One-Name Historical Figures Quiz

the aztec emperor is called moNtezuma, not moCtezuma \^_^/

Well nobody will get that one correct.

Quizmaster, you just referenced wikipedia which isn't a very dependable source. Also, though his actual name may have been that, most do know him as Montezuma.

Just don't use Wikipedia as a source when writing a paper. One of my instructors warned us that if we did, it was an automatic F.

I love wikipedia and I use it all the time, not for papers though. Teachers don't like it because they think it is unreliable or it is too easy for the students. But anyone can tell when the articles have been edited so I don't understand what the problem is. Don't trust wikipedia if you see that the article has been edited which is rarely, and everything is fine.

Wikipedia: the most peer reviewed publication on the planet.

I love Wikipedia. I've been using it for years and except the occasional grammatical error, it has never steered me wrong once. So quit bagging on Wikipedia.

musicmakes....just because most people are dumb and don't know the TRUE spelling of someone's name, doesn't mean we need to perpetuate the falsehood when the truth is known to us.

Speaking of correct spellings, the quiz gives us "Japanese emperor" and "Aztec emporer". And I don't even need to consult Wikipedia to know which one is correct!

Was Muhammad really the founder of Islam? Huh, I thought it existed before him, for some reason. Shows how much I know... O_o

There can be no "founder of medicine". That's like saying "Franklin 'invented' electricity" or "Newton 'invented' gravitiy. It's ridiculous. Imhotep may have been one of MANY early 'practitioners' of Egyptian medicine but he certainly did not "found" it.

Perhaps you need to brush up on the definition of medicine. I knew that one, mostly because of familiarity with the name thanks to 'The Mummy'. He was also a major architect.

"From the halls of Moctezuma to the shores......" Nah...

I only know Moctezuma from a old Cartoon Network show called Time Squad. It was such a ridiculous episode! "Ladies and Gentleman, Monty Zuma!" Nothing like changing an Aztec emperor from a comedian to an actual emperor.

Wikipedia is a great boon to all of us, there is no denying that! I use it constantly. I think however that many teachers are properly cautioning you, especially on more esoteric subjects. In my research I've found a few entries that were either wrong or had a very heavy editorial bent towards a specific viewpoint that might or might not be the accepted view or simply did not reflect known facts at all. One of them for a long time was the entry on the above mentioned emperor, Nero. If you'd read the original wikipedia entry on "Nero" you would have thought he was an all-around great guy who was one of Rome's greatest emperors... the historian who'd written the entry is one of a very few who like to ignore all the contemporary accounts from Nero's own time and create a "kinder gentler Nero". It's been modified some at this point, but it's still off center to a degree. Likewise, when researching some villages and towns in my county that the State of New York had forcibly moved people from in order to create som

It is a common misconception that Nero "Fiddled while Rome burned." The fiddle wasn't even invented yet. Also, he did a lot to help Rome and her people follow the disaster. Not that it really matters, because most people know him for this misconception, so the quiz is not flawed. Just helping people learn a bit of truth.

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The quizmaster is correct about Moctezuma.

I'm surprised no one on here is arguing that Jesus does have a last name. For any future people that will, Christ comes from the latin word Christos, which means messiah. So really "Christ" is Jesus's title, not his name.