Historical Terms II

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1. What was meant by the term 'Bluestockings'? Senior Knight of the Garter A term used to describe 18th century guilt stocks A term used to describe an expensive prostitute An unflattering term to describe an educated woman

2. To what did the term 'Caliph' refer? Title given to secular Moslem rulers Non secular title of Moslem rulers Any middle eastern palace official 8th-15th century Arab warlords

3. To what does the term 'Janissaries' refer? Turkish tax collecters An elite band of Ottoman infantry A Janissary was an Ottoman Crown Prince Ottoman heavy cavalry

4. What did the term 'Night of the Long Knives' originally refer to before being used in fairly regular common day parlance? The murder of archbishop Thomas Becket The muder of Rasputin Hitler's destruction of the leadership of the SA The ceremony held by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse before the battle of Little Big Horn

5. What did the term 'Peter's Pence' mean in England? Tribute paid to the Pope Peter the Hermit's hoard of money found after his death Peter the Great's tax on English merchant ships entering Russian harbours Peter de Savory's purchase of an earldom in 1633

6. To what does the term 'Hussites' refer? Gangs of roaming mercenaries Followers of a 15th century clergyman Followers of the Central European Judaism Followers of an alternative 14th century Pope

7. What did the term 'Ironclad' refer to? The first Knights to wear plate armour The first armoured vehicles A guaranteed proposition or word of honour A class of warship

8. In England, to what did the term 'alderman' refer to? A collecter of alders A civic dignitary Another name for mayor Similar to a town crier but with only bi annual duties

9. To what does the term the 'New Model Army' refer? Reformed Parliamentary army of the English Civil War Reorganized Army of the Potomac in 1862 during the American Civil War New model soldiers for the war games of the Imperial General Staff Hitler's reorganized Wehrmacht of 1939

10. To what does the 13th century medieval term 'Pastoureaux' refer? Note: please note the century for this question. 13th century peasant uprising 13th century Papal resignation of Oswald IV 13th century invention of Italian pasta 13th century mercenaries taking and holding stolen land