Actually, Napoleon the pig from Animal Farm. Seriously though, I had it as Napoleon Bonaparte but I try to keep the clues to one line and I figured it wasn't necessary. His Wiki page is simply "Napoleon".
Thank you guys for the encouragement, and thank you overtired for making such a great quiz! I was worried that my original quiz was a little too difficult for the front page but I’m glad to see that someone else was able to make it better.
Me too, I had no idea they lasted until so recently. So I just read (some of) the wiki page(s) on Woolly mammoths. Lookee what it says here:
The last known population remained on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until 4,000 years ago, well into the start of human civilization and concurrent with the construction of the Great Pyramid of ancient Egypt.
I just read a more recent study about it today and you can scrap the island and take a 100 years off the number. The melting north ("permafrost") reveals more as we speak.
I have heard reports of elderly Alaska Natives some decades back watching African wildlife shows on TV. They did not have much to say but when elephants came on the screen, they had a word for them. Could be the fossils they found from time to time or could be they were around much more recently than generally believed.
You could say that about anyone only known from stories. I think Jesus existed, just not in the grand scheme of the bible. I'm sure we all know how word-of-mouth changes after being retold several times.
Tacitus does mention a man who appears to match the description - a man named Christus who gave his name to the religion and was persecuted under the Romans - but there's not a lot about him and the name 'Jesus' isn't mentioned. Though I guess that's nitpicking.
The Mao question is a bit unclear. Mao was alive when the Industrial Revolution was finally hitting China. Maybe rephrase it as the “Western Industrial Revolution”
When people use the term "Industrial Revolution," they are usually referring to the one that occurred in Europe in the 1800s. I think that clue is fine as is.
Have you met him to know he's still alive now? Cause it certainly hasn't made the news.
Otherwise, if you're going by the myth of the bible, he ascended to heaven. Unless you think he's alive up there, which causes all kinds of theological-metaphysical problems.
No faith required. There's no doubt whatsoever, no matter whose calculations you use, that Jesus of Nazareth would have been dead by 79 CE. Unless you mean believing Jesus existed at all requires faith, in which case it takes just as much faith to believe in Julius Caesar.
May need to add the qualifier that we're talking about the FIRST Industrial Revolution here. By most definitions the second had also ended by the 1890s, but that is somewhat more debatable, while Mao cértainly wasn't alive during the first.
The last known population remained on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until 4,000 years ago, well into the start of human civilization and concurrent with the construction of the Great Pyramid of ancient Egypt.
Otherwise, if you're going by the myth of the bible, he ascended to heaven. Unless you think he's alive up there, which causes all kinds of theological-metaphysical problems.