I Remember That!
World Wars
Connections Through Time
Country Names
Name That Song Without Lyrics
100
Of course, I remember that this country was one of the two on the continent which was never colonized during the Scramble for Africa.
What are Ethiopia and Liberia?
100
This country had changed its name between the first and second World Wars, and suffered the most lives lost in World War II in spite of winning major victories at battles like Stalingrad.
What is the Soviet Union?
100
Indira Gandhi, who in spite of the last name, was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, not Mohandas, served as the Prime Minister of this country, from 1980-1984.
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What is India?
100
This European country with a long history's name has nothing to do with oil, fat, or a popular musical about the 1950s; it really comes from the term the Romans used to refer to a particular mediterranean peninsula.
What is Greece?
100
(2019)
What is Bad Guy - Billie Eilish?
200
While we argued points for both sides about this revolutionary general, Ridley Scott, the director of a 2023 film about his life, took a clear stance when he said that, "I compare ________ with... Adolf Hitler, Stalin. Look, he's got a lot of bad s*** under his belt."
Who is Napoleon?
200
The Treaty which ended the First World War (and contributed to the beginning of the Second), was signed at this palace, which was also discussed during our unit on the French Revolution.
What is Versailles?
200
Comparing the harms of video game-playing to the surprise attack which brought the United States into World War II, anti-video game lawyer Jack Thompson compared the sale of video games in the United States by the Japanese company Sony to "a second ___(this)___" in a 2005 interview.
What is Pearl Harbor?
200
The old myth about this large island country having been named by the Vikings to draw people away from a certain other island country may not be true; Eirik the Red may have just landed in a particularly nice coastal area after he was banished from Iceland in 982.
What is Greenland?
200
(2020)
What is Heat Waves - Glass Animals?
300
Obviously, I would still get a 100 if you put the Who's Who in the Russian Revolution quiz in front of me. Lenin, first leader of the USSR; Kerensky, leader of the ill-fated Provisional Government; Trotsky, Lenin's right-hand man; this German, who came up with the idea it was based on, but never got to see it put into action... Am I missing any?
Who is Karl Marx?
300
One of the two cities which have been atomic bombed in history, both at the end of World War II.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
300
Overseas colonial holdings are rare in the modern day, compared to what they once were, but not extinct. France does not touch Portugal, but its longest shared border is with this Portuguese-speaking country, due to its "Overseas Department" of French Guiana.
What is Brazil?
300
This piece of backless furniture gets its name from this country which no longer exists, but where it was once popular.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
300
(1992)
What is It Was a Good Day - Ice Cube?
400
Now that you mention it, we did talk about this Venetian explorer who wrote The Book of the Marvels of the World, and whose name has been immortalized by generations of poolgoers.
Who is Marco Polo?
400
The Brusilov Offensive saw the Russian army make a rapid advance through Galicia, in what is today Southern Poland, and dealt a major blow to this Central Power, functionally removing them the First World War.
What is Austria-Hungary?
400
While the Cold War pitted the world's Communist and Capitalist countries against each other, there was a great deal of division within that first group. Shortly after the American War in Vietnam, the Communist government there fought the brutal Communist regime in neighboring Cambodia, and then their northern neighbors in China. When the Soviets invaded this country in the 1980s, in an echo of the Great Game, the CCP sent supplies and weapons to those fighting against them.
What is Afghanistan?
400
The "D" and "R" in the abbreviation of this country's official name, the DPRK, stand for "Democratic" and "Republic" which do not apply in reality. By most accounts, the "P" for "People's" is not accurate either; what Kim says goes.
What is North Korea?
400
(1970)
What is Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin?
500
The talk show host from The Hunger Games? Ooooh, we did talk about this man, the "Father of the Renaissance" who popularize humanism, wrote letters to dead people, and wore a cool hood with leaves on it.
Who was Petrarch?
500
This country was the first to face the German blitzkrieg and lost the highest percentage of its population out of all the countries involved with World War II. Though the Germans did not maintain their hold on it, it would not truly regain its complete independence until more than 45 years after the war's end.
What is Poland?
500
Even if you have never seen his face, the name of this man, who an avid sportsman, the 16th Earl of Derby, and represented Queen Victoria as Governor-General in one British holding from 1888-1893, will be familiar to fans of ice hockey.
Who is Lord Frederick Stanley?
500
The name of this country, the larger of Mexico's two southern neighbors, gets its name from the Mayan word for "Many Trees". They liked it so much they gave the same name to the capital.
What is Guatemala?
500
(2005)
What is Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz?