Quiz (Read the rules or don't enter) (reward included)

[Captain Blackadder]

1 2 and 3 correct

4 Incorrect

[sander454]

I thought that was the easy one. That the info which I found:

George Washington
On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. "As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent," he wrote James Madison, "it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gw1.html

If he isn't the first US president, then who??



PS.Look a little bit more and I found this name John Hanson

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3. Killed by a man called Mac Bethad, Shakespeare's Macbeth.

[sander454]

Ok so final answer for question number 4 is John Hanson.

I was really suprise how it happened that we never heard about him but I just read his biography at this link http://www.marshallhall.org/hanson.html so, right now I know why the is some misunderstanding.
That was really good one Captain Blackadder . At least I learn something new

[Captain Blackadder]

4 George was the first president of the inderpendent united states Hanson is a good answer and i will accept it however the person i was looking for was Peyton Randolph the first President of the Continental Congress. Thus the first president of the united states. Go ahead sander your turn

[sander454]

Thanks. So let's start:

1. He was born in France but thanks to his military career he eventually became king of one European country. What was his name?

2. Which Polish king was elected as teenager Tsar of Russia, but he never actually reign?

3. Tadeusz Kosciuszko (Thaddeus Kosciusko), was hero for Polish and American people. After his death in in 1817, he was honoured in many ways in many countries. 2 of them did this in very special way (tip one was his second homeland, and he never was in second of them) How?

4. All this Soviet air regiment have something common:
the 586 IAP (Fighter Aviation Regiment), the 587 BAP (Bomber Aviation Regiment) and the 588 NBAP (Night Bomber Aviation Regiment). What is that and how Germans called these pilots?

[redirflow]

A1.
Jean-Baptiste Deu Pouey (Carl XIV Johan), King of Sweden.

A2.
In 1610, Władysław IV was elected as Tsar of Russia.

A3.
The Polish explorer Count Paweł Edmund Strzelecki named the highest mountain in Australia, Mount Kosciuszko. Kosciuszko’s house in Philadelphia is preserved as Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial.

(not really understand Q3)

A4.
Soviet women air regiments (Aviation Group 122). The Germans called them “The night witches”.

[sander454]

Q1 Correct

Q2 Correct

Q3 firts part correct, About second I wasn't thinking about his house. Tip he's the only non American person who was honoured in this way , I'm thinking about place that he help to build

Q4 Correct

[redirflow]

A3.
United States Military Academy (West Point).

[sander454]

ok I will accept this as because of my English my question wasn't very clearly. Yes he's the only European who had a statue at the West Point.
btw he was the person, who gave idea about military academy to Washington

Your turn redirflow

[redirflow]

Q1.
“People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

What happen to this lady? What’s her name?


Q2.
“...it is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography...”

Whose autobiography? What’s the title of this autobiography?

Q3.
“the secret of war lies in the communications”

Whose quote?

[Spart]

1. Rosa Parks. I think she died some years ago.

2. Mohandas Gandhi's My Experiments with Truth.

3. Napoleon Bonaparte.

[redirflow]

@Spart,

A1.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, she refuses to give up her seat; later her arrest and trial lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.

A2. Correct!

A3. Correct!

(It’s your turn now.)

[Spart]

Alright, I'll work out something. Ah, colonial history:

1. According to the Peace Treaty of Sévres (1920) after WW1, this Middle East territory became a British mandate along with Palestine, Transjordan and Hejaz. What was it?

2. In 1487, a Portuguese sailor first sailed around the tip of Africa. Who was he?

3. Which nation attempted a conquest of Abyssinia but was horribly defeated by the Abyssinians at the Battle of Adowa in 1896?

[Perkele]

1. Guessing...Persia
2. Bartolomeu Dias
3. Italy

[redirflow]

A1. British Mandate of Palestine

[Spart]

2 and 3 correct, Perkele. Both got #1 wrong.

Redirflow, notice I already mentioned Palestine.

[sander454]

Iraq??

[redirflow]

I'll try again:
A1.
THE TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN THE ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED POWERS
AND TURKEY SIGNED AT SÈVRES AUGUST 10, 1920.
PART III.
POLITICAL CLAUSES.
SECTION VII.
SYRIA, MESOPOTAMIA, PALESTINE.
ARTICLE 94~97.

[redirflow]

Oh! pls ignore my post#299.

sander454 found the answer.

British Mandate of Iraq