And then there are the poets of exile: Heinrich Heine, who wrote movingly about dreaming in German while living in Paris, Dante, who was condemned to death as well as exiled by his political opponents in Florence and who still nursed what he knew were unrealistic hopes of returning, and Tu Fu, who suffered internal exile that produced his most poignant works.
The last one reminded me of someone missing. Immigrant to US from England, then exiled to Switzerland... Charlie Chaplin!
I'm disgusted with myself. Sometimes my fingers type phonetically, and I typed "GAUGAN" before my brain intervened to put the right letters in... but it had been accepted! I'm mortified.
Did anyone else feel rushed? I fully read and considered most of the clues, but had to really hurry and didn't have any time to consider the last 6 or so. One more minute would have been nice - I know I would have come up with at least 2 of the ones I missed if I'd had a few seconds to think.
I wouldn't say France to Tahiti is much of an emigration. Tahiti is part of French Polynesia; it would be like saying moving from the US to, say, Guam is emigration.
It wasn't an overseas region at that point, though, it was a colony. It's like saying someone moving from the UK to Australia, Kenya, or Belize, at that time wasn't emigrating.
Great quiz! I hadn't heard of racial discrimination against Indians being the reason for Freddy Mercury's family's departure from Zanzibar. They were Parsi (ethnically Persian community long-established in India) -- though they would have had Indian nationality. Of course, racists don't make much distinction when they apply their twisted logic...
Not sure you can call William's participation in the Glorious Revolution 'conquering England'. He (grandson of Charles I) and his wife (until then the next in line to the throne) were invited by Parliament after all! Additionally, both became monarchs of Scotland too.
good points, but just being pedantic (after all this is Jetpunk), the next in line to the throne was the newly born James Stuart - later the Old Pretender. The Great Pretender was of course a different person on this quiz.
Wow I had 1 more than average ! This is so not my subject. History and "new facts". I mean previously non existing facts. Like there have "always" been trees, but people doing stuff are new facts, no matter how many centuries ago. And I have hardly any information on those kind of facts (but more language and science areas) and not too much interest either. Unless a person on its own was interesting already not because he was some general in war. (though admittedly I have a similarly bad memory for those too, painters and composers etc, but atleast some sort of interest)
Totally separating Roman Polanski from his later actions, his interview in the early 1970s on Dick Cavett's show is an absolutely captivating story of being a Jewish child in WW2. He witnessed the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Krakow, concentration camps, hiding in the countryside with a Catholic family and postwar chaos. He has the elocution to bring that history to full life for a viewer.
All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Putting "Queen" in quotation marks makes it seem like the name of a song. Without them, I would have guessed Freddie Mercury immediately, but with them, I couldn't think of a band that sang a song called "Queen".
I'm probably in the minority on this, and I like Tina Turner, but she did not sing "Proud Mary"--she butchered it. The absolute worst remake of a classic song in the history of rock and roll.
Calling Marx an agitator sounds like unnecessary anti-commie bias. You wouldn't describe (and haven't) other famous thinkers that way, even if they were just as "revolutionary" and anti-establishment as Marx was.
Snowden was not a "whistleblower." There's a process for that, which he ignored and then went to... Russia? Because their spy services are more morale somehow? Give me a break.
Yeah... I have no idea why Snowden is heralded as this champion for transparency. He just defected from one somewhat shady organization to an even shadier organization.
Tina Turner didn't move from the US to Switzerland, she moved from the US to Germany and then from Germany to Switzerland. Not that anyone cares buttttt still.
I'm pretty sure the quizmaster was just putting a joke in. Whether you laughed or not isn't really the point tbh. It doesn't stop others from laughing at the fact it's an understatment.
I'm disgusted with myself. Sometimes my fingers type phonetically, and I typed "GAUGAN" before my brain intervened to put the right letters in... but it had been accepted! I'm mortified.
The question is very easy as it is without making it "Who was the singer of Queen"
Tina Turner didn't move from the US to Switzerland, she moved from the US to Germany and then from Germany to Switzerland. Not that anyone cares buttttt still.