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5-Letter History Chain #2

For each hint, enter a 5-letter word. The last letter of this word will be the first letter of the next word.

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Last updated: February 20, 2019

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Hint	Answer
Pacific Northwest carving: ____ Pole	Totem
Main crop of the Aztecs	Maize
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The _____ has landed	Eagle
First general anesthetic	Ether
Lancaster vs. York: War of the _____	Roses
Shakespeare play: Taming of the _____	Shrew
Country conquered by Edward Longshanks	Wales
Job for a poor Victorian child: chimney _____	Sweep
Student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle	Plato
Drug that caused wars between China and Britain	Opium
Style of outdoor painting Diego Rivera was known for	Mural
Language of ancient Rome	Latin
He was not a crook	Nixon

Hint	Answer
"Don Quixote" is often called the first of this type of book	Novel
Pack animal of the Incas	Llama
"Remembered" battle of Texas independence	Alamo
J.S. Bach's instrument	Organ
Term for a Brit who got rich in India	Nabob
Musical genre that started in the Southern U.S.	Blues
Scimitar, claymore, cutlass	Sword
Kansas frontier town	Dodge
Country led by Nassar and Sadat	Egypt
Type of Greek god such as Cronus or Prometheus	Titan
Assassin of feudal Japan	Ninja
Wife of Muhammad who wrote 2,210 hadiths	Aisha
Leader of an abbey	Abbot

plattitude

level 81

Sep 21, 2015

Wow, my mind screamed bluegrass for the musical genre, and then I couldn't think of anything else. To be so close...

DatWonNewb

level 12

Feb 3, 2017

I thought bluegrass too even though I knew it was bluegrass. Pretty much every time I start a quiz I get a brainfart.

twained

level 58

Nov 15, 2015

I wasn't aware of ever hearing or seeing the word "nabob," but knowing the first and last letter, I guessed it on the first try.

brandybuck96

level 75

Nov 15, 2015

I've only ever heard it as "nabab", but that was in a French book.

LarryLovage

level 59

Nov 15, 2015

For years I thought in Apocalypse Now when Brando (Kurtz) is heard on the tape, that he said "Those na-bombs - I hate them, I do hate them" as some kind of abbreviation for napalm bomb. Turns out he was saying "nabobs".

blinky

level 61

Feb 4, 2017

Don't remember "nattering nabobs of negativism"? Spiro Agnew quote.

divantilya

level 38

Apr 5, 2017

Sure do remember our Spiro Agnew. In retrospect, he doesn't seem so bad now, does he?

helenap13

level 61

Nov 15, 2015

Can't an abbess also lead an abbey?

Tramp

level 68

Nov 15, 2015

Abbess has 6 letters

LarryLovage

level 59

Nov 15, 2015

Also, a tip - these chains always link up in a circle, so the last letter of the last clue is the first of the first.

DavidShuer123

level 47

Nov 15, 2015

There has never been such a thing as a ninja in Japan. They were created entirely by media, and while there were samurais and sensei, there were never actually ninjas in Japan.

Kestrana

level 65

Nov 16, 2015

A ninja (忍者?) or shinobi (忍び?) was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja

BiggieSmalls

level 65

Nov 15, 2015

Your clue for Nabob is a bit misleading. It does not refer to all Brits who got rich in India. It only refers to those who worked for the East India Company who got rich off of scams and corrupt dealings. Other than that, it is usually referring to a viceroy or governor. Additionally, Native Europeans used "nabob" to refer to those who returned from India after having made a fortune there. Source of my info, Wikipedia, the source Quizmaster is so fond of referencing.

Quizmaster

level ∞

Nov 16, 2015

"A nabob /ˈneɪbɒb/ is an Anglo-Indian term for a conspicuously wealthy man who made his fortune in the Orient, especially in the Indian subcontinent"

First line of the Wikipedia article

divantilya

level 38

Nov 10, 2017

And how, pray tell, did the others enrich themselves if not by preying on the natives?

sg1rob

level 69

Nov 17, 2015

I'd like to thank Spiro Agnew for helping me get "nabob".

Yossarian

level 66

Nov 17, 2015

I was thinking of Aisha the whole time, but couldn't figure out the transliteration wanted!

haggy999

level 48

Nov 18, 2015

Ninja's were not necessarily assassins; they were more commonly spies.

divantilya

level 38

Feb 12, 2018

"Nattering Nabobs of Negativism." - Spiro Agnew

ladycyclops

level 44

May 17, 2018

Nabob is highly misleading. It seems like a derivative of the Urdu word Nawab which was used as a title by the Islamic emperors in India. Never heard Nabob being defined in this context. Please verify.

Quizmaster

level ∞

May 18, 2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabob

RealDad12

level 53

May 17, 2018

25/26. I wouldn't've gotten Dodge in a million years.

ninjastar9

level 48

May 17, 2018

Nice quiz, however, "The Tale of Genji" is actually considered the world's first novel. Here is at least one source (though there are many): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-sensualist-books-buruma. Otherwise, this was an interesting quiz.

GeographyGeek42

level 52

May 17, 2018

Dodge isn't a Kansan city, Dodge CITY is the frontier town. that clue is technically incorrect.

divantilya

level 38

Sep 28, 2018

Who cares? We got it! - Frontier town: Get out of Dodge! (usually followed by: "by sundown").

GeoDude

level 39

Jan 16, 2019

Got Dodge, missed novel and blues. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