Loaded Questions 12/30/22 - World History
That's one for the history books!
Happy Friday everyone! Seems hard to believe, but we’ve made it to the end of 2022, and to the end of Year 1 of Loaded Questions! I set out on this project about a year ago today, and now we’ve had 290 installments with a total of 3190 questions, which is a lot! If you’ve been a Day 1 subscribers or a Day 362 subscribers, I’m glad to have you on board, and I’m excited what 2023 has in store. There’s plans for an even bigger year next year, with all kinds of changes (well, not huge changes, but we’re changing the exclamatory sentences that make up the subtitle of each post to interrogative sentences, and very possibly a few updates along the way).
Also, there have been inquiries about releasing my questions in some kind of spreadsheet / Anki deck. I am heavily thinking about this, and would like to do something for our subscribers who have been with us for a while. Stay tuned!
My philosophy to playing and studying for trivia is if I can write every question and remember what I wrote, I’m golden. I’m hoping 2023 is a year of more great improvement, and I’m looking forward to seeing where I can go. Thanks everyone for subscribing, and I hope you enjoy reading these very hard questions that just might come up in a game you play! See you all in Year 2!
As we put 2022 in the history books, let’s consult those books one more time. Enjoy today’s 11!
1. Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin are both examples of what term, used to describe people of Spanish descent born in the colonies?
2. Miguel de Cervantes was wounded at what 1571 naval battle that saw a victory for the Holy League over the Ottomans?
3. The stringed instrument xalam was played by what West African storytellers, similar to a bard?
4. Dogfights often occurred in what region, nicknamed by the UN to describe where the Yalu River met the ocean during the Korean War?
5. "Do all you do with love" is the motto of what Catholic religious Institution founded by Mother Teresa in 1950, aimed at caring for refugees and other impoverished people?
6. Gladiators fought with swords. What name is given to fighters with a net, trident, and dagger?
7. What South African town names an Australopithicus "Child" discovered in 1924 that might be a missing link?
8. While Toussaint Louverture started the Haitian Revolution, what man finished it, and then served as the Emperor of Haiti from 1804 until his 1806 assassination? In 1804, he led a genocide against white Haitians.
9. The first school of rhetoric was founded in 390 BC by what Athenian orator whose name is similar to a different Greek figure?
10. Archbishop of Canterbury Simon Sudbury was executed in 1361 as part of what conflict?
11. What nurse during the Crimean War was posthumously awarded Jamaica's Order of Merit in 1990?
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1. Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin are both examples of what term, used to describe people of Spanish descent born in the colonies?
Criollo
2. Miguel de Cervantes was wounded at what 1571 naval battle that saw a victory for the Holy League over the Ottomans?
Battle of Lepanto
3. The stringed instrument xalam was played by what West African storytellers, similar to a bard?
Griot
4. Dogfights often occurred in what region, nicknamed by the UN to describe where the Yalu River met the ocean during the Korean War?
MiG Alley
5. "Do all you do with love" is the motto of what Catholic religious Institution founded by Mother Teresa in 1950, aimed at caring for refugees and other impoverished people?
Missionaries of Charity
6. Gladiators fought with swords. What name is given to fighters with a net, trident, and dagger?
Retiarius
7. What South African town names an Australopithicus "Child" discovered in 1924 that might be a missing link?
Taung
8. While Toussaint Louverture started the Haitian Revolution, what man finished it, and then served as the Emperor of Haiti from 1804 until his 1806 assassination? In 1804, he led a genocide against white Haitians.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
9. The first school of rhetoric was founded in 390 BC by what Athenian orator whose name is similar to a different Greek figure?
Isocrates
10. Archbishop of Canterbury Simon Sudbury was executed in 1361 as part of what conflict?
Peasant's Revolt
11. What nurse during the Crimean War was posthumously awarded Jamaica's Order of Merit in 1990?
Mary Seacole