WHO SAID THAT?
TRIALS OF THE CENTURIES
"B" IN HISTORY
NAPOLEON
ALSO KNOWN AS
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WE SHALL FIGHT IN THE BEACHES, WE SHALL FIGHT IN THE LANDING GROUNDS... and so on
WHO WAS WINSTON CHURCHILL?
100
IN THE 1690S, THESE DEADLIEST WITCH HUNTS IN NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY OCCURED.
WHAT WERE THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS?
100
THIS 1676 ARMED UPRISING WAS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICAN PRESENCE IN ENGLISH VIRGINIA (NOT BREAKFAST).
WHAT WAS BACON'S REBELLION?
100
THIS 1815 BATTLE SAW NAPOLEON'S DEFEAT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS, AS ABBA WOULD SING ABOUT IN 1974
WHAT WAS THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO?
100
A NICKNAME FOR RONALD REAGAN'S SPACE-BASED NUCLEAR DEFENSE PROGRAM,
ALSO, 1977's HIGHEST GROSSING FILM.
WHAT IS "STAR WARS"?
200
I SUPPOSE MY CRITICS WILL CALL THAT PREACHING, BUT I HAVE GOT SUCH A BULLY PULPIT.
WHO WAS TEDDY ROOSEVELT?
200
WHETHER THIS THEORY SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS WAS DEBATED DURING THE SCOPES MONKEY TRIAL IN 1925.
What is evolution?
200
"I AM BECOME DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS", SAID OPPENHEIMER.
HE GOT IT FROM THIS BOOK.
WHAT IS THE BAGHAVAD GITA?
200
THIS FAMOUS NAVAL COMMANDER WON THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR- BUT LOST HIS LIFE TO A SNIPER IN THE PROCESS.
WHO WAS LORD ADMIRAL HORATIO NELSON?
200
THE LAST ROMAN EMPEROR, DEPOSED BY ODOACER,
ALSO, ROME'S FOUNDER.
WHO WAS ROMULUS?
300
IN 1989, A MILITARY GOVERNMENT RENAMED THIS COUNTRY MYANMAR.
WHAT WAS BURMA?
300
AFTER HE DIVORCED JOSEPHINE, NAPOLEON'S SECOND WIFE WAS NOT ONLY THE DUCHESS OF PARMA, BUT DAUGHTER OF FRANCIS II- THE LAST MAN TO HOLD THIS TITLE.
WHAT WAS HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR?
300
THE ROMAN PROVINCE THAT IS NOW PORTUGAL,
ALSO, THE OCEAN-LINER SUNK IN 1915.
WHAT WAS LUSITANIA?
400
THE COURT FOUND EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 TO BE CONSTITUTIONAL IN THIS LANDMARK 1946 CASE.
WHAT WAS KOREMATSU V. UNITED STATES?
400
THE LAST NAME OF THIS PRESIDENT.
WHO WAS BOLIVAR?
400
THIS PHILOSOPHER WROTE IT WAS A "TRULY WONDERFUL SENSATION" TO SEE NAPOLEON ON HORSEBACK, CALLING HIM THE "SOUL OF THE WORLD".
WHO WAS HEGEL?
400
AN ADJECTIVE TO DESCRIBE THE ARTISTIC, REBELLIOUS HIPPIES CHALLENGING "THE ESTABLISHMENT" IN THE 1960s.
ALSO, THE NATIONALITY OF CENTRAL-EUROPEAN, REBELLIOUS HUSSITE SOLDIERS CHALLENGING THE PAPACY IN THE 1420s.
WHAT IS BOHEMIAN?
500
AT THE END OF EVERY SPEECH HE GAVE: CARTHAGO DELENDA EST (CARTHAGE MUST BE DESTROYED).
WHO WAS CATO THE ELDER?
500
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR. COINED THIS ALLITERATIVE PHRASE IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY, LINKING THE INDIAN CASTE SYSTEM TO THE TRADITIONAL ELITE OF THE EAST COAST CITY HE CALLED HOME.
(MEMBERS INCLUDED THE CABOT, ADAMS, LOWELL, AND WINTHROP FAMILIES).
Who are the "Boston Brahmin"?
500
AMERICAN MILITARY SCHOOLS STLL TEACH ABOUT THIS PRUSSIAN MILITARY THEORIST, WHO WROTE "ON WAR" AFTER SERVING IN THE NAPOLEONIC WARS. IN THE BOOK, HE FAMOUSLY DEFINED WAR AS BEING A "PARADOXICAL TRINITY".
WHO WAS CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ?
500
IN A 15TH CENTURY STORY, THE REAL IDENTITY OF THE RED KNIGHT IN THE KING ARTHUR MYTHOS,
ALSO, THE NICKNAME OF THE OLDEST WARSHIP STILL AFLOAT.
WHAT IS IRONSIDES?