Historical Quiz thread

**Marcus Trajan** · January 07, 2005, 08:50 AM

6. Creator of these famous sculpture, the name of this piece and where it is.
Fan of Dan Brown would easily know the answer. :smile

**Sidus Preclarum** · January 07, 2005, 09:33 AM

whoa, took me quite a long frustrating times sorting out my known italian renaissance/baroque sculptors :
Bernini, the exctasy of St Theresa, Santa Maria della Victoria church in Roma .

**Spook153** · January 07, 2005, 09:39 AM

Is it just me or did that statue change while I was off looking it up?

**Marcus Trajan** · January 07, 2005, 09:48 AM

Originally posted by Sidus Preclarum@Jan 7 2005, 10:33 AM
whoa, took me quite a long frustrating times sorting out my known italian renaissance/baroque sculptors :
Bernini, the exctasy of St Theresa, Santa Maria della Victoria church in Roma .

You got it right!
This sculpture appears in the novel, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.
It was perceived to be too sexual to be in Vatican so Pope Urban VIII ordered to put it in some Obscure cathedral.

**Marcus Trajan** · January 07, 2005, 09:52 AM

Originally posted by Spook153@Jan 7 2005, 10:39 AM
Is it just me or did that statue change while I was off looking it up?

Sorry, you're right.
I got a wrong picture so had to change it.

**Marcus Trajan** · January 07, 2005, 09:54 AM

7. Whoes profile is this? Another one from WW2. First one without picture. :smile

1938 - 1941 Commanding Officer 35th Panzer Regiment
1941 - 1942 Commanding Officer 5th Panzer Brigade
1942 - 1943 General Officer Commanding 4th Panzer Division
1942 Acting General Officer Commanding XXXXVIII Panzer Corps
1943 - 1944 General Officer Commanding XXXXVIII Panzer Corps
1944 General Officer Commanding 5th Panzer Army, France
1944 General Officer Commanding 7th Army, France
1944 - 1948 Prisoner of War

**Belisarius** · January 07, 2005, 10:00 AM

Originally posted by Marcus Trajan@Jan 7 2005, 10:54 AM
7. Whoes profile is this? Another one from WW2. First one without picture. :smile

1938 - 1941 Commanding Officer 35th Panzer Regiment
1941 - 1942 Commanding Officer 5th Panzer Brigade
1942 - 1943 General Officer Commanding 4th Panzer Division
1942 Acting General Officer Commanding XXXXVIII Panzer Corps
1943 - 1944 General Officer Commanding XXXXVIII Panzer Corps
1944 General Officer Commanding 5th Panzer Army, France
1944 General Officer Commanding 7th Army, France
1944 - 1948 Prisoner of War

Von Manshtein lol, guessed!

**OTZ** · January 07, 2005, 10:01 AM

Heinrich Eberbach

**Spook153** · January 07, 2005, 10:01 AM

Ha very sneaky - it's Paul Hausser but you left the SS bit out of the unit designations in his previous commands

**OTZ** · January 07, 2005, 10:05 AM

i dont think there were any SS panzer units prior to 1940.

**Titus Andronicus** · January 07, 2005, 10:26 AM

Suggestion: when someone gives a correct answer, he should be asking his own question.

**Spook153** · January 07, 2005, 10:28 AM

Originally posted by OTZ@Jan 7 2005, 11:05 AM
i dont think there were any SS panzer units prior to 1940.

Good point - I was going off the 7th Army command. Hausser took it over from General Dollman in 1944. It can't be Dollman though because he died in 1944 and couldn't have been a POW. Therefore it must be your choice General der Panzertruppe Heinrich Karl Alfons Willy Eberbach. It's still sneaky though because he was only the deputy commander of 7th Army.

**Marcus Trajan** · January 07, 2005, 10:36 AM

Originally posted by OTZ@Jan 7 2005, 11:01 AM
Heinrich Eberbach

You got it right!
He actually was the commander of 7th Army for 10 days until he surrendered (Aug. 22, 1944 - Aug. 31, 1944) after Hausser was injured and relieved of command due to it.

**Marcus Trajan** · January 07, 2005, 10:42 AM

8. Some multiple WW2-related questions.

- What was the 'only' British territory occupied by German forces during WW2?
- The name of passenger ship that was sunk within 6 hours of the war broke out?
- Rommel called the El-Alamein minefields by what name?
- What was the name of Hitler's brother that died from measels?
- Rosselsprung (Knight's Move) was the code name for which operation?

**OTZ** · January 07, 2005, 10:53 AM

1- channel islands

Rosselsprung was the anti-partisan operation in bosnia

**Spook153** · January 07, 2005, 10:54 AM

1) The Channel Islands
2) The Athenia
3) The Devil's Gardens
4) Gustav
5) The attack on Tito's headquarters

**OTZ** · January 07, 2005, 10:59 AM

ahh...too quick. work always seems to interfere with my extra-caricular activities. good work spook!

**Torment** · January 07, 2005, 11:03 AM

I've read something also about one Alois Hitler jr., don't know if that's true though. I looked it up and came with this:
http://www.e-paranoids.com/a/al/alois_hitler__jr_.html

**Sidus Preclarum** · January 07, 2005, 11:03 AM

damn Eberbach!
went through all General who where offizer der panzertruppe in that site but somehow missed him at the first run

**Spook153** · January 07, 2005, 11:06 AM

Originally posted by OTZ@Jan 7 2005, 11:59 AM
ahh...too quick. work always seems to interfere with my extra-caricular activities. good work spook!

Well it's the first one I've got right. Lag is my problem not work - I've finished for the weekend.

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