The My Favourite History Questions Test

1. 

2. Welcome, welcome pilgrim. A few highly sophisticated questions are waiting for you. And please, beware of the lions. N.B. Scio me, nihil scire.
3. 1

   How many wifes did Samo, the Frankish merchant have?

   Only one.

   Four.

   Twelve.

   None.

4. 2

   When a woman in Babylonia was raped in the city, she was stoned. When a woman was raped out in the fields, the rapist was punished. Why?

   They had special moral police forces in the cities.

   She could scream for help in the city but not out in the field.

   The city was a sacred place.

   It's not true.

5. 3

   Which Pharao tried to establish monotheism in Egypt?

   Ramses II.

   Horemheb

   Thuthmose I.

   Amenhotep IV.

6. 4

   Which Roman Ceaser did come to a ball dressed only in a skirt made of living snakes?

   Tiberius

   Caligula

   Nero

   Claudius

7. 5

   Which Roman pope was exhumed 9 months after his death and brought to a trial?

   Hadrian II.

   Kalixt

   John XI.

   Formosus

8. 6

   What did Origenes cut of?

   Penis

   Finger

   Hand

   Leg

9. 7

   Of which pope did speak the opposers of the infallibility dogma at the I. Vatican council?

   Peter

   Leo IV.

   Pius V.

   Honorius I.

10. 8

    What was the emperors annual obligation in Byzantium?

    To give money to the poor.

    To wash the feet of the poor.

    To bulid houses for the poor.

    To pay for the eduation of the poor

11. 9

    Who were the "eseri"?

    The syrian aristocracy.

    The socialist revolutionary party.

    The italian comediants.

    The Mongol soldiers.

12. 10

    The fourth crusade captured which city?

    Constantinople

    Jeruzalem

    Antioch

    Alexandria

13. 11

    Noli me tangere.

    Jesus

    Saint Francis

    Saint Mary Magdalene

    Karl Rahner

14. 12

    Montgomery's double went fishing.

    No he went hunting.

    No double, himself.

    Yes, to Scotland.

    What?

15. 13

    Brumaire

    Voltaire

    Lafayette

    Danton

    Bonaparte

Finished!