Columbus Day Quiz

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How much do you really know?


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[LaurieJim]

How much do you really know?


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i got 8 out of 10 not bad i guess

 

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Christopher Columbus Quiz
Pretty good!
You got 4/8 correct.

 

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i got 8 out of 10 not bad i guess

I'm a retard...disregard

 

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i got 8 out of 10 not bad i guess

Why did I get out of 8 and you got out of 10? Nevermind you edited...lol


I guessed on every question

 

[shaunm]

Not so hot.
You got 3/8 correct.

not too bad seeing as i'm from the uk!

started with the first 2 correct then it went pete tonge!

 

[happygobrokey]

7/8 bitches! and i'm not even american. the one i missed was the name of the colony, since i never studied him. the "tarnished rep" one was a complete guess, but every other one i was fairly sure of.

 

[lojo]

I hate to spoil the fun (no you don't, you meanie) but Cristabol Colon was a nefarious scoundrel and quite mentally ill. Certainly not a hero, nor does he deserve a day of praise.

Here is a long article in the

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magazine; nonjudgemental but factual, and draws heavily from Cristabol's diaries and journals. Might as well know the truth, pretty or not.

But the sovereigns intervention came too late to save the Arawak people. The tragic sequence of events that began on that November day of 1492, one month after the Discovery, had to be played out to the bitter end. So that with the slaughter from the wars and the hunger and illnesses that resulted from them with so much sorrow, anguish and sadness, there did not remain of the multitudes of people which were in this island from the year 94 to 06 but a third, Las Casas wrote. Great harvest and accomplished in sufficiently short time, he added acidly.

Today the Arawak community of peoples, those innocents of Father Las Casas, who once inhabited in such numbers the larger islands of the Caribbean and who welcomed the white men to the New World, has vanished from the West Indies.

 

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I am going to make a coaching change and since this is a home(pun intended) game, the designated hitter rule is in effect so I am going to replace myself in the lineup with none otherthan than THE GRANDMASTER. Just send me the prize money.

 

[lojo]

I am going to make a coaching change and since this is a home(pun intended) game, the designated hitter rule is in effect so I am going to replace myself in the lineup with none otherthan than THE GRANDMASTER. Just send me the prize money.

Is the quiz suspect or do you smell revisionist history in the making in the article I linked? Colon was a dickhead either way or is it far less sinister and your just GM will get them all correect?

 

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Just send me the prize money

No prize money for you...maybe we can work something else out

 

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I hate to spoil the fun (no you don't, you meanie) but Cristabol Colon was a nefarious scoundrel and quite mentally ill. Certainly not a hero, nor does he deserve a day of praise.

Here is a long article in the

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magazine; nonjudgemental but factual, and draws heavily from Cristabol's diaries and journals. Might as well know the truth, pretty or not.

Killjoy

 

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Is the quiz suspect or do you smell revisionist history in the making in the article I linked? Colon was a dickhead either way or is it far less sinister and your just GM will get them all correect?

It far less sinister and GM will get them all correct pour moi!

 

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No prize money for you...maybe we can work something else out

I like the way you are thinking

 

[Casinomeister]

You got 7/8 correct.

And I almost got 8/8 - I missed the Catalan one - which I almost chose

 

[Addisyn]

Did Columus really discover the New World?

A Norwegian Viking by the name of Leif Erickson did so in the late tenth century. Or perhaps, it was the

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earlier in the 15th century.

Maybe neither of the above but

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.

 

[lojo]

And just maybe it was ACTOREDDIE!!!!

 

[swampwitch]

How does one "discover" a land which had people already there to greet the "discoverer"?

 

[lojo]

How does one "discover" a land which had people already there to greet the "discoverer"?

There were no people there, only 'savages'

 

[swampwitch]

Silly me.

 

[babs7262]

3/8

I slept through history

 

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I like the way you are thinking

I always think like that

 

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You got 7/8 correct.

And I almost got 8/8 - I missed the Catalan one - which I almost chose

Show off

 

[Addisyn]

I got 4/8. My education was in Hawaii and at the time it ranked the lowest of all the states. Can you imagine now what it is like! OMG no wonder so many American high school students are illiterate. I at least know how to use a spell checker.