Here is the first triplet of questions;

1. For what charge in 1923 did Hitler serve nearly two years in jail?

2. In December 1936, the League of Nations voted to officially recognise the Italian annexation of Abyssinia. Only 4 countries voted against the proposal: the Soviet Union, China and Bolivia. Who was the 4th?

3. What famous sociologist was responsible for drafting the Weimar Constitution and insisted on the inclusion of Article 48, which Hitler later used to circumvent the Reichstag?



- answers in 24 hrs.

Abyssinia?

Italy?

Humph! Plz take this seriously. :huh:

What about Germany then?

Germany was no longer a member of the League by then.

New Zealand.

Treason.

Max Weber.

His poor choice of haircut and facial hair

1, Graffitti,
2,Greece,
3,Freud,

I see how this works. As soon as I ask u to be serious, the flippant answers come flooding in. :banghead:

Therefore, plz do not take this seriously. :P

So Mr Chomsky wins this round. :applaud: 3 out of 3 - altho to be accurate Hitler was charged with High Treason, sentenced to 5 years and served less than 2. (Compare that sentence with the 20year prison term handed out by the US Supreme Court to Abrams for distributing seditious leaflets in 1918).

Here's the next set of questions:

1. What 20th century US Supreme Court judge was a member of the Klu Klux Klan?

2. Name the Nazi dignitary likely to be seen as a regular guest at Mount Stewart, County Down in the late 1930’s?

3. Name the brothers from Lower Lorraine who became the first two leaders of the Kingdom of Jerusalem after the First crusade?

4. Viscount Rothermere had a close personal relationship with Hitler before the war. What UK newspaper did he own in the 1930’s?

2. Hess?
4. Daily Mail?

Hess was too much of an oaf to ever be invited out on a hunt with the aristocrats.

Does the Daily Mail's current readership give u a clue? :lol:

Damn! Thought I was on a roll there.
Oh well, looks like it's suicide again for me...

Daily Mail is right.

1, this is a trick question, their all members, its mandatory.
2,Heydrich,
3, Ill guess at Roland and Basil, (theres a trend to the names from that time,)
4,----------
People are only flippant when they dont know the answer fred.
(see answer 1)

Heydrich was a mere underling before 1939.

Not a bad guess. Ur right about one thing, the names are very typical of those times.

2 albert speer,
4 Eric and Roger, (I have actually read of them once)
(didnt one of them end up with leprosy? and was carried around in a chair?)

1. Storm Stormund? (I can't think of his right name, something with Storm or Strom in it)

2. Von Ribbentrop.

EDIT: I like these kind of quizzes, thanks!

I guess there may be more than one Supreme Court judge who was a member of the Klan, but the one I am thinking of is one of the giants of US constitutional history.

Well done. Joachim von Ribbentrop married wealth and spent the rest of his life trying to convince people he was aristocratic. Lord Londonderry (the owner of Mount Stewart) swallowed his act hook, line and sinker.

He was about the 5th or 6th King of Jerusalem - I cant tell u his name coz its the same as one of the brothers!

Ted Kennedy?

What does I win, Fred? ^_^

You win a trip to the headmaster's office for disrupting the class... :devil2:

Woodrow Wilson?

J. Edgar Hoover?

Bibb Graves?

Judge Judy?

1. Oliver Wendell Holmes - flirted briefly with the Klan as a young man.

2. Ribbontrop

3. Godfrey de Bouillon - who refused to take the title 'King of Jerusalem', thinking it inappropriate to be 'king' in the land of jesus christ and ruled for barely a year. Baldwin of Boulogne, on the other hand, had no such qualms about such a title - which probably had something to do with the years he spent training to be a priest - and he ruled for 18 years. He was the most industrious of all the Crusader-Kings and under him the Crusader states were at theit largest. Baldwin IV was the leper king, died 1185.

4. Daily Mail

1. The Mongol sack of Baghdad in 1158 under Hulagu is considered to have weakened Muslim power for centuries. How many residents is it estimated that the Mongols put to the sword?

2. Name the 14th century central Asian conqueror who piled the heads of slain enemies in huge pyramids? And what does his name mean in English?

