Was it the one about Rome? I was kicking myself when I saw the answer. I was breezing through the quiz and didn't stop to think. Every country goes from autocracy to democracy, right? Then of course I remembered upon seeing the answer that Caesar very famously crossed the Rubicon to overtake the Senate when it wanted him to relinquish his war powers. D'oh.
Not at all surprised about the bikes, but when thinking about the the telephone 1876 feels so recent, it is like only a 100 years before my big sister was born. Even writing this down it feels crazy haha. 100 years feels so few, but then if you consider it a short amount of time, saying my sister was born close to the 1800s is madness haha.
I made the exact same mistake, if I'd stopped to think for a second I would have realised my mistake but by then I was too busy wondering who came first.
He's actually referring to John Lennon, not Vladmir Lenin, although he wrote the line that way because Lennon and Lenin sound the same. "While Lennon read a book on Marx, the quartet practiced in the park". The quartet is the Beatles, and the line refers to the band's (and the 1960's counterculture's in general) fondness for Communism.
Came here to pay homage to Don McLean for helping me with that one as well. Turns out I had a true belief that wasn't necessarily a justified one. That said, for the ambiguity (which I also believe was intended) to truly work it would have to follow that Marx predates Lenin. So maybe I had a partially justified, true belief. Might have to consult the epistemology experts on this one.
Can we please include initials or full names for Bach/Beethoven? There are many composers with the last name Bach most born before Beethoven, but some after. I realize it is implies to be Johann Sebastian Bach, but Maria Bach was a fairly prolific composer and pianist as well with Beethoven being between them.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. (John 1:1-2) Also see Colossians 1:15-17.
I got all of them right. But I want to mention Steel the quiz is saying steel was first 18 century BC. While I haven't done any major internet searching I can't find that this is right. Is it possible you meant 1800 AD?
Indian/Persian smiths were producing steel as a byproduct of other metalworking almost 4000 years ago. But it was never produced in appreciable amounts until the 1700s.
Yes, indeed, and even if you twist the question to mean "the Beatles" and not "The Beatles"--that is, if there's such a thing as "a Beatle"--all of them were born after Elvis Presley, thus appearing to history later.
Kind of amazed that the one most missed was the Rome one. I thought that was one of the most obvious - I mean... have people not heard of Julius Caesar, crossing the Rubicon, his assassination to preserve the republic, the first emperor Augustus? I thought the events of the downfall of the Roman Republic were basically the most famous in ancient history, with the possible exception of Alexander's conquests, but apparently not.
Love this quiz. Only weakness I think is the Empire Strikes Back/Back to the Future question because....who cares? I mean, the two films are merely five years apart. They don't have any kind of generative relationship, for instance, that we see in Elvis LEADING to the Beatles. So it could have been any two films from the same decade — which came earlier? A decent question, I guess, but lacking the wit of the others.
In BTTF1 Marty, wearing his hazmat suit and playing a Van Halen riff on his walkman, introduces himself to his father as Darth Vader (from the planet Vulkan) to convince him to date his mother.
So here is the connection. Yes yes Vader appeared first in A New Hope but he was only a glorified enforcer in this movie, his role became more important in The Empire Strikes Back.
But seriously, is it really pasta if there's no marinara on it?
Also why do Americans say they put this on pizza? Aren't you putting sugo on pizza?
And yet, Botticelli's Venus is apparently older than the Mona Lisa, too.
But Buddha is, kind of, a Catholic saint.
*SIGH*
(read my name)
So here is the connection. Yes yes Vader appeared first in A New Hope but he was only a glorified enforcer in this movie, his role became more important in The Empire Strikes Back.