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Can you name the historical figures mentioned by name in Wikipedia's 'History of Western Civilisation' article?
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Article accessed 13th March 2011. Answers include picture captions but not non-contemporaneous sources, e.g. modern historians, paintings depicting earlier eras, etc.
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History of Western Civilisation (Wikipedia Version) Quiz
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johnlk
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Mar 13th, 2011 at 21:11 GMT
2 points
Some weirdness - Raphael but not Michelangelo?
johnlk
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Mar 13th, 2011 at 21:13 GMT
2 points
Wow, Stanley Baldwin? It is hard to say this isn't heavily biased towards the anglophone world.
federick
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Mar 14th, 2011 at 00:16 GMT
2 points
johnlk - sorry, the Michelangelo issue was my fault, spelling issues, fixed now. Still, no Beethoven, Mozart, Mao, Wordsworth and yet there's Gerald Ford right there.
johnlk
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Mar 14th, 2011 at 01:10 GMT
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Well, Mao is Chinese, so that's somewhat understandable. But the others, yeah. Gerald Ford being in there is rather ridiculous.
smuffle
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Mar 14th, 2011 at 02:24 GMT
2 points
Maybe you should accept just "Loyola"... there aren't that many other famous Loyolas.
DragonNo4
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Mar 14th, 2011 at 05:27 GMT
1 point
Should be Vasco Da Gama.
SOAR21
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Mar 14th, 2011 at 06:12 GMT
1 point
GREAT IDEA!!!
SecretAZNMan
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Jul 21st, 2011 at 22:44 GMT
1 point
This is a really interesting quiz. It's cool to see who made the cut. Although it's a bit out of date.
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