Quick History Quiz (just for fun)

[mogami]

"Those be mere vintage-leavings, jabberers, choirs
Of swallow-broods, degraders of their art,
Who get one chorus, and are seen no more,
The Muses' love once gained. But O, my friend,
Search where you will, you'll never find a true
Creative genius, uttering startling things. "

[IronDuke_slith]

[QUOTE=Luskan]

What are you? A pack of Polish apologists? How dare you imply that the polish Rommel attacked the evil Australians in the deserts of South America???

You all obviously don't know what you're talking about. Life must be so much more difficult for stupid people so I won't hold it against you all!


I'm sorry. I didnt imply that the Poles attacked first. This little known fracas of WWII reflected poorly on both sides. Ostensibily Allies, the fighting first broke out when the Australians reached town and found the Polish troops had barracked themselves in the nearby Fosters factory.

General Bruce, Commander of the Australian Forces, met with General Rommel to discuss a ceasefire, but ordered a resumption of the fighting after General Rommell remarked during the negotiations that he could see no fashion advantages in shorts or the Cork hat.

A brief ceasefire the following day saw the Australians and polish troops stumble out into no man's land to exchange cigarettes and pleasantries. The Australians threw a Barbie. This wonderful moment was ruined when a Polish NCO remarked that "24 hours from Gdansk" was a better tune than "Tie my Kangaroo down, Sport". A fistfight broke out and General Bruce, still smarting from General Rommel's earlier insult that New Zealanders were "Aussies with a touch of class" ordered a fresh attack.

Five days of inconclusive fighting ended when the Polish troops withdrew (The Fosters factory was now dry) to better defensive positions five miles from town. Rolf Harris had also turned up to entertain the Australian troops and some post war Polish accounts suggest they were also withdrawing to get out of earshot of the concert.

Casualty figures are hard to come by, but remarkably light. Post war analysis showed that this was because both sides had been using captured AXIS weapons (Mg42, Tiger Tank) which, of course, have since been proved to be overrated and inferior to the Allied weapons the troops would otherwise have been armed with (Bren Gun and Sherman).


IronDuke

[Belisarius]

Also please note, I resisted the urge to ask where "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of eldeberries!" came from.

A Møøse once bit my sister...

[Mike Scholl]

Usually I refrain from interfering in such unwashed discourse between the plebes but I was feeling altruistic so decided to bless this thread with my post . . .

What are you? A pack of Polish apologists? How dare you imply that the polish Rommel attacked the evil Australians in the deserts of South America???

You all obviously don't know what you're talking about. Life must be so much more difficult for stupid people so I won't hold it against you all!

As for Bentonville, it should be obvious to anybody who can read the following official top secret US government document that Bentonville is in Nevada - not North Carolina or Arkansas (where ever the hell they are). :p

History clearly shows that the 14th Army of the Cumberland achieved a 6 to 1 kill ratio against the numerous Kiwi Bismarck class battleships during the Boer war. Anyone who disagrees with me on any of this is a complete moron. :rolleyes:



On a slightly (only just) more serious note, I'd like to know which of you truly are educated in the more complicated arts (history was too easy, going to ask some HARD questions to sort the scholars from the net freaks/tv addicts/armchair historians around here!) so I'll post a questions from a completely unrelated fictional (your only hints) field:

1. Who wrote the highly controversial and nearly best selling "Trilogy of Philosophical Blockbusters: Where God went wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person anyway?"??

2. T.H. White started his famous book with a legendary character called . . . Wart. Who did Wart grow up to be?

3. Quote the Play, Act, Scene and line number of that most poignant and memorable moment when someone said: "Lead on MacDuff!".

I'll give abour 12 hours before I return to reveal the answers (most quiz show contestants barely get 10 minutes!).

Also please note, I resisted the urge to ask where "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of eldeberries!" came from.

For Question # 2, I'll say King Arthur of England, from the "Once and Future King"

The un-numbered question was used several times by members of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"

[Luskan]

3 correct answers (although it seems I screwed up one of the questions). Reassuring to know that someone knew the Oolon Colluphid question (couldn't remember the name of his 4th book - I think it was "That about Wraps it up for God" but am not certain.

Once and Future King, MacBeth and Hitchhikers guide. Was tempted to throw in a Crytonomicron quote but everyone on these forums has probably read it.

And to prove Mogami is a cut above the pack he's quoted a good one (wish I'd thought of Aristophanes - would have made me look much smarter!)

Ok we've done history and literature, and since the only relevant sporting questions I can throw out are going to be limited to Aussies and kiwis it really isn't fair on the yanks . . .someone else is going to have to come up with a new area of expertise.

As for the seagull CAP, the uber-b17, and the kiwi bismarck . . . I was half expecting to find some serious posters among the mix but they didn't show up

So to my new topic: Humour.

Q. What do you get if you cross a Gorilla with a Kiwi?

A. A retarded Gorilla.

[mogami]

Hi, We can do music. 3 composers of note

He said his own music was just chocolate covered sheep turds.......

He thought demons shaped like hyenas were chasing him.........

He said his music was a mirror if a donkey looked in it would not see an angel looking back......... (When told his music sounded like Beethoven he said "Yes and any *** can hear it")

[Snigbert]

False, if he were an Army Commander he should have been a Field Marshall, not a General...is that right, or does a FM command an Army Group?

[mogami]

"(wish I'd thought of Aristophanes - would have made me look much smarter!)"

Hi, Well I cheated. 'Frogs" is my current bathroom book (You know the book you leave in the bathroom so you don't just twiddle your thumbs)

Last week it was 'Antigone'.

After I used Modern Major General for TJ it made me want to reread some of my Greeks

[pry]

. . . I was half expecting to find some serious posters among the mix but they didn't show up

Man this is a tough crowd!

OK no more pokes at discussions past, present or future.
Color me totaly serious from this point forward :p

[Drongo]

So to my new topic: Humour.

Q. What do you get if you cross a Gorilla with a Kiwi?

A. A retarded Gorilla.

..that smells of mutton.

[Mr.Frag]

Oolon Colluphid's books:

Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, Who is this God Person Anyway?

and:

Well That About Wraps it up for God (your book #4)

from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.