'D' In History Quiz

Question	Answer
On December 7, 1787, which US state became the first to ratify the US Constitution?
Which Persian king, noted for his administrative genius, was defeated at Marathon in 490 B.C?
What is the name given to a collection of 972 Hebrew texts found in modern-day Judea?
Which Middle Eastern city is reputedly the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world?
What did Alfred Nobel receive a patent for in 1867?
Which English naturalist formulated the theory of evolution by natural selection?
From which French city were almost 350,000 soldiers evacuated in 1940?
Where was the most important oracle in ancient Greece situated?
What was the nickname given to Erwin Rommel due to his prowess in north Africa?
Before his death, which English privateer vowed to return if ever his drum were beaten?
Which book did William I commission to assess the amount of land and goods owned in England?
Which German city was controversially bombed by the Allies in February 1945?
Which British royal died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997?
Who was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel?
Who was the only British Prime Minister to have been born Jewish?
Ceres, goddess of the harvest, is the Roman equivalent of which Greek goddess?
Which country's royal family can trace its ancestry to 960 A.D, making it the oldest in the world?
What is the more common name for Operation Neptune, the 1944 Normandy beach landings?
In which US city was President John F. Kennedy assassinated?
Which geological period directly followed the Silurian and preceded the Carboniferous?

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'D' In History Quiz

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Created Nov 27, 2011 in History
Featured Mar 5, 2012
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	Tongueforker:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 15:14 GMT	0 points
	Probably shouldn't speak ill of the Gods, but damn you Demeter!

	climber_v12:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 16:11 GMT	3 points
	I like this as much as the C History Quiz. It also turned out to be even more informative - I never knew the Dane's royal family beats ours by over 100 years!

	Pogues:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 16:31 GMT	1 point
	Don't know what it was, but when I hit the oldest Middle Eastern city question, I tried Jerusalem, Tehran, Cairo, Instanbul, Baghdad...completely forgetting this was a D quiz.

	Tommy_C:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 16:57 GMT	14 points
	If only Michael Chrichton had written a book about bringing dinosaurs back from the Devonian period, I'd have had that one. Geologic periods that do not feature in monster movies, pop songs or video games are not one of my strengths.

	dje:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 17:06 GMT	1 point
	FYI: there is no such thing as "modern-day judea;" the location where the dead sea scrolls were found is in the present-day west bank, which is part of israel. The scrolls were found when that location was in the British Mandate of Palestine, and "judea," though people use it to refer to the hilly region around the dead sea, is actually a territory of ancient israel up to 200 CE (AD).

	zeppelinoid:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 17:13 GMT	3 points
	The British royal family claim the line of succession back to the first Anglo-Saxon kings many years earlier than Denmark's royal line. See: http://www.britroyals.com/kings.asp?id=alfred If I remember correctly the Japanese emperors trace descent back to the creation of the Earth by the sun god?

	dancastro:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 17:13 GMT	2 points
	@Tommy_C: it would be impossible (even in fiction?) to bring back dinosaurs from the Devonian. That period was part of the Paleozoic era, and dinosaurs lived in the Mesozoic. That was a couple of hundreds of millions years later.

	aangenaamjazz:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 17:17 GMT	18 points
	You should also accept the French name of Dunkirk, it is in France! I also tried the Dutch name, but alas. I just didn't know how the English would spell it.

	qwerty2000:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 17:21 GMT	13 points
	Dunkerque is spelt like this

	ari18:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 17:25 GMT	9 points
	@zeppelinoid: The native line of British kings ended with the invasion of William the Conqueror. Britain has been a monarchy for a very long time, but their royal line is not continuous back to before Gorm the Old (first Danish king). I sort of agree about the Japanese line, however. I know people seem to draw a line between "kings" and "emperors" but I'm honestly not sure why, it really works the same. Besides, the Japanese word we translate as "emperor" is "tennou," "heaven king." The character for "king" is used. However, I have to nitpick and point out that Amaterasu did not create the world in any of the Japanese mythological texts. She is a sun-goddess and the ancestress of the Imperial line, but not a creator deity.

