History Quiz

[USViking]

Correct responder gets to ask the next question.

No way to keep you from googling the answer;
I myself will wait at least one day before googling
if I cannot answer the question fair and square.

If you are sure your answer is correct,
go ahead with your own question.
But please be sure!

Question:

This French King is reputed to have said:

"L'etat, c'est moi." ("I am the state").

 

[KarlMarx]

King Louis XIV


What year was the US Constitution ratified?

 

[USViking]

King Louis XIV


What year was the US Constitution ratified?

I ought to know that, any US citizen should.

There was a problem with recalcitrant Rhode Island
lagging behind the others.

I am going to say R.I. completed ratification
in the year Washington took office: 1789

 

[KarlMarx]

I ought to know that, any US citizen should.

There was a problem with recalcitrant Rhode Island
lagging behind the others.

I am going to say R.I. completed ratification
in the year Washington took office: 1789

yep!

 

[USViking]

King Louis XIV


What year was the US Constitution ratified?

I ought to know that, any US citizen should.

There was a problem with recalcitrant Rhode Island
lagging behind the others.

I am going to say R.I. completed ratification
in the year Washington took office: 1789

yep!

Ahem!- Karl, both of us need to brush up on the subject:
my answer was incorrect, according to Wikipedia.

I'll let someone more well informed than me
take a shot at it before I give my cribbed answer.

 

[KarlMarx]

Rhode Island didn't accept the Constitution until 1790, but ratification required only 9 states, which happened in 1788. However, the Constitution didn't take effect until March 1789.

 

[gaffer]

If my memory serves me right I believe it was 1792.

 

[USViking]

Rhode Island didn't accept the Constitution until 1790, but ratification required only 9 states, which happened in 1788. However, the Constitution didn't take effect until March 1789.

What concerned me was that at the time nine states were on board
two of the four holdouts were Virginia and New York- the two largest in population,
and implementation could not proceed without them (they signed on later in 1788).

That being the case I felt the definition of ratification
should be tightened to mean approval by all 13 states.

But I'll take the check mark.



Question:
Founding father of modern Turkey- his positive legacy
includes government with an at least potentially Democratic framework,
his negative legacy includes massacres of Armenian, Greek, and Kurdish secessionist minorities.

 

[Annie]

What concerned me was that at the time nine states were on board
two of the four holdouts were Virginia and New York- the two largest in population,
and implementation could not proceed without them (they signed on later in 1788).

That being the case I felt the definition of ratification
should be tightened to mean approval by all 13 states.

But I'll take the check mark.



Question:
Founding father of modern Turkey- his positive legacy
includes government with an at least potentially Democratic framework,
his negative legacy includes massacres of Armenian, Greek, and Kurdish secessionist minorities.

Ataturk?

 

[Said1]

Ataturk?

Hmmm, Ataturk was a left over from the "Young Turk" movement, largely responsible for the Armenian genocide when they came to power. They also reinstated the 18?? consitution when they took power. Ataturk abolished Sha'ria,and replaced it with the Swiss Civil Code too. Close call.

 

[USViking]

Ataturk?

Correct- your turn to ask a question.

 

[Annie]

Correct- your turn to ask a question.

Ok. What event allowed Bismarck to finagle a way to entice France to declare war in 1870 leading to German Unification?

 

[Said1]

Ok. What event allowed Bismarck to finagle a way to entice France to declare war in 1870 leading to German Unification?

Something about the formation of the Northern Confederation in 186?.

 

[Annie]

Something about the formation of the Northern Confederation in 186?.

Not exactly. Hint, Bismarck had great strategy and was a tricky fellow. Sometimes though, fate just hands one an opportunity...Serendipity if you will.

 

[Said1]

Not exactly. Hint, Bismarck had great strategy and was a tricky fellow. Sometimes though, fate just hands one an opportunity...Serendipity if you will.

Sorry, nothing, I'm drawing blanks. Can I use a life line?

 

[Annie]

Sorry, nothing, I'm drawing blanks. Can I use a life line?

You have my number?

 

[Annie]

You have my number?

hint #2: All's fair in LOVE and WAR.

 

[Said1]

hint #2: All's fair in LOVE and WAR.

Nothing. :huh:

 

[Annie]

Nothing. :huh:

:musical notes: Love and marriage :musical notes:

 

[Said1]

:musical notes: Love and marriage :musical notes:

Who played Kelly Bundy? I'm trying not to cheat, but I see have no other choice.