History by Letter - H

I got that one and I'm English.

union leader who dissapered

Geraldo Rivera would have found him, but someone stole the body.

Played by Jack Nicholson in the 1992 film called... 'Hoffa'.

I'm American & I've heard of Lord Lucan who disappeared at around the same time as Hoffa.

I was putting in 'habilis' for the homonin question. The quiz is for answers that start with H, so I dont see how just the word 'erectus' can be an appropriate answer.

Thank you! Me too, though I couldn't figure out what "upright" had to do with "habilis"....

Only missed holocaust, good quiz.

FractalDoom: Excuse me, but your comment is so ignorant that it demands a response. The reason that there are still Jews is because: 1) Not all Jews lived in Europe; 2) Some managed to escape before the onslaught, and 3) There were some decent folks in Europe (Danish, Swedish, Schindler etc.) who protected them.

Incorrect. Look the word up.

Britain didn't "take" Hong Kong. They leased it.

I have an issue with "Jewish genocide during WWII" the holocaust was far for than just a Jewish genocide. Yes six million Jews died but another five million non Jews were also killed. I'm not down playing what happened to the Jews, it was one of the worst events in history, but too often the other victims seem to be overlooked.

It is difficult to imagine that the camps and crematoria would have been built if not for the Nazis' effort to kill the Jews. Granted, once the machinery of death was assembled, the Nazis threw many non-Jews in, too, but the whole purpose of that machinery was the annihilation of the Jewish people, i.e., genocide.

As importantly, while the Nazis killed many non-Jews, they did not kill (in the camps, anyway) a notable percentage of any group other than Jews--no other population was almost wiped out, or even came close.

The need to deflect attention from Jewish suffering, even in discussions of the Holocaust, is a symptom of modern left-wing antisemitism, which holds that Jews are a privileged, white race that is not "truly" capable of being oppressed. Any mention of bad things happening to Jews needs to be what-about-ed into a discussion of the suffering of "true" victim classes--gays, Palestinians, etc. I am not saying that the specific posters on this thread mean to minimize Jewish suffering for antisemitic reasons, but they do appear to be repeating the talking points of antisemites.

The Holocaust is the Jewish genocide that occurred during World War II. It is also true that much of the vitriolic propaganda targeted solely Jews, showing the Nazi regime's racial hatred. The anti-Semitic acts carried out by that regime culminated in one of the most inhumane and disgusting acts in modern human history.

However, I must respond to amm14's comment. It is inaccurate to say that Jews were the only population that was almost wiped out. Not at all to reduce the devastation experienced by the Jewish people, cultures, and communities, but the Romani genocide, or the Porajmos, was also devastating for the Romani people, cultures, and communities. Some historians estimate up to 75% Romani in Europe (between 1.5-2 million people) were murdered.

The eugenic, racist maniacs who orchestrated the Holocaust are evil, and all the human suffering they caused is a historic tragedy. But the Jews, and also the Romani, suffered an all-out assault on their very existence.

why aren't homo sapiens or human accepted for homonin?

Those might be acceptable if they were called Hagasaki, Hoths, and Handals.

There's always one, isn't there...

If your "e" stays capitalized for more than four hours, seek medical assistance.

Just to be pedantic, the Battle of Hastings took place at Battle not Hastings (which is nearby).

The town (Battle) is named after the battle. Many historical battles didn't take place exactly where they're named for, just nearby, with obvious exceptions like sieges.

Ridiculously pedantic. We all know the name of the battle. Besides, A lot of battles don't take place in the actual place after which their named (but in the vicinity): Agincourt, Crecy, Midway, Waterloo, Trafalgar, Cannae, to name a very few for example.

The question does not ask "In which battle...?" it asks "Where...?" And so Battle is the correct answer, the only reason one knows that the required answer is "Hastings" is that it has to begin with "H". For this reason one can eliminate other possible answers such as Sussex, England, Europe, the Earth etc, which are all correct, just not that informative.

I got 21 out of 22

My problem with the hominin question, even though I got it, is that it's not history, it's prehistory. This is supposed to be a history quiz.

'Pre-history' is a term of convenience, making a reference point for talking about, basically, Western Civilization. It's all 'history'.

Not really. From Wikipedia, "History... is the study of the past as it is described in written documents. Events occurring before written record are considered prehistory". It's the invention of writing that separate the two. And obviously, writing was invented long after the hominin species got "Upright".

The few documentaries & articles I've seen (& read) which mention them almost all seem to take the stance that they never existed so it seems to be the generally accepted consensus to me. That's a long way from certain or universally accepted though

Erbarme, die Hesse komme!

"Homo erectus" should be written as such, and italicised. Technically.

surely it's not too much to ask people to fill in the 8 after Henry? There are after all 7 other Henries and he is the most famous.

Is Henry VIII more famous than the previous seven? Or do we just know more about him. I mean, if you know here is a Henry VIII, it doesn't take Holmesian deduction to conclude that there have been seven before, called Henry I, Henry II, Henry III etc...

More spellings on Hammurabi??

Ugh, I typed Hesse. All I had to do was turn it into a denonym.