded that all male > subjects instead practice *this military sport* for two hours > every Sunday under the supervision of the clergy? What sport? Archery > was queen of both France and England. As queen of England she > encouraged her sons to rebel against their father, King Henry II. > Who is she? Eleanor of Aquitaine > 8. What was known as the "French disease"? The pox > 9. The curriculum in medieval universities was divided into the > Trivium and the Quadrivium. Name any of the three components > of the Trivium. Natural philosophy, scripture > A1. Born in 1791, he was an English mathematician, inventor, > and mechanical engineer. Oh, and he originated the concept > of a programmable digital computer. Babbage > A2. Also born in 1791, his main discoveries include the > principles underlying electromagnetic induction, > diamagnetism, and electrolysis. Faraday, Thomson > (or Tories). The year before her death, a third party > was formed that would overtake those two within 20 years. > Which party? Labour > B2. After the revolt of the Sepoys in 1857, what political > realignment took place with regard to British colonialism > in India? Control moved from the East India Company to the crown? > referee of sorts -- at the Treaty of Berlin, which gave > recognition to the three newest Central European states. > Name any of them. Czechoslovakia, Poland > C2. Canada, of course, took a step away from Mother England and > Victoria, as several colonies confederated together in 1867. > Where was this process repeated in the year of her death? Australia > * D. Victorian Authors > We'll name three works of a Victorian author; you name the author. > D1. "The Mill on the Floss", "Middlemarch", "Silas Marner". Eliot > D2. "The Mayor of Casterbridge", "Under the Greenwood Tree", > "Far from the Madding Crowd". Hardy > E1. This actress has played Queen Victoria twice -- in > "Mrs. Brown" (or "Her Majesty Mrs. Brown") in 1997 and > in "Victoria and Abdul" in 2017. Name her. Dench > E2. Now living in America and married to the actor John > Krasinski, she played the new queen in 2009's "The Young > Victoria". Name her. Blunt > was known as the strongest man in the world. He could lift > 534 pounds with one finger, and he back-lifted a platform > holding 18 men. cheers, calvin |
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