History Quiz

[USViking]

well, i give you some hints :

The Germans hold hardly to these cities, cities with a great importance for them. Particularly for the Kriegsmarine.

If Dunkirque was not liberated until the day
the war ended, shouldn't it be considered
a correct answer?

L'Orient was the main U-boat base in France,
but I thought it fell well before the V-E Day.

I will guess it was some other port on the
Atlantic coast, and make it La Rochelle.

I suppose Bordeaux would be another possibility,
but surely the French would not have allowed
their most distinguished wine-making center to
languish in German hands for so long!

 

[padisha emperor]

If Dunkirque was not liberated until the day
the war ended, shouldn't it be considered
a correct answer?

L'Orient was the main U-boat base in France,
but I thought it fell well before the V-E Day.

I will guess it was some other port on the
Atlantic coast, and make it La Rochelle.

I suppose Bordeaux would be another possibility,
but surely the French would not have allowed
their most distinguished wine-making center to
languish in German hands for so long!

you got it for Lorient

the other city was the harbor of St Nazaire (on the mouth of the Loire).
These was the main bases of the german U-boots.

These cities were free my, the 10th, so 2 day after the end of the war in Europe. Germans hold them very long.

(sure, for Bordeaux, wine made that the city was free quickly )

go on

 

[USViking]

you got it for Lorient

the other city was the harbor of St Nazaire (on the mouth of the Loire).
These was the main bases of the german U-boots.

These cities were free my, the 10th, so 2 day after the end of the war in Europe. Germans hold them very long.

(sure, for Bordeaux, wine made that the city was free quickly )

go on

Question:
German general, commandant of Paris, who gained
a measure of posthumus fame as a result of the book
and movie Is Paris Burning, which told the story of the
city's WW2 liberation, and the general's disobeying orders
to destroy it.

 

[padisha emperor]

Choltitz.


Is Paris Burning is a great movie, in the same line than The Longuest Day.

and quite faithfull to the real events.

(if Choltitz would have obey....Notre Dame, The Eiffel Tower and several other monuments would have been destroy...Hitler wanted to transform Paris in a giant ruins...)

 

[USViking]

Choltitz.


Is Paris Burning is a great movie, in the same line than The Longuest Day.

and quite faithfull to the real events.

(if Choltitz would have obey....Notre Dame, The Eiffel Tower and several other monuments would have been destroy...Hitler wanted to transform Paris in a giant ruins...)

It seems you know German generals as well
as French ones so far in this thread. A few
Swedes too.

I'll have to try some other nationalities!

Your turn.

 

[padisha emperor]

It seems you know German generals as well
as French ones so far in this thread. A few
Swedes too.

I'll have to try some other nationalities!

Your turn.

I like this movie, and I read about the liberation of Paris

Question :

During the Crimea War, this american captain saw in action the famous french zouaves. the reputaiotn of the french zouaves and their uniforms did that he wanted to have such soldiers in the US army.

Then the zouaves did the US civil war. During the war, this captain was general, a famous Union general.

Who was he ?

 

[USViking]

I like this movie, and I read about the liberation of Paris

Question :

During the Crimea War, this american captain saw in action the famous french zouaves. the reputaiotn of the french zouaves and their uniforms did that he wanted to have such soldiers in the US army.

Then the zouaves did the US civil war. During the war, this captain was general, a famous Union general.

Who was he ?

McClellan?

I was going to guess Beauregard before
I got to the "Union General" part.

 

[padisha emperor]

McClellan?

I was going to guess Beauregard before
I got to the "Union General" part.

Yes, McClellan

 

[USViking]

Question:

Literary giant who fought in the battle of Lepanto,
where he lost his left hand.

At another time he was captured and enslaved by
Barbary pirates for five years, eventually being ransomed.

 

[padisha emperor]

Question:

Literary giant who fought in the battle of Lepanto,
where he lost his left hand.

At another time he was captured and enslaved by
Barbary pirates for five years, eventually being ransomed.

Cervantes

 

[USViking]

Cervantes

Cervantes it is!

 

[padisha emperor]

This famous greek was not for democracy - with the ancient greek signification : rule of the more numerous, so the poors, for their interest - .

For him, an aristocracy - rule of the the more able, the best - was better, and here he joined the ideas of PLaton, Callicles and Heraclite of Ephese.

 

[USViking]

This famous greek was not for democracy - with the ancient greek signification : rule of the more numerous, so the poors, for their interest - .

For him, an aristocracy - rule of the the more able, the best - was better, and here he joined the ideas of PLaton, Callicles and Heraclite of Ephese.

Aristotle, tutor of Alexander, fits the description.

 

[padisha emperor]

Aristotle, tutor of Alexander, fits the description.

for Aristote, the best government is more a mix of democracy monarchy and aristocracy.

The man to whom I was thinking was Socrate. For him, it won't be possible if all the men, with not the same valor and capacities, would join the government and do az equal participation to the life of the City.
So he's for the rule by the more able, then, an aristocracy.


But Aristote was not really a bad answer, for him to the people shouldn't have all the power (the democracy is for him the perversion of the timocracy : rule by all for the general interest)

go on

 

[USViking]

Question:

This Greek tyrant invited Plato to his court
to tutor him into becoming a Philosopher-King.

Their relationship deteriorated to the point that
Plato was sold into slavery, and had to have his
freedom purchased by friends.

Years later, Plato tried again with the tyrant's son
and namesake. This second attempt was also a
failure, although it did not result in Plato's reenslavement.

 

[LuvRPgrl]

Russia has subways??

 

[deaddude]

Saint Petersburg has subways, with very beautifull architechture.

 

[USViking]

Russia has subways??

Saint Petersburg has subways, with very beautifull architechture.

These answers are incorrect.

Let me repeat the question:

This Greek tyrant invited Plato to his court
to tutor him into becoming a Philosopher-King.

Their relationship deteriorated to the point that
Plato was sold into slavery, and had to have his
freedom purchased by friends.

Years later, Plato tried again with the tyrant's son
and namesake. This second attempt was also a
failure, although it did not result in Plato's reenslavement.

 

[deaddude]

Peisistratos

 

[USViking]

Peisistratos

Good try, but not right.