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History by Letter - Q

Name these historical people, places, and things beginning with the letter Q.

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Last updated: July 26, 2014

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Hint	Answer
Vice President to Bush #1	Dan Quayle
A container for holding arrows	Quiver
Chivalric Don created by Miguel de Cervantes	Quixote
Religious movement of which William Penn was a member	Quaker
Central religious text of Islam	Quran
Branch of physics that showed "God plays dice"	Quantum Mechanics
Predecessor to the pen	Quill
Word for "bog" that was used to describe US involvement in Vietnam	Quagmire
Possibly Canada's oldest city	Quebec City
China's last dynasty	Qing
Cheap, semicircular hut built by the US Navy in WWII	Quonset Hut
Philippines President and namesake of metro Manila's biggest city	Manuel L. Quezon
Country that became independent from Britain in 1971	Qatar
Feathered serpent god of Mesoamerica	Quetzalcoatl
Norwegian leader and Nazi collaborator	Vidkun Quisling
Roman office-holder who managed state finances	Quaestor
Anti-malarial that European colonists put into their tonic water	Quinine

tigersue

level 70

Sep 30, 2014

I tried about a hundred spellings but couldn't come up with the right one for Quetzalcoatl!

Packerswin14

level 75

Oct 2, 2014

Great quiz. Spent enough time in The Philippines to get 15/17.

brandybuck96

level 76

Sep 16, 2015

So annoyed at missing Quaestor. No longer doing Latin has not done me good.

sumguy

level 75

Jan 23, 2017

Tried Quzon, Quizon, Qizon. Could not get Quezon.

Malbaby

level 67

Jul 23, 2017

Good quiz, never heard of the 'Quonset Hut'......... in UK was known as a "Nissen Hut'. Originally designed during the First World War by the engineer and inventor Major Peter Norman Nissen, it was used extensively during the Second World War.

dt1

level 47

Jul 23, 2017

The American version was first used at the Quonset Point Naval Base in Rhode Island and hence the name.

kenpo17

level 68

Jul 24, 2017

I have often seen it spelled "quoncet hut." Can you accept that spelling as well?

divantilya

level 38

Jul 24, 2017

Sorry, but Bush Jr., definitely outranks Kerry, Gore and Reagan. The ability to make glib speeches or false claims to inventions which you did not invent do not, in my estimation, make a great man much less a great president.

kalbahamut

level 75

Nov 3, 2017

Are you responding to my comment and ranking above? If so...

1. I wasn't ranking these people in terms of their greatness. Just on their apparent intelligence.
2. Gore never claimed to invent the Internet, though he was in fact instrumental in pushing through legislation that helped develop it. If you believe otherwise you may not have your facts straight. But, no, that doesn't make a person intelligent and wasn't part of my ranking.
3. I also wasn't ranking glibness. If I were, then yes that would have given Reagan an unfair edge over everyone else on the list particularly Dubya.
4. George W. Bush is one of the worst presidents in US history and one of the dimmest people to ever run for the office. Though... next to our current president he looks like Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Hawking combined. He also could barely speak. But, again, next to our current president... he's Cicero.

kalbahamut

level 75

Oct 14, 2018

Not sure what happened to the original comment we're both referencing and don't feel like taking the time to reconstruct what we were talking about, but I think it was probably something ranking these people in terms of intelligence in relation to Dan Quayle.

DarthCaedus66

level 14

Jul 25, 2017

I'm sorry, I didn't know this was the political obsessor's website.

stone222

level 52

Oct 14, 2018

stick around and learn, grasshopper

Shirmal

level 43

Jun 10, 2018

How did I not know that Qatar was once under the British? I have the weirdest gaps in my knowledge!