FunTrivia History Mix: Vol 8 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Bricks

Before mass production was introduced there were five steps in making bricks, all involving very hard work. First the clay was mined. Next it had to be prepared by removing all stones and bits of vegetation and putting it into a soaking pit and when it was wet enough kneading it to the right consistency.

The third step was shaping it in wooden moulds. The fourth step was drying the bricks and finally they were fired in a kiln to harden them.

Question by player Calpurnia09

Answer: Russian Revolution

The Bolsheviks were a faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. The word "Bolshevik" means "majority". They arrogantly adopted this misleading name despite the fact that they actually lost the key vote to their opponents when they split from the main Russian socialist party in exile.

The Bolsheviks came to power in the October Revolution in 1917, ultimately becoming the Communist Party of the USSR.

Question by player lorance79

Answer: The English Channel

On the 11th of February 1942, the German Navy staged 'Operation Cerberus', the name given to the plan to return three of the major German Kriegsmarine surface vessels to safe berths back in Germany. Under the command of Vice-Admiral Otto Cilliax, the battleships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, along with a squadron of smaller vessels, managed to evade detection by the British until they had almost cleared the channel at its narrowest point, the Strait of Dover. Although the ships were detected at this point and came under sustained attacks by the RAF, Fleet Air Arm and coastal batteries, the ships survived and, by the 13 February, all were back safely in German home waters.
Kattegat is the name given to the narrow strait that separates eastern Denmark from southern Sweden, the Bering Strait separates continental Asia from North America in Alaska and the Cook Strait, at 14 miles at its narrowest point, is the stretch of water that separates the North and South islands of New Zealand.


Question by player SisterSeagull

Answer: Golf

With only one sixth of the Earth's gravity, Shepard said he was able to hit the golf balls for "miles and miles and miles".

Question by player MisterGumby

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II

The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) was Cunard's premier ship of its time and served as the flagship of the line until 2004. It was named after one of its predecessors, the RMS Queen Elizabeth. In 2004 the role of flagship was transferred to RMS Queen Mary 2. QE2 was retired from service, and sold off, in 2009.

Question by player romeomikegolf

Answer: The Gang of Four

Jiang Qing (Mao Zedong's last wife) along with Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen composed the Gang of Four. They were all officials of the Chinese Communist Party who came to power during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) but were denounced and charged with treason on 6 October 1976. Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao but was himself displaced by Deng Ziaoping.


Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: Crimean

The Crimean War lasted from October 1853 to February 1856. The Battle of Balaclava took place on 24 October 1854, and was fought by a combined force of English, French and Turkish troops against the army of Imperial Russia. It was during this battle that the famous "Charge of the Light Brigade" took place, in which a fatal mistake led to the British cavalry riding directly into the path of the Russian guns, the majority of them being slaughtered.

Question by player stedman

Answer: John Alcock and Arthur Brown

In 1913, England's "Daily Mail" put up a £10,000 prize for the "aviator who shall first cross the Atlantic in an aeroplane in flight from any point in the United States, Canada or Newfoundland to any point in Great Britain or Ireland in 72 continuous hours." In June 1919, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown accomplished this feat in a modified World War I open-cockpit Vickers Vimy bi-plane bomber. The check was handed to them by none other than Winston Churchill who was the Secretary of State for War and Air at the time.

Those other famous British wartime heroes were stars of WorLd War II, not I.

Question by player Billkozy

Answer: Lieutenant Colonel

Custer had held brevet (i. e., temporary) rank as a major general in the Civil War. In 1866 his brevet rank was replaced by his regular army rank of captain. In the ensuing Indian wars in the West, Custer was promoted, eventually, to Lieutenant Colonel. One of Custer's harshest critics of not only Custer's mistakes at Little Bighorn but of his military career was Ulysses S. Grant.

Question by player obiwan04

Answer: Yi Sun-sin

Yi Sun-sin was a Korean naval commander who fought an estimated twenty-three times during his naval career and all against the Japanese. Historically, he is best known for his victory over the Japanese during the Imjin War (1592-98). It would be during the Battle of Noryang that he would meet his maker when he was struck in the armpit by a stray bullet. Only his eldest son and his nephew were there to witness his death while he uttered his famous last words.

Question by player apathy100