[en] Quiz!

[hawk_knight]

you have the correct answer :cheers:

the next question is yours Xuca :go:

[Xuca]

Which of these names of parts of Belgrade doesn't have Turkish origines:

A) Kalemegdan
B) Tashmajdan
C) Dorcol
D) Palilula

[hawk_knight]

i geuss it is


D) Palilula

[Xuca]

It's not nice to give a correct answer three minutes after the question was asked. :wink:

In the begining of the 20th century, smoking was forbidden in Belgrade, and at those times, that part of today's Belgrade wasn't considered Belgrade, so people went there "da pale lule" - to light their pipes.
paliti - to light
lula - pipe

Palilula


other names have Turkish orgines
Dorcol - crossroad,
kale - fort, megdan - square - Kalemegdan
tash - stone, majdan - it's actually megdan, just got changed in Serbian - Tashmajdan

So, hawk_knight, your question :go:

[hawk_knight]

@ xuca i didnt know that that was the correct answer :biggrin: i just geussed something :lol:

back to topic:
In which year did paus Urbanes II called the first crusade to conquer jeruzalem?

a: 1198
b: 1098
c: 1076
d: 1065
e: 1095

[hawk_knight]

is the question that hard :scratch: :biggrin:

come on guys you can just geuss the asnwer on the question :wink:

[NaVatar]

*Writes down the answers in a big paper, nail it up on a wall and walks backwards for five meter. Picks up a dart and throws it at the note*

b: 1098?

[Elvain]

e: 1095 :king:

[hawk_knight]

Elvain you got the right answer :cheers:


the next question is yours :go:

[Elvain]

Who of rulers never ruled to the city of Jerusalem?

A) Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria
B) Jean de Brienne, king of Jerusalem
C) Alexandre of Macedonia (Alexandre the Great)
D) Constantinus the Great, Roman emperor

[Xuca]

My guess is that this is a trick question, and that the answer is B).

[Elvain]

:go: you are right.
At the time of Jean de Brienne the kingdom of Jerusalem contained only of coastal cities and the capital was Acre.
Jerusalem was conquered in 1187 by Saladin and since that Crusaders never conquered it.

[Xuca]

For how many days does the julian calender differ from the gregorian one:

A)+12 days
B)-12 days
C)+13 days
D)-13 days
E)+14 days
F)-14 days

[Traveller]

E. +14 days?

[Xuca]

Don't you Bulgarians use the julian calendar? WRONG!

btw. i'm not sure how much the + and - are clear. It's gregorian one +- xx days

[Traveller]

Ah, so it's the Gregorian one which is +... or -...? Ok, then I'll wait till tomorrow to give another answer, if noone else has guessed!

[Xuca]

no, i failed to explain again, it's gregorian + or - XX days = julian

28. 11. +- XX days = XX. 11./12.

that's how I thought.

tip: why is it october revolution, when it wasn't in october?

[Traveller]

Yeah, I know - i.e. we memorate the hanging of one of our heroes, Vasil Levski, on the 19th of February (Julian calendar), although when he was hanged it was the 5th of February (at that time we used the Gregorian one). But I can't give another answer until 24h have passed. Until then somebody just needs to calculate the difference between the two dates above and voila - there's the answer!

[Xuca]

it seems to me that you mixed those two. but let's us discuss that after the question was answered, or maybe in the history thread. also, are you sure the dates are right?

[Traveller]

I know that the difference is 14 days, so now I say F) -14.