	TediousGit:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 17:38 GMT	5 points
	Billy the Conk may have replaced a native English king, but Harold wasn't related to any established 'native line' of kings. Bill himself, however, was, being a direct descendent of the royal house of Wessex. The present Queen is, indeed, a direct descendent not only of Bill, but also of Alfred the Great (and, indeed, for what it's worth, Harold Godwinsson, as well as Brian Boru and various others, including, via Alfred, Woden). Mind you, I'm sure Denmark's can be traced past 960 as well, albeit not necessarily as Danish monarchs.

	segacs:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 17:54 GMT	3 points
	@dje - Palestinians refer to it as the "West Bank". Israelis refer to it as "Judea". You can't sneeze in that part of the world without running into something political.

	dje:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 19:13 GMT	3 points
	@segacs- though it is true that the official name of the west bank from the israeli government is "judea and samaria" (wih judea being the part of the west bank south of jerusalem where the scrolls were found), israelis themselves more frequently refer to the area as the west bank (hagadah hamaravit). I would imagine that the majority of the world would be more familiar with the term "west bank" (which in no way is the "palestinian" name for the region) over judea, which probably only a handful of people would know (such as israelis or religious scholars, both including myself). Most western media refer to the area as the west bank too, and generally when people hear "judea," it refers to the ancient territory rather than the modern day definition. Though i couldnt agree with you more, the middle east is certainly a touchy topic

	lilhammer3991:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 19:17 GMT	-2 points
	SPOILER!!! more people got diana than darwin and dday, this saddens me...

	wistfulabacus:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 19:27 GMT	2 points
	Agree that French spelling of a city in, er, France should be accepted. Over here the US city 'St Louis' is pronounced 'St Louie', but I don't think the latter spelling would be considered the only/correct one as a quiz answer . . .

	Cecispanda:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 19:38 GMT	4 points
	Pogues, don't feel bad, I knew it was a D quiz and it took me forever to think of the middle eastern city... I tried Dammam, Dhahran, and Doha before I got it lol

	BaconMuffin:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 20:04 GMT	5 points
	pretty sure that d-day is operation overlord not operation neptune

	BladeSword122:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 20:06 GMT	4 points
	couldnt spell domesday lol

	huey782:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 20:43 GMT	7 points
	@BaconMuffin - Operation Overlord refers to the overall invasion/battle of Normandy. Operation Neptune refers to the landing itself.

	nahtanoj999:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 20:58 GMT	1 point
	I somehow didn't realize that they all began with D until I finished.

	zeppelinoid:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 21:42 GMT	4 points
	@ari18: I stand corrected on the origin of the Japanese Emperors/Kings. As I stated, I was going from memory. I remain to be convinced that the Danish royal claim has any more validity than the English/British one or indeed a number of others. This thread indicates that the Danish claim is at best disputed, and at worst wishful thinking. I had never heard the claim before seeing this quiz and had always assumed that the Japanese royal line was the oldest

	emilkr:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 21:44 GMT	2 points
	Which Middle Eastern city is reputedly the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world? The answer is Jericho... not Damascus...

	tulliuscicero:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 22:38 GMT	2 points
	I missed Denmark but got Devonian...did they suffer from Sporclitis in the Paleozoic Era as well?

	danydee:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 23:41 GMT	1 point
	The first question is wrong. It wasn't Operation Neptune, it was Operation Overlord.

	danydee:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 23:42 GMT	2 points
	Crossing the Channel was Neptune. The question is ambiguous.

	horseydeucey:	Mar 5th, 2012 at 23:44 GMT	5 points
	Am I crazy in thinking the book is also known as "Doomsday?"

	charolastra:	Mar 6th, 2012 at 00:14 GMT	2 points
	@horseydeucy: No, you're not crazy. Wikipedia says: "Richard FitzNigel, writing around the year 1179, stated that the book was known by the English as "Domesday", that is the Day of Judgment "for as the sentence of that strict and terrible last account cannot be evaded by any skilful subterfuge, so when this book is appealed to ... its sentence cannot be put quashed or set aside with impunity. That is why we have called the book 'the Book of Judgment' ... because its decisions, like those of the Last Judgment, are unalterable."

	Propellerhead:	Mar 6th, 2012 at 01:03 GMT	12 points
	I was a Devonian back in 1980, around the time Whip It came out.

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