Crossings Quiz

Part 2 – The Speakers Questions

In this second part of our enormously popular Crossings Quiz, the questions have been set by our speakers. We will not be revealing the answers just yet but they will all be answered in the sessions. See below for which sessions to attend to find out the answers.

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#1. There were many crazy emperors, but which one was crazy enough to mutilate horses, execute his own son, and murder his wife in the bath?

#2. In what city was the Golden Fleece located within Georgia?

#3. What was Alexander the Great's final title?

#4. There are many leg crossing tales of pain suffered by the presidents of the US. But only one had his testicles crushed so hard that he passed out. Who was it?

#5. Where did Muhammad Reza Shah celebrate 2500 years of Iranian empires?

#6. What chemical compound does film have in common with high explosives?

#7. In which war are the Matchlock novels set?

#8. What unusual place did the relics of Pope Clement I turn up in the 21st century?

#9. On Aug. 27, 1881, as President James Garfield lay dying of an assassin's bullet, Vice President Chester Arthur received a letter that opened with the following statement, "The hours of Garfield's life are numbered—before this meets your eye, you may be President. The people are bowed in grief; but—do you realize it?—not so much because he is dying, as because you are his successor" What was the name of the 31-year-old New York woman who wrote it?

#10. What two politicians separated by 2500 years both asked their countrymen to start a big costly project that ultimately changed the world?

#11. How were Mexican parents compensated for ‘lending’ their children as human vaccine carriers to Balmis’s programme?

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  • Questions 1 & 4: set by Totalus Rankium to be found at 11:30 in Room 4 and in a panel at 2:20 in Room 1
  • Question 2: set by The History of Georgia to be found at 1:00 in Room 4 and in a panel at 11:30 in Room 1
  • Questions 3 & 5: set by The History of Persia to be found at 4:00 in Room 4 and in a panel at 11:30 in Room 1
  • Question 6: set by Wittenberg to Westphalia to be found at 12:15 in Room 3 and in a panel at 11:30 in Room 1 (and pretty much everywhere!)
  • Question 7: set by When Diplomacy Fails to be found in a panel at 11:30 in Room 1
  • Question 8: set by Pontifacts to be found at 1:00 in Room 3 and in a panel at 2:20 in Room 1 (and also ubiquitously)
  • Question 9: set by [Abridged] Presidential Histories to be found at 4:45 in Room 4
  • Question 10: set by Terranauts to be found at 4:45 in Room 3
  • Question 11: set by Curiosity of a Child to be found at 10:45 in Room 3

Part 1

Below are the questions and answers (in brackets) to the first part of the quiz.

  1. At which battle did Ephialtes of Trachis allegedly cross the lines to betray a pass to the Persians? (Thermopylae)
  2. Approx. how many elephants crossed the Alps with Hannibal? (40)
  3. What year did Julius Caesar cross the Rubicon? (49 B.C.E)
  4. Who crossed the lines from commoner and performing girl to become Empress of Byzantium in 527? (Theodora)
  5. What did Tariq ibn Ziyad cross in 711? (Straits of Gibraltar)
  6. Who defended the Pass at Roncevaux while the king’s army crossed the Pyrenees? (Roland)
  7. What was the name of the alleged cross-dressing woman who became Pope? (Joan/John)
  8. What month in 1066 did William cross the Channel? (September)
  9. The original Kamikaze prevented whose army from crossing the sea to Japan in 1274? (Kublai Khan)
  10. What was the name of the Emperor of Mali who crossed Africa while on the Hajj to Mecca? (Mansa Musa)