History by Letter - H

possibly be a little more liberal on spelling of huguenauts?

Oh, you think they sailed over someone named Hugues? Or maybe on a ship named Hugues ^^.

I'm sure they sailed on Christian Huygens.

I thought they were people who sailed on hard-cover copies of Les Miz.

Who the heck is Jimmy Hoffa. I'm not sure than that question is on the same level of historical knowledge as the rest of the quiz...

I agree. I didn't even know what "Teamster" was until I googled it after the quiz.

He certainly belongs here. Also loosely portrayed in Stalone movie F.I.S.T.

You think so? An Ameican Union leader who disappeared? Something that barely made the news outside of America. The rest of the questions are fairly generic general knowledge for most of us in the Western world, but i'm sorry, that question stands out a mile as one that non Americans are really going to struggle with.

whine whine whine..

I agree with Algernon.

I commented something to this effect as well.. was it deleted?

Same here...one of my comments has mysteriously disappeared since yesterday.

conspiracy! I would post to a copy of the page from two days ago but there seems to be a missing link.

Take that you pun haters!

The Holocaust was NOT genocide, if it were, there woudn't be any Jews left. And I agree with others that the eructus question is poorly phrased.

"Genocide is the systematic destruction of all or part of a racial, ethnic, religious or national group" "Genocide entails also the Conspiracy to commit genocide; Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; Attempt to commit genocide; and Complicity in genocide." The Holocaust certainly falls into the category of genocide.

It certainly is genocide if the goal is to eradicate an entire group of people. Just because the Nazis failed to kill every single Jew in the world doesn't mean the Holocaust wasn't genocide. They sure tried hard enough.

This is like saying JFK wasn't shot because there were still some of his brains left in his skull. There were large population centers in Poland and Germany where the local Jewish population was reduced by 95-100%.

You don't understand the meaning of the word.

I liked it, no complaints. And I got 20 thanks to the stuff I've learned taking all these quizzes!

They took Hong Kong Island in 1842. The lease was of the New Territories on the mainland, which happened later.

Yes, it should be hanged.

Wait, i thought the Huns terrorized in the 400s

I thought the Hessians all got the sack!

The quiz asks for "upright man," and while Homo sapiens may be "upright" the early hominid species Homo erectus was given that name because it was one of the first species to walk upright. "Homo erectus" is Latin for "upright man."

Wake-up Findlay!

erectus needs to have a little e (-:

+1

Yes, erectus should have a little e

That's the simple introduction, read further down to "History and prehistory" and it gets more complicated.

There is now a caveat to cover it.

FranticHiccup wins the 'Golden Nitpick' award for January 2017. Congratulations!

My problem with the hominid question is that the 'H' part is Homo, which is true of all the "hominid" species whether they stood erect or not.

Man! It's more than a decade since Saddam was hanged?

I don't remember the hanging gardens being referred to before as apocryphal. Since they were one of the 7 ancient wonders of the world, which I thought were promoted as a way to encourage tourism throughout the Hellenized world that had been united under Alexander, I assumed that they were real. Would kinda suck if tourists arriving in Paris found out that the Eiffel Tower was a myth...
but Wikipedia confirms that there are some who doubt the gardens ever existed, or that they existed in Babylon, or that they were accurately described in Greek tests. There are others who believe they existed as described and were simply destroyed. I'm not sure if I would call them apocryphal since there seems to be no consensus.