3. 'For years, ship after ship, heavily ladened, carried off their loot to Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and England, where many of the objects thus acquired...can still be seen in churches, museums, and private collections today'. To what medieval event does this quote refer?

4. At the 1937 Imperial Conference in London, all Commonwealth members favoured appeasement of Germany, bar one. Which country was it? ;)

2. Genghis Khan? Does his name mean he gets things done? As in, "If anyone can, Genghis can????

What does I win, Fred? ^_^

What? The headmaster has let uuu back into class? :grrr:

'6 of the best' was not 'nuff for ya? :huh:

Sorry BK, Hulagu was Genghis' son, so if he was alive in 1158, then Genghis cannot be around in the 14th century.

Better luck next time.

1,Does this include collateral damage, as well as civilian casualties.
2, Tamburlaine?
3, Does it involve constantinople?
4, Australia.

There's a ball-park figure for the Baghdad casualties, but even the lowest estimate is astonishing.

Answers 2 and 3 are right, but if this were a proper test then I'm afraid I could only accept the events full and proper title: 'The Sack of Constantinople, 1204'.

Tamerlane is a derivation of Timur-i-lenk, which means Timur the lame.

Its not aussie u fool - there's no way I'd be trumpeting their achievements. :P

Books from the 50's and 60's usually estimated Baghdad's population at 80,000 -100,000. More recently it has been revised upwards to between 200,000 and 1 million.

NZ. :D

In addition to an April Presidential election, Germany held two National Elections in July and November of 1932 (Hitler was appointed Chancellor in January ’33.) Did the Nazi share of the vote increase or decrease over the course of the year?

It is rumoured that in his later years Caesar Augustus wondered the halls of his palace crying out ‘Qunicitilius Varus, give me back my legions’. What was he referring to?

What classical Roman dictator was the inspiration for The Fabian Society?

Of the 19 new nations created in Europe at the end of WWI by the Treaty of Versailles, which one was the only remaining democracy at the beginning of 1938?

1) decreased if i remember correctly, the reason why they cancelled the next elections.

2) I used to know this. Wasn't there a humiliating defeat of a couple of legions of Romans that were slaughtered by a bunch of gauls in a forest? And the commander was too stubborn to withdraw or something. (This was featured in "I Claudius", i think)

3) Fabianus? :lol:

4) ?

4, czechoslovakia?

Yes. The Nazis got 37% of the vote in July, and 32% in November. In the intervening months, Nazi thuggery was at its worst - 86 reported murders in July alone immediately following the election, and it basically continued until Hitler was handed power 6 months later.

- Germanic tribes who were formerly allies of Rome ambushed 3 Legions in the Teutoburger Wald in 9AD. Varus couldnt withdraw: some tried to make it back to the Roman Camp but were slaughtered before they reached it.

- close Mopi. Full name: - Qunitus Fabius Maximus Cuncatator. I'm not too sure why The Fabian's adopted him: after all, 'Cuncatator' means he was known as 'Fabius the Delayer'. He was appointed dictator for a year in the hope he could deal with Hannibal in a timely fashion. After a year in power he had appeared to have done nothing, so they replaced him with the two generals who went on to lose the Battle of Cannae to Hannibal.

Excellent, twinz2z. U get a gold star.

Its kind of ironic that the champions of democracy - Britain and France - were, to their eternal shame, complicit in the dismantling of the fledgeling nation.

I recall the story of goring or ribontrop visiting the minister of defence for Czecko, with pictures of spanish towns bombed by the germans, to show them what to expect.
If he was talking to a minister for defence, it follows they probably had a Govt.
qed.

One third of the German tanks used in the invasion of France were manufactured in Czech factories, the rest were manufactured in the Rhineland. Their large industrial capacity was precisely why those 2 territories were removed from Germany's control at Versailles in 1919...How quickly they forgot. :confused:

Can I add a few questions?

* What is the main advantage of a flail in medieval close combat warfare?

* What's so special about a goupillon flail?

* What did Heinrich Himmler say the first time he witnessed a mass machine gun execution supervised by his underling Heydrich?

* A certain group of laws, established under the nazis by Hermann Goring, is still in use in modern Germany. Which set of laws is it or what activity do they apply to?