Loaded Questions 9/23/22 - World History
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Happy Friday everyone! Hope all is well in the trivia leagues you are currently playing in, and if you are someone who is subscribed to this newsletter and doesn’t play a trivia league, I sincerely hope you are enjoying some great outdoors in your spare time. Some world history today, and I think we’ll have some jazz questions tomorrow. Enjoy!
1. At the Diet of Worms in 1532 which saw Martin Luther's excommunication, Luther famously said "Here I stand", followed by what five words (translated in English)?
2. The Ten Years of Spring refers to 1944 to 1954 in Guatemala, which ended with the CIA-led Operation PBSUCCESS, which deposed what democratically elected president of Guatemala, who threatened to disrupt the United Fruit Company?
3. The Magyar's westward expansion was stopped in what 955 battle, which saw Otto, Duke of Saxony and son of Henry the Fowler, eventually be elevated to Holy Roman Emperor seven years later?
4. St. Peter's Field, the site of the 1819 massacre called Peterloo, is located in what English city?
5. In the 1990s, Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a war to control what region with the largest city of Stepanakert?
6. Gilgamesh was the legendary ruler of what Sumerian city, located on the eastern shores of the Euphrates, and was the largest city in the world at the beginning of the 3rd century BC?
7. What name is given to the doctrine used by Willy Brandt used to promote opening relations between West and East Germany?
8. The Czech Republic is the combination of three historic kingdoms: Bohemia, Czech Silesia, and what kingdom, found in the eastern part of country with the cultural center at Brno? It was paired with Bohemia while under Nazi occupation.
9. If you are a head of state in Bhutan, your title is Druk Gyalpo. What is the translation of that title, and what royal house do you belong? Given this country’s flag, the title is very appropriate.
10. The Yassa law code was created by what ruler?
11. Name the two countries that are the modern-day sites of the Axum Empire / Aksumite Kingdom?
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1. At the Diet of Worms in 1532 which saw Martin Luther's excommunication, Luther famously said "Here I stand", followed by what five words (translated in English)?
I can do no other
2. The Ten Years of Spring refers to 1944 to 1954 in Guatemala, which ended with the CIA-led Operation PBSUCCESS, which deposed what democratically elected president of Guatemala, who threatened to disrupt the United Fruit Company?
Jacobo Arbenz
3. The Magyar's westward expansion was stopped in what 955 battle, which saw Otto, Duke of Saxony and son of Henry the Fowler, eventually be elevated to Holy Roman Emperor seven years later?
Battle of Lechfeld
4. St. Peter's Field, the site of the 1819 massacre called Peterloo, is located in what English city?
Manchester
5. In the 1990s, Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a war to control what region with the largest city of Stepanakert?
Nagorno-Karabakh
6. Gilgamesh was the legendary ruler of what Sumerian city, located on the eastern shores of the Euphrates, and was the largest city in the world at the beginning of the 3rd century BC?
Uruk
7. What name is given to the doctrine used by Willy Brandt used to promote opening relations between West and East Germany?
(Neue) Ostpolitik
8. The Czech Republic is the combination of three historic kingdoms: Bohemia, Czech Silesia, and what kingdom, found in the eastern part of country with the cultural center at Brno? It was paired with Bohemia while under Nazi occupation.
Moravia
9. If you are a head of state in Bhutan, your title is Druk Gyalpo. What is the translation of that title, and what royal house do you belong? Given this country’s flag, the title is very appropriate.
Dragon King, Wangchuck
10. The Yassa law code was created by what ruler?
Genghis Khan
11. Name the two countries that are the modern-day sites of the Axum Empire / Aksumite Kingdom?
Ethiopia, Eritrea