I also tried Boudicea, lucky I managed to drop the e when I started guessing. -- On the note of spelling, I tried "Welles" for Wells and got accepted. It's two totally different people. Shouldn't we keep them separate?
Is «Brittonic» a better term for the B answer instead of «British»?. She was a ruler during the Roman occupation. Im not an anglophone, but i taught that Britons was referring to the Celtic people living in the British isles.
Great quiz, though the interweb is telling me Octavian was the first Emperor of Rome. Happy to be proved wrong.
Three questions about US Presidents seems OTT. Surely there are other historical figures with those initials. Heck, even other American historical figures if you really wanna keep it as American answers. Three Presidents just seems like unnecessary duplication.
Octavian (Augustus) WAS the first emperor of Rome. But that's not the question. You should name the first Holy Roman Emperor. The Holy Roman Empire was a confederation of kingdoms in Central Europe in the Middle Ages that had (almost) nothing to do with Romans.
Perhaps the clue for Lenin should be amended to "birth surname" as to not stump the quiztaker. To me, personally, "birth name" resonates more so with first name. But that's just me.
"Passing the buck" is a relatively well known phrase for handing responsibility for something to someone else (often implying a reluctance to take responsibility).
Truman famously had a sign on his desk saying "The buck stops here" - acknowledging that as President he was ultimately responsible for a hell of a lot of stuff.
"The buck stops here" is a phrase that was popularized by U.S. President Harry S. Truman, who kept a sign with that phrase on his desk in the Oval Office. The phrase refers to the notion that the President has to make the decisions and accept the ultimate responsibility for those decisions. - found the answer after 5 seconds of googling/Wikipediaing.
The expression is said to have originated from poker in which a marker or counter (such as a knife with a buckhorn handle during the American Frontier era) was used to indicate the person whose turn it was to deal. If the player did not wish to deal he could pass the responsibility by passing the "buck," as the counter came to be called, to the next player.
Three "People in History" quizzes featured and 3 women included. Doesn't anyone really see an issue with that? (You are likely think that I am some "stereotypical raging feminist" but I am a 45 year old male.
My featured quiz, Influential Women in History for you to have a look at. "There isn't enough important women in history to bother having them in a quiz" seems to be a rather common mindset here. That is just so poisonous.
Lilylee - We all agree that women have been oppressed and silenced from much of history, so isn't it logical that much fewer women have attained enough fame to be considered general knowledge than men? And where did you see someone claim that "There isn't enough important women in history to bother having them in a quiz"? It's not in Capistrano's comment, anyway.
There are so many women who have done incredible things throughout the centuries, it is only today that they are being silenced. I don't care who said what but you can't escape the fact that in three quizzes, only three women were included. You count the percentage yourself.
Lilylee, "it is only today that they are being silenced"? This is one of the least historically accurate things I've ever read. In the words of feminist icon Virginia Woolf: "Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words, some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she could hardly read, could scarcely spell, and was the property of her husband." (A Room of One's Own). I can't provide exact percentages of historically noteworthy women. You haven't made a concrete suggestion, either. It is more than zero and, unfortunately, much less than 50. For all I care, there could be more women on these quizzes. But as OP said, you can make your own quiz.
Three questions about US Presidents seems OTT. Surely there are other historical figures with those initials. Heck, even other American historical figures if you really wanna keep it as American answers. Three Presidents just seems like unnecessary duplication.
Truman famously had a sign on his desk saying "The buck stops here" - acknowledging that as President he was ultimately responsible for a hell of a lot of stuff.
From Wikipedia:
The expression is said to have originated from poker in which a marker or counter (such as a knife with a buckhorn handle during the American Frontier era) was used to indicate the person whose turn it was to deal. If the player did not wish to deal he could pass the responsibility by passing the "buck," as the counter came to be called, to the next player.