British history quiz

[wellinghall]

What happened in ...

1. 55 BC
2. 54 BC
3. 43 AD
4. 410
5. 449
6. 597
7. 991
8. 1066 (September)
9. 1066 (October)
10. 1346
11. 1348
12. 1356
13. 1415
14. 1485
15. 1497

Chocolate for the winner (across Facebook and LiveJournal together) (but no googling!)

Comments

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

You didn't say no Wikipediaing ;-)

all dates

[bunn.livejournal.com]

1) sorting out the drainage in the lower field.
2) Somebody's footwear eaten by a puppy
3) The cat came back the very next day.

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

1. Julius Caesar invades Britain
2. Death of Boudicca?
3. Claudius invades Britain?
4. withdrawal of Roman troops from the British Isles
5.
6. Gregory the Great's Mission to the English
7. Battle of Maldon
8. Norwegian invasion of England
9. Battle of Hastings
10.
11. Peasant's Revolt?
12.
13.
14. Battle of Bosworth Field
15.
And I should know 1415, but can't recall it. For an ex-historian, I have a crap memory for dates.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well that's -10 for a start ... ;-)

Re: all dates

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

5 points for humour ...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

1 yes
3 yes
4 yes
6 yes
7 yes
8 yes
9 yes
14 yes

16 points

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

2. Caesar II - the Imperator strikes back
10. Crecy
11. Black Death
12. Poictiers
13. Azincourt

[skordh.livejournal.com]

Well, those dates finish before my period starts. But here goes.

1. Julius Caesar invades.
2. Julius Caesar invades again.
3. Claudius invades.
4. Roman legions are recalled.
5. Don't know. The Saxon revolt maybe? Do we really know or is this a guess by somebody?
6. Don't know. Maybe - arrival of St.Augustine - as we are having lots of arrivals?
7. Battle of Maldon.
8. Battle of Stamford Bridge?
9. Battle of Hastings.
10. Oh bugger. Actually, now I think about it, this is my period ("English Chivalry and the French War" paper). Is this the Battle of Crecy maybe?
11. "1348, the year of the Black Death." All those hours playing 'Plague' were not wasted.
12. Bah. I should have paid more attention during that course. Battle of Poitiers perhaps? Unless this is Crecy after all?
13. Battle of Agincourt. Hurrah for lots of battles.
14. Battle of Bosworth.
15. Don't know. Is some kind of Pretender involved? I'm guessing Perkin Warbeck. (Unless it's Lambert Simnel).

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yep yep yep yep yep - 10 points, plus two for humour.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Eleven completely right, 5 no, 15 no. I suspect that we don't really know about no 5! Um, twenty-four points.

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

1. Caesar conquered Gaul?
5. Withdrawal of Roman forces from Britain?
8. Norman invasion
9. Battle of Hastings
10. Start of the Hundred Years War
11. Black Death
12. Battle of Crécy?
13. Agincourt
14. Bosworth Field
15. Stoke Field

Five, see icon.

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

I think. Vitalinus and the Jerries?

As for 15 ... are you being exceptionally Bristolian and navigable there?

[skordh.livejournal.com]

I've looked on Wikipedia now. 5 - aha. 15 - aha aha. I don't think I've ever heard of the thing that I think you are referring to, but it's very interesting!

Re: all dates

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Humour? HUMOUR? 5 points for social history, please. :-D

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

8 yes, 11 yes, 13 yes, 14 yes, 8 points

Re: Five, see icon.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

5 yes, 15 yes, 5 points

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

2 yes, 5 yes, 10 yes, 11 yes, 12 not what I was thinking of but yes, 14 yes, 15 yes, 16 points including a couple of bonus ones

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

Answers 1-15 inclusive, all the same, "it rained".

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Not my period. Except for the first three, which are not my province!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I think that earns you a couple of points :-)

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

Yep, figured out immediately after that I'd mixed up Crécy and Poitiers.

And I just remembered that Stoke Field was 1487 not 1497. So I guess 1497 would be the death of Perkin Warbeck?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Nope, two years out

[skordh.livejournal.com]

That's got to be worth some points!

[skordh.livejournal.com]

Oh right. OK yes I have heard of 15 now Jason has pointed out what it really was.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

1. Hello, Julius Caesar!
2. Hello, Julius Caesar! Back again so soon? Want a cup of tea?
3. Hello, Claudius!
4. Bye-bye, Romans! What did you ever do for us? Well, apart from the roads, etc.
5. I've no idea what's happening this year; that's why they call it the Dark Ages, you know.
6. Hello, St Augustine!
7. Hey, let's fight at Maldon!
8. Hey, let's fight at Stamford Bridge!
9. Hey, let's fight at Hastings!
10. Hey, let's fight at Crecy!
11. Hey, let's fi-- Um, what's that buboe doing there?
12. Hey, let's fight at Poitiers!
13. Where haven't we beaten up the French yet? I know! Let's fight at Agincourt!
14. Hey, let's fight at Bosworth!
15. Dunno