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Dan Blum
Jan 5, 2016, 11:45:09 PM1/5/16
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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 to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
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 to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Mark Brader
Jan 6, 2016, 12:39:25 AM1/6/16
to
Dan Blum:
> 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?
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"?
> 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.
Inoculation?
> 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.
Marlowe?
> 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.
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?
> 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).
Alfred?
I'm glad this stopped at question 10.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "I don't know about your brain,
m...@vex.net | but mine is really bossy." -- Laurie Anderson
My text in this article is in the public domain.
> 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?
Thanks. Er, I mean tanks. (Genuine typo!)
> 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.
> 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.
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?
> 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).
I'm glad this stopped at question 10.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "I don't know about your brain,
m...@vex.net | but mine is really bossy." -- Laurie Anderson
My text in this article is in the public domain.
Marc Dashevsky
Jan 6, 2016, 2:04:39 AM1/6/16
to
In article <n6i64k$j3s$1...@reader1.panix.com>, to...@panix.com says...
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
> 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?
poison gas
> 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?
--
Replace "usenet" with "marc" in the e-mail address.
Erland Sommarskog
Jan 6, 2016, 6:10:20 AM1/6/16
to
Dan Blum (to...@panix.com) writes:
> 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?
Gas
> 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?
> 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.
> 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?
> 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).
store).
--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
Gareth Owen
Jan 6, 2016, 3:25:24 PM1/6/16
to
to...@panix.com (Dan Blum) writes:
> 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?
Tanks
> 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).
Pete
Jan 6, 2016, 7:38:07 PM1/6/16
to
to...@panix.com (Dan Blum) wrote in news:n6i64k$j3s$1...@reader1.panix.com:
> 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?
Tank
>
> 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?
Patton
>
> 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.
Barber of Seville
Franciscan
>
> 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).
>
>
Pete
> 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.
>
> 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 Tilque
Jan 6, 2016, 9:28:49 PM1/6/16
to
Dan Blum wrote:
> 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?
poison gas
> 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 Tilque
Calvin
Jan 7, 2016, 9:57:53 PM1/7/16
to
On Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 2:45:09 PM UTC+10, Dan Blum wrote:
> 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?
Tanks
> 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).
cheers,
calvin
Dan Blum
Jan 12, 2016, 11:09:38 PM1/12/16
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Rotating Quiz #206 is over and Calvin is the winner. He may now set RQ #207.
> 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?
tanks
> 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?
John 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.
The Barber of Seville or Il barbiere di Siviglia or any reasonable
version of that
> 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.
inoculation or variolation (against smallpox)
> 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.
Ben Jonson
I thought someone would get this, especially since Shakespeare is
(relatively) well-known to have died in 1616. (Marlowe died in 1593.)
> 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.
Orlando Furioso
This I wasn't sure anyone would get, although I thought it was
easier than question 7.
> 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.
Woodville
Yes, this should have said "answer 7;" I forgot to change it when I
realized nothing interesting happened in 1116.
> 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 or Stewart
> 9. In 1216 Pope Honorius III gave the initial approval to the Order of
> Preachers. What is the order more commonly known as?
Dominicans
> 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).
Canute or Cnut or Knut
Scores:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total
----------------------------------
Calvin 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 7
Mark 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 4
Dan 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 4
Erland 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
Gareth 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
Pete 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
> 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.
version of that
> 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.
I thought someone would get this, especially since Shakespeare is
(relatively) well-known to have died in 1616. (Marlowe died in 1593.)
> 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.
This I wasn't sure anyone would get, although I thought it was
easier than question 7.
> 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.
Yes, this should have said "answer 7;" I forgot to change it when I
realized nothing interesting happened in 1116.
> 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).
Scores:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total
----------------------------------
Calvin 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 7
Mark 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 4
Dan 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 4
Erland 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
Gareth 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
Pete 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Calvin
Jan 13, 2016, 6:02:42 AM1/13/16
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On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 2:09:38 PM UTC+10, Dan Blum wrote:
> Rotating Quiz #206 is over and Calvin is the winner. He may now set RQ #207.
Noted. Give me a couple of days to come up with something original.
> Rotating Quiz #206 is over and Calvin is the winner. He may now set RQ #207.
cheers,
calvin
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