History quiz thread... If interest develops.

[Robert]

Yep, anyone can join in. Just wait until Tem posts the next set of questions, then send the answers to him VIA PRIVATE MESSAGE.

[Silvion]

why would we? I think weve got ourselfs a tem-bob-tem-bob situation over here!

[Temanin]

Sorry...and I'll get the quesitons up when I get some time to think about them.

[Robert]

Silvion said:

why would we? I think weve got ourselfs a tem-bob-tem-bob situation over here!

Because, if you did not notice the post earlier, we are changing the rules after Temanin goes. If I happen to get the most right when he asks them, then I can't go again, because I went before him. In that case, the next highest will go.

[Silvion]

oh ok, hadn't noticed that post.. sorry.

[Silvion]

How hard is it to think up 10 questions, Tem? You have had 3 days to make them up.

[Temanin]

And roughly four days, during which I have not been able to access a computer. Just ban me if I'm taking too long. It would be one less thing I have to worry about.

I'll get them as quickly as I can, all the same.

EDIT:

Alright, here are some bloody questions.

1. What is the estimated number of Russian casualties in WWI?

2. Roughly how many perished from the Spanish Influenza in 1918?

3. How long was the Battle of Verdun (WWI 1916) and what was the casualty count?

4. How many cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea are there?

5. Who originally came up with the two-finger V for Victory sign during WWII?

6. After being killed in battle, what happened to Japanese officers?
(okay, bad question, I know, but I can't think of a better way to put it at the moment.)

7. Global spending on defense total more than ____________. Global spending on education is less than $100 billion.
(Not really history, but an interesting fact, all the same.)

8. Notably, what was killed by the very first bomb that the Allies dropped on Berlin in World War II?

9. During the Battle of Waterloo, Lord Uxbridge had his horse shot from under him __ times.

10. During what war was the direct taxation on income introduced?

[Victor]

...Vic gives up, and doesn't think he's cut out for this.

[Silvion]

I don't know 1 single questionwithout looking them up(and thats not the intention, isn't it) I give up too. (5=Brittain, 8=pig?)

[Tony]

-_-

I don't know any.

[Temanin]

Then look them all up. The first person to PM me is the winner. Bah...

[Robert]

Alas, I only know one off the top of my head... It'd be good to know the answers, though.

[Temanin]

1. What is the estimated number of Russian casualties in WWI?
over six million

2. Roughly how many perished from the Spanish Influenza in 1918?
51 million worldwide

3. How long was the Battle of Verdun (WWI 1916) and what was the casualty count?
10 months, over 1 million dead

4. How many cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea are there?
92

5. Who originally came up with the two-finger V for Victory sign during WWII?
a Belgian refugee in London, Victor De Laveleye

6. After being killed in battle, what happened to Japanese officers?
(okay, bad question, I know, but I can't think of a better way to put it at the moment.)
They were promoted to the next highest rank.

7. Global spending on defense total more than ____________. Global spending on education is less than $100 billion.
$700 billion

8. Notably, what was killed by the very first bomb that the Allies dropped on Berlin in World War II?
the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo

9. During the Battle of Waterloo, Lord Uxbridge had his horse shot from under him __ times.
9

10. During what war was the direct taxation on income introduced?
The 100-Years War, a British invention designed to finance the war with France.

[Tony]

I didn't know any of them. Or did I?

[Silvion]

ok, who's up next?