Saturday, March 16, 2024

a quiz - you have an i q of 400 if you get 13 of these right






1. gilgamesh was king of:

a. uruk
b. babylon
c. the blues
d. new york

2. joshua fought the battle of:

a. jericho
b. actium
c. waterloo
d. new orleans

3. king arthur was king of

a. albion
b. the holy roman empire
c. the mountain
d. atlantis

4. the last ruler of egypt before it was absorbed by the roman empire was:

a. cleopatra i
b. cleopatra ii
c. clepoatra vii
d. cleppatra xi

5. which of these famous persons lived the longest time ago?

a. moses
b. confucius
c. plato
d. napoleon

6. which of these individuals went on the first crusade?

a. peter the hermit
b. joan of arc
c. richard the lion hearted
d. napoleon

7. who was the last roman emperor?

a. julius caesar
b. constantine the great
c. marcus aurelius
d. romulus augustulus

8. who was the first emperor of the ming dynasty?

a. mao zedong
b. confucius
c. zhu yuanzhang
d. sun tzu

9. who threw shadrach, mesgach, and abednego into the fiery furnace?

a. nebuchadnezzar i
b. nebuchadnazzar ii
c. salome
d. jezebel

10. who write “the art of war”?

a. mao zedong
b. sun tzu
c. ulysses s grant
d. george s patton

11. who was the first roman emperor to commit suicide?

a. julius caesar
b. caligula
c. nero
d. marcus aurelius

12. which of these individuals did not go on the third crusade?

a. joan of arc
b. richard the lion hearted
c. philip augustus
d. frederick barbarossa

13. who killed cock robin?

a. richard the lion hearted
b. robin hood
c. the sheriff of mottingham
d. the sparrow

14. who wrote “a new way to pay old debts”?

a, william shakespeare
b. ben jonson
c. philip massinger
d. aphra behn

15. who surrendered to george washington at yorktown?

a, george iii
b. cornwallis
c. the duke of wellington
d. napoleon

16. who surrendered to grant at appomattox?

a. stonewall jackson
b. andrew jackson
c. robert e lee
d. john brown

17. who shot poor jesse james in the back?

a, bob ford
b. henry ford
c. john wilkes booth
d. theodore roosevelt

18. who wrote “the mystery of edwin drood”?

a. agatha christie
b. charles dickens
c. queen victoria
d. virginia woolf

19. how many home runs did babe ruth hit in 1919?

a. 29
b. 39
c. 49
d, 59

20. what was joe dimaggio’s batting average in 1939?

a. .321
b. .341
c. ,361
d. .381




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