The Heretic of Wyre - Part II

[thallone]

Not forgotten

Sep's on vacation, but not forgotten. Go Sep!!!

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[Avarice]

ok, here is your trivia bump

Q1: What country lost the largest number of people in WWII?
Q2: What country lost hte largest percentage of its population in WWII?

Innovative bumping concept, tleilaxu. I'll take a shot at it.

A1: The Soviet Union. Around 26 million killed, I think.
A2: This one could be tricky. Poland? Or, if you're counting places that weren't independent states then, but are now, then the Ukraine. Both were pretty badly devastated.

Am I right? What do I win?

Oh, and BUMP!

 

[tleilaxu]

A1: According to the War museum in Beijing, China suffered more casualties than any other country, however this includes all deaths starting from the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 (eurocentric historians refer to sept 3 1939 as the beginning of WW2). From the period of 1939-45 the USSR suffered the highest casulties

A2: Poland (more than 1 out of every 3 people)

 

[Horacio]

I like trivia bumps!
Anothe rone, please

 

[Sammael99]

Way to go, Avarice !

Could we have less macabre quizzes, maybe

Here's one vaguely related to the story hour :

I. Which of the three following was a genuine medieval european heresy :

1. The Abelites
2. The Caïnites
3. The Oronthonions

 

[Lady Mer]

I. Which of the three following was a genuine medieval european heresy :

2. The Cainites were a Gnostic Sect, who held that all characters who suffered in the first testament were worthy of veneration, Cain in particular.

My trivia turn!

Most people know Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm as the compilers of faerie stories we now call Grimm's Fairy Tales. But, by occupation, both Grimm brothers were actually:

A) Lawyers,
B) Linguists,
C) Magazine editors
D) Historians.

 

[tleilaxu]

lawyers

 

[Sammael99]

Most people know Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm as the compilers of faerie stories we now call Grimm's Fairy Tales. But, by occupation, both Grimm brothers were actually:

A) Lawyers,
B) Linguists,
C) Magazine editors
D) Historians.

If I can trust Stephen Jay Gould, I believe they were Linguists...

 

[Rackhir]

ok, here is your trivia bump

Q1: What country lost the largest number of people in WWII?
Q2: What country lost hte largest percentage of its population in WWII?

There is a joke that I heard from the Author of the Samurai Cat books a number of years ago, that WWII resulted from a bet between Stalin and Hitler as to who could kill more Russians. Hitler lost the bet...

 

[Felix]

trivia bump

Forgive me if the Grimm question hasn't been answered (lawyers?, linguists?) but this was at the bottom of the page. Can't allow that to happen.

In "The Simpsons", what is the last name of Homer's co-worker Carl